The Annual Register

The Annual Register
Author: Edmund Burke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 716
Release: 1913
Genre: Books
ISBN:

Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. From the 1920s volumes of The Annual Register took the essential shape in which they have continued ever since, opening with the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. Following these are the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year.

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Total Pages: 262
Release: 1912
Genre: American literature
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Henry George Farmer and the First International Congress of Arab Music (Cairo 1932)

Henry George Farmer and the First International Congress of Arab Music (Cairo 1932)
Author: Israel Katz
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2015-03-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004284141

Henry George Farmer (1882-1965) was a pioneering musicologist who specialized in Arab music. In 1932, he participated in the First International Congress of Arab Music in Cairo, during which he maintained a journal recording his daily activities, interactions with fellow delegates and dignitaries, and varied perambulations throughout the city. This journal, and the detailed minutes he kept for his chaired Commission on History and Manuscripts, were never published. They reveal aspects and inner-workings of the Congress that have hitherto remained unknown. The illustrations and photos contained therein, as well as additional photos that were never seen, provide visual documentation of the Congress’s participants and musical ensembles.