A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music Collection at Burghley House, Stamford

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music Collection at Burghley House, Stamford
Author: Gerald Gifford
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2017-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351786121

This title was first published in 2002: Burghley House, Stamford, was built between 1555 and 1587 for William Cecil, Lord Burghley, the Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I. The library there contains an extensive collection of manuscript and printed music dating from about 1650 to 1850, substantially formed during the latter part of the 18th century by the Ninth Earl of Exeter. The collection is given particular significance by the inclusion of several rare and in some cases apparently unique volumes. This catalogue examines the Burghley House music collection in the light of contemporary documentary evidence. The opening section describes the people who added to the collection and their musical enthusiasms. This approach brings the collection to life and also enables us to appreciate emergent trends in British music history of the period. With each entry fully described and the printed music referenced to RISM or CPM, this catalogue should form a valuable reference source for all scholars of British music from the 17th to the 19th century.

Liber Amicorum John Steele

Liber Amicorum John Steele
Author:
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Total Pages: 500
Release: 1997
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780945193807

John Steele was educated at Victoria University of Wellington, and at Cambridge University, where he was a student of Thurston Dart. Steele was the first New Zealander to become a professional musicologist, and the first to achieve international repute, largely for his work on Italian music of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. This volume has been undertaken by the New Zealand Musicological Society as a tribute to its most distinguished member on the occasion of his retirement from Otago University. The main focus of the collection is the music of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.

The Scoring of Baroque Concertos

The Scoring of Baroque Concertos
Author: C. R. F. Maunder
Publisher: Boydell Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2004
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781843830719

The concertos of Vivaldi, Bach, Handel and their contemporaries are some of the most popular, and the most frequently performed, pieces of classical music; and the assumption has always been they were full orchestral works. This book takes issue with this orthodox opinion to argue quite the reverse: that contemporaries regarded the concerto as chamber music. The author surveys the evidence, from surviving printed and manuscript performance material, from concerts throughout Europe between 1685 and 1750 (the heyday of the concerto), demonstrating that concertos were nearly always played one-to-a-part at that time. He makes a particularly close study of the scoring of the bass line, discussing the question of what instruments were most appropriate and what was used when. The late Dr RICHARD MAUNDER was Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.

A Catalogue of the Shaw-Hellier Collection

A Catalogue of the Shaw-Hellier Collection
Author: Ian Ledsham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2018-08-21
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 042984221X

In this compilation, first published in 1999, Ian Ledsham compiles an extensive catalogue of the Shaw-Hellier Collection, complete with diagrams regarding how we use text.

Catalogs

Catalogs
Author: Harold Reeves (Firm)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 620
Release: 1919
Genre: Music
ISBN:

Programmes

Programmes
Author: Philadelphia Orchestra
Publisher:
Total Pages: 742
Release: 1921
Genre: Concert programs
ISBN: