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ALBINONI, Tommaso, 1671-1750

[Trio sonatas, 2 vln, vc, bc, op.3] Balletti’s in 3 Parts, op.3.

Huntingdon, [1993]. 4º, Xerographic reprint of the Walsh edition. Wrappers. $20 [item no.4857]


[Trio sonatas, 2 vln, vc, bc, op.8] Baletti e sonate a tré à due violini, violoncello, e cembalo con le sue fughe tiratte à canone. Opera ottava.

Huntingdon, [1992]. 4º, 4 partbooks, 104 pp. Xerographic reprint of the Amsterdam, 1722 edition. Wrappers. $30 [item no.4858]


ALDIGATTI DA CESENA, Marcantonio, 16-17th c.

Grazie et affetti amorosi [canzonette a voce sola, libro secondo] (Venezia 1617).

Monumenta Romandiola, Musica Dramatica in Aemiliae Romandiolae Civitatibus Archivum, [Fototypice Expressa] 3. Bologna, 1979. 21 x 31 cm, ii, 28 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1627 edition. Collection of monodies for soprano and Spanish guitar (or keyboard) together with instrumental pieces for solo Spanish guitar in alfabeto notation. Preface in It by Ivano Cavallini. Hardbound. $32 [item no.2983]


ANTONII, Giovanni Battista degli., 1660-aft.1696

[Balletti e correnti, 2 vln, vc, bc, op.4] Balletti e correnti gighe, e sarabande da camera a violino, e clavicembalo; o violoncello. [Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna].

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, IV/145. Bologna, 1972. 18 x 25 cm, 55 pp. Line-cut of the Bologna, 1688 edition. 12 numbers in score format. Laid paper. Hardbound. Last copy. $36 [item no.1262]


ARBEAU, Thoinot, 1520-1595

Orchésographie, et traité en forme de dialogue, par lequel toutes personnes peuvent facilement apprendre et pratiquer l’honnêste exercise des dances / [Albert Czerwiski:] Die Tänze des 16. Jahrhunderts und die alte französische Tanzschule vor Einführung des Menuett. Nach Jean Tabourots Orchésographie.

Hildesheim, 2/ 1989. 15 x 21 cm, 210 & 140 pp. Line-cut of the Langres, [1588] edition and the Danzig, 1878 edition. Linen. [item no.2530]


ARNE, Thomas A., 1710-1778

Lyric Harmony. Songs and Duets. Printed Score, W. Smith. Introduction by Christopher Hogwood.

Music for London Entertainment, 1660-1800, F/2. Tunbridge Wells, 1985. 4º, xii, 57 pp. Line-cut of the London, c.1745-46 edition. Contains 36 songs and duets from Entire New Songs and Ballads. Cloth. $76 [item no.10]


ARNOLD, Samuel, 1740-1802

The Castle of Andalusia. Originally Published by John Bland: London 1782. Introduction by Robert Hoskins.

Music for London Entertainment, 1660-1800, C/5. London, 1991. 4º, xvii, 106 pp. Cloth. $138 [item no.4688]


Obi; or Three-Finger’d Jack. Introduction by Robert Hoskins with Eileen Southern.

Music for London Entertainment, 1660-1800, D/4. London, 1996. 4º, xxix, 126 pp. Printed score, John Longman, Clementi’s Company [1800] and MS libretto, The Huntington Library LA 1297. Cloth. $160 [item no.8191]


AUGUSTIN FLORENCIO, Francisco, 18th c.

Crotologia o ciencia de las castañuelas.

Colección Biblioteca Valeciana. Valencia, n.d. 11 x 16 cm, 126 pp. Line-cut of the Valencia, 1792 edition. Wrappers. $22 [item no.7239]


Impugnación literaria a la crotalogia erudita, o ciencia de las castañuelas para vaylar el bolero, que en IV. reimpresiones.

Colección Biblioteca Valeciana. Valencia, n.d. 11 x 16 cm, 64 pp. Line-cut of the Valencia, 1792 edition. Wrappers. $19 [item no.7240]


BACH, Johann Christian, 1735-1782

[Songs, selections from operas] Favourite Songs Sung at Vauxhall Gardens. Originally Published in London, 1766-1779. Introduction by Stephen Roe; General Introduction to the Pleasure Gardens by Christopher Hogwood.

Music for London Entertainment, 1660-1800, F/1. Tunbridge Wells, 1985. 25 x 36 cm, xxi, 81 pp. Line-cut of 4 separate printed collections. Cloth. $88 [item no.22]


BACILLY, Bénigne de, 1625-1692

[Chansons, book.3] III. livre de chansons pour danser et pour boire, 1665. Présentation: Départment de musique ancienne du Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. [Bibl. Sainte-Geneviève, Paris].

La Musique Française Classique de 1650 à 1800, 171. Courlay, 2005. 24 x 33 cm, xviii, 46 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1665. Introduction in Fr-Eng-Ger. Includes dance notation for 12 numbers. Wrappers. $47 [item no.8573]


BACQUOY-GUÉDON, Alexis, 18th c.

Bacquoy-Guédon, Alexis. Méthode pour exercer l’oreille à mesure dans l’art de la danse.

Geneva, 2/ 1995. 13 x 21 cm, 78 pp. Line-cut of the Amsterdam & Paris, c.1784 edition. Wrappers. $30 [item no.3232]


BARTÓK, Béla, 1881-1945

Dance Suite for Orchestra. Reprint of the Original Manuscript (Budapest Historical Museum). Edited by Ferenc Bónis.

Budapest, 1998. 26 x 34 cm, 2 vols, 66 facs, 48 pp. 3-color halftone of the autograph full score fair copy, completed Aug. 19, 1923. The work was written on commission to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the union of Buda and Pest. The composer does not make use of real peasant melodies but rather invents folk songs as a unifying device; the Dance Suite represents the first time in which this principle was used for an entire symphonic cycle. The commentary volume explores the cultural milieu of Budapest in the twenties, the work’s genesis, compositional sources, and reproduces 7 B/W plates of other autograph material. Bound in black cloth with gold lettering (commentary booklet in wrappers). Colorful portfolio with pasted title. $118 (more info... ) [item no.7629]


BECKER, Dietrich, 1623-1679

[Musikalische Frühlings-Früchte, strings/winds] Musikalische Frühlings-Früchte bestehend in drey-, vier- und funff-stimmiger Instrumental-Harmonia, nebenst dem Basso Continuo.

Huntingdon, 1991. 4º, 7 partbooks, c.190 pp. Line-cut of the Hamburg, 1668 edition. Sonatas and dances for 3, 4 & 5 instruments: strings, cornetti, bassoons, & viols. Wrappers. $49 [item no.7028]


BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van, 1770-1827

[Variations, piano, on a minuet & Russian dance, Op.181-82] XII Variazioni per il clavicembalo o piano-forte sul menuetto ballato Sigs. Venturini e Sigr. Checchi nel Ballo delle “Nozze disturbate”, Wien s.d. / XII Variations pour le clavecin ou piano-forte sur la danse Russe dansé par M. Cassentini dans le Ballet “das Waldmadchen”, Wien s.d.

Archivum Musicum: L’Arte del Fortepiano, 3. Florence, 1987. Oblong, 32 x 23 cm, 7 booklets, viii, 66 pp. Line-cut of the Vienna edition. Together with sets of variations by Johann Baptist Vanhal, Joseph Gelinek, & Josephine von Aurnhammer. Introduction in It by Laura Alvini. Wrappers in decorative paper with slip cover. $40 [item no.1823]


BESARD, Jean-Baptiste, c.1567-1625

Thesaurus harmonicus avec un index.

Geneva, 2/ 1993. 22 x 30 cm, 363, ii pp. Line-cut of the Cologne, 1603 edition. One of the richest tablatures of the time, consisting of solo lute works and vocal pieces in staff notation with lute accompaniment in French tablature. Preludes, fantasias, madrigals, chansons, airs de cour, passamezzi, gaillards, allemandes, branles, voltas, Polish dances, courantes, etc. Arrangements by Bakfark, Bocquet, Dowland, Ferrabosco, and J. Reys. Some unica. With a short set of instructions on lute playing. Wrappers. $116 [item no.962]


BLASIS, Carlo, 1803-1878

L’uomo fisico, intellettuale e morale. A cura / Edited by Ornella Di Tondo e / and Flavia Pappacena.

Chorégraphie, Rivista di Ricerca Danza, nuova serie, 5/2005. Lucca, 2007. 8º, 120, 331 pp. Line-cut of the 1868 edition. Preface in It-Eng. Wrappers. [item no.9045]


Studi sulle arti imitatrici.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, III/83. Bologna, 1971. 16 x 22 cm, 94 pp. Line-cut of the Milan, 1844 edition. Hardbound. $29 [item no.4096]


Traité de l’art de la danse.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/107. Bologna, 1969. 8º, c.120 pp. Line-cut of the 1820 edition. Laid paper. Wrappers. $45 [item no.3727]


BLEGNY, Nicolas de (PRADEL, Abraham du), 17th c.

Le livre commode contenant les adresses de la ville de Paris, et le trésor des almanachs pour l’année bissextile 1692.

Geneva, 1973. 8º, 210 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1692 edition. Historic survey of the Académie National de Musique, inventory of the opera houses, official denominations, list of succesive directors, conductors, performances, singers, choreographers and dancers. Hardbound. $56 [item no.3316]


BOISMORTIER, J.B. Bodin de, 1691-1755

[Sonatas, 2 viols, op.10] Sonates à deux violes, Œuvre dixième.

Viole de Gambe, XII. Geneva, 1986. 22 x 30 cm, 26 facs, i pp. Line-cut of the author’s & Boivin edition, Paris, 1725. 6 sonatas in 4 or 5 movts, some of which are dances. Wrappers. $35 [item no.1167]


BONNET, Jacques, 1644-1724

Histoire générale de la danse sacrée et profane. Ristampa anastatica eseguita sull’esemplare gentilmente fornito dal Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale di Bologna (Coll. F.42).

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, III/82. Bologna, 1972. 16 x 22 cm, 312 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1724 edition. One of the first histories of dance and ballet; later authors as de Cahusac made extensive use of Bonnet’s text. Laid paper. Hardbound. $80 [item no.3729]


Histoire générale de la danse sacrée et profane. Avec un supplément de l’histoire de la musique et le parallèle de la peinture et de la poésie.

Geneva, 1969. 8º, 308 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1724 edition. Hardbound. $91 [item no.4656]


BONONCINI, Giovanni, 1670-1747

Camilla (Stampiglia), Naples 1696; Rivised by Nicola Haym with English Translation Versified by Mr. Northman for London, 1706. Royal College of Music, MS 779 and Printed Libretto, Jacob Tonson. Introduction by Lowell Lindgren.

Music for London Entertainment, 1660-1800, E/1. London, 1990. 4º, xxv, 120 pp. Cloth. $160 [item no.4687]


BOYCE, William, 1711-1779

Lyra Britannica. 6 Books. Introduction by Robert Bruce.

Music for London Entertainment, 1660-1800, F/3. Tunbridge Wells, 1985. 4º, xvi, 108 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1747-1759 editions. Contains a rich selection of songs, duets, and cantatas. Cloth. $92 [item no.197]


[Birthday Odes] Three Birthday Odes for Prince George: 1749 or 1750; 1751; 1752. Bodleian Lib., Oxford, MSS Mus. Sch. c. 105; c. 106; d. 264. Introduction by Robert J. Bruce.

Music for London Entertainment, 1660-1800, F/4. London, 1989. 4º, xvi, c.110 pp. Halftone of three mss sources. Cloth. $148 [item no.199]


BRONTË, Branwell, 19th c.

Branwell Brontë’s Flute Book, 1831-2. Haworth, Bonnell MS 56. [Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth].

Musical Sources, 18. Kilkenny, 1980. Oblong, 22 x 12 cm, x, 22 pp. Halftone. Song-tunes, dances, etc., written by Branwell, together with a few by his teacher. Introduction by R. Rastall. Wrappers. $24 [item no.756]


CAHUSAC, Louis de, 1706-1759

Épître sur les dangers de la poésie, suivie de la danse ancienne et moderne, ou traité historique de la danse.

Geneva, 1971. 4º, 4 vols in 1, 180 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1739-1754 edition, reproduced 4 pages per page. Buckram. $195 [item no.4655]


CAMPION, Thomas, 1567-1620

[Maske, for Lord Hayes] The Discription of a Maske Presented before the Kinges Maiestie at White-Hall, on Twelfh Night Last, in Honour of the Lord Hayes, and His Bride. [private collection].

Performers’ Facsimiles, 259. New York, [2007]. 17 x 23 cm, 40 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1607 edition, in staff notation (vocal part) and French tablature. 22 pages of texts, followed by 11 pages of music numbered I, II, III, IV, V, some notated in table book format. Wrappers. $15 [item no.8833]


CAMPRA, André, 1660-1744

Le carnaval de Venise, comédie lyrique. Introduction by James R. Anthony with a Section on Stage Designs and Costumes by Jérôme de La Gorce. [Bibl. Nationale, Paris, Rés F.1668].

French Opera in the 17th and 18th Centuries, 27. Stuyvesant, 1989. 4º, lxiv, 333 pp. Line-cut of a ms prepared c.1703 for the Comte de Toulouse by the atelier of André-Danican Philidor, l’aîné. Cloth. $95 [item no.4534]


Le carnaval de Venise, ballet, mis en musique. [Bibliothèque Municipale, Toulouse].

Béziers, 1993. Oblong, 27 x 20 cm, 340 pp. Line-cut of the Christophe Ballard short score, Paris, 1699 edition. Laid paper, with wrappers in hand-made marbled paper. $73 [item no.4633]


[L’Europe galante, 1697 ed.] L’Europe galante, ballet, mis en musique. [Bibl. Municipale, Toulouse].

Béziers, 1992. Oblong, 27 x 20 cm, 220 pp. Line-cut of the Christophe Ballard short score, Paris, 1697 edition. Laid paper, with wrappers in hand-made marbled paper. $72 [item no.3223]


[L’Europe galante, 1724 ed.] L’Europe galante. Paris / Jean-Baptiste-Christope Ballard, 1724. [Bibliothèque d’étude et de conservation Besançon].

