A collection of 39 books on Hungarian music
1. AMADÉ, Németh A Magyar Opera Története a kezdetektől az Operaház megnyitásáig. Budapest: Zeneműkiadó Budapest, 1987. Small octavo. Boards. 215 pp.
2. [BARTÓK]. Szabolcski, Bence and Ferrenc Bónis Bartók Béla Élete ... Bartók Élete Képekben. Budapest: Zenemükiadó Vállalat, 1958. Small octavo. 35 pp. + 118 illustrations.
3. [BARTÓK]. Ujfalussy, József Bartók-Breviárium. Budapest: Zeneműkiadó, 1958. Octavo. Boards. 555 pp. Occasional illustrations. Binding slightly worn; endpapers browned.
4. BENCE, Szabolcsi A Hetvenötéves Magyar Állami Operaház 1884-1959. Budapest: Magyar Állami Operaház, 1959. Octavo. Boards. 251 pp. With numerous illustrations including some in color. Very occasional small tears to outer margins.
5. BÓNIS, Ferenc Magyar Zenetörténeti Tanulmányok. Mosonyi Mihály és Bartók Béla Emkékére [Essays in the history of Hungarian music in memory of Mihály Mosonyi and Béla Bartók]. Budapest: Zenemükiadó, 1973. Octavo. Boards. 364 pp. With musical examples. In dustjacket.
6. BÓNIS, Ferenc, ed. Magyar Zenetörténeti Tanulmányok Kodály Zoltán Emlékere. Budapest: Zeneműkiadó, 1977. Boards. 456 pp. + index. With illustrative plates and musical examples.
7. CSUKA, Béla Kilenc Évtized a Magyar Zenemüveszét Szolgálatában a Filharmóniai Tarsasag Emlékkönyve 90 Eves Jubileuma Alkalmabol. Budapest: Filharmóniai Társaság, 1943. Small folio. Quarter cloth with marbled boards. viii, 218 pp., 1f., xxvii pp. Illustrated with facsimiles, portraits, etc. Includes lists of programs (1853-1943), works played, composers, and performers. Slightly worn. With inscription in ink to front flyleaf. Published in celebration of nine decades of the musical arts in Hungary.
8. EDE, Sebestyén Magyar Operajátszás Budapesten 1793-1937. Budapest: Sȯml Bėla, 1937. Octavo. Boards. 192 pp.
9. ERKEL, Ferenc Bánk Bán Az ismertertö szöveget Bónis Ferenc írta. [Budapest]: Magyar Állami Operaház. Illustrated wrappers. Small quarto. 35, [i] (colophon) pp. Text in Hungarian with notes in Russian, German, English and French (pp. 31-35). With illustrations of costumes within text. Slightly worn and browned.
10. ERKEL, Ferenc Bánk Bán az Operaszínpadon. Budapest: Zeneműkiadó, 1960. Small quarto. Decorative wrappers. 104 pp. + 2ff. (contents, publisher's advertisements, colophon). With illustrative plates and musical examples. Slightly worn.
11. ERKEL, Ferenc Bánk Bán opera három felvonásban szövegét írta egressi béni ... Ismerteti Radnai Miklós. Budapest: Singer és Wolfner Irodalmi Intézet, [ca. 1940]. Small quarto. Illustrated wrappers. 40 pp. With musical examples. Worn and browned. With illustrated bookplate of Hegedüs János to front pastedown.
12. ERKEL, Ferenc Erkel (1810-1893) Centenáriumi emlékkiállítás az Országos Széchényi Könyvtárban 1993. június 4-töl 1993 október 30-ig. Budapest: Bibliotheca Hungarica Nationalis. Octavo. Wrappers. 42 pp. 1
13. [ERKEL]. Erkel Ferenc az ember és a pedagógus. 1943. Dark ivory printed wrappers. 11, [i] (blank) pp. Worn and browned. With signed inscription to verso of upper wrapper dated July 17, 1943.
14. [ERKEL]. Erkel Ferenc élete és müködése ... irta id. Ábrányi Kornél. Budapest: Buschmann F. Könyvnyomdája, 1895. Full dark blue cloth with printed wrappers laid down to both boards. 220, 1f. (recto contents, verso blank), 1f. (recto errata, verso blank). Slightly worn; light uniform browning.
15. [ERKEL]. Bónis, Ferenc, ed. Erkel Ferencről és Koráról. Budapest: Püski, 1995. Octavo. Wrappers. 212 pp.
16. [ERKEL]. Bónis, Ferenc, ed. Magyar Zenetörténeti Tanulmányok: Irások Erkel Ferencröl és a magyar zene korábbi századairól. Budapest: Zeneműkiadó, 1968. Large octavo. Boards. 231 pp. Binding slightly worn. Browned.
