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Author: Michael Kassler Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317092058 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 764
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The British Copyright Act of 1709 protected proprietors of books and music printed after 10 April 1710 who gave copies to the Company of Stationers in London. Upon receipt of a copy, usually within days of its first publication, the Stationers' Hall warehouse keeper entered details into a register. They included the date of registration, the name of the work's proprietor (its author or, if copyright had been transferred, its publisher), and the work's full title, which normally named the composer and the writer of any text and often named the work's performers and dedicatee. Although some publishers put the words 'Entered at Stationers' Hall' on title-pages without actually depositing copies, the information in the registers about the many works that were registered has significant bibliographic value. Because the music entries have not previously been printed and access to them has been difficult, they generally have been ignored by cataloguers and scholars, with the consequence that numerous musical works of this period have been misdated in libraries and reference books. This book makes available, for the first time, the full text of the music entries at Stationers' Hall from 1710 to 1810 and abbreviated details of works entered from 1811 to 1818. Its value is enhanced by the inclusion of locations of copies of most works, together with indexes of composers, authors, performers and dedicatees, and an explanatory introduction by the compiler.
Author: Michael Kassler Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317092058 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 764
Book Description
The British Copyright Act of 1709 protected proprietors of books and music printed after 10 April 1710 who gave copies to the Company of Stationers in London. Upon receipt of a copy, usually within days of its first publication, the Stationers' Hall warehouse keeper entered details into a register. They included the date of registration, the name of the work's proprietor (its author or, if copyright had been transferred, its publisher), and the work's full title, which normally named the composer and the writer of any text and often named the work's performers and dedicatee. Although some publishers put the words 'Entered at Stationers' Hall' on title-pages without actually depositing copies, the information in the registers about the many works that were registered has significant bibliographic value. Because the music entries have not previously been printed and access to them has been difficult, they generally have been ignored by cataloguers and scholars, with the consequence that numerous musical works of this period have been misdated in libraries and reference books. This book makes available, for the first time, the full text of the music entries at Stationers' Hall from 1710 to 1810 and abbreviated details of works entered from 1811 to 1818. Its value is enhanced by the inclusion of locations of copies of most works, together with indexes of composers, authors, performers and dedicatees, and an explanatory introduction by the compiler.
Author: Catherine Michel Publisher: Klincksieck ISBN: Category : Music Languages : fr Pages : 296
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Cette bibliographie a pour but de suggerer aux harpistes un elargissement de leur repertoire et de leur indiquer dans quelles bibliotheques ils peuvent le decouvrir. Elle n'a aucune pretention scientifique, ayant ete redigee d'apres des descriptions existantes et non en recourant aux originaux. Les deux sources principales sont le Catalogue de la musique imprimee avant 1800 dans les bibliotheques publiques de Paris (B.N., 1981) et le RISM. On a cependant cherche a completer les informations donnees par celui-ci en ajoutant les acquisitions recentes et surtout en datant les editions. Comme dans le RISM la date de 1800 est ici traitee avec beaucoup de souplesse ou - plus exactement - elle est souvent depassee jusqu'a la premiere decennie du XIXe siecle. Le repertoire que l'on trouvera ici couvre trois categories : - la musique pour harpe seule, souvent praticable aussi pour le pianoforte, ou avec accompagnement ad libitum - la musique vocale accompagnee par la harpe (ou le pianoforte) - la musique de chambre dans laquelle intervient la harpe. La majeure partie de ce repertoire a ete publiee entre 1770 et environ 1820 a Paris et a Londres, mais l'essentiel de la musique a caractere soliste est francais. On sait que pour les periodes precedentes il s'agit essentiellement d'un repertoire non specifique, destine a divers instruments ad libitum, dont la harpe. On a repris les sigles du RISM, dont la liste est fournie au debut du volume, pour indiquer les bibliotheques qui conservent des exemplaires de ces editions. Lorsqu'aucune indication n'est donnee derriere un sigle, l'exemplaire est en principe complet. Dans le cas contraire, la ou les parties conservees sont mentionnees.
Author: Alexander Wheelock Thayer Publisher: Library of Alexandria ISBN: 146558322X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 1474
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If for no other reasons than because of the long time and monumental patience expended upon its preparation, the vicissitudes through which it has passed and the varied and arduous labors bestowed upon it by the author and his editors, the history of Alexander Wheelock Thayer’s Life of Beethoven deserves to be set forth as an introduction to this work. His work it is, and his monument, though others have labored long and painstakingly upon it. There has been no considerable time since the middle of the last century when it has not occupied the minds of the author and those who have been associated with him in its creation. Between the conception of its plan and its execution there lies a period of more than two generations. Four men have labored zealously and affectionately upon its pages, and the fruits of more than four score men, stimulated to investigation by the first revelations made by the author, have been conserved in the ultimate form of the biography. It was seventeen years after Mr. Thayer entered upon what proved to be his life-task before he gave the first volume to the world—and then in a foreign tongue; it was thirteen more before the third volume came from the press. This volume, moreover, left the work unfinished, and thirty-two years more had to elapse before it was completed. When this was done the patient and self-sacrificing investigator was dead; he did not live to finish it himself nor to see it finished by his faithful collaborator of many years, Dr. Deiters; neither did he live to look upon a single printed page in the language in which he had written that portion of the work published in his lifetime. It was left for another hand to prepare the English edition of an American writer’s history of Germany’s greatest tone-poet, and to write its concluding chapters, as he believes, in the spirit of the original author. Under these circumstances there can be no vainglory in asserting that the appearance of this edition of Thayer’s Life of Beethoven deserves to be set down as a significant occurrence in musical history. In it is told for the first time in the language of the great biographer the true story of the man Beethoven—his history stripped of the silly sentimental romance with which early writers and their later imitators and copyists invested it so thickly that the real humanity, the humanliness, of the composer has never been presented to the world. In this biography there appears the veritable Beethoven set down in his true environment of men and things—the man as he actually was, the man as he himself, like Cromwell, asked to be shown for the information of posterity. It is doubtful if any other great man’s history has been so encrusted with fiction as Beethoven’s. Except Thayer’s, no biography of him has been written which presents him in his true light. The majority of the books which have been written of late years repeat many of the errors and falsehoods made current in the first books which were written about him. A great many of these errors and falsehoods are in the account of the composer’s last sickness and death, and were either inventions or exaggerations designed by their utterers to add pathos to a narrative which in unadorned truth is a hundredfold more pathetic than any tale of fiction could possibly be. Other errors have concealed the truth in the story of Beethoven’s guardianship of his nephew, his relations with his brothers, the origin and nature of his fatal illness, his dealings with his publishers and patrons, the generous attempt of the Philharmonic Society of London to extend help to him when upon his deathbed.
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Author: Alexander Wheelock Thayer