Fallen Leaf Reference Books in Music – serie

The Montagu Collection, of worldwide coverage and all types of instruments, began to take shape in the early 1960s when what had been a small and very random collection was then rapidly expanded to illustrate lectures and to provide material for research on all aspects of organology. By 1967, when Jeremy Montagu mounted an exhibition in Sheffield and for that reason started his ledger catalogue, the number of instruments had reached about 450.It has now, thirty years later, reached nearly 2,500. The Collection is always accessible to interested persons.

Lowell Mason, Horatio Parker, Amy Beach, Charles Ives, Edward MacDowell, and Arthur Foote are but some of the American composers featured in this guide.

In tracing the history of writings on music printing and publishing, this book discusses the theory of music bibliography. It examines such major topics as historical surveys of music printing and musical commerce and property; and surveys specific subjects ranging from type-specimen books to patent registrations, from the history of music libraries to bibliophilic editions.

The main section of this book is arranged by voice type, with entries subarranged by composer. Each entry gives the composer's name and dates, the title and date of the work, names of individual movements, publisher, source and language of text, instrumentation, vocal range, and level of difficulty. Indexes by performing media, composers, sources of texts, and publishers complete the work.