Charles Dennee Editor Chief (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. HARDCOVER/no dj; FAIR ONLY, various defects but no markings., a good reader's copy. Frontis. Please email w/questions or to request picture(s); refer to our book inventory number. Free media mail shipping. LOCATION WS-5.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. no dust jacket. The spine is heavily worn with fraying and loss of cloth at the head and foot; the cloth is split along the front joint. Corners are bumped and rubbed through to the boards. The brown cloth covers show surface scuffing and minor staining. The binding is shaken but remains attached. Internal pages are generally clean with occasional light toning and thumbing at the edges. No internal markings or inscriptions are present. No dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 352 Pages. This book is chock full of classical music study pieces and comes in dark brown boards that have worn areas on three of the four corners and at the base of its spine. There are slightly worn/faded areas along the front cover's bottom and left side edges and along the rear cover's bottom edge. The interior book, however, has no visible extraneous markings throughout it and thus has all of the sheet music pieces, printing, and the front illustration of the composer Schumann in a very well-preserved and enjoyable condition. The bindings are still strong in the front, but inside the rear cover, they are just starting to split. This volume of music will be carefully wrapped up and then boxed and shipped right away to you from here in New Jersey and will come to you with our utmost appreciation for your interest and for your order.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Large-format illustrated hardcover music anthology containing hundreds of pages of engraved piano arrangements and salon repertoire by Strauss, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Gottschalk, Waldteufel, Delibes, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Chopin-Liszt, and others. Includes On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Over the Waves, The Last Hope, Turkish March, Martha, Fantasia, A Ray of Sunshine, and many additional late-Romantic and light-classical favorites intended for home performance and studio instruction. Decorative embossed brown cloth binding with lyre-and-foliage Art Nouveau/Arts & Crafts styling; printed decorative endpapers; frontispiece illustration plate present. A substantial interwar-era music reference and performance volume produced during the golden age of domestic piano culture in America. The International Library of Music series was designed both for amateur pianists and serious students, combining accessible arrangements with conservatory-oriented editorial oversight. This volume focuses heavily on transcriptions, waltzes, salon music, opera excerpts, and lyrical piano repertoire popular in American parlors and teaching studios during the early twentieth century. The engraved notation remains sharp and highly usable for performers, while the elaborate publisher's design gives the book strong decorative shelf presence. Condition: Good. Binding remains intact and usable but with notable cloth loss and splitting at the spine, especially along the rear hinge area; fraying and rubbing to corners and spine ends; spine panel partially perished. Text block remains firmly attached overall. Interior is generally clean with moderate age toning and scattered foxing/handling wear; several penciled check marks in contents pages; no major dampstaining observed. Music pages remain legible and attractive. No dust jacket, as issued. A solid working/reference copy with evident shelf wear but good visual appeal internally. Edition/Printing: 1925 University Society edition, Volume III (Popular Favorites Piano Transcriptions), from the International Library of Music for Home and Studio series. Title page and copyright page both dated 1925 with no later printing statements noted. A few sentences about the editors and contributors: Charles Dennée, associated with the New England Conservatory of Music, served as editor-in-chief of this ambitious educational series aimed at bringing conservatory-quality musical instruction into American homes. The contributor list includes notable early twentieth-century musicians, pedagogues, and composers such as Victor Herbert, Rudolph Ganz, and Fannie Morris Smith. The anthology reflects a period when piano study and home music-making were central parts of middle-class cultural life in the United States.…