Faksimile-Edition Kammermusik des Barock, 4. Stuttgart, 2014. 24 x 37 cm, 269 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1724 edition. Hardbound, with boards in decorative paper. $130 [item no.9411]


Tancrède. Tragédie en musique. Introduction by Antonia L. Banducci, with a Section on André Campra by James R. Anthony and Section on Eighteenth-Century Dance by Judith L. Schwartz.

French Opera in the 17th and 18th Centuries, 18. Stuyvesant, 2006. 4º. lx, 417 pp. The full orchestral score (reproduced in line-cut facsimile) dates from 1738 and reflects Campra's revision from a five-part to a four-part string texture. To provide scholars and performers with complete access to the original work, an appendix to the edition offers a transcription of the original fifth part (the quinte de violon) as well as several other sections of the original, which Danchet and Campra subsequently revised. Cloth. $100 [item no.8701]


CAROSO, Fabritio, c.1530-c.1605

Il Ballarino. A Facsimile of the 1581 Venice Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/46. New York, 1967. 20 x 27 cm, 239 pp. Line-cut. One of the most famous early books on dance, describing and illustrating the techniques of dance as they existed at the end of the 16th c. Contains a portrait of Caroso and seven copper plates of dancers by Giacomo Franco. Highly important for music which is printed throughout both in Italian tablature and in ordinary notation. Of particular interest are the charming engraved plates showing dancing couples in splendid costumes. Laid paper. Cloth. [item no.1644]


CAZZATI, Maurizio, c.1620-1677

[Correnti & balletti, strings, bc, op.4] Correnti, balletti, galiarde a 3. è 4.

Monumenta Bononiensia, Fototypice Expressa, 12. Bologna, 1971. 16 x 22 cm, 4 partbooks, 118 pp. Line-cut of the Francesco Magni edition, Venice 1659. 31 pieces in partbooks (vln I-II, violone, & spinetta/chitarone) in one vol. Laid paper. Cloth. $46 [item no.1257]


[Trattenimenti per camera, strings, bc, op.22] Trattenimenti per camera [d’arie, correnti, e balletti, a due violini, se piace, con passacaglio, ciaccona, & un capriccio sopra 12 note, Opera XXII].

Monumenta Bononiensia, Fototypice Expressa, 13. Bologna, 1971. 16 x 22 cm, 4 partbooks, 74 pp. Line-cut of the Antonio Pifarri edition, Bologna, 1660. 26 pieces in partbook (vln I-II, spinetta, violine/tiorba), in one vol. Hardbound. $43 [item no.1179]


CHARDAVOINE, Jean, 1538-c.1580

Le recueil des plus belles et excellentes chansons en forme de voix de ville.

Geneva, 1980. Oblong, 17 x 15 cm, 292 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1576 edition. 186 chansons based on texts by Marot, Ronsard, du Bellay, and others, plus dance tunes. Wrappers. $62 [item no.1292]


COMPAN, Charles, c.1740-d.?

Dictionnaire de danse. A Facsimile of the Paris, 1787 Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/84. New York, 1974. 13 x 20 cm, 410 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1787 edition. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.2633]


Dictionnaire de danse, contenant l’histoire, les règles et les principes de cet art, avec des réflexions critiques, et des anecdotes curieuses concernant la danse ancienne et moderne; le tout tiré des meilleurs auteurs qui ont écrit sur cet art.

Geneva, 1980. 12 x 17 cm, 410 pp. (Rpt. of Paris & Berlin, 1906 edition). Line-cut. A pioneering attempt to draw together material on the history of dance from a wide variety of sources, including Noverre, Cahusac, Beauchamp and many others, with attention to technique, choreography, musiern–he characterizes the ballet of the time of Lully as cold and without character. Wrappers. $76 [item no.3262]


CORSO, Rinaldo, 1525-c.1581

Dialogo del ballo, a cura di Alessandro Arcangeli.

Antiquae Musicae Italicae Scriptores Veronenses, III. Verona, 1987. 17 x 24 cm, 21, 31, 7 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1555 edition. Introduction in It by A. Arcangeli. Index. Wrappers. $22 [item no.3986]


DIBDIN, Charles, 1745-1814

The Touchstone or Harlequin Traveller. Originally Published by S.A. Thompson: London 1779. Introduction by Anne Dhu Shapiro.

Music for London Entertainment, 1660-1800, D/1. London, 1990. 4º, xix, 91 pp. Cloth. $138 [item no.4689]


DUMANOIR, Guillaume, 1615-1697

Le mariage de la musique avec la dance.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/106. Bologna, 1985. 16 x 22 cm, 131 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1664 edition. Laid paper. Cloth. [item no.3734]


ECCLES, John, c.1668-1735

The Judgement of Paris. A Masque by William Congreve. Originally Published by John Walsh & Johan Hare, London, 1702. Introduction by Richard Platt.

Music for London Entertainment, 1660-1800, C/1. Tunbridge Wells, 1984. 23 x 36 cm, xvi, 71 pp. Line-cut of the printed score. Cloth. $86 [item no.269]


ESQUIVEL NAVARRO, Juan de, 17th c.

Discursos sobre el arte del dançado y sus excelencias y primer origen, reprobando las acciones deshonestas.

Colección Biblioteca Valeciana. Valencia, n.d. 11 x 16 cm, 131 pp. Line-cut of the Seville, 1642 edition. Wrappers. $18 [item no.7238]


EYCK, Jhr Jacob van, c.1589-1657

Euterpe oft Speel-goddinne, Amsterdam 1644. Facsimile Edition with an Introduction by Thiemo Wind.

Utrecht, 2007. Oblong, 20 x 11 cm, vii, 90 pp. Line-cut of the 1644 edition. “Euterpe oft Speel-goddinne” (Euterpe of the Goddess of Instrumental Music) is the first half of Jacob van Eyck’s famous collection of solo variations, preludes and fantasias, containing 55 pieces. Issued on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of Van Eyck’s death. Wrappers. $35 [item no.9024]


Der Fluyten Lust-Hof, vol Psalmen, Paduanen, Allemanden, Couranten, Balletten, Airs, &c. Konstigh en lieflyk gefigureert, met veel veranderingen. . . Eerste [&] tweede Deel. [Toonkunst Bibliotheek, Amsterdam].

Amsterdam, 2/ 2007. Oblong, 20 x 10 cm, 181, iii pp. Line-cut of the Amsterdam 1649 and 1654 editions. The great anthology of 17th-c. recorder music. Afterword in Dut-Eng by Kees Otten. Wrappers. $57 [item no.9600]


FASOLO, Giovanni Battista, c.1600-c.1659

Il Caro di Madama Lucia, [et una serenata in lingua lombarda, che fa la gola, a carnevale]. [British Library, London].

Faksimile-Edition Canto e Continuo, 3. Stuttgart, 1999. 22 x 34 cm, 12 pp. Line-cut of the Rome, 1628 edition. A lament for Madama Lucia (with serenate and various dance numbers), consisting of recitatives and 3 part choruses, with and without basso continuo. Alfabeto notation. Wrappers. $20 [item no.7749]


FERNÁNDEZ DE HUETE, Diego, f.1699-1704

[Method, harp/organ] Compendio numeroso de zifras armónicas, con theorica, y practica, para harpa de una orden, de dos ordenes, y de organo. [Par] María Rosa Calvo Manzano.

Madrid, 1992. Oblong, 32 x 22 cm, 2 vols, 206, 247 pp. Line-cut of the Madrid, 1702-1704 edition. The earliest known manual devoted mainly to the harp. Gives instructions for the diatonic harp with one string row and the chromatic harp with two. Includes popular dances of the day notated in Spanish keyboardtablature. Wrappers. $88 [item no.7085]


FEUILLET, Raoul-Auger, 1659-1710

Chorégraphie ou l’art de décrire la dance.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/105. Bologna, 2/ 1983. 17 x 25 cm, 113 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1701 edition. Describes Feuillet’s principles of notation in detail. Much of the text is engraved, with hundreds of examples of various steps and patterns. Considered the origin of dance notation as we know it today. Feuillet’s methods immediately became popular and remained in use for nearly a hundred years until modified by Malpied at the end of the 18th c. Cloth. $54 [item no.2466]


Choregraphie ou l’art de de’crire la dance. A Facsimile of the 1700 Paris Edition; Recueil de dances compose’es par M. Feuillet. A Facsimile of the 1700 Paris Edition; Recueil de danses compose’es par M. Pécour. A Facsimile of the 1700 Paris Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/130. New York, 1968. 21 x 29 cm, 114 & 85 & 73 pp. Line-cut of three treatises. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.1646]


Chorégraphie ou l’art de décrire la dance.

Hildesheim, 1979. 8º, 120 pp. Line-cut of the 1700 edition. Linen. $75 [item no.2534]


For the Further Improvement of Dancing, London 1710. Translated by John Essex.

Farnborough, 1970. 14 x 21 cm, 92 pp. Line-cut. Paperback. [item no.3222]


Recueil de contredances. A Facsimile of the 1706 Paris Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/135. New York, 1968. 13 x 20 cm, 224 pp. Line-cut. A collection of 32 dances presented here in a simpler form for ballroom purposes, of the method of annotation introduced in Chorégraphie. Laid paper. Handsome binding in cloth. [item no.1780]


FRANCISQUE, Antoine, c.1575-1605

[Le trésor d’Orphée, lute] Le trésor d’Orphée. Livre de tablature de luth contenant une susane un jour, plusieurs fantaisies, préludes, passemaises, gaillardes, pavanes d’Angleterre, pavannes espagnolle, fin de gaillarde, suittes de bransles tant à cordes avalées qu’austres voltes et courantes.

Geneva, 3/ 1993. 22 x 30 cm, 64 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1600 edition. The original French tablature for these pieces, 71 in all. Fantasias, preludes, passamezzi, pavanes, gaillards, branles, courantes and waltzes. Wrappers. $40 [item no.1029]


FRESCOBALDI, Girolamo, 1583-1643

[Toccatas, etc., keyboard, book 1] Toccate d’intavolatura di cimbalo et organo. Partite di diverse, arie e corrente, balletti, ciaccone, passaghagli. Libro primo.

Archivum Musicum: Strumentalismo Italiano, 3. Florence, 1980. 24 x 34 cm, iii, 116 pp. Line-cut of the Rome, 1637 edition. Preface in It by Laura Alvini. Wrappers in decorative paper. $35 (more info... ) [item no.853]


[Toccatas, etc., keyboard, book 2] Il secondo libro di toccate, canzone, versi d’hinni magnificat, gagliarde, correnti, et altre partite d’intavolatura di cimbalo et organo.

Archivum Musicum: Strumentalismo Italiano, 4. Florence, 1980. 24 x 34 cm, i, 94 pp. Line-cut of the Rome, 1637 edition. Preface in It by Laura Alvini. Wrappers in decorative paper. $35 (more info... ) [item no.852]


GALILEI, Michelangelo, b.?-1631

Il primo libro d’intabolatura di liuto. Introduction par C. Chauvel.

Manuscrits, 4. Geneva, 1985. 4º, 68 pp. Line-cut of the Munich, 1620 edition. 56 pieces (mostly dances) for ten course lute in French tablature. Wrappers. $72 [item no.1033]


Il primo libro d’intavolatura di liuto. München 1620. [Biblioteka Jagiellońska, Krakow].

Faksimile-Edition Krakau, 13. Stuttgart, 2008. 21 x 33 cm, 116 pp. Line-cut of the Munich, 1620 edition. Printed on the recto pages only, after the original. 56 pieces (mostly dances) for ten course lute in French tablature. Hardbound, with decorative paper boards. Wrappers. $41 [item no.8962]


GALILEI, Vincenzo, 1520-1591

Dialogo della musica antica et della moderna. A Facsimile of the 1581 Florence Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/20. New York, 1967. 23 x 35 cm, 162 pp. Line-cut of the Florence, 1581 edition. In Italian lute tablature and mensural notation. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.2591]


Fronimo. Dialogo sopra l’arte del bene intavolare et rettamento sonare. [Musikbibliothek der Stadt Leipzig].

Leipzig, 1978. 22 x 31 cm, 188 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1584 edition. Handsome binding in linen and vellum paper. $88 [item no.2704]


[Intabulations, lute] Libro d’intavolatura di liuto [nel quale si contengono i passemezzi, le romanesche, i saltarelli, et le gagliarde et altre cose ariose, ms. Gal. 6 (1584) della Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze].

Archivum Musicum: Monumenta Musicae Revocata, 11. Florence, 1993. 25 x 33 cm, xii, 276, v pp. Line-cut of the 1584 autograph manuscript. Large collection of pieces for solo lute in Italian tablature. Introduction in It-Eng by Orlando Cristoforetti. Quarter linen. $85 [item no.2402]


GALLINI, Giovanni-Andrea, 1728-1805

A Treatise on the Art of Dancing.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/48. New York, 1967. 8º, Line-cut of the London, 1772 edition. Contains substantial chapters on the minuet, on dances in various parts of the world (including America), and on pantomimes. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.2648]


GARDANO, Antonio, 1509-1569 [publisher]

Intabolatura nova di varie sorte de balli da sonare.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, IV/50a. Bologna, 1971. Oblong, 23 x 16 cm, 52 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1551 edition. 25 pieces in two-staff keyboard notation. Wrappers. [item no.1035]


GRAUPNER, Christoph, 1683-1760

Monatliche Clavir Früchte [bestehend in Praeludien, Allemanden, Courranten, Sarabanden, Menuetten, Giguen &c, meistentheils vor Anfänger] (1722). Présentation par Oswald Bill. [Yale University, New Haven, CT].

Collection Dominantes. Courlay, 2003. Oblong, 4˚, xii, 134 pp. Line-cut of the author’s edition, Darmstadt, 1722. Consists of 12 dance suites corresponding to the 12 months of the year. Introduction in Fr-Eng-Ger. Wrappers. $59 [item no.8344]


GREENE, Maurice, 1696-1755

Florimel or Love’s Revenge, 1734. Introduction by H. Diack Johnstone. [British Library].

