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Tancrede, Tragedie ... Représentée pour la premiere fois par l'Academie Royale de Musique le septiéme jour de Novembre 1702. [Short score]

Tancrede, Tragedie ... Représentée pour la premiere fois par l'Academie Royale de Musique le septiéme jour de Novembre 1702. [Short score] by CAMPRA, Andre 1660-1744

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Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC
Title
Tancrede, Tragedie ... Représentée pour la premiere fois par l'Academie Royale de Musique le septiéme jour de Novembre 1702. [Short score]
Author
CAMPRA, Andre 1660-1744
Seller
J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description
Paris: Chez Christophe Ballard, seul lmprimeur du Roy pour la Musique, ruë Saint Jean de Beauvais, au Mont-Parnasse ... Avec Privilege de Sa Majesté, 1702. Large oblong octavo. Contemporary dark brown mottled calf with raised bands on spine in decorative compartments gilt. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [iii] ("Table"), [i] ("Airs a jouer"), [i] ("Airs a chanter"), [i] ("Memoire des oeuvres de Monsieur Campra"), [i] (blank), [i] (a second, more extensive "Memoire des oeuvres de Monsieur Campra"), xlix (prologue), l ("Cet air se chante aprés le Sarabande du Troisiéme Acte page 166"), 291, [i] (privilege), 4 (an alternate section to be performed at the end of Act V) pp. With attractive decorative woodcut headpieces to head of each act. Binding worn, rubbed, and bumped; title label lacking; free endpapers lacking, pastedowns worn and stained. Occasional soiling and staining, primarily to margins; several small edge tears; some signatures partially detached; minor loss to lower margin of p. 251 affecting clef of lowermost staff but with all music intact; early paper restoration to upper outer corner of pp. 282/283 and 284/285. Quite a good copy overall, with strong impression. First Edition. Lesure p. 97. BUC p. 158. RISM C745. Tancrede, in five acts and a prologue to a libretto by Antoine Danchet after Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberate, was first performed in Paris at the Académie Royale de Musique at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal under the direction of Marin Marais on 7 November 1702. Considered a 'chef-d'oeuvre' by Rameau, the work, Campra's best-known lyric tragedy, was performed regularly until 1764. It marks the first appearance of a contralto on the French lyric stage.
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Original manuscripts of two musical compositions by Benoîst-Méchin, Jacques; [Joyce, James]; Claudel, Paul

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Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books
Title
Original manuscripts of two musical compositions
Author
Benoîst-Méchin, Jacques; [Joyce, James]; Claudel, Paul
Seller
Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description
Paris, 1925. 1, "Mon jour terreste diminue" a setting of Paul Claudel's poetry for voice and orchestra. Six pages, musical partition, in red and black ink, with hand written cover and a formal dedication to Adrienne Monnier. Signed at the end and dated June 1920 and 2, "Finale des Choeurs pour un exposition Coloniale. A la mémoire de Joseph Conrad et ses navigateurs" Six pages, musical partition, in pencil, with title and annotations in ink. 350 x 270 mm. Inscribed by Benoist-Méchin to Adrienne Monnier. Before becoming a politician,the young Benoîst-Méchin tried his hand as a composer. He was not yet 20 years old when he wrote the first piece. At Adrienne Monnier's request, he also translated the "Penelope" section of Joyce's "Ulysses," for which he supplied musical notation that Joyce had photographed and used in print. When he was an official in the Vichy government, Benoîst-Méchin was able to use his influence to have Sylvia Beach released from internment.
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Theatre De L'ambigu 1769- 1956, Compagnie De Mime Marcel Marceau by anonymous

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Title
Theatre De L'ambigu 1769- 1956, Compagnie De Mime Marcel Marceau
Author
anonymous
Seller
Ed's Editions Bookstore (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Paris: W. Fischer, 1956. Paperback. Good. 0x0x0. Stapled pamphlet in stiff wrappers. Front cover creased. B/W photos of actors including Director Casadesus and Marcel Marceau. RARE item. Pamphlet. TNOS. Prompt shipping.
Collected Poems

Collected Poems by Cullen, Countee

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Title
Collected Poems
Author
Cullen, Countee
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9781598530834
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Library of America, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Edited by Major Jackson. Fine in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($24.95). Purple boards with white ink lettering and designs. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.