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Tag Archives: Music publishing
Women in music: the story continues
Since I last wrote about women in music on occasion of The Rising Tide exhibition, so much has happened. Alongside the many positive initiatives it is important to acknowledge that the coronavirus pandemic has disproportionally affected women and that as … Continue reading
Online notated music collections
Welcoming our new students in a predominantly online environment in October was quite an unusual and for many also an unsettling experience. Now that we are entering a new stage of COVID-19 lockdown MusiCB3 will briefly reflect on how our … Continue reading
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Tagged collection development, e-resources, Music publishing, online resources, sheet music
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Dutch signs at the Pendlebury Library: a collection of librettos printed by Abraham Wolfgang
Summer … at least in theory. Just a few students around. Very quiet time at the Pendlebury Library. As promised in my previous post blog (More on Pendlebury hidden collections), I can carry on undisturbed my treasure hunting among the … Continue reading
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Tagged antiquarian books, libretti, Music publishing, Pendlebury Library of Music
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Pendlebury hidden collections
Over the past 25 years the focus of the Pendlebury Library has gradually but clearly shifted from being a research intensive library owning a collection of manuscripts, concert programmes and rare books, to a faculty library primarily supporting teaching. Although music manuscripts … Continue reading
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Tagged C18 music, C19 music, Faculty of Music, Music publishing, Pendlebury Library of Music, rare books
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At the event: UL Friends talk by Margaret Faultless
It’s all in the notes. Or is it?…. On Wednesday February 11th Margaret Faultless gave an absorbing and illuminating lecture-recital to the Friends of the University Library on performance practice at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries taking … Continue reading
From the stacks: Locke’s “Melothesia”
Whilst we were preparing our tribute to Chris Hogwood last month, I looked out our copy of Matthew Locke’s Melothesia [MR340.c.65.1] as Chris had prepared a modern edition for OUP, published in 1987 [M340.a.95.532.5], and was immediately captivated. So I … Continue reading
From the Stacks: a box of delights
This is the first of a new series of posts where we take an item or two from the thousands in the music stacks which has caught our eye for one reason or another and home in to find out … Continue reading
Eighteenth-Century Music Publishing in Cambridge : Some Examples from the Pendlebury Library
This display, which includes facsimiles of items from Special Collections in the Pendlebury Library, will be on view 19th March – 13th June 2014. Readers who are interested in viewing the originals may ask the staff for assistance. Several posts … Continue reading
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Tagged C18 music, exhibitions, Music publishing, musical life in Cambridge
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Lost in translation
The UL (@theUL) recently received a query via Twitter from a bemused antiquarian book dealer: “We’ve got Haydn’s Canzonette Italienne. Have you heard of it?” The answer was a resounding No! In fact no-one seemed to have heard of it, … Continue reading
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Tagged C18 music, Music at CUL, Music publishing, reader enquiries, social networking
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I found this letter….
Recently I was going through some correspondence in the Arthur Bliss Archive, and came across an uncatalogued letter from Adolf Aber, a music director at Bliss’ publisher Novello. Aber had formerly been a partner in the German publishers, Hofmeister. Forced into exile when the Nazis rose … Continue reading
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