17. [ERKEL]. Fabó, Bertalan Erkel Ferencz Emlékkönyv: születésének századik évfordulójara írok és tudósok. Budapest: Patria Irodalmi Vállalat, 1910. Quarto. Cloth with titling gilt to upper; decorative endpapers. 250 pp. With numerous illustrations. Binding slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped.
18. [ERKEL]. László, Zsigmond Erkel Ferenc Élete Képekben. Budapest: Zeneműkiadó, 1958. Small quarto. Publisher's light green boards with titling within dark green rectangle to upper and spine. 56 pp. + 85 illustrative plates. Slightly worn.
19. [ERKEL]. Legány, Dezsö Erkel Ferenc Müvei És Jirabeku Történetük. Budapest: Zeneműkiadó, 1975. Original publisher's blue wrappers printed in white and red. [139], [i] (blank), [iii] ("Tartalomjegyzék"), [i] (colophon) pp. Wrappers slightly worn.
20. [ERKEL]. Nagy, András and Márai Gyöegy Az Erkel Család Krónikája. Gyula: Gyula Város Önkormányzata, 1992. Large octavo. Wrappers. 91 pp. Illustrated. With a separate folding family tree. From the library of musicologist Stanley Boorman.
21. [ERKEL]. Németh, Amadé Az Erkelek a magyar zenében: Az Erkel család szerepe a magyar zenei múvelódésben. Békéscsaba, 1987. Octavo. Full black cloth with titling light blue to upper and spine. 179 pp. In dustjacket. "Fekete könyvek" kultúrtörténeti sorozat 9.
22. [ERKEL]. Németh, Amadé Erkel Ferenc életének krónikája. Budapest: Zeneműkiadó, 1973. Boards. 231, [i] (contents) pp. With occasional musical examples. In dustjacket.
23. [ERKEL]. Németh, Amadé Erkjel 2., javitott, bövitett kiadás. Budapest: Gondolat, 1979. Octavo. Original publisher's glossy illustrated boards. 253 pp. With occasional musical examples. Binding slightly soiled.
24. [ERKEL]. Scherer, Ferenc Gyulai Dolgozatok Szerkeszti Implom József. 5. Erkel Ferenc. Gyula: Városi Múzeum, 1944. Octavo. Wrappers. 50 pp. Profusely illustrated, including folding genealogical chart. Inscription to title. Wrappers worn. Browned.
25. [ERKEL]. Szabolcsi, Bence and Dénes Bartha Erkel Ferenc és Bartók Béla. Budapest: Adadémiai Kiadó, 1954. Full light blue cloth with silver-stamped titling to upper and spine; red ribbon marker. Uniformly browned. Zenetudományi Tanulmányok II.
26. GELENCSÉR, Ágnes and Géza Staud Gelencsér Ágnes - Körtvélyes Géza Staud Géza - Székely György Tallián Tibor A Budapesti Operaház 100 Éve. Budapest: Zeneműkiadó Budapest, 1984. Large octavo. 592 pp. + 16 plates. Illustrated. A history and detailed record of performances at the opera house in Budapest during the years 1884-1982.
27. [GOLDMARK]. Várnai, Péter Goldmark Károly élete képekben. Budapest: Zeneműkiadó, 1957. Small quarto. Publisher's orange boards with titling within black rectangle to upper and spine. 41, [i] (blank), 1f. (recto "Képek," verso blank) + illustrative plates containing 104 numbered illustrations. Boards soiled; spine defective. Uniform browning to text.
28. HORLY, Magda Olasz Operák Magyarországon A magyar nyelvű olasz operaelőadások százőtvenedik évfordulójára 1793-1943 / Il Teatro Musicale Italiano in Ungheria 1793-1943. Budapest, 1943. Octavo. Wrappers. 132 pp. Upper wrapper detached.
29. [HUNGARIAN MUSIC]. A filharmoniai társasg multja és jelene 1853-1903. Budapest: Hornyánszky, 1903. Folio. Cloth boards. [viii], 107, [i], [iv] pp. With numerous photographic illustrations and occasional tipped-in manuscript facsimiles. Binding worn and soiled; endpapers lacking or torn. Text block partially separated from spine. In very good internal condition. The present work celebrates 50 years of musical art in Hungary and incorporates Art Nouveau design elements.
30. [HUNGARIAN MUSIC]. A Magy. Kir. Operaház Évkönyve 1927-1928 az Operaház Bérlöinek és Barátainak. Together with volumes for 1938-39 and 1939-40. A. Magy. Kir. Operaház Igazgatósága. 3 volumes. Original publisher's ivory wrappers. 69; 63; 61 pp. Wrappers somewhat worn and soiled. Occasional underlining in ink, annotations in pencil.