Music for London Entertainment, 1660-1800, C/6. London, 1995. 25 x 36 cm, xvii, 168 pp. Printed score and libretto. Cloth. $170 [item no.8193]


GROSSATESTA, Gaetano, c.1720-c.1774

Balletti in occasione delle felicissime Nozze di Sua Eccellenza La Signora Loredana Duodo con Sua eccellenza il Signor Antonio Grimani composti da Gaetano Grossatesta Maestro di Ballo in Venezia e dallo stesso Presentati all’Eccellentissimo Sposo. A cura di / Edited by: Gloria Giordano. Traduzione /Translation: Ken Hurry. Traduzioni delle fonti coreografiche del XVIII secolo / Translation from Eighteenth-Century Dance Sources by Angene Feves.

Musurgiana: Sources and Materials for the History and Theory of Music, 21. Lucca, [2005]. 8°, 127, 26 pp + audio CD. Beautiful color facsimile of a recently rediscovered ms with dance choreography. Written for the 1726 Duodo-Grimanni marriage the work is the only extant Italian choreography based on French dance composition and style and written in Beauchamps-Feuillet notation. Historical commentary, and biographical introduction in It-Eng. Includes Grossatesta’s complete work list. Wrappers. $53 (more info... ) [item no.8553]


GUERAU, Francisco, 1659-d.?

Poema harmónico (Madrid, 1694). Complete Facsimile Edition with an Introduction and English Translation by Brian Jeffery.

London, 1977. Oblong, 29 x 22 cm, viii, 68, 9 pp. Line-cut of the Madrid, 1694 edition, in Italian tablature. Variations on airs and dances popular in Spain at the time, pavans, galliards, canaries, folías, pasacalles, etc. Includes English translations of the texts. Wrappers. $52 [item no.1054]


HAIDEN, Hans Christoph, 1572-1617

Ganz neue lustige Täntz vnd Leidlein, [deren Text mehrer theils auff Namen gerichtet, mit vier Stimmen, nicht allein zu singen, sondern auch auff allerhand Instrumenten zu gebrauchen]. Nürnberg / Paul Kauffmann 1601. [Library of Congress, Washington, DC].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 61. Stuttgart, 2018. 17 x 20 cm, 4 partbooks, 108 pp. Line-cut of the Nuremberg, 1601 edition. Wonderful collection of 23 dance numbers (all texted) for various string and wind instrumental groupings. Partbooks: cantus, altus, tenor, bassus) Wrappers, with portfolio. $75 [item no.9579]


HAKE, Hans, 1628-dc.1663

Ander Theil newer Pavanen, [Sonaten, Arien, Balletten, Brandlen, Couranten, und Sarabanden, mit 2.3.4.5. und 8-Instrumenten mit dem basso continuo]. Stade 1654 / Elias Holwein. [British Library, London & Stadtbibliothek Växjö].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 61. Stuttgart, 2010. 16 x 21 cm, 5 partbooks, 222 pp. Line-cut of the Stade, 1654 edition. Wonderful collection of 43 dance movements for various string and wind instrumental groupings (a2 to a5), including 4 for 2 cornetti & 3 trombones and 2 for 5 trombones. Wrappers, with portfolio. $76 [item no.9174]


HASSLER, Hans Leo, 1562-1612

Lustgarten neuer teutscher Gesäng. Balletii, Galliarden und Intraden mit 4.5.6. und 8. Stimmen. [Schermar Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 45. Stuttgart, 1998. 16 x 20 cm, 4 partbooks, c.230 pp. Line-cut of the Paul Kauffmann edition, Nuremberg, 1610. 15 settings a4, 13 a5, 8 a6, 3 a8 and 6 instrumental Intraden a6. Tenor, altus, quinta and sexta partbooks only. Wrappers, with portfolio in marbled paper. $72 [item no.7608]


HAUSSMANN, Valentin, c.1565-c.1614

[Dances, German & Polish] Außzug aus Valentini Haußmanns [Gerbipol. zweyen unterschiedlichen Wercken als der teutschen Täntz mit 4. Stimmen und des ersten Theils polnischer Täntz so Venusgarten tituliert mit 5. Stimmen mit und ohne Text in ein Opusculum zusammen gebracht durch V. Haußmann]. Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 26. Stuttgart, 1997. 15 x 19 cm, 5 partbooks, c.284 pp. Line-cut of the Balthasar Scherff edition, Nuremberg, 1609. 11 dances a4, 28 a5, plus 59 purely instrumental dances a4. Wrappers, with handsome portfolio in marbled paper. $115 [item no.7524]


HOVE, Joachim van den, 1567-1620

Delitiae musicae [sive cantiones, e quamplurimis praestantissimorum nostri aevi musicorum libris selectae]. Utrecht, de Roy 1612, RISM 1612(18). [Stadtbibliothek, Mainz].

Faksimile-Edition Laute, 5. Stuttgart, 2002. 20 x 32 cm, 136 pp. Line-cut of the Utrecht, 1612 edition. Contains c.40 works by Hove, plus intabulations of a number of Italian masters. Preludes, pavans, passamezzi, galliards, etc., in French tablature. Hardbound with decorative paper. $95 [item no.8157]


[Delitiae musicae, selection] Delitiae musicae [sive cantiones, e quamplurimis praestantissimorum nostri aeui musicorum libris selectae. Ad testudinis usum accomodatae. . . ]. Utrecht 1612. Auswahl.

Munich, 1991. 21 x 30 cm, 13 pp. Line-cut of the Utrecht, 1612 edition. Selection of 19 numbers (from a total of 114 in the original) for 6-8 course Renaissance lute in French tablature. Wrappers. $16 [item no.4323]


Florida, sive cantiones [. . .] ad testudinis usum accommodatae (Utrecht 1601). Uitgegeven door / Edited by Taco Walstra met medewerking van / with the co-operation of David van Ooijen & Rudolf Rasch.

Utrecht, 2004 4˚, 31, 224 pp. Line-cut of the Utrecht, 1601 edition. Dutch lute music (fantasies, intabulations of Italian vocal music, gaillardes, passamezzi, allemandes, etc.) written for 7 and 8 course renaissance lute in French tablature. Cloth. $128 [item no.8529]


Lautenbuch, Leiden 1615, Gesamtfaksimile / Complete Facsimile. Faksimile nach der Lautenhandschrift in der Staatsbibliothek Berlin Signatur: Mus. ms. autogr. Hove 1. Kommentar: Ralf Jarchow.

Glinde, 2006. 21 x 30 cm, 37, 53 pp. The “Lautenbuch” is the only known manuscript by Joachim van den Hove, who, around 1600, with Emanuel Adriaenssen, Nicolas Vallet and Gregorio Huwet was counted among the most important lutenists of the Netherlands. The pieces for 6- to 10-course lute intabulated in French tablature are retrospectively closer in style to the Renaissance rather than to early Baroque and emphasize the more traditional compositional style of Hove known from the prints. Contents: Ballard, Bataille, Caccini, J. Dowland, D. M. Ferrabosco, Gastoldi, Hove, Praetorius, Hagenbach, Lasso, Robinson, Saman, A. Striggio, Vallet. Commentary in Ger-Eng. Hardbound. $66 [item no.8742]


HUREL, Charles, 17th c.

Tablature de luth et de théorbe, ca.1675. Fac-similé du Ms PML 17524 BDG [now Ms. E.34.B], The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Préface de François Lesure.

Manuscrits, 6. Geneva, 1996. Oblong, 24 x 17 cm, 8, 56 pp. Line-cut. 34 dances and free compositions arranged in 5 suites and notated in French tablature (theorbo tuning: a e b g d A). Notwithstanding the title, the collection contains no lute repertory. Wrappers. $59 [item no.1057]


JAYME, Ernest August, 18th c.

Recüeil de contre dance mises en chorégraphie. [Herzog-August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Cod. Guelf. 244 Blank.].

Dokumentationen, Reprints, 29. Michaelstein, 1991. Oblong & upright, 21 x 15 cm, 2 vols, ii, 178 pp. Line-cut of the 1717 ms. Jayme was dancing master to Herzog Ludwig Rudolf. Contains explanations of dance and dance notation and offers 119 titled dances with 102 melodies. Important witness to the cultivation of dance at the German court. Wrappers, in 2 volumes. $25 [item no.4225]


JOBIN, Bernhard, b.?-c.1594

Das erste [-ander] Buch newerlessner fleissiger ettlicher viel schöner Lautenstück [von artlichen Fantaseyen, lieblichen teütschen, frantzösischen und italiänischen Liedern, künstlichen lateinischen Muteten, mit vier und fünf Stimmen, auch lustigen allerhand Passomezen].

Geneva, 1997. 17 x 24 cm, 160, iii pp. Line-cut of the Strasbourg, 1572-1573 editions. German tablature containing fantasias, dances and numerous transcriptions of works by Lasso. Wrappers. $101 [item no.1058]


JULLIEN, Adolphe, 1845-1932

Histoire du théâtre de Mme de Pompadour, dit Théâtre des petits cabinets / Les grandes nuits de Sceaux: le théâtre de la duchesse du Maine / L’opéra secret au XVIIIe siècle (1770-1790).

Geneva, 1978. 8º, 432 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1874, 1876, & 1880 editions. Two of the main establishments for performances in 18th-c Paris. L’opéra secret describes the stirring world of singers and dancers on the eve of the Revolution. Wrappers. $66 [item no.4259]


KÄRGEL, Sixt, c.1540-d.?

[Nova exque artificiosa, cittern] Nova exque artificiosa et valde commoda ratio ludendae cytharae.

Geneva, 1990. 8º, 80 pp. Line-cut of the Jobin edition, Strasbourg, 1575. Anthology of 48 pieces for the cittern written in the Italian tablature: fantasias, French, Italian, German chansons and dances (Arcadelt, Rore, Senfl, Lassus, etc.). Wrappers. $32 [item no.1061]


KINDERMANN, Johann Erasmus, 1616-1655

Cantiones pathetikai [h.e. Ad memoriam passionis domini nostre Jesus Christi, dei & hominis repraesentandam, ternis 7 quaternis vocibus, etiam cum basso continuo]. Nürnberg / Johannes Friedrich Sartori 1639. [Proske-Bibliothek Regensburg, AR.9].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 85. Stuttgart, 2020. 20 x 33 cm, 4 partbooks, 64 pp. Line-cut of the Nuremberg, 1639 partbook edition (cantus/altus/tenor/bassus-bassus ad organum). Wonderful collection of 23 dance numbers (all texted) for various string and wind instrumental groupings. Wrappers, with portfolio with marbled boards. $43 [item no.9617]


KODÁLY, Zoltán, 1882-1967

Dance of Marosszék. Piano Solo. Facsimile Edition of the Manuscript (British Library, London, [Ms. UE-Loan 49/21]).

Vienna, 1982. 29 x 42 cm, 10, i pp. 2-color halftone of the fair copy in the original format. Issued for the centenary of the composer’s birth. From this work the orchestral version was arranged. $64 [item no.351]


KÜHNEL, August, 17-18th c.

[Sonatas, viols, bc] Sonate o partite ad una o due viole da gamba, con il basso continuo. [Landesbibl. & Murhard’sche Bibl. der Stadt Kassel].

Facsimile Series, III/22. Peer, 2/ 1996. 21 x 31 cm, 3 partbooks, 56 pp. Line-cut of the Kassel, 1698 edition. Contains 6 sonatas for 2 viols & bc and 8 sonatas for 1 viol & bc, a dance, and sonata and variation forms. Wrappers. $36 [item no.1209]


[Sonatas, viols, bc] Sonate ô Partite ad una ô due Viola da Gamba con il basso continuo. Kassel, 1698. Présentation par Marie-Françoise Bloch. [Gesamthochschul-Bibl., Kassel].

Collection Dominantes. Courlay, 1998. 4º, 3 partbooks, 16, 54 pp. Line-cut of the Kassel, 1698 edition. Preface in Fr-Eng-Ger. Wrappers. $36 [item no.7589]


L’ABBÉ, Anthony, 17-18th c.

A New Collection of Dances. Originally Published by F. Le Roussau: London c.1725. Introduction by Carol G. Marsh.

Music for London Entertainment, 1660-1800, D/2. London, 1991. 4º, xix, 91 pp. Cloth. $138 [item no.4690]


LA FAGE, Adrien de, 1805-1862

Histoire générale de la musique et de la dance. Antiquité I-II.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, III/84. Bologna, 1970. 16 x 22 & 22 x 31 cm, 3 vols, 1079, 28 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1844 edition. Though planned as an immense multi-volume history of music, La Fage finished only the first two volumes, treating “Musique des Chinois”, “Musique des Indiens”, and “Musique des Égyptiens et des Hébreux”. Hardbound, in 2 volumes with 1 volume of examples and plates. [item no.4004]


LALANDE, Michel-Richard de, 1657-1726

Ballet de la jeunesse. Introduction by Barbara Coeyman.

French Opera in the 17th and 18th Centuries, 9. Stuyvesant, 1996. 4º, xxxiii, 291 pp. Line-cut of the beautifully copied ms of André Danican l’aîné. Important early example of opera-ballet, predating Campra’s L’Europe ganlante by more than a decade. At the center of this divertissement is a large well-organized double chaconne of 62 variations, each eight measures long. Cloth. $100 [item no.7082]


LAMBRANZI, Gregorio, 18th c.

New and Curious School of Theatrical Dancing. With and the Original Plates by Johann Georg Puschner. Translated from the German by Derra de Moroda. Edited with a Preface by Cyril W. Beaumont.

Brooklyn, 1966. 14 x 20 cm, xxxiii, 103 pp. Line-cut of the Johann Jacob Wolrab edition, Nuremberg 1716. One of the rarest works on dancing, with magnificent scenes of theatrical and ballet dancing on each page, accompanied by one to three lines of music at the top and a description of the scene at the bottom. Engraved throughout by Johann Georg Puschner from his own designs. Wrappers. $40 [item no.3224]


LAMPE, John Frederick, 1703-1751

Pyramus and Thisbe: A Mock Opera Adapted from William Shakespeare. Originally Published by John Walsh: London, 1745. Introduction by Roger Fiske.

Music for London Entertainment, 1660-1800, C/3. Tunbridge Wells, 1988. 4º, xii, c.40 pp. Line-cut. Burlesque-opera version of the Pyramus and Thisbe scenes in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Cloth. $90 [item no.3681]


LAROUSSIÈRE, 17th c.

