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

Iain Fenlon editor Valerie Rumbold editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:25th Feb '10

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A Short-Title Catalogue of Music Printed before 1825 in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge cover

The collection of pre-1825 printed music in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, here catalogued for the first time.

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.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, areas in which the collection is noticeably strong. 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 the later eighteenth century that not only continued to grow in the early nineteenth but also survived intact. This in itself makes Fitzwilliam's collection of music a fascinating monument in the history of musical taste. Italian music looms large, but his interests were also broad enough to include French music by then unfashionable composers such as Lalande, Lully and Rameau, as well as the works of English seventeenth-century composers. The collection, considerably enriched by subsequent donations, is here fully catalogued for the first time.

"...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

ISBN: 9780521136815

Dimensions: 244mm x 170mm x 11mm

Weight: 330g

204 pages