31. [HUNGARIAN MUSIC]. Isoz, Kálmán Buda és Pest Zenei Müvelödése ... I. Kötet (A 18-Ik Század). Budapest: Kiadja, 1926. Large octavo. Ivory printed wrappers. 227 pp. With occasional illustrations. Wrappers slightly worn and soiled. Uniform light browning.
32. [HUNGARIAN MUSIC]. Isoz, Kálmán Zenei Kéziratok [Musical Manuscripts]. I. Kötet Zenei Levelek [Music Letters]. Budapest: Kiadja a Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum Könyvtára, 1924. Octavo. Dark ivory decorative boards with upper wrapper bound in at end, inscribed, with Inscription in same hand in red pencil to title. 391 pp. With occasional annotations in pencil to margins.
33. [HUNGARIAN MUSIC]. Isoz, Kálmán 1878-1956 Buda és Pest zenei művelődése (1686-1873) I. kötet (A 18-ik század). Budapest: Magyar Népszínházi Bizottmány, 1926. Octavo. Original publisher's dark ivory printed wrappers with titling within decorative border printed in black and green. iv, 227, [1] pp. With illustrations and facsimiles within text. Wrappers slightly worn and soiled; spine mostly lacking. Occasional annotations in blue pencil. First Edition. OCLC 44631976. Scarce (3 copies located in the U.S.). Isoz worked at several of the major Hungarian cultural institutions, including the National Museum and the National Széchényi Library. His historical study Buda és Pest zenei művelődése [Music Education in Buda and Pest] covers the period up to the 19th century, with a planned second volume never published.
34. [HUNGARIAN MUSIC]. Molnár, Géza 1870-1933 A magyar zene elmélete [Theory of Hungarian Music]. Budapest: Pesti Könyvnyomda-Részvény-Társaság, 1904. Octavo. Half dark blue cloth with patterned paper boards. xxii, [2], 331, [1] pp. Publisher's handstamp to foot of title. Binding slightly worn; paper title label to spine mostly lacking. Trimmed, with minor loss to marginalia; light uniform browning; a few scattered small stains; occasional annotations in pencil. First Edition. OCLC 42856701. Scarce (one copy only located in the U.S., at NYPL). Molnár worked as an art and music critic while pursuing studies in musicology and theory, focusing on the national music of his country. He taught at various institutions in Budapest and published several studies, of which A magyar zene elmélete (1904) is the best known. Bartók took Molnár's class on Hungarian music, but would later criticize his teacher's work in his 1911 essay "A magyar zenéről" [On Hungarian Music]. "The most important aspect of Molnár's work ... is his well-nigh exhaustive treatment of Hungarian rhythm, which includes numerous tables demonstrating how complex patterns may be generated from and related to a few simple and commonly accepted Hungarian elements. Taken prescriptively, as it seems they were intended to be, Molnár's tables provide an impressively detailed method for ensuring the presence of a Hungarian essence in rhythms a good deal more complex and abstract than the style hongrois clichés on which they are based. In short, Molnár, like Bartók, was preoccupied with the question of how to elevate the Hungarian style without abandoning its national specificity." David Schneider: Bartók, Hungary, and the Renewal of Tradition, pp. 51-52.
35. KODÁLY, Zoltán 1882-1967 Iskolai énekgyüjtemény. Budapest: Zenemuveszeti Foiskola, [1991], 1943-1944. 3 volumes. 12mo. Wrappers. Stapled. I: 6-10 éves tanulóknak. 234 pp., with 300 melodies; II: 11-14 éves tanulóknak. 262 pp., with 630 melodies, in 2 vols. Slightly worn. Vol. II/2 somewhat browned. Reprint.
36. [KODÁLY]. Eösze, László Kodály Zoltán Élete Képekben. Budapest: Zenemükiadó Vállat, 1957. Small quarto. Original publisher's gray boards with titling within dark blue rectangle to upper and spine. 48 pp. + 25 ff. illustrative plates containing 80 images. Slightly worn; endpapers browned.
37. LISE, Giorgio A 18. Századi Opera Scarlattitól Mozartig. Budapest: Zenemükiadó, [1978]. Quarto. Original publisher's illustrated boards. 71, [i] pp. With numerous illustrations, many color.
38. [PERIODICAL]. Muzsika Zenemüvészeti Zenetudományi és Zenekritikai Folyóirat. 2 issues. Quarto. Original publisher's decorative ivory wrappers printed in red and black. November 1929 and January-February 1930. 63; 80 pp. With several illustrations. Wrappers slightly worn. Some internal wear and browning.
39. SZABOLCSI, Bence and Dénes Bartha A Magyar Zene Történetéböl. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1955. Octavo. Light blue cloth with titling in dark gray to upper and spine. 287 pp. With musical examples and illustrative plates. Binding faded at upper edge and spine. Browned.
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