Mandor Buch. Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm, Sign. misc 239].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 38. Stuttgart, 1997. Oblong, 15 x 10 cm, 112 pp. Line-cut of a ms collection for mandora, c.1620, in French tablature. Contains fantasies, sarabands, pavanes, gavottes, brandles, etc. Hardbound, in vegetable vellum. $44 [item no.7465]


LEGRENZI, Giovanni, 1626-1690

Balletti e correnti a 5. . . op.16.

Huntingdon, [1993]. 4º, Xerographic reprint of the 18th-c. edition. Wrappers. $59 [item no.4853]


LEVERIDGE, Richard, 1670-1758

Complete Songs (with the Music in Macbeth), 1697-1770. Introduction by Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson.

Music for London Entertainment, 1660-1800, A/6. London, 1997. 4º. Miscellaneous contemporary printed scores. Cloth. $180 [item no.8192]


LOCKE, Matthew, 1630-1677

The Rare Theatrical. Introduction by Peter Holman. Facsimile: New York Public Library, Drexel MS 3976 (late 17th century).

Music for London Entertainment, 1660-1800, A/4. Tunbridge Wells, 1989. 4º, xxiv, 117 pp. 78 numbers. Includes six suites of “brawls” (branles) not found in contemporary theatre suites. Index. Cloth. $160 [item no.3680]


MAGNY, Claude-Marc, 18th c.

Principes de chorégraphie, suivi d’un traité de la cadence, qui apprendra les tems et les valeurs de chaque pas de la danse détaillés par caractères, figures et signes démonstratifs.

Geneva, 1988. 15 x 22 cm, 252 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, c.1765 edition. Thorough work on dance notation with detailed explanation of the Feuillet method, along with the music and choreographic notations (executed in woodcut) for a number of French ballets. Wrappers. [item no.1605]


MARC, Thomas, fl.1720-1735

[Suites, viola da gamba & bc] Suitte de pièces de dessus et de pardessus de viole et trois sonates avec les basses-continüe, qui se peuvent joüer sur la viole, la flûte traversière et autres instruments.

Viole de Gambe, XIV. Geneva, 1988. 4º, 45 pp. Line-cut of the author’s & Boivin edition, Paris, 1724. A suite of dances, mostly minuets. Introduction on how to play the two instruments. Wrappers. $51 [item no.1214]


MARINI, Biagio, c.1587-1663

[Affetti musicali, winds, strings, bc, op.1] Affetti musicali nella quale si contiene, symfonie, canzoni, sonate balletti, arie, brandi, gagliarde & corenti à 1.2.3 accomodate da potersi suonar con violini corneti & con ogni sorte de strumenti musicali. Opera prima.

Archivum Musicum: Strumentalismo Italiano, 7. Florence, 1985. 24 x 34 cm, 4 partbooks, ii, c.60 pp. Line-cut of the Gardano edition, Venice, 1617. 27 pieces in partbook format. Introduction in It by Marcello Castelliani. Wrappers and slipcover in decorative paper. $50 [item no.1271]


MATTHYSZ, Paulus, 1613-1684 [publisher]

[Der Goden Fluit-hemel, 1, 2 & 3 recorders] Der Goden Fluit-hemel. Amsterdam 1644. An Anthology of Music for 1, 2 and 3 Soprano Recorders. Facsimile Edition with an Introduction by Thiemo Wind.

Utrecht, 1993. Oblong, 19 x 10 cm, 19, 54 pp. Line-cut of the Amsterdam, 1644 edition. Wonderful anthology–literally “Flute Heaven of the Gods”–consisting of dance music and popular vocal tunes arranged into 23 duets, 8 trios, and 25 solos, all for the recorder. Most of the works are anonymous. Wrappers. $19 [item no.4552]


MÉNESTRIER, Claude-François, 1631-1705

Des ballets anciens et modernes selon les régles du théâtre.

Geneva, 2/ 1984. 14 x 22 cm, 293 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1682 edition. The earliest treatise that combines historical and aesthetic studies and deals with both French and Italian ballet. Includes discussion of choice of theme, characterization of the dancers, steps, costumes, sets and mechanical stage accessories. Wrappers. $71 [item no.2677]


Des représentations en musique anciennes et modernes.

Geneva, 2/ 1992. 11 x 15 cm, 359 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1681 edition. Begins with epoch of the Hebrews and Greeks and ends with period of Lully. Discusses relationship of painting and music, problems of declamation, the beginnings of opera, court festivitin processions. Wrappers. $66 [item no.2678]


MICHEL DE TOULOUSE, f.1496-1505

Dossier basses-dances: S’ensuit l’art et introduction de bien dancer / S’ensuyvent plusieurs basses dances tant communes qu’incommunes: comme on pourra veoyr cy dedans.

Geneva, 1986. 15 x 22 cm, v, 52 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, c.1488 and of the J. Moderne edition, Lyon, c.1535. L’arte contains 50 dances with both musical and choreographic notation, preceded by a treatise teaching the steps for the dances. S’ensuyvent offers a revised versionof this treatise with choreographic notation for 195 dances. Wrappers. $30 [item no.1400]


MILÁN, Luís, c.1500-d.?

Milán, Luis. Libro de motes de damas y caballeros en la Corte Valenciana de la Reina Doña Germana.

Colección Biblioteca Valeciana. Valencia, n.d. Oblong, 11 x 8 cm, x, 203 pp. Line-cut of the Valencia, 1535 edition. Wrappers. $16 [item no.7237]


MINGUET Y YROL, Pablo, fl.1733-1775

Reglas y advertencias generales que enseñan el modo de tañer todos los instrumentos mejores, y mas usuales, como son la guitarra, tiple, vandola, cythara, clavicordio, organo, harpa, psalterio, bandurria, violin, flauta traversera, flauta dulce, y la flautilla.

Geneva, 1982. 8º, 120 pp. Line-cut of the Madrid, 1754 edition. An instrumental encyclopedia by a pupil of Sanz. Includes examples of dances in the Castillian, Italian, Catalonian and French styles, notated either in the author’s alfabeto-like notation or mensural notation. Wrappers. $35 [item no.3308]


MODERNE, Jacques, fl.1523-1544 [publisher]

Musicque de joye. Lyon. Introduction: Samuel F. Pogue. [Universitätsbibl., München].

Facsimile Series, I/B.21. Peer, 1991. Oblong, 22 x 16 cm, 4 partbooks: xiii, 160 pp. Line-cut of the Lyon, 1550 edition. A reworked and enlarged edition of Musica nova, 1540 (to the 21 four-part ricercars, 29 French dances were added). For “violons a fleutes” and “espinets”. Includes 13 keyboard works of Da Modena, as well as works by Parabosco, Cavazzoni, Willaert, Coste, Benoist and others. Wrappers. $36 [item no.3894]


MONTÉCLAIR, Michel Pinolet de, 1667-1737

[Serenade, melody instrument, bc or trio] Serenade ou concert, divisé en trois suites de pieces pour les violons, flûtes & hautbois composées d’airs de fanfares, d’airs de fanfares, d’airs tendres, & d’airs champêtres, propres à danser, 1697. Présentation: Département de Musique Ancienne du Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.

La Musique Française Classique de 1650 à 1800, 153. Courlay, 2003. 4º, 3 partbooks, xii, 104 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1697 edition. According to composer these pieces are suitable for dancing. Preface in Fr-Eng-Ger. Wrappers. $68 [item no.8240]


MORLAYE, Guillaume, c.1515-c.1560

Premier [-second] livre de tablature de leut.

Geneva, 1983. Oblong, 21 x 15 cm, 144 pp. Line-cut of the Fezandat edition, Paris, 1552-1558. For solo lute in French tablature. Fantasias, transcriptions of motets (by Piéton & Verdelot), chansons (by Sermisy, Sandrin, Arcadelt, etc.) and dances. Wrappers. $40 [item no.1092]


MOURET, Jean-Joseph, 1682-1738

Concert de chambre [à deux et trois parties, pour les violons, flutes, et hautbois]. Suivi u’une suite d’Airs à danser. Premier livre. 1737. Présentation: Département de musique ancienne du Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.

La Musique Française Classique de 1650 à 1800, 158. Courlay, 2004. 24 x 33 cm, 4 vols, xix, 33 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1737. Introduction (with dance choreography) in Fr-Eng-Ger. Wrappers. $33 [item no.8467]


MOYREAU, Christophe, 18th c.

[Pièces, harpsichord, op.1-5] Pièces de clavecin. Œuvre Ier à V.

Clavecinistes Français du XVIIIe Siècle, XVI. Geneva, 1982. 22 x 30 cm, 210; ii pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1753 edition. These five books contain overtures, concertos, sonatas, dances and picturesque and descriptive pieces. Wrappers. $100 [item no.2747]


MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791

[German Dances, orch, K.509] Deutsche Tänze KV 509. Faksimile nach der im Besitz der Deutschen Staatsbibliothek in Berlin befindlichen Urschrift.

Leipzig, 1955. Oblong, 31 x 23 cm, 24, iv pp. Halftone of the 1784 autograph. Scored for pic, 2 fl, 2 ob, 2 cl, 2 bsn, 2 hn, 2 trp, drums & strings. Afterword in Ger by Wilhelm Virneisel. Deckle paper with beautiful wrappers in marbled paper. $125 [item no.4464]


[German Dances, orch, K.509] Deutsche Tänze KV 509. Faksimile nach dem im Besitz der Deutschen Staatsbibliothek Berlin befindlichen Autograph. Mit einem Nachwort von Wilhelm Virneisel.

Musikwissenschaftliche Studienbibliothek Peters. Leipzig, 2/ 1976. Oblong, 31 x 23 cm, 24, iv pp. Halftone of the 1784 autograph. Wrappers. $55 [item no.460]


MUDARRA, Alonso, c.1508-1580

Tres libros de música en cifras para vihuela (1546). Complete Facsimile Edition with an Introduction by James Tyler. (Reproduced by Permission of the Biblioteca Nacional Madrid).

Monte Carlo, 1980. Oblong, 21 x 15 cm, 15, 257 pp. Line-cut of the Seville, 1546 edition. Italian lute tablature & harp (or organ) tablature, in mensural notation. 3 books, one for solo vihuela or guitar, one for solo vihuela, and one for voice and vihuela. Fantasias, dances, villancicos, romances, sonnets, glossas, versos, tientos y canciones. Wrappers. (out of print - included only for bibliographic reference) [item no.1094]


NEGRI, Cesare (“il trombone”), c.1546-d.?

Le gratie d’amore.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/104. Bologna, 2/ 1983. 18 x 25 cm, 306, vi pp. Line-cut of the Milan, 1602 edition. One of the great early works on Renaissance dance similiar to that of Caroso. Contains 58 engravings by Leon Palavicino after designs by Mauro Rovere showing dancers executing the figures of the gaillarde, pavane and other dances of the period. The accompanying music is in lute notation (Italian tablature), along with detailed instructions for steps and movements. Fine portrait of Negri. Afterword and bibliography by Rossana Dalmonte. Cloth. [item no.1784]


Le gratie d’amore. A Facsimile of the Milan, 1602 Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/141. New York, 1969. 8º, 306 pp. Line-cut of the Milan, 1602 edition. One of the great early works on Renaissance dance similiar to that of Caroso. Contains 58 engravings by Leon Palavicino after designs by Mauro Rovere showing dancers executing the figures of the gaillarde, pavane and other dances of the period. The accompanying music is in lute notation (Italian tablature), along with detailed instructions for steps and movements. Fine portrait of Negri. Laid paper. Cloth. [item no.2225]


NEUMARK, Georg, 1621-1681

Poetisch und Musikalisches Lustwäldchen [In welches erster Abtheilung abgesonderliche geist- und weltliche wie auch keusche Ehren- und Liebeslieder mit beygefügten Melodien nach itziger neuen Ahrt. In der andern aber unterschiedliche ganze Gedichte, Hochzeits, Traut-Glückwünschungs und Lobschriften. Und in der dritten allerhand kurze Sinnlehr und Wehtsprüche etc. so wol geist- als weltliche enthalten sind]. [Stadtbibl. Leipzig].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 53. Stuttgart, 2005. 8 x 13 cm, 228 pp. Line-cut of Hamburg, 1652 edition. Includes 29 songs and several pairs of dances for 3 tpt/vln, alto trb, 2 tenor tbn, bc. Hardbound in decorative paper. $46 [item no.8721]


NOVERRE, Jean-Georges, 1727-1810

Lettres sur la danse, et sur les ballets.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/47. New York, 1967. Line-cut of the Stuttgart, 1760 edition. Most important ballet text of the 18th c. by one of the leading authorities of dancing and the chief reformer of the French ballet. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.2647]


Lettere sulla danza, su balletti e sulle arti (1803). A cura di Flavia Pappacena. Traduzione di Alessandra Alberti.

Chorégraphie, Rivista di Ricerca Danza, nuova serie, 6. Lucca, 2012. 17 x 24 cm, 77, 250 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1803 edition. Introduction in Eng. Wrappers. $69 [item no.6966]


Lettere sulla danza, su balletti e sulle arti (1803). A cura di Flavia Pappacena. Traduzione di Alessandra Alberti.

Chorégraphie, Rivista di Ricerca Danza, nuova serie, 7. Lucca, 2011. 17 x 24 cm, lxi, 217 pp. New Italian translation with extensive commentary. Wrappers. $44 [item no.6960]


PAIX, Jakob, 1556-c.1623

Ein schön Nutz und Gebreüchlich Orgel Tabulaturbuch. Reinmichel, Laugingen 1583. Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 26. Stuttgart, 2001. 14 x 21 cm, 352 pp. Line-cut of the Laugingen, 1583 edition. An important source of German keyboard music from the second half of the 16th c. Contains 26 motets, 27 popular French, German and Italian songs, 30 dances and 2 canzoni alla francese and numerous passamezzos, saltarellos, pavans, galliards, branles and German dances. Hardbound. $133 [item no.7913]


PARANT, Mr., 18th c.

[Pièces, harpsichord, book 1] Premier livre de pièces de clavecin.

Clavecinistes Français du XVIIIe Siècle, XIX. Geneva, 1982. 4º, 26 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1762 edition. 16 works, consisting of dances and descriptive pieces. Wrappers. $30 [item no.2750]


PEMBERTON, Ebenezer, 1672-1717

An Essay for the Improvement of Dancing, London 1711.

