Search Results: Music from Henry Berry, books/ephemera

[1910ca. SCOTTISH FOLK MUSIC HANDWRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION] MARJORY KENNEDY-FRASER, KENNETH MACLEOD, 3 HANDWRITTEN MUSIC SCORES WITH LYRICS, handwritten by music folklorist Nelson Sprackling (occasionally worked with Alan Lomax on folk music preservation) in preparation for publication by Boosey & Co., undated, but about 1910, Boosey published music works by Kennedy-Fraser and Macleod starting about 1908 through the 1920s with later reprintings in various editions, three 4-page music composition sheets 9-1/2" x 12-1/2", (1) A HEBRIDEAN SEA-REIVER'S SONG (Na Reubarean), Old Gallic Works [?] and translation from Kenneth Macleod Air from Penelope MacDonald Eriskay, arranged by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, 4 full pages, score with lyrics, Nelson Sprackling handwrittten signature in upper right corner of first page, (2) THE ROAD TO THE ISLES [A Tramping Song], Songs of the Hebrides, (by) M. Kennedy-Fraser and Kenneth MacLeod, (published) Boosey & Co., ca. 1916 (sheet music published in 1917), 3 pages (of 4),… Read More

CERTAMEN NACIONAL, ZARZUELA EN UN ACTO, Letra de Los Sres. Perrin y Palacios, Musica del mtro. [maestro] M. Nieto; on inside title page with title as on front cover: N. 6 Tango del cafe contado par la Srta [senorita] Pastor (Lucia) y coro de senores, published by Almacen de musica de Lodre Carrere de San Geronimo 15, Madrid, undated/but ca. 1888, WorldCat/OCLC cataloging (21813750, 3/18/21), Manuel Nieto oval stamp on inside title page "Manuel Nieto, Madrid" around what looks like a botanical image (grape leaves?), softcover/sheet music, 10-1/2" x 13-1/2", 12 pages including covers/wraps, engraved title page with imprint and engraved second same title page as page 1 with addition as noted above at the beginning of the score, blank reverse side, 4 pages of engraved music with border imprints of the printing plate, last page blank on both sides, back cover blank on both sides, RARE, WorldCat/OCLC, 3 copies only with Nieto [author], Certamen National [title], Tango [keyword] as search terms, California,… Read More

[PHILIP GLASS, ANDREW DE GROAT, SIGNED; EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH, EOS ENTERPRISES, RARE] EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH – AN OPERA IN FOUR ACTS by Robert Wilson and Philip Glass, with choreography by Andrew de Groat, edited by Vicky Alliata, inscribed by Philip Glass on title page ""Thanks for being there, Philip Glass" and Andrew de Groat "Best wishes and [?]", published by EOS Enterprises, Inc., New York, undated/but 1978 (WorldCat/OCLC reference], paperback, 6-1/2" high x 11" across, 44 pages, varied content including music scores, storyboard illustrations, choreography diagrams, text from performance, and essays in English, Italian, and French, RARE EDITION, less than 5 of this edition recorded at WorldCat/OCLC with a couple of these being the signed limited hardcover edition (8/17/21), only one (unsigned) found for sale online (8/17/21), no signed copies found for sale and apparently only one or two in library holdings, this edition was published following the opera's premier performance in France in 1976… Read More

[GERONIMO GIMENEZ, SPANISH COMPOSER SIGNATURE, RARE] GERONIMO GIMENEZ SIGNATURE IN PENCIL ON INSERT in sheet music Scaramouche, Scene de Ballet pour piano, Op. 26, par Francis Thome, published by A. Durand & Fils, Paris, 1909, sheet music, 10-3/4" x 13-3/4", 10 pages including covers, back page is publisher ad "Musique Moderne de Piano" with opening bars of 24 piano pieces with titles and composers including one by Debussy and one by Ravel, laid in is violine score of Scaramouche, Scene de Ballet "Transciption pour orchestre par J. Turin" [Joaquin Turina] at upper left by the title, bifolium/4 pages, 2 inside pages are the score…GERONIMO GIMENEZ SIGNATURE signed in pencil "G. Gimenez" is at the upper left corner of a tipped/taped-in one page score No. 6 Galop des Filleuls, Violin [composed by] Ant. Gilis, at lower left corner "Schott Freres a Bruxelles"; signature authenticated by seller with lifetime guarantee; RARE, Geronimo Gimenez signature rare, none found for sale (4/29/21) /// GERONIMO… Read More

