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Title Music entries at Stationers' Hall, 1710-1818 : from lists prepared for William Hawes, D.W. Krummel, and Alan Tyson and from other sources / compiled by Michael Kassler ; with a foreword by D.W. Krummel
Published Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 735 pages)
Series Royal Musical Association Monographs
Royal Musical Association monographs.
Contents Cover; Contents; Preface; Foreword; Introduction; Music Entries from 1710 to 1810; Appendix: Music Entries from 1811 to 1818 in the William Hawes Manuscript; Index of Authors; Index of Writers; Index of Performers; Index of Dedicatees
Summary The British Copyright Act of 1709 protected proprietors of books and music printed after 10 April 1710 who gave copies to the Company of Stationers in London. Upon receipt of a copy, usually within days of its first publication, the Stationers' Hall warehouse keeper entered details into a register. They included the date of registration, the name of the work's proprietor (its author or, if copyright had been transferred, its publisher), and the work's full title, which normally named the composer and the writer of any text and often named the work's performers and dedicatee. Although some publishers put the words 'Entered at Stationers' Hall' on title pages without actually depositing copies, the information in the registers about the many works that were registered has significant bibliographic value. Because the music entries have not previously been printed and access to them has been difficult, they generally have been ignored by cataloguers and scholars, with the consequence that numerous musical works of this period have been misdated in libraries and reference books. This book makes available, for the first time, the full text of the music entries at Stationers' Hall from 1710 to 1810 and abbreviated details of works entered from 1811 to 1818. Its value is enhanced by the inclusion of locations of copies of most works, together with indexes of composers, authors, performers and dedicatees, and an explanatory introduction by the compiler
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Music -- Great Britain -- Bibliography
Music -- Great Britain -- 18th century -- Bibliography -- Catalogs
Music -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- Bibliography -- Catalogs
MUSIC.
Music
Bladmuziek.
Muziekwerken.
Stationers' Hall.
Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic books
Catalogs
Bibliographies
Form Electronic book
Author Kassler, Michael, 1941-
Hawes, William, 1785-1846.
Krummel, Donald William, 1929-
Tyson, Alan.
ISBN 9780754692911
0754692914
9780754634584
0754634582
1317092058
9781317092056
1281332739
9781281332738
9786611332730
6611332731