Item Detail
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Fraenkel, Gottfried Samuel
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Decorative music title pages : 201 examples from 1500 to 1800
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Book
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New York, N.Y.
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1968
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Dover Publications
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xvi, 230 p. : ill., 201 plates (facsims.) ; 29 cm.
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English
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Music printing.
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Music Title Pages; Iconography; Music History; Graphic Art History; Music Printing History; Sixteenth Century; Seventeenth Century; Eighteenth Century; Nineteenth Century
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ML 112.5 .F73
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Fraenkel, Gottfried S. Decorative Music Title Pages: 201 Examples from 1500 to 1800. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1968.
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An iconography of over 200 of the most striking and most interesting [music title pages] produced between 1500 and 1800. Useful for research in music history, graphic art history, and the history of printing and book production. Provides quality reproductions and basic information for artistic title pages to musical works.
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Included title pages were produced between 1500 and 1800. Only actual music prints were considered for inclusion; works about music were excluded. Also, emphasis was given to title pages proper, as distinct from frontispieces and other pages. Selection was based on decorative qualities that go beyond mere type or calligraphy. The author admits that these criteria are general rules, and that some examples contained in the book are exceptions. Publications and composers are mostly from France, Germany, England, and Italy.
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A listing of plates, an introduction, and a bibliography precede the main section of this book. The introduction explains the selection and arrangement of the examples included. In addition, it summarizes the history of music printing and the title page, referencing various plates as examples. The plates comprise the main section of the book, and are arranged by cultural periods. This results in sixteen sections, loosely chronological with groupings according to nationality. Corelli, Mozart, and Haydn each have a section devoted to them since their publications were truly international. Each plate has a caption, giving the composer's name, the name of the work pictured, and the place and year of publication, if known. The owner of the particular work pictured is named. The rest of each caption is devoted to information about the composer, the work and its printing history, the publisher, the designer and engraver, etc. Information is minimal. An index of sources follows, which groups the plates according to the library or collection in which the originals may be found. A list of dimensions gives the original measurement in millimeters of each example contained in the book. An index of composers and artists concludes the work.
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Every title page contained in this guide is a photographed directly from the original, ensuring quality in the images.
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Higbee, Dale. American Recorder 10 (Summer 1968): 90.
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BYU Mus Ref
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3206