[1943ca HILDEGARDE ANNOTATED COPYIST SCORES K. P. SERENADE] HILDEGARDE ANNOTATED COPYIST SCORES FOR A SMALL RADIO ORCHESTRA FOR THE MUSIC TO K. P. SERENADE, unsigned/handwriting verified (see below), presumably planned song for one of Hildegarde's public performances in the war years of the early 1940s since there is no record of her having performed this song in one of her 1940's radio programs which are recorded at old-time radio sites, maybe performed for some servicemen's venue with its title referring to "kitchen police [k. p.]" much spoofed by both service people and civilians…11 different scores from 1 to 3 pages for instruments and three tenors, including piano which Hildegarde would play as she sang, accordian, violins, trumpets, and drums, copyist stamp at the end of each score; ONE-OF-A-KIND ITEM relating to RARE sheet music, only 3 copies of the sheet music recorded at WorldCat/OCLC, one found recorded at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, one for sale on ebay… Read More

[JEROME KERN "A HEAVENLY PARTY" MANUSCRIPT/HANDWRITTEN ARRANGEMENT FOR HILDEGARDE RADIO PROGRAM, 1938] JEROME KERN, COMPOSER MUSIC, AND DOROTHY FIELDS, WORDS/LYRICS, music copyist with stampings dated 1938, handwritten music/scores for radio orchestra instruments of adaptation of the Kern and Fields music for a performance by Hildegarde in one of her late 1930's radio programs, including music for piano and voice for Hildegarde in performing the song accompanied by the radio orchestra, over 25 pages, with occasional annotations by Hildegarde, one page 9 staves in pencil by Hildegarde with title "Heavenly Party" and notes "accov" (?) and "unis" (?) at top and on another page "A Heavenly Party" in turquoise ink in Hildegarde's distinctive fancy handwriting and note "Hillegarde" (name in pencil misspelled by an unidentified individual, possibly the copyist Sam Schiller identified by his purple circular stamp on most of the pages), all pages 12 stave, 5 lines music composition pages 9" x 12", with RARE… Read More

[JOHN STEWART McLENNAN AMERICAN COMPOSER] THE NIGHT WILL NEVER STAY, for soprano chorus a capella, music by John Stewart McLennan, lyrics by Eleanor Farjeon, Dedicated to Holly and Angelica, facsimile autograph score with facsimile signature at end "John Stewart McLennan, 20 April 1956, Tyringham [MA]", 11" x 14", 3 pages (on one side of 3-page foldout with reverse sides blank), Circle Blue Print Co., New York, 12-stave music copy sheets, RARE composition by this American composer, none found for sale (3/24/21), and none recorded at WorldCat/OCLC (3/24/21), one copy only located at Archives & Research Center, Sharon, MA, in the archive John Stewart McLennan, Jr. Papers, "photocopy of holograph score, spiral bound…At end: '20 April 1956 – Tyringham' ", which is apparently a photocopy of this facsimile autograph score which is not spiral bound /// JOHN STEWART McLENNAN, JR., 1915-, 96, born in Tyringham, Massachusetts, on November 26, 1915 to American writer Grace Seeley Henop Tytus McLennan… Read More

[OLGA SAMAROFF, JULLIARD SCHOOL, MUSIC TEACHER; MANUSCRIPT DISSERTATION BY MUSIC PROFESSIONAL] THE TEACHING AND ARTISTIC LEGACY OF OLGA SAMAROFF STOKOWSKI – A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Arts by Geoffrey Eugene McGillen, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, May, 1989, inscribed to Natalie Ryshna Maynard (Mrs. H. E. Maynard, see Provenance below) and her husband by author McGillen and naming his wife Mary also at the top of the title page dated June 15, 1989, comb-bound manuscript/typescript, 8-1/2" x 11", xvi+485 pages, text with footnotes pages 1-267, extensive back matter pages 268-485 Appendices A-D plus Bibliography, Appendix A – Repertoire of Olga Samaroff pages 268-75, Appendix B – Technical Studies Compiled by Madame Olga Samaroff, Collection of Lesley Cathcart Munn pages 276-281 (with music bars), Appendix C – Lesley Cathcart Munn Notebook of Olga Samaroff Stokowski Piano Classes pages 282-309,… Read More

[DISNEY MEMORABILIA; ZIP-A-DEE-DOO-DAH ORIGINAL ADAPTATION, PAUL BARON; BUDDY CLARK, SINGER; HILDEGARDE CAMPBELL ROOM RADIO PROGRAM] ZIP-A-DEE-DOO-DAH adapted by Paul Baron with notes "Campbell" (for Hildegarde radio program "The Campbell Room") and Buddy Clark (popular singer of the 1940s) at top of first page, original adaptation in pencil with "Baron" signed in upper right corner of the first long page version of music composition pages with typescript "PAUL BARON at the bottom of each page, 13 pages total, 19" x 11, blue ink stamp "ZIPA [sic] DEE DOO DAH" at top left of first page over title handwritten in pencil, adaptation for radio orchestra instruments, WITH copyist scores for 5-page "conductor" score and 20 2-page individual radio orchestra instruments scores, some with limited annotations including "segue to Nice to Be Nice" at the end of many ("Nice to Be Nice" was another popular song of the era), on the first page of the 5-page conductor copyist score in red ink is "Clark" indicating… Read More