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undefinedThe Benslow Library and music scores

During lockdowns, librarians have still worked, working on three large bequests. Much has been added to our library and all donors are asked if we may sell duplicates or unsuitable items, usually through the well-browsed shelves on the landing of our main house.

We check the internet when pricing most items for our sale shelves; we want to be fair to Benslow and to our visitors. Prices are always less than Amazon or other internet sellers; say 2/3 of new price if as new or similar cut for well used items. Among those listed below are some books worth rather more than our ‘run of the mill’ or seeming unusual.

Prices given are for cheaper of hard or paperback editions on-line ignoring postage. We invite you to make a bid for any that interests you. If you would like a photo of cover or typical page, please ask library@benslowmusic.org.

In the first lockdown we sold a financially useful amount of music with lists to frequent borrowers. Because of those large bequests, there is still plenty of piano solo and of chamber music (wind &/or string &/or piano. We have lists of music in four categories - Wind Chamber (mainly with piano), Vocal, String Chamber and String Chamber with Piano - see the attachments to the right hand side of this page. These will be updated regularly so do keep checking our website or contact the Library.

We can keep books or music until your next visit or post at your expense.

Author	Title	paper/ hardback	Price New £	Price 2nd hand	Comments
Donington	Interpretation of Early Music	p	124	38
Donington	String playing in baroque music	h	32	32
Paynter	Sound and Structure	p	50	14
Menuhin	Six lessons with Yehudi Menuhin	p	37	17
Cook	Music imagination & culture	p	69	18
Chipper	Fundamentals of Fiddle Teaching	p	90	89
Smith & Renouf	Oxford Student Harmony bk1	p	10	5
Smith & Renouf	Oxford Student Harmony bk2	p	10	5
Farga	Violins and violinists	h	17	17	1955 ed
Brindle	Serial composition	p	52	16
Tippett	Music of the angels	p		17
Sandor	On Piano Playing	h	111	80
Milne	More very young Songs	h		19
Mozart	Six sonatas for Piano with Violin or flute. Facsimile copy	p		?	Copy 10 of ?
Janacek	Composizioni da camera Violoncello e Piano (Supraphon/Barenreiter)	p		?	Not available
Hunter	The fiddle music of Scotland	h	39	38
	The golden book of carols. 1948	h		100	£30 Oxfam
Scholes	Concise Oxford Dictionary of music 1964	h		50	Later ed. costs less!
	An outline of Czech and Slovak music	p	12	12
Wagner	The royal family of Bayreuth	h		32
	Roger North on Music	h	780	50
Dent	Alessandro Scarlatti	h		25(Abe)	First ed.
La Prade	Alice in Music Land	h	760	28
La Prade	Alice in Orchestra Land	h	3	3
Jones	Joyous stories from music’s wonderland	h
Robertson	La boutique fantastique - Part of following series	h		42	Small format
Posner	Coppelia/ Giselle/ Swan Lake/Sleeping Princess	h		18 for all 4	for children
Schoenberg	Full score; Von Heute auf Morgen	p	$200
Groves	Dictionary of Music and Musicians 20 vols 1980	h		60	Like the set in our library

Updated 15.40 on 19 January 2021

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