Sundry sorts of music books : essays on The British Library collections : presented to O.W. Neighbour on his 70th birthday

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Sundry sorts of music books : essays on The British Library collections : presented to O.W. Neighbour on his 70th birthday

edited by Chris Banks, Arthur Searle & Malcolm Turner

British Library, 1993

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"Sundry Sorts of Music Books" collects essays by leading musicologists from Europe and North America celebrating the richness and diversity of the British Library's collections of manuscripts and printed music. The contributions range from the 14th to the 20th century, and include music analysis and composer biography, as well as articles on bibliographic sources. Reflecting the interests of O.W. Neighbour, to whom the book is dedicated, the emphasis is on 16th-17th and 20th-century studies, but among the subjects from other periods are the music of Handel and Mozart - two figures particularly well represented in the Library's holdings.

Table of Contents

  • Tim Neighbour - an appreciation, Alec Hyatt King and Hugh Cobbe
  • a select bibliography of the writings of O.W. Neighbour, Richard Chesser and David McLachlan
  • Pycard's double canon - evidence of revision, Margaret Bent
  • Henry VIII as a composer, David Fallows
  • the missa "Puer natus est nobis" by Thomas Tallis, Joseph Kerman
  • "The Woods so Wild" - notes on a Byrd text, Alan Brown
  • "Bounds and Compasses" the range of Byrd's keyboards, Davitt Moroney
  • pitch and transposition in the paston manuscripts, Philip Brett
  • the fall and rise of William Byrd, 1623-1901, Richard Turbet
  • Benjamin Cosyn - sources and circumstance, Pamela Willetts
  • the nonsuch music library, John Milsom
  • Michael Honywood's music books, Iain Fenlon
  • the fate of Steffani's I trionfi del fato, Colin Timms
  • Handel's Atalanta, Winton Dean
  • the "Granville" and "Smith" collections of Handel manuscripts, Donald Burrows
  • problems in three Mozart autographs in the Stefan Zweig collection, Alan Tyson
  • a footnote to the recent history of Mozart's "Verzeichnuss" manuscript, Albi Rosenthal
  • the Chichele Plowdens and the British museum - footnote to a musical bequest, Alec Hyatt King
  • Mendelssohn's Opus 1 - bibliographical problems of the C minor piano quartet, Peter Ward Jones
  • a knot of Weipperts, John A. Parkinson
  • Elgar songs as "Contrafacta" - some lost or unknown songs and song-texts recovered, Brian Trowell
  • H.G. Wells and Vaughan Williams's A London Symphony - politics and culture in fin-de-siecle England, Alain Frogley
  • Bela Bartok's draft of four pieces for orchestra, Laszlo Somfai
  • a tale of two vixens - Janacek's relationship with Emil Hertzka at Universal Edition and the 1924 and 1925 editions of The Cunning Little Vixen, Nigel Simeone
  • Webern, the BBC and the Berg violin concerto, Nick Chadwick
  • Schoenberg and Weill, David Drew
  • Schoenberg in Lowestoft - a chronology compiled from Britten's pocket diaries (1928-1939), Donald Mitchell
  • the signs of genre - Britten's version of pastoral, Arnold Whittall
  • American music in the British library - a preliminary survey, James Fuld.

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