A Short-Title Catalogue of Music Printed before 1825 in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Fitzwilliam Museum Publications) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521136814 ISBN 13: 9780521136815

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

The collection of music printed before 1825 in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, is one of the most important in the British Isles, particularly for its holdings of late seventeenth and eighteenth-century music. Many of the books are from the library of the Museum's founder, Richard Fitzwilliam, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion and of Thorncastle (1745-1816), one of the finest collections of later eighteenth-century music that not only continued to grow in the early nineteenth century but also survived intact. This in itself makes the collection a fascinating monument in the history of musical taste, which is here catalogued for the first time.

About this title

Book Description:

The collection of pre-1825 printed music in the Fitzwilliam Museum is one of the most important in the British Isles after the British Library and the Bodleian Library, particularly for its holdings of late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music. The collection is here fully catalogued for the first time.

Review:

"...the generally high quality of Dr. Rumbold's citations and eleven handsome illustrations, may be argued to be quite what the original owner would today have wished for." D.W. Krummel, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521136814
• ISBN 13: 9780521136815
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204
• Editor: Rumbold Valerie, Fenlon Iain