Item Detail
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Music Library Association
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Committee of the Music Library Association
Lichtenwanger, William, chairman, compiler
Higbee, Dale
Hoover, Cynthia Adams
Young, Phillip T. -
A survey of musical instrument collections in the United States and Canada
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Book
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Chapel Hill, N.C.
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1974
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Music Library Association
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xi, 137 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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0914954008; 0914954016 (pbk)
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Musical instruments--Catalogs and collections--Directories.
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Music Collections; Musical Instruments; United States; Canada
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ML 19 .M87 1974
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Lichtenwanger, William. A Survey of Musical Instrument Collections in the United States and Canada. Ann Arbor, MI: Music Library Association, 1974.
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For those interested in collections of musical instruments.
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Includes 572 collections of instruments in museums, historical societies, universities and private collections. Sound devices, whose use in music is statistically negligible, such as sirens and cannon, were excluded. Sound devices whose primary purposes of magic or religion or signaling have long since been subsumed by their musical connotations, such as rattles, raspers, bullroarers and whistles, were included. A collection was defined in terms of numbers: about 15 or more instruments. In general, replicas of musical instruments were omitted unless there were 30 or more such replicas in a collection. Everyday performing instruments were not considered in this survey (i.e., the hundreds of practice pianos or orchestra and band instruments found in any given school of music or the collection of instruments present when a large symphony orchestra is gathered).
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In the directory of collections, entries are arranged first by country (United States first, then Canada), then by state or province, then by city, and finally by name of institution or owner. Each entry includes the name or names of the owners, street address, postal zip code, telephone number, the name of an appropriate point of contact for the collection (when available), brief description of the collection (most often written by the owner or proprietor of the collection), bibliography or discography (when one exists), a reference to catalogs (including possibilities of exchange, sales, or loans), and the hours of opening or the terms of accessibility to private collections (i.e. by appointment or by invitation only). Following the main body of the book are several indexes. The first is an index of names and includes private collectors, institutions, special collections and institutional subdivisions, curators and any other officials mentioned in the text, persons whom certain instruments have been associated and authors or performers appearing in bibliographical citations. Names of makers and manufacturing firms mentioned in the text are not indexed. Next is an index of instruments and classes of instruments. Class subdivisions include aerophones, chordophones, keyboard instruments, membranaphones, idiophones, mechanical instruments, and miscellanea. Last is an index of cultural, geographic, and historical origins. This final index is subdivided into western civilization and non-western cultures.
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The name index allows someone with limited geographical knowledge to find a collection despite the layout of the Directory of Collections.
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If one were not familiar with the geographic layout of the United States and Canada, it would be difficult to find a given collection based on the organization of the Directory of Collections.
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Zadro, Michael G. American Recorder 17 (February 1976): 148-49.
Libin, Laurence. Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 33 (September 1976): 58-59.http://www.jstor.org/stable/897526
El-shawan, Salwa. Ethnomusicology 20 (January 1976): 149-50. -
BYU Mus Ref
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1749