The History of Music, Volume I
Researched Bibliographic Dossier
Verified edition data and a musicological research note prepared specifically for this work.
- Title
- The History of Music, Volume I
- Author
- Emil Naumann
- Translator
- Ferdinand Praeger
- Edition
- English translation
- Publisher
- Cassell & Company
- Place
- London, Paris, New York and Melbourne
- Year
- 1886
- Language
- English, translated from German
- Type
- General music history
SCOPE & CONTENT
Naumann’s large illustrated history was one of the substantial late nineteenth-century attempts to narrate Western music from antiquity through the major European traditions. Volume I is most valuable today as a historiographical source and as a repository of period illustrations, biographies and