Item Detail
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Eddy, Marmee Alexandra
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The Rost manuscript of seventeenth-century chamber music : a thematic catalog
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Book
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Warren, Mich.
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1989
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Harmonie Park Press
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xxxii, 83 p. : music ; 26 cm.
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English
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Invalid ISBN: 0899900470
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Chamber music--17th century--Thematic catalogs.
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Music Manuscripts; Seventeenth Century; Chamber Music
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ML 135 .E3 1989
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Eddy, M. Alexandria. The Rost Manuscript of Seventeenth-century Chamber Music: Thematic Catalog. Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography, edited by J. Bunker Clark, no. 63. Warren: Harmonie Park Press, 1989.
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To identify specific works using musical incipits.
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Documents the compositions found in the Rost Manuscript, consisting of 12th century chamber music. A large amount of the collection is for two violins & organ.
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Begins with an introduction that describes the contents of the book and a brief background on Rost himself. Introduction includes tables that give manuscript numbers for instrumentation, composer, and composition type. Also includes tables listing compositions requiring scordatura and reductions from larger settings. The main body is a list of works with musical incipits (accompanied by instrumentation and in some cases printed/manuscript concordances and special remarks) in the order of the original manuscript.
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Some of the pages are printed out of order or are doubled.
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Tennile Spencer
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BYU Mus Ref
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3104