Farnborough, 1970. 14 x 20 cm, 66 pp. Line-cut. Hardbound. $45 [item no.3225]


PESORI, Stefano, c.1613-d.?

[Lo scrigno armonico, winds, strings, harpsichord, bc, op.2] Lo scrigno armonico. Opera seconda. Ove si rinchiudono vaghissime danze, & ariette al modo italiano, spagnolo, e francese, per suonare in concerto con basso, violino, manacordo, & altri instromenti.

Archivum Musicum: Strumentalismo Italiano, 65. Florence, 1986. 34 x 24 cm, 60 pp. Line-cut. Wrappers in decorative paper. $31 [item no.1793]


PHALÈSE, Pierre, c.1510-1574 [publisher]

[Des chansons, bk. 5] Des chansons gaillardes, paduanes et motetz réduitz en tablature de luth. Livre cinquième. Avec une introduction d’Henry Vanhulst. Index.

Geneva, 1991. Oblongn 15 x 11 cm, xxviii, 64 pp. Line-cut of the Louvain, 1547 edition. A recently re-discovered French lute tablature. 4 fantasias, 5 dances, 2 motets and 24 French chansons, including works by Mouton, Sermisy, Richafort, Mahiet, Willaert, Maille, Payen and Certon. Wrappers. $30 [item no.3101]


Liber primus leviorum carminum. Premier livre de danseries. Löwen, P. Phalèse und Antwerpen, J. Bellère 1571. [Stadtarchiv, Heilbronn].

Faksimile Heilbronner Musikschatz, 2. Stuttgart, 1995. Oblong, 19 x 15 cm, 4 partbooks, 438 pp. Line-cut of the Louvain, 1571 edition. Liber primus leviorum carminum—or “first book of easy songs”—consists of 103 dances a4 intended for all instruments. Mostly by Jean d’Estrée, the works include pavane-galliard pairs, allemandes and numerous branles, all written in mensural notation in partbook format. Hardbound in vegetable vellum. Slipcase. $126 [item no.7287]


Theatrum musicum, authorum proestantiss., tum veterum, tum recentiorum carmina selectissima . . . translatae in testudinis usum, velut Julio Caesare paduano, Melchiore Neusidler germano, et Six Kargl. Préface d’Henri Vanhulst.

Geneva, 2002. 4º, 272 pp. Line-cut of the Phalèse edition, Louvain 1571. One of the most important anthologies of lute music published in the 16th c. More than 200 pieces–fantasias, chansons, madrigals, motets, and dances. 8 pieces are for 2 lutes. Wrappers. $162 [item no.3339]


Theatrum musicum [in quo selectissima optimorum quorumlibet autorum. . . carmina. . . fantasiae. . . catilenae quatuor et quinque vocum. . . muteta quatuor, quinque et sex vocum], 1563. Et suppléments manuscrits Oxford, Bodleian Library. D.4.10 Art.; Utrecht, Universiteitsbibliotheek, AA-fol-28 Rariora. Introduction d’Henri Vanhulst.

Geneva, 2005. 4º, xxv, 140, 6, i pp. Line-cut of the Phalèse edition, Louvain 1563. Anthology of 140 instrumental works–fantasias, dances, transcriptions of chansons, madrigals and motets–selected with the help of Fredericus Viaera from Friesland. Seven pieces are for two lutes. Preface in Fr-Eng. Wrappers. $126 [item no.7100]


PHILIDOR, Anne Danican, 1681-1728

[Suites, flute, bc; Sonatas, recorder, bc; book 1] Premier livre de pièces pour la flûte traversière avec la basse.

Archivum Musicum: L’Art de la Flûte Traversière, 5. Florence, 1980. Oblong, 4º, 24 pp. Line-cut of the 1712 Foucault edition, Paris. 19 pieces for two players, mostly dances, including a sonata for recorder, 3 fugues and 2 picturesque pieces: “Les Forgerons et le Papillon”. Wrappers, in decorative paper. $38 [item no.791]


PIFARO, Marcantonio del, 16th c.

[Intabulations, lute, book 1] Intabolatura de lauto de ogni sorte de balli novamente stampati et posti in luce. Libro primo.

Geneva, 1981. Oblong, 8º, 48 pp. Line-cut of the Gardano edition, Venice, 1546. Italian lute tablature. 14 dances, each accompanied by a saltarello. Wrappers. $25 [item no.1114]


PLAYFORD, Henry, 1657-c.1709

Apollo’s Banquet, Newly Reviv’d: Containing New and Easie Instructions for the Treble-Violin with Variety of the best and choicest Ayres, Tunes, Jiggs, Minuets, Sarabrands, Chacones and Cybells, that have been Perform’d at both Theatres, and other Publick Places. To which are added, The Newest French Dances, now in use at Court, and in Dancing-Schools.

Alston, 1999. Oblong, 4º, ii, 66 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1701 edition. A collection of choice tunes, many traceable to the suites of incidental music written for plays by Henry Purcell, John Eccles, William Croft, Thomas Tollett, Thomas Morgan and others. Novel new engraving font (“NewTy’d Character” or “new London character”, developed by the printer William Pearson. Preface by Peter Holoman. Ring binding. $29 [item no.7833]


[& R. Cari] The Theater of Music. Originally Published by Henry Playford & Robert Cari in 4 Books, London, 1685-1687. Introduction by Robert Spencer.

Music for London Entertainment, 1660-1800, A/1. Tunbridge Wells, 1983. 23 x 36 cm. Line-cut of printed scores; an anthology of 189 songs. Cloth. $88 [item no.710]


PLAYFORD, John, 1623-1686 [publisher]

Choice Ayres, Songs and Dialogues [Books I and II], Originally Published by John Playford, London 1673-1679. Introduction by Ian Spink.

Music for London Entertainment, 1660-1800, A/5a. London, 1989. 23 x 36 cm, xiv, 178 pp. Line-cut. Cloth. $134 [item no.3682]


Choice Ayres, Songs and Dialogues, Books III, IV and V, Originally Published by John Playford, London 1681-1684.

Music for London Entertainment, 1660-1800, A/5b. London, 1989. 23 x 36 cm, vii, 211, iv pp. (Part two to above) Line-cut. Index of first lines, titles, composers, authors & plays. Cloth. $134 [item no.3683]


PRADEL, Abraham du (BLEGNY, Nicolas de), 1652-1722

Le livre commode contenant les adresses de la ville de Paris, et le trésor des almanachs pour l’année bissextile 1692.

Geneva, 1973. 8º, 210 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1692 edition. Historic survey of the Académie National de Musique, inventory of the opera houses, official denominations, list of succesive directors, conductors, performances, singers, choreographers and dancers. Hardbound. $56 [item no.3316]


PURCELL, Daniel, c.1660-1717

[& J. Clark & R. Leveridge] The Island Princess. British Library Add. MS 15318. A Semi-Opera . . . Music by Jeremiah Clark, Richard Leveridge and Daniel Purcell. Introduction by Curtis A. Price and Robert D. Hume.

Music for London Entertainment, 1660-1800, C/2. Tunbridge Wells, 1985. 25 x 36 cm Halftone of a contemporary ms copy. First performed 1699. Cloth. $121 [item no.709]


PURCELL, Henry, 1659-1695

[& J. Eccles et al] Don Quixote. The Music in the Three Plays of Thomas Durfey. Originally Published by Samuel Briscoe, London, 1694-1696. Introduction by Curtis Price.

Music for London Entertainment, 1660-1800, A/2. Tunbridge Wells, 1984. 23 x 36 cm, xvi, 94 pp. Line-cut. Cloth. $69 [item no.512]


PURE, Michel de, 1620-1680

Idée des spectacles anciens et nouveaux.

Geneva, 1972. 11 x 15 cm, 334 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1668 edition. The author studies the composition of different genres of ballets, their choreography, vocal and instrumental music, production, costume and stage machinery. Wrappers. $66 [item no.3317]


RADINO, Giovanni Maria, fl.1575-1600

[Intavolatura di balli, lute/harpsichord] Il primo libro d’intavolatura di balli d’arpicordo di Gio. Maria Radino, organista in S. Gio. di Verdara in Padova Venetia MDXCII. Facsimile with Transcription by Rosamond E.M. Harding. [Copy, Bibl. Royale, Brussels].

Cambridge & New York, 1949. 8º, v, 26, 45 pp. Halftone of the Venice, 1592 edition, together with new practical edition and historical introduction. First Italian collection of dances to specify the harpsichord. Hardbound. $40 [item no.909]


[Intavolatura di balli, lute/harpsichord] Il primo libro de intavolatura di balli per sonar di liuto. Venezia 1592.

Archivum Musicum: Strumentalismo Italiano, 79. Florence, 1996. Oblong, 24 x 16 cm, vi, 31 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1592 edition. Preface in It by Fabio Mori. Wrappers. $29 [item no.7378]


RAMEAU, Jean-Philippe, 1683-1764

Les Indes galantes. Ballet réduit à quatre grands concerts. 1735-1736. Présentation par Pascal Duc. [Bibl. Municipale, Lyon].

La Musique Française Classique de 1650 à 1800, 166. Courlay, 2005. Oblong, 31 x 23 cm, xxxi, 230 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1735-1736 edition (short score). Introduction in Fr-Eng-Ger. Wrappers. $93 [item no.8572]


Les Indes galantes. Paris. [Bibliothèque d’étude et de conservation Besançon].

Faksimile-Edition Kammermusik des Barock, 5. Stuttgart, 2015. Oblong, 31 x 23 cm, 226 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1735-1736 edition (short score). Hardbound, with boards in decorative paper. $83 [item no.9427]


RAMEAU, Pierre, 18th c.

Le maître à danser. A Facsimile of the 1725 Paris Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/45. New York, 1967. 15 x 22 cm, 296, plus 1 foldout pp. Line-cut. One of the most famous dance books of the 18th c., giving a detailed account of the steps and dances of the period. Sets down for the first time the five essential positions for the feet. Numerous illustrations showing positions of the body and hands, steps, etc. Laid paper. Cloth. [item no.2646]


REBEL, Jean-Féry, 1666-1747

Les caractères de la dance. Fantaisie (1715). Grand chœur / Petit chœur. Neuausgabe. Faksimile der Pisendel-Abschrift. Faksimile Erstdruck. Neuauflage 1727/1733. Herausgegeben von Stefan Fuchs.

Magdeburger Faksimile Offizin. Magdeburg, 2007. 4º, 41 pp. Facsimile of Pisendel’s manuscript copy, plus the first edition (Le Clerc, 1727/1733), together with a new practical edition of the score. This fantasie, from 1715, is considered one of the great monuments of Baroque dance music (even performed by Handel in London), and can be performed ”petit choeur” (i.e. as a trio sonata) or “grand choeur” with extra inner voices. Wrappers. $46 [item no.8898]


Les caractères de la danse, 1715 / La Terpsichore, 1720. Présentation: Dona Borel, CeFEdeM Île-de-France.

La Musique Française Classique de 1650 à 1800, 206. Courlay, 2012. 22 x 30 cm, x, 16 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1715 & 1720 editions. Preface in Fr-Eng-Ger. Wrappers. $35 [item no.9275]


Les éléments. Simphonie nouvelle. Neuausgabe. Faksimile der Pisendel-Abschrift. Herausgegeben von Stefan Fuchs.

Magdeburger Faksimile Offizin. Magdeburg, 2005. 4º. Facsimile of the of Paris, 1737 edition, together with modern edition. Wrappers. $56 [item no.9077]


Fantaisie, 1729; Les plaisirs champêtres, 1734; [Les parodies nouvelles, et les vaudevilles inconnus, 1730]. Présentation par Catherine Cessac. [Nederlands Muziek Instituut, The Hague; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris].

La Musique Française Classique de 1650 à 1800, 191. Courlay, 2006. 24 x 33 cm, vii, 26 pp. Line-cut of the 1729, 1734 & 1730 editions. The Fantaisie is also known as Pas de trois, with string/wind accompaniment. Les plaisirs champêtres is for 2 female and 4 male dancers (pas de six), with string/wind accompaniment. Preface in Fr-Eng-Ger. Wrappers. $23 [item no.9077]


ROTH, Christian, c.1585-c.1640

Couranten-Lustgärtlein, RISM 1625(10). [Stadtbibliothek, Bautzen].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 9. Stuttgart, 1998. Oblong, 20 x 24 cm, 5 partbooks, c.180 pp. Line-cut of Wolff Seiffert edition, Dresden, 1625. 74 pieces for wind or string instruments. Wrappers, with slipcase in marbled paper. $78 [item no.7575]


ROTTA, Antonio, c.1495-1549

Intabolatura de lauto, di ricercari, motetti, balli, madrigali. Canzon francese da lui composti & intabulati & novamente posti in luce. Libro primo.

Geneva, 1982. Oblong, 8º, 112 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1546 edition. For solo lute in Italian lute tablature. 27 dances, 6 French chansons (by Maille, Meigret, Payen), 4 motets (by Jachet, Mouton, Willaert, Gombert), 6 madrigals (by Arcadelt, Festa, Pathie) and 6 ricercari. Wrappers. $33 [item no.1129]


SACCHI, Giovenale, 1726-1789

Della divisione del tempo nella musica, nel ballo e nella poesia.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/45. Bologna, 1969. 16 x 22 cm, ix, 255 pp. Line-cut of the Milan, 1770 edition. Laid paper. Hardbound. $78 [item no.3745]


SACCHINI, Antonio, 1730-1786

Il Cid (1773); Perseo (1774). Printed Songs. Introduction by Dennis Libby.

Music for London Entertainment, 1660-1800, E/-. London, 1996. 4˚, xxiii, 93 pp. Line-cut of the early song collection printed by Bremner. Cloth. $180 [item no.542]


SAINT-LÉON, Arthur, 1815-1870

La sténochorégraphie. A cura / Edited by Flavia Pappacena.

