Catalogue of Printed Music in the Library of the Royal College of Music, London (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Music in the Library of the Royal College of Music, London (Classic Reprint) written by William Barclay Squire and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catalogue of Printed Music in the Library of the Royal College of Music, London The Library thus formed was inevitably of a very heterogeneous character, and included a large number of duplicates. It was therefore decided by the Council to sell the-less important duplicates, and the amount thus realized was devoted to supplying the most conspicuous deficiencies in the collection and to a certain amount of much-needed expenditure in binding and repairs. On the erection of the present College, the Library was installed in a room especially constructed for the purpose, fitted in part with the old book-cases from the Sacred Harmonic library. The Library is not open to the public, but its contents can generally be consulted in term-time on written request, addressed to the Registrar. The present volume contains the catalogue of the printed music, arranged in alphabetical order. It includes practical music and vocal and instrumental instruction books. It is hoped to follow this volume by a catalogue of the important collection of mss., which is already in progress of compilation. Works on the theory of music, on acoustics, the construction of instruments, &c., are reserved for a final volume, which will also contain the collection of general literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.