Novello's Music Primers

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History

This British series, also known as Novello's Music Primers and Educational Series, started in 1877. There was a wide range of topics: instrumental and vocal music, music theory and composition. No. 60 was issued in 1900.

Arrangers and Editors

• John Stainer (1840—1901)
• Berthold Tours (1838—1897)
• Arnold Dolmetsch (1858—1940)

Publishers

• London Novello & Co.

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Contents

• 1. The Pianoforte Pauer E
• 2. Rudiments of Music W. H. Cummings
• 3. The organ John Stainer edited by John E. West.
• 4. Harmony Hall
• 5. Singing (Randegger, Alberto)
• 6. Speech in Song
• 7. Musical Forms (Pauer E)
• 8. Harmony John Stainer
• 9. Counterpoint (Bridge, Frederick)
• 10. Fugue (Higgs, James)
• 11. The Scientific Basis of Music (Stone)
• 12. Double Counterpoint (Bridge, Frederick)
• 13. Church Choir Training (Troutbeck)
• 14. Plain-Song (Helmore, Thomas)
• 15. Instrumentation (Prout, Ebenezer)
• 16. Elements of the Beautiful in Music (Paer)
• 17. The Violin (Tours, Berthold)
• 18. Tonic Sol-Fa (Curwen, John)
• 19. The Lancashire Sol-Fa (Greenwood, James)
• 20. Composition (Stainer, John)
• 21. Musical Terms (Stainer and Barrett)
• 22. The Violoncello (Swert, Jules de)
• 23. Two part exercises (Greenwood, James)
• 24. Double scales (Taylor, Franklin)
• 25. Musical expression (Lysky)
• 26. 70 Solfeggi (Marshall, Florence)
• 27. Organ accompaniment
• 28. The Cornet (Brett, Harry)
• 29. Musical Dictation 1 (Ritter)
• 30. Musical Dictation 2 (Ritter)
• 31. Modulation (Higgs)
• 32.The double bass. (White, A.C.)
• 33. Extemporisation. [Piano].
• 34. Analysis of Form
• 35. 500 Fugue Subjects and Answers (Marchant, Arthur W.)
• 36. Hand Gymnastics (Prentice)
• 37. Musical Ornamentation (Dannreuther, Edward)
• 38. Transposition : keyboard and orchestral John Warriner.
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• 42. Summary of the History and Development of Medieval and Modern European Music C. Hubert H. Parry
• 43. Rudiments in rhyme (Bridge, John Frederick)
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• 47. Organ Pedal Technique (Horner, Burnham W.)
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• 50. Choral society vocalisation : instructions and exercises in voice-training to be used at ordinary rehearsals / by J. Stainer
• 52. A description and history of the pianoforte and the older keyboard stringed instruments (Hipkins, Alfred James)
• 54. Sonata form (Hadow, W.H.)
• 56. Bach's Forty-eight preludes and fugues (Iliffe, Frederick)
• 61. The Viola (Tours, Berthold)
• 63. Breathing for voice production ( Hulbert, H.H.)
• 71. Voice culture for children (Bates, James)
• 81. Diatonic modal Counterpoint (Dunstan, Ralph)
• 82. Music in its Relation to the Intellect and the Emotions (Stainer, John)
• 91. System in musical notation Button, H. Elliot
• 95. Beethoven's Pianoforte Sonatas Lowe, C. Egerton
• 96. Ornamentation in the works of Frederick Chopin Dunn, John Petri
• 98. Elements of musical appreciation Foxell, William James
• 102. The instruments of the orchestra. Borland, John E.
• 111. A commentary on book I of the Forty-eight preludes and fugues (Das wohltemperirte Klavier) of Johann Sebastian Bach / by Stewart Macpherson.
• 116. Playing the piano: a book for beginners. 2 bks.
• 140. Musicianship for singers (Judd, Percy)
• Key to a manual of harmony for schools / by Francis Edward Gladstone.
• A primer of pedal scales & arpeggios for the organ : with an appendix including some exercises for acquiring greater facility in pedalling / by Herbert F. Ellingford.
• The organ : a study of its principles and practice. Part I / by Herbert F. Ellingford.
• Twelve Trios ... Edited and arranged for the organ, with pedal obbligato, by Arthur W. Marchant. / [By Albrechtsberger, Johann Georg 1736-1809.]
• The organ / edited by John E.West.
• The double-bass / edited and revised in accordance with modern practice by F.A. Echlin
• Twenty-four Studies in Sight-singing and Interpretation for mixed voices ... being Supplement No. 1 to A Handbook for Choralists. / [By Grace, Harvey 1874-1944.]
• A primer of pedal scales & arpeggios for the organ : with an appendix including some exercises for acquiring greater facility in pedalling / by Herbert F. Ellingford.
• A collection of two-part solfeggi in the principal major keys : designed for the practice of choristers and vocal classes generally / selected from Durante, Handel, Leo, Scarlatti, Steffani, Nares, Webbe, etc., by James Higgs.
• The exercises in the "Choral society vocalisation" primer by J. Stainer. Adapted and arranged for the use of choirs and classes of female voices by A.W. Marchant.

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