Chorégraphie, Rivista di Ricerca Danza, nuova serie, 4/2004. Lucca, 2006. 8º, 115, 98 pp. Line-cut of the 1852 edition, together with introduction and translations in It-Eng. Saint-Léon invented a system of dance notation using a five-line staff for leg positions, with a single line above it for head and arm positions, over which were notated modified stick figures. “La sténochorégraphie” includes movements from La Vivandiér, Giselle and Il Basilico. Wrappers. $44 (more info... ) [item no.8704]


SALIERI, Antonio, 1750-1825

Les Danaîdes. Tragédie lirique en cinq actes.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, IV/18. Bologna, 1969. 22 x 32 cm, 276, iii pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1784 edition. Full score. The ballets for this opera were based on earlier choreography by Noverre, first conceived in the 1760s. Includes short summaries of the staging and complete lists of singers and dancers. Afterword in It by Silvio Montaguti. Hardbound. $135 [item no.2502]


SANTUCCI, Ercole Perugino, 16-17th c.

Mastro da Ballo (Dancing-Master) 1614. Diviso in tre trattati con il quale scolaro potrà facilmente imparare ogni sorte di ballo, senza altra scola. Manuscript, Perugia 1614. Facsimile. Foreword by Bengt Häger. Introduction by Barbara Sparti.

Hildesheim, 2/ 2011. 8º, xiv, 120, 474 pp. Line-cut of the manuscript. Santucci’s Mastro da Ballo, the latest of the 17th-century dance manuals to have come to light thus far, consists of 474 pages divided into three treatises and includes 214 Rules for Steps and Deportment, gagliarda variations, and 10 choreographies. Santucci’s step rules not only present many important variants on “old” steps but also describe others for the first time that point to a new style, suggesting a bridge between the Italian style of Caroso and Negri and the emerging French noble style. Santucci furthermore provides an extremely clear didactic way of teaching gagliarda “cinque passi” variations, of great help and utility even today. His progression from simple to complex leads to variations that will be a challenge to the most expert dancer. Linen. $125 [item no.9208]


SCHMID, Bernhard (Elder), 1535-1592

[Neue kunstliche Tabulatur] Orgeltabulatur 1577. Teil I: Facsimile. Herausgegeben von Clyde William Young.

Frankfurt, 1997. 4°. viii, 195 pp. Line-cut of the Bernhart Jobin edition, Strasburg, 1577. Arrangements (in 4 to 6 voices), notated in German keyboard tablature, of a broad repertoire of vocal pieces including works by Lasso, Crecquillon, Richafort, Zirler, Pathie, Clemens non Papa, Arcadelt, de Rore, Meiland, and Berchem. The “vocal” section is followed by a repertoire of 17 dances movements. Linen. $219 [item no.8591]


[Neue kunstliche Tabulatur] Orgeltabulatur 1577. Teil II: Übertragung. Herausgegeben von Clyde William Young.

Frankfurt, 1997. 4°, vi, 306 pp. Critical edition. Linen. $233 [item no.8592]


STRAUSS, Johann (son), 1825-1899

Sämtliche Werke in Wiedergabe der Originaldrucken herausgegeben von Ernst Hilmar. I. Tanzmusik. 1. Band: Klavierfassungen der Opera 1-100 (Ausgaben im Querformat).

Tutzing, 1991. Oblong, 8º, ii, 490 pp. Hardbound. $139 [item no.7892]


Sämtliche Werke in Wiedergabe der Originaldrucken. Begründet von Ernst Hilmar, fortgeführt von Norbert Rubey. I. Tanzmusik. 7. Band: Klavierfassungen der Opern 301-479 und o. Op. (Ausgaben im Querformat).

Tutzing, 2001. 8º, 157, i pp. Hardbound. $139 [item no.8065]


Sämtliche Werke in Wiedergabe der Originaldrucken. Begründet von Ernst Hilmar, fortgeführt von Norbert Rubey. I. Tanzmusik. 8. Band: Klavierfassungen der Opern 301-370 (Ausgaben im Hochformat).

Tutzing, 2001. 8º, 507, ii pp. Hardbound. $139 [item no.8700]


Sämtliche Werke in Wiedergabe der Originaldrucken. Begründet von Ernst Hilmar, fortgeführt von Norbert Rubey. I. Tanzmusik. 9. Band: Klavierfassungen der Opern 371-436 (Ausgaben im Hochformat).

Tutzing, 2006. 8º, 595, iii pp. Hardbound. $139 [item no.8671]


STRAVINSKY, Igor, 1882-1971

Stravinsky's Pulcinella: A Facsimile of the Sources and Sketches. Maureen A. Carr.

Music in Facsimile. Madison, 2010. 23 x 31 cm, ix, 433 pp (250 plates). Halftone monochrome reproduction of all the known musical sources and sketches for Stravinsky’s Pulcinella (1919-1920) from the combined holdings of the Paul Sacher Stiftung and the British Library. The commentary addresses the genesis of the idea for Pulcinella, the sources chosen and discarded by Stravinsky, compositional process and the collaboration of Pabla Picasso and choreographer Léonide Massine in shaping the work. Includes additional essays by Lynn Garafola, Ulrich Mosch, Jeanne Chenault Porter and Richard Taruskin. Wrappers, with colorful artwork. $180 (more info... ) [item no.9270]


Lesure, François. Dossier de presse du Sacre du Printemps d’Igor Stravinsky réuni par François Lesure avec le concours de Gertraut Haberkamp, Malcolm Turner et Emilia Zanetti.

Anthologie de la Critique Musicale, I. Geneva, 1980. 8°, 180 pp. Reactions of the press (in facsimile) from the first night in Paris (1913) until the time that this work finally was accepted on its own merits (1928). Wrappers. $61 [item no.4253]


[Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris] Igor Stravinsky. La carrière européene. 14 Octobre–30 November 1980. Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

Paris, 1980. 21 x 26 cm, 123, with 77 illus pp. Exhibition catalog. Introduction in Fr by François Lesure. Description of 357 exhibited items, including musical autographs, letters, photographs and drawings. Chronology. Wrappers. $22 [item no.2404]


[New York Public Library] Stravinsky and the Theatre: A Catalogue of Decor and Costume Designs for Stage Productions of His Works, 1910-1962.

New York, 1963. 22 x 22 cm, 57 pp. Companion volume to the exhibition catalogue Stravinsky and the Dance: A Survey of Ballet Productions, 1910-1962 (May, 1962). Includes 38 illustrations; full-color portrait of Igor Stravinsky by Albert Gleizes. Wrappers. $16 [item no.3533]


TOMLINSON, Kellom, 18th c.

A Work Book by Kellom Tomlinson. Commonplace Book of an 18th-Century English Dancing Master, A Facsimile Edition Edited by Jennifer Shennan.

Dance and Music, 6. Stuyvesant, 1992. 18 x 26 cm, x, 28, 68, ii pp. Line-cut of the hitherto unpublished ms. Tomlinson began writing a work book in 1708 during his apprenticeship with Thomas Caverley. The ms contains copies of existing publications including five dances from a French collection, a dance by Caverley, andsix dances composed by Tomlinson and performed at Lincolns Inn Fields Theater between 1716 and 1721. Hardbound. [item no.4320]


TROIANO, Massimo, 16th c.

Die Münchner Fürstenhochzeit von 1568. Dialoge. Zwiegespräche über die Festlichkeiten bei der Hochzeit des bayerischen Erbherzogs Wilhelm V. mit Renata von Lothringen, in München, im Februar 1568. Im Faksimile hrsg. ins Deutsche übertragen, mit Nachwort, Anmerkungen & Registern versehen von H. Leuchtmann.

Studien zur Landes- & Sozialgeschichte der Musik, 4. Munich, 1980. 8º, 494 pp. Line-cut of the 1569 edition. The Munich princely wedding from 1568 ranks as one of the greatest festivities of the 16th c., including the staging of works, masses, knightly and comic acrobatic displays, dinners, comedies, Latin plays, music, mascarades, dances, etc. The dialog is an important witness to Bavarian culture and its intricate knit with mainstream European and Italian elements. Provides a valuable report about courtly music under Orlando di Lasso’s supervision. Commentary & indices. Linen. $96 [item no.3485]


VANHAL, Johann Baptist, 1739-1813

[Dances, piano, 4 hands] Six danses hongroises à quatre mains pour le piano forte. [Muziekbibliotheek of the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague].

Biblioteca Classica, 174. Rotterdam, 1988. Oblong, 4º, 5 pp. Line-cut of the J.B. Nolting edition, Amsterdam, c.1800. Plastic ring binding. $10 [item no.4957]


WAISSEL, Matthäus, c.1535-1602

Tabulatura continens insignes et selectissimas quasque cantiones. [Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 25. Stuttgart, 2001. 21 x 31 cm, 96 pp. Line-cut of the Frankfurt a.d. Oder, 1573 edition. 52 pieces for solo lute in German lute tablature. Includes transcription of vocal music (Clemens non Papa, Sermisy, Senfl, Arcadelt, etc.) and numerous dance numbers. Hardbound, with decorative paper boards. $85 [item no.7948]


ZUCCOLO, Simeon, 16th c.

La pazzia del ballo.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/34. Bologna, 1969. 16 x 22 cm, 62 pp. Line-cut of the edition by Iacomo Fabriano, Padova, 1549. Treatise, in 12 chapters on the origin, style and nature of the dance, dedicated to Conte Hercole da San Bonifacio Canonico. Laid paper. Hardbound. $25 [item no.1290]


COMPOSITE & MISCELLANEOUS SOURCES

Balli teatrali a Venezia (1746-1859). Partiture di sei balli pantomimici di Brighenti, Angiolini e Viganò. Saggio introduttivo a cura di José Sasportes. Catalogo generale cronologico dei balli teatrali a Venezia a cura di Elena Ruffin e Giovanni Trentin.

Drammaturgia Musicale Veneta, 30. Milan, 1994. Oblong, 29 x 23 cm, 2 vols, cccxliv, 390 pp. Line-cut of scores to 6 pantomine dances: 2 by Giacomo Brighenti for the operas Andromaca & Partenope, 2 by Gaspare Angiolini for Antigono & Lucio Vero, and 2 by Onorato Viganò for Calliroe. Commentary consists of complete descriptive catalog of the Venetian theatrical dance repertoire from the first appearances of narrative subjects in choregraphic entertainments until the closure of the Fenice theater in 1859. Indispensable for the study of dance in Italy. Linen. $499 (more info... ) [item no.4833]


[Brussels, Bibl. Royale Albert I, 9085] Basses danses dites de Marguerite d’Autriche, Ms. 9085–aus dem Besitz der Bibliothèque Royale Albert Ier, Bruxelles. Vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat der Handschrift.

Codices Selecti, 87. Graz, 1987. Oblong, 21 x 13 cm, 2 vols, 76, 56 pp. Beautiful 4- and 5-color facsimile in the original format of a ms once belonging to Marguerite of Austria. This magnificent ms, transmitting mostly basses danses from the Dufay-Binchois period, features black pages with notes and decorations in gold and silver. Separate historical commentary in Fr-Eng by Claude Thiry, Victor Gavenda and Claudine Lemaire. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies. Luxurious binding in quarter leather and wooden coverboards. Handsome case in vellum paper. $917 (more info... ) [item no.2312]


Christout, Marie-Françoise. Le ballet de cour au XVIIe siècle / The Ballet de cour in the 17th Century.

Iconographie Musicale, 8. Geneva, 1983. 4º, c.240 pp. Beautiful iconography that examines the ballet from the court of Louis XII and Louis XIV through its choreographers, musicians and scenographers. Hardbound. $101 [item no.4135]


Collezione di musica a ballo de’ più celebri autori di Parigi e di Londra.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, IV/35. Bologna, 1972. 16 x 22 cm, 84 pp. Line-cut of the Florence, 1805 edition. Beautifully engraved publication containing 16 quadrilles, 10 contradances, and 6 waltzes scored for 2 violins and basso continuo or keyboard alone. Laid paper. Hardbound. [item no.4071]


The Director. [Dancing, Deportment, Etiquette, Aestaetics, Physical Training]. Volume I, Numbers 1-10, December 1897 – November 1898.

Brooklyn, n.d. 21 x 28 cm, v, 306 pp. Issued between December 1897 through November 1898, The Director is believed to be the first magazine devoted to dance published in America. Its editor, Melvin Ballou Gilbert, was born in Turner, Maine, on April 15, 1847. Handsome binding in quarter cloth and printed boards. $75 [item no.2714]


Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers: “Chorégraphie”.

Dokumentationen, Reprints, 26. Michaelstein, 1991. 15 x 21 cm, i, 11 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1753. Reprint of the extended article on “Chorégraphie”, including explanation of dance notation and one musical example. Wrappers. $3 [item no.4223]


[Fabricius Lute Book] Petrus Fabricius (1579–1650): Lauten- und Liederbuch, Renaissance-Laute (& Gesang). Faksimile nach der Handschrift in der Königlichen Bibliothek Kopenhagen Signatur: Thott. 4° 841. Gesamtausgaben / Complete Edition. Transkription & Kommentar: Ralf Jarchow.

Glinde, 2013. 21 x 30 cm, 2 vols, 756 pp. An important lute and song anthology from the German-Danish cultural sphere, compiled c.1605-1615 by the pastor Petrus Fabricius. Some of the pieces are unique, while others stand out for their exceptional compositional technique. In addition, the numerous, sometimes quite earthy marginal notes provide insight into the cultural milieu of Fabricius and his time as a student in Rostock. The collection shares concordances the with the Nauclerus lute book. Composer include: Aelst, Ammerbach, Azzaiolo, Babst, Balletti, Besard, Borrono, W. Brade, Brechtel, Burmeister, Cato, Dalza, Dedekind, Demantius, J. Dowland, Drusina, Elsbeth, Gerle, Fabricius, Forster, Franck, Friderici, G.L. Fuhrmann, V. Fuhrmann, Gastoldi, Gutknecht, Haussmann, Heckel, Janequin, Jobin, J. Johnson, Klug, Köpphel, Krengel, Lange, Lauremberg, Lechner, Luther, Malchinger, Meiland, H. & M. Newsidler, Phalèse, Regnart, Reymann, Rhau, Rore, Rotta, Scandello, Selnecker, Spatz, Staricius, Susato, Tertre, Thym, Vento, Waissel, Walter, Wyssenbach, and Zangius. Hardbound. $265 (more info... ) [item no.9341]


[Fiddler’s books] Das kralsche Geigenspielbuch / Kralowy husterski spewnik. Eine Budissiner Liederhandschrift vom Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts. Fotomechanischer Erstdruck mit einem Vorwort von Jan Kaupp.

