Today I am listing, in 6 separate auctions, six vintage ‘pocket’ sheet music books of quality.
Each is a wonderful publication.
THIS auction is for the one that is
DESCRIBED BELOW in GREEN TEXT
DESCRIBED in the ITEM TITLE
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I am giving details of all six books here, for your convenience.
Should you also be interested in any of the others, also, then please go to ‘view seller’s other items’ in the panel, top right of this listing.
Combined postage is welcome.
Here are the six delightful books; again, please remember that THIS auction is for ONE of the six below:
1: IGOR STRAVINSKY: SYMPHONIES of WIND INSTRUMENTS
1947 publication in VGC++.
35 pages.
1947 Boosey & Hawkes publication.
Instrumentation
3 Flauti
2 Oboi
Corno Inglese
3 Clarinetti in Si)
2 Fagotti
Contrafagotto (anche Fagotto 3)
4 Corni in Fa
3 Trombe in Si,
3 Tromboni
Tuba
Duration: 12 minutes
2: BENJAMIN BRITTEN : SERENADE
Boosey & Hawkes
28 pages.
EC
Pastoral (Cotton) - - - - - - - - 1
Nocturne (Tennyson) - ~ - - - - - 6
Elegy (Blake) - - - - - - - - - 13
Dirge (Anonymous. 15th Century) - - - - ~ 18
Hymn (Ben Jonson)- - - - - - - - 26
Sonnet (Keats) - - - - - - - - 34
Epilogue - - - - - - - - - 38
Duration 24 minutes
This work was written for Peter Pears and Dennis Brain. by
whom it was first performed with Walter Goehr and his
orchestra at the Wigmore Hall, London, on October 15th, 1943.
3: MUSSORGSKY-RAVEL TABLEAUX D’UNE EZPOSITION
In EC
Copyright 1929
Boosey & Hawkes
151 pages!!
4: JOSEPH HAYDN Sinfonia No. 92: Oxford.
Philharmonia
65 pages.
Flauto
2 Oboi
2 Fagotti
2 Corni in Sol e Re
2 Clarini (Trombe) in Do
Timpani
Violino I
Violino II
Viola
Violoncello obbligato
Violoncello e Basso
25 Minutes.
5: WAGNER: TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
Philharmonia
52 pages.
In EC.
6: SCHUBERT DIE SCHONE MULLERIN / SCHWANENGESANG
118 pages.
MUSIC & LYRICS
VGC++; pencil writing inside front page and on (only!) 2 or 3 pages within.
I’ll leave these for you to use, else erase.
CONTENTS
(Page numbers in parentheses refer to the English texts)
The English translations are by Sir Robert Randolph Garran
I. Die Schone Miillerin (The
Fair Miller-Maid), Op. 25
A Cycle of Songs by
Wilhelm Miiller
Page
1. Das Wand em
(To Wander) 2(106)
2. Wohin? (Whither?) 4(106)
..3. Halt (Halt!) 8(106)
..4. Danksagung an den Bach
(Thanksgiving to the
Brook) 11(106)
5. Am Feierabend
(Evening Rest) 13(107)
-.6. Der Neugierige
(The Questioner) 17( 107)
7. Ungeduld (Impatience) 20(107)
8. Morgengruss
(Morning Greeting) ...22(108)
9. Des Muliers Blumen (The
Millers Flowers) 23008)
10. Tranenregen
(Rain of Tears) 24(r08)
11. Mein! (Mine!) 26(1,09)
12. Pause (Pause) 30(109)
13. Mit clem griinen Lauten-
bande (With the Green
Lute-Ribbon) 33 (109)
14. Der Jager
(The Hunter) 34(109)
15. Eifersucht und Stolz
(Jealousy and Pride).. 36(110)
16. Die liebe Farbe
(The Beloved Color)...40(110)
17. Die hose Farbe
(The Hateful Color). 42(111)
18. Trockne Blumen
(Witherd Flowers) 46(111)
19. Der Muller und der Bach
(The Miller and the
Brook) 49(112)
20. Des Baches Wiegenlied
(The Brook's Lullaby) 52 (112)
II. Schwanengesang
(Swan-Song)
Songs by
Ludwig Rellstab (Nos. 1-7)
Heinrich Heine ,(Nos. 8-13)
J. G. Seidl (No. 14)
Part 1
1. Liebesbotschaft
(Love's Message) 54(113)
1. ,Kriegers Ahnung
(Soldier's Foreboding) 59(113)
3. Fruhlingssehnsucht
(Spring Longing) 64(113)
4. Standchen (Serenade) ..:...68(114)
5. Aufenthalt~bode) 71(114)
#6. In der Fern~ (Exile) 76(~4)
Part 2
7. Abschied (Deparlure) 80(115)
8. Der Atlas (Alias) 87(116)
9. Ihr Bild (Her Piclure) 90(116)
10. Das Fischermadchen
(The Fisher-Maiden)...92(116)
11. Die Stadt (The Town) 95(116)
12,' Am Meer (By the Sea)...98(117) i
13... Der Doppelganger (The
d Ghoslly Double) 100(117)
~ Die Taubenpost
(The Pigeon-Post) 102(117).
Music is in 3-line blocks, with the top (MELODY) line being for the VOCAL and / or for ANY LEAD INSTRUMENT. (Lead or Folk Guitar, Alto or Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet, Trumpet, Keyboard, Violin etc).
The lower 2 lines are for optional piano / keyboard accompaniment.