Bautzen, 1983. Oblong, 13 x 19 cm, 18, 96 pp. Beautiful 3-color halftone. Quarter leather with coverboards in decorative paper with matching slipcase. $106 [item no.2814]


[Fiddler’s books] Speelmansboek uit Maastricht. Tongeren, O.-L.-Vrouwebasiliek, Bibliotheek Hs. 81, Inleiding: Gilbert Huybens, Eugeen Schreurs.

Facsimile Series, VI/1. Peer, 1996. Oblong, 23 x 17 cm, xli, 297 pp. Facsimile of a fiddlers book created between 1786 and 1824. Contains monophonic vocal and instrumental dances, songs and political pieces, mixed with two-part pieces for two violins. Most of the works are anonymous with the exception of a few pieces by Pleyel and Mozart. Wrappers. $62 [item no.7157]


[Fiddler’s books] T’Haegelant. Vier 18de-eeuwse muziekboekjes uit Diest. Quatre recueils de musique du XVIIIe siècle de Diest. Familiearchief Di Martinelli (P 206) KU Leuven. Inleiding/Introduction: Gilbert Huybens - Eugeen Schreurs.

Facsimile Series, VI/2. Peer, 1995. Oblong, 21 x 16 cm, xxxiv, 138 pp. Interesting collection of fiddle music that stems from the city of Diest. Contains “Het Diester Bier” (brown beer from Diest), “Tdansken van Hogaerden” (dance of Hoegaerden), and “Den Antwerpschen omganck” (procession of Antwerp), etc. Wrappers. $36 [item no.7159]


Fundamenta der Gallichon. “Amberger Mandora-Tabulatur”. [Stadtarchiv, Amberg, HS 39].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 11. Stuttgart, 1998. Oblong, 22 x 17 cm, 230 pp. Line-cut of c.1650 mandora manuscript containing a large anthology of dance pieces (menuets, arias, bourée, gavotas, entrees, rigadons, rondeaux, etc.). Hardbound. $76 [item no.7574]


Harmonia Anglicana. The Musick of the English Stage Containing Six Sets of Ayers and Tunes in 4 Parts made for the Operas, Tragedys and Comedyes of the Theater Royal. Sets 1 and 2. [Durham Cathedral Libary, Durham].

Alston, 2000. Oblong, 29 x 21 cm, 8 volumes, i, c.104 pp. Line-cut of the Walsh edition, London, 1700-01. Incidental music (overture followed by 7 or 8 dances) from the London theater, suitable for English violin consort (two violins, viola and large bass violin tuned in B flat, or alternatively, oboe band, recorder consort). Music by Paisible, Croft, Finger, Lenton, D. Purcell, Eccles, and Orme. Introduction by Peter Holman. Ring binding. $60 [item no.7814]


Instrumental Music for London Theatres, 1690-1699, Royal College of Music, London, MS 1172. Introduction by Curtis Price.

Music for London Entertainment, 1660-1800, A/3. Tunbridge Wells, 1987. Oblong, 4º, xvi, 101 pp. Halftone. Carefully selected anthology of virtually every type of instrumental music required by the London theaters in the 1690s–overtures, act-tunes, dances and music for special effects–usually written in full score. Compiled c.1700, possibly at the behest of the manangers of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Buckram. $116 [item no.708]


Linzer Orgeltabulatur, 1611-1613. [Mus Hs 512 Inv.-Nr. 9647, Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 17. Stuttgart, 2002. Oblong, 20 x 14 cm, 190 pp. Line-cut of a ms transmitting 56 dance movements in organ tablature. Hardbound with marbled paper boards. $64 [item no.8328]


Mandora. Recueil de pièces pour la mandore, en tablature française XVIIIe siècle. [Brussels, Bibl. Conservatoire Royal, mus. ms. 5619].

Thesaurus musicus, nova series, A/2. Brussels, 1979. 23 x 31 cm, 204 pp. Line-cut of ms collection, c.1700-50. 7 preludes and “harpeggio”, followed by 198 numbered pieces, predominately dances. Elegantly notated in French tablature with letters on 5 lines. Cloth. $66 [item no.1074]


Mandora-Tabulatur. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm, sign. Misc.133a/b].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 35. Stuttgart, 1997. Oblong, 20 x 15 cm, 2 vols, 218 pp. Line-cut of an anonymous ms dating from c.1600 in French tablature with 123 dance numbers (courants, branles, voltes, galliards, etc.). Hardbound & supplement in wrappers. $64 [item no.7543]


Marnef, Geoffroi de, & Guyot Marchand. The Dance of Death. Printed at Paris in 1490. A Reproduction Made from the Copy in the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress.

Washington, D.C., 1946. 22 x 30 cm, xi, 30 pp. Line-cut. Incunabulum with 24 superb woodcuts attributed to Pierre le Rouge. Introduction by William M. Ivins. Cloth. $40 [item no.3382]


The M.L. Lute Book, c.1610-40, London, British Library, Additional MS 38539, Generally Known as John Sturt’s Lute Book Reproduced Four-Fifths Original Size... with an Introductory Study and Guide to Concordances by Robert Spencer.

Musical Sources, 25. Kilkenny, 1985. 23 x 37 cm, xl, 70 pp. Halftone. 89 pieces for Renaissance lute tuning requiring 6, 7 and up to 10 courses. Duets by Johnson, Allison and solos by Dowland, Stuart, Batchelar & Cutting; dances by French composers and from Jacobean masques. Continuo harmony table for 10-course lute in Renaissance G tuning. Hardbound. [item no.1073]


[Montserrat, Bibl. del Monasterio, cód. 1] El llibre vermell de Montserrat. Cants i dances s. XIV. Ma. Carmen Gómez i Muntané. Summary in English.

Coneguem Catalunya, 30. Barcelona, 2000. 12 x 19 cm, 166, with 15 pp. Halftone in reduced format. Text in Catalan version with English summary. Wrappers. $17 [item no.7858]


[Montserrat, Bibl. del Monasterio, cód. 1] Llibre vermell — The Red Book of Montserrat. [Forward: Eckart Rahn; Introduction: Winsome Evans].

Berlin, 2022. 14.5 x 21 cm, xiii, 136, [30] pp. Full-color reproduction in reduced format of LLibre vermell (the “Red Book”). For musicians the jewel in this ms are the 10 pieces for 1 to 3 voices, including 3 caça (caccia), 1 ballada a ball redon, 3 dances and 3 cantilenas, all dating from the end of the 14th and early 15th century. Includes a description of the manuscript and purpose of the repertoire, texts of the pieces and English translations. Wrappers. $30 (more info... ) [item no.9715]


[Nauclerus lute book] Johannes Nauclerus Lautenbuch. Gesamtfaksimile / Complete Facsimile. Faksimile nach der Lautenhandschrift in der Staatsbibliothek Berlin—Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Signatur: Mus. ms. 40141. Kommentar und Konkordanzen: Ralf Jarchow.

Glinde, 2010. 21 x 30 cm, 208 pp. The lute book of the North Frisian pastor Johannes Nauclerus (1579-1655) was copied between 1607 and c.1620 and it is one of the most frequently cited “student manuscripts” of the time. Apart from pieces for 6- to 8-course lute written in French and some in German tablature, there are 5 pieces for cittern. The extensive research for his biography shows also the acquaintance of the contemporary pastor Petrus Fabricius, to whose well-known song and lute book, there are also numerous concordances. Composers: Adriaenssen, Azzaiolo, Besard, Cutting, Denss, J. Dowland, Fabricius, Fuhrmann, Gastoldi, Haussmann, Holborne, Huet, Lechner, Lorenzini, Luther, Meiland, Nauclerus, Otto, Regnart, Reymann, Robinson, Schröter, Senfl, Thym, Vecchi, Waissel, & Walter. Commentary in Ger-Eng. Hardbound. $98 (more info... ) [item no.9197]


Notenbuch Julius von Ponikau 1820. [Stadtbibl., Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Ulm, 16. Stuttgart, 2001. Oblong, 33 x 24 cm, 82 pp. Line-cut of a manuscript that contains a selection of movements (andantinos, menuets, adagios, waltzes, marches, contredanses), arranged for various instrumental duets, including flageolet, guitar, & posthorn. Hardbound. $62 [item no.7901]


[Paris, Bibl. Nationale, fr. 844] Estampies et danses royales. Les plus anciens textes de musique instrumentale du moyen-âge [par] Pierre Aubry.

Geneva, 1975. 15 x 22 cm, 35, with 4 pp. (Rpt. of Paris, 1907 edition). Halftones and transcriptions of the 8 estampies and dances transmitted in Ms français 844. With musical and historical introduction. Wrappers. $30 [item no.3257]


Recueil de pièces de viole en musique et en tablature, 1666. Fac-similé du ms M2.1.T2.17C. Case, Washington, Library of Congress. Introduction, index par Stuart Cheney.

Manuscrits, 28. Geneva, 1998. 16º, 36, 91 pp. Line-cut. The earliest dated French ms containing unaccompanied solo viol music. Contains four suites for 6-string bass viol by Dubuisson, a selection of dance pieces for treble instrument, and 25 signals for hunting horn. Concludes with a page of instructions on bowing and basic fingering technique for the viol. Preface in Eng-Fr. Wrappers. [item no.1241]


Tänze für 2 Violen. Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm, Sign. misc 130].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 13. Stuttgart, 1997. Oblong, 20 x 15 cm, 2 partbooks, c.296 pp. Line-cut of a ms from Ulm(?) from c.1615-1620, containing 60 dance numbers for two gambas. Wrappers, with slipcase in marble paper. $76 [item no.7463]


Tänze für 2 Violen. Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm, Sign. misc 130].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 13. Stuttgart, 1997. Oblong, 20 x 15 cm, 2 partbooks, c.296 pp. Line-cut of a ms from Ulm(?) from c.1615-1620, containing 60 dance numbers for two gambas. Wrappers. $47 [item no.7464]


Three King’s Theatre Ballets. Originally Published in London 1796-1801 [Choreographed by] Charles-Louis Didelot. Introduction by Roland John Wiley.

Music for London Entertainment, 1660-1800, D/4. London, 1994. 4º, xxii, 94 pp. Cloth. $160 [item no.8194]


The Thysius Lute Book / Het Luitboek van Thysius. Facsimile Edition of Leiden, Bibliotheca Thysiana 1666. Volume I: Introduction - Jan W.J. Burgers & Louis Peter Grijp; Concordances - Louis Peter Grijp, Simon Groot & John H. Robinson; Volume II. Facsimile Edition Folios 1-233; Volume III: Facsimile Edition Folios 233v-521v.

Muziek uit de Republiek, 2. Leiden & Utrecht, 2009 23 x 33 cm, 3 vols, 158, 380, 477 pp. Halftone. The Thysius Lute Book—taking its name from the Leiden bibliophile who acquired the manuscript in the 19th c.—is the world’s most comprehensive lute volume. Compiled by Adriaen Smout from Rotterdam between the years 1595-1646, the book is a complete international repertoire comprised of Italian dances such as passamezzi and galliardas, fancies, intabulations of madrigals, chansons and motets, psalms and English, French and Dutch ballads and dances. It includes lute music by John Dowland, John Johnson, Thomas Morley, Thomas Robinson, Robin Jones and others, arrangements of chansons by Thomas Crecquillon, Pierre Sandrin, Clemens non Papa, Claudin de Sermisy and Orlando di Lasso, madrigals by Palestrina, Ferretti and Noë Faignient, motets by Peter Phillips, Pietro Lappi, Arcangelo Bussoni, Giulio Belli and others, psalm settings by Jan Pietersz Sweelinck, Claudin le Jeune and Claude Goudimel, and many anonymous settings of ballads and dances. Smout also showed great interest in popular culture and included many peasant ditties and light-hearted song tunes. There are also remarkable lute quartets. All music has been notated in seven-line French lute tablature. 3 vols, hardbound, in slipcase. $235 (more info... ) [item no.9115]


[Ulm, Stadtbibliothek, Schermar-Bibl. Sign. 236] 2 Ms: Brieg 1565-70/Süddeutschland 1570-75.

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek, Ulm, 36. Stuttgart, 1998. Oblong, 18 x 12 cm, 4 partbooks, c.550 pp. Line-cut of the two contemporary mss containing 140 southern German lieder and dance pieces. The second ms is copied on the empty folios of the first, proceeding back to front. Hardbound with slipcase. $152 [item no.7637]


[Ulm, Stadtbibliothek, Schermar-Bibl. Sign. 236] 2 Ms: Brieg 1565-70/Süddeutschland 1570-75.

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 36. Stuttgart, 1998. Oblong, 18 x 12 cm, 4 partbooks, c.550 pp. Line-cut of the two contemporary mss containing 140 southern German lieder and dance pieces. The second ms is copied on the empty folios of the first, proceeding back to front. Wrappers. $89 [item no.7638]


Universal-Lexikon aller Wissenschaften und Künste: “Tantzen”.

Dokumentationen, Reprints, 28. Michaelstein, 1991. 15 x 21 cm, i, 23 pp. Line-cut of the Leipzig, 1744 edition. Reprint of the extended article on “Tantzen”. Wrappers. $4 [item no.4224]


Wernigeröder Tanzbüchlein. Reprint der Ausgabe von 1786. Mit einem Nachwort von Ernst Kiehl. Herausgegeben von Eitelfriedrich Thom. [Heimats- & Skimuseum, Braunlage].

Dokumentationen, Reprints, 32. Michaelstein, [1993]. Oblong, 18 x 12 cm, iii, 148 fac, x pp. Halftone of a fascinating dance ms from Wernigerode dating from 1786. Contains a diverse collection of dances (anglaises, cottilions, quadrilles, menuets, ecossaises, marches, polonaises, etc.) with the melody provided in violin clef and dance steps (for about one third of the pieces) sketched on the lower part of the page. Afterword. Wrappers. $28 [item no.4731]


MODERN EDITIONS

Bernardi, Stefano. Motetti in cantilena a quattro voci con alcune canzoni per sonare con ogni sorte di stromenti, con il basso per l’organo. 1613. Edizione a cura di Marco Materassi, trascrizioni: Flavio Cinquetti.

Lucca, 2012. 4º, xxiv, 105 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. $45 [item no.6972]


Le chansonnier de Jean de Montchenu (Bibliothèque Nationale, Rothschild 2973, [I.5.13]). Edition de G. Thibault; commentaires de David Fallows. Ouvrage publié avec la participation de la Direction de la Musique et de la Danse.

Paris, 1991. 4º, lix, 90, 1, xvii pp. Wrappers. $97 [item no.6017]


[Chilesotti, Oscar] Danze del secolo XVI trascritte in notazione moderna [a cura di] Oscar Chilesotti.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, IV/22. Bologna, 2/ 1979. 8º, 66 pp. (Rpt. of Ricordi, c.1890 edition). Modern edition of 45 of the most popular dance numbers from the 16th c., including works from Caroso’s Nobiltà di dame and Negri’s Le gratie d’amore. Cloth. [item no.5368]


Coferati, Matteo. “Danceries” per 2 flauti diritti contralti in fa soprano e tenore in do dalle raccolte di laudi di Matteo Coferati a cura di Federico Ghisi.

Studi e Testi di Antica Musica Toscana, B (serie didattica). Bologna, 1972. 4º, 22 pp. Practical edition of 8 selections (for F- or C-recorders). Wrappers. $13 [item no.5016]


Field, John (complete works for keyboard) Rondò in sol magg. (The Two Slave Dances). A cura di Pietro Spada.

Opere complete per pianoforte, XX. Rome, 1998. 4º, 8 pp. Wrappers. $19 [item no.6115]


50 Renaissance & Baroque Standards – English Version. With Variants, Examples & Advice for Playing & Improvising on Any Instrument.

Courlay, 2007. 21 x 30 cm, 144 pp. Here, brought together for the first time, are 50 renaissance and baroque ostinato basses, songs and dances upon which composers wrote variations over the course of decades or even centuries. These pieces circulated from country to country, from one publication or manuscript to another, and also served as a basis for improvisation by performing musicians of the time. Wrappers. $28 [item no.8893]


50 Standards, Renaissance & Baroque. Avec variantes examples & conseils pour jouer & improviser sur tout instruments.

Courlay, 2007. 21 x 30 cm, 144 pp. Same as above, but French version. $30 [item no.8899]


Francisque, Antoine. Le trésor d’Orphée. Transcribed for Keyboard by H. Quittard.

New York, 1967. 4˚, 80, iii pp. Reprint of the Paris, 1905 edition. Editorial notes in French with English translation. Wrappers $18 [item no.6884]


Gastoldi, Giovanni Giacomo. Balletti a tre voci (1594) a cura di G. Vecchi.

Monumenta Lombarda Excerpta, A/2. Bologna, 1969. 4º, xi, 37 pp. Modern edition of 16 balletti in two versions: for 3 voices with lute accompaniment (tablature and staff notation), and for 1 voice and lute accompaniment (in staff notation). Wrappers. $29 [item no.5198]


Gastoldi, Giovanni Giacomo. Canzonette a tre voci. Libro secondo (1595), a cura di Giuseppe Vecchi.

Biblioteca Musicale della Rinascenza: [Corpus Mensurabilis, 4]. Bologna, 1959. 8º, 34 pp. Modern edition. Collection of 10 canzonettas. Wrappers. $20 [item no.5020]


Gastoldi, Giovanni Giacomo. Canzonette a tre voci, libro primo, libro secondo. A cura di Isabella Grisanti Grassi.

Didattica della Filologia Musicale, III / “I Testi” I-2002. Lucca, 2002. 4º, xxxviii, 57 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. $48 [item no.6378]


Hacquart, Carel & Dirck Buysero. De Triomfeerende Min / Love Triumphant. A Play of Peace, Incorporating Songs and Music for Strings, Flyers and Ballets, 1680. Dirck Buysero & Carel Hacquart. Edidit: Pieter Andriessen & Tom Strengers.

Monumenta Flandriae Musica, 1. Peer, 1996. 4º, c.130 pp. New critical edition of a play with music written on the occasion of the signing of the Treaty of Nijmegen, bringing an end to a war beginning in 1672, pitting the Republic of the United Netherlands and its allies against France and its allies. Hardbound. $42 [item no.5965]


[Hove, Joachim van den] Joachim van den Hove. Life and Works of a Leiden Lutenist 1567-1620. [Edited by] Jan W.J. Bergers.

Muziek uit de Republiek, 3. Leiden & Utrecht, 2013. 8°, 2 vols, 215, 527 pp, CD. The definitive book on Van den Hove. Vol. 1 covers his life, the musical sources, attribution of anonymous works, an analysis of stylistic features and work list. Vol. 2 provides a complete edition (in tablature) of his works. An accompanying CD contains transcriptions in staff notation. Linen. $160 [item no.6789]


Martini, Giovanni Battista. La Dirindina. Farsetta per musica. A cura di Maria Luisa Baldassari.

Collana Opera. Bologna, 1997. 4˚, x, 57 pp, 7 parts, 72 pp. New critical edition of the score, with instrumental parts (vln I-II, vla, bass). Wrappers. $99 [item no.6474]


[Trecento] Instrumental Music of the Trecento. A Critical Edition of the Instrumental Repertoire of the Manuscript London, British Library, Add. 29987. Edited by Martin van Schaik and Christiane Schima.

Utrecht, 1997. 8º, 54 pp. Transcription of 15 trecento instrumental/dance pieces, which forms a unique corpus included in the manuscript Lo. Introduction & bibliography. Wrappers. $24 [item no.5972]


MONOGRAPHS

Bertiere, Maria Chiara. I teatri di Ferrara. Il Tosi-Borghi (1857-1912)

Con Notazioni, 11. Lucca, 2012. 8º, lxxx, 616 pp. Wrappers. $91 [item no.6967]


Bowles, Edmund A. La pratique musicale au moyen-âge / Musical Performance in the Late Middle Ages.

Iconographie Musicale, 7. Geneva, 1983. 4º, 208, with 160 illus pp. Important anthology of medieval miniatures, rich with information on the role of music in Court ceremonies, religious processions/services, popular dance and middle-class concerts. Commentary in Fr-Eng. Bound. $96 [item no.2374]


Dellaborra, Mariateresa. “Une invention moderne”. Baldassarre da Belgioso e il “Balet comique de la Royne”. A cura di Mariateresa Dellaborra con una prefazione di Piero Gargiulo.

Strumenti della Ricerca Musicale, 4. Lucca, 1999. 8º, 254 pp. New study of the Balet comique, including an essay on the use of instruments and a new edition of the music. Wrappers. $50 [item no.6235]


Dell’Amore, Franco. “Taca, Zaclèn?” le origini del ballo popolare in Romagna (1870-1915) nel repertorio di Carlo Brighi detto Zaclèn.

Tradizioni Musicali, 9. Bologna, 1990. 8º, 176, 6 illus pp. Wrappers. $30 [item no.5439]


De Simone, Mariano. Le danze popolari nordamericane. Storia e tecnica delle Country Dances. Disegni di Maruccia De Simone.

Tradizioni Musicali, 18. Bologna, 1998. 8º, 193 pp. Wrappers. $36 [item no.6228]


Fabbri, Paolo. Di sì Felice Innesto. Rossini, la danza, e il ballo teatrale in Italia. A cura di Paolo Fabbri.

Saggi e Fonti, 3. Pesaro, 1996. 8º, xii, 200 pp. Articles by Paolo Fabbri, Ornella Di Tondo, Rita Zambon, Gloria Giordano & Claudia Celi/Andrea Toschi. Cloth. $20 [item no.6230]


Fabbri, Paolo & Maria Chiara Bertieri. I teatri di Ferrara. Commedia, opera e ballo nel Sei e Settecento. A cura di Paolo Fabbri.

Con Notazioni, 8. Lucca, 2002. 8º, 2 vols: xlvii, 740 pp. Wrappers. $140 [item no.6398]


Fabbri, Paolo. I teatri di Ferrara. Il Comunale. A cura di Paolo Fabbri.

Con Notazioni, 10. Lucca, [2005]. 8º, 2 vols: xxv, 422, 478 pp. Wrappers. $128 [item no.6575]


Fink, Monica. Der Ball. Eine Kulturgeschichte des Gesellschaftstanzes im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert.

Bibliotheca Musicologica Universität Innsbruck, 1. Lucca, 1996. 8º, 237 pp. Wrappers. $42 [item no.5963]


Giusti, Maria Elena. Ballate della raccolta Barbi.

Tradizioni Musicali, 8. Bologna, 1990. 8º, 244, 16 pp. Wrappers. $38 [item no.5405]


Gstrein, Rainer. Die Sarabande. Tanzgattung und musikalischer Topos.

Bibliotheca Musicologica Universität Innsbruck, 2. Lucca, 1997. 8º, 234 pp. Wrappers. $42 [item no.6234]


Iannone, Nicola. Ballate della raccolta nigra. Note nella Provincia di Piacenza.

Tradizioni Musicali, 6. Bologna, 1989. 8º, 250 pp. Wrappers. $41 [item no.5403]


Imago Musicae XXI/XXII 2004/2005. International Yearbook of Musical Iconography.

Lucca, 2006. 8º, 311 pp. Cloth. $130 (more info... ) [item no.8705]


Imago Musicae XXIII 2006-2010. International Yearbook of Musical Iconography.

Lucca, 2010. 8º, 195 pp. Cloth. $99 (more info... ) [item no.9155]


Imago Musicae XXIV 2011. International Yearbook of Musical Iconography.

Lucca, 2011. 8º, 244 pp. Cloth. $112 (more info... ) [item no.9232]


Imago Musicae XXV 2012. International Yearbook of Musical Iconography.

Lucca, 2012. 8º, 244 pp. Cloth. $112 [item no.9303]


Imago Musicae XXVI 2013. International Yearbook of Musical Iconography.

Lucca, 2012. 8º, 244 pp. Cloth. $115 [item no.9352]


Imago Musicae XXVII-XXVIII 2014-2015. International Yearbook of Musical Iconography.

Lucca, 2016. 8º, 236 pp. Cloth. $104 [item no.9489]


Imago Musicae XXIX 2016. International Yearbook of Musical Iconography.

Lucca, 2017. 8º. 183 pp. Wrappers. $92 [item no.9560]


Imago Musicae XXX 2017. International Yearbook of Musical Iconography.

Lucca, 2017. 8º. 227 pp. Wrappers. $92 [item no.6825]


Jürgensen, Knud Arne & Francesca Falcone. August Bournonville: Études chorégraphiques (1848, 1855, 1861). A cura di/sous la direction/edited by Knud Arne Jürgensen e/et/and Francesca Falcone. Tradotto dal francese d/traduit du français par/tranlated from the French by Francesca Falcone e/et/and Patricia N. McAndrew.

Lucca, 2005. 8º, 330 pp. A tri-lingual publication of the 3 versions of Bournonville’s “Études Chorégraphiques”. Linen. $128 [item no.6579]


Massa, Maria Rosa. Libretti di melodrammi e balli nella Biblioteca Palatina di Caserta. A cura di Maria Rosa Massa.

Ancilla Musicae, 5. Lucca, 1992. 4º, xiii, 63 pp. Linen. $32 [item no.5572]


Mount, William Sidney. Catching the Tune: Music and William Sidney Mount.

Stony Brook, 1984. 21 x 28 cm, 67, with 68 illus pp. Beautiful exhibition catalog on America’s first genre painter of international reknown. Besides being a painter, Mount was a talented musician, played the fiddle for local dances or concerts, collected fiddle tunes and invented a violin that he called the “Cradle of Harmony”. Essays by Martha Pike, Peter Buckley, M. Hunt Hessler, and Laurence Libin. Edited by Janice Grey Armstrong. Wrappers. $20 [item no.3738]


Pappacena, Flavia. Il trattato di danza di Carlo Blasis 1820-1830 / Carlo Blasis’ Treatise on Dance 1820-1830.

Lucca, 2005. 8º, 401 pp. Reconstructs the general, theoretical and aesthetic lines that make up the conceptual backbone of Blasis’ work. Wrappers. [item no.6578]


[Patrimoine Musical Régional] [Auvergne-] Vichy, Centre d’Études et de Recherches “Patrimoine Musical” – Bibliothèque d’Orchestre. Catalogue des livrets des œuvres lyriques et des ballets. Catalogue des partitions, chants et piano.

Aix-en-Province, 1994. 21 x 30 cm, 120 pp. Wrappers. $206 [item no.5846]


Sestili, Daniele. Musica e danza del principe Genji. Le arti dello spettacolo nell’antico Giappone.

Musicalia, 7. Lucca, 1996. 8º, 188 pp. Wrappers. $33 [item no.5883]


Sità, Maria Grazia. Ballo teatrale, Opera romantica, Recupero dell’antico. Tre contributi per las storia della musica in Italia. A cura di Maria Grazia Sità.

Quaderni del Corso di Musicologia del Conservatorio “G. Verdi” di Milano, 7. Lucca, 2004. 8º, 295 pp. Essays by Elena Previdi, “Fonti musicali del ‘ballo intermezzo’ settecentesco”; Paola Carlomagno, “Produzione e recezione dell’opera seria a Milano nei primi anni della Restaurazione”; Michelangelo Gabbrielli, “La polifonia antica nelle edizioni dell’Ottocento in Italia”. Wrappers. $26 [item no.6553]


Solerti, Angelo. Musica, ballo e drammatica alla Corte Medicea dal 1600 al 1637. Notizie tratte da un diario con appendice di testi inediti e rari (con illustrazioni).

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, III/4. Bologna, 2/ 1989. 8º, 611, with 20 illus pp. (Rpt. of Florence, 1905 edition). Offers a gold mine of information, including a chronological listing of performed works as well as a wealth of original texts in modern edition. Cloth. $98 [item no.5310]


Ungarelli, Gaspare. Le vecchie danze italiane.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/11. Bologna. 8˚, 124 pp. Line-cut of the Rome, 1894 edition. Wrappers. [item no.6403]


Veroli, Patrizia. Milloss. Un maestro della coreografia tra espressionismo e classicità. Con uno scritto di Roman Vlad.

Musica Ragionata, 9. Lucca, 1996. 12º, 659 pp. Wrappers. $46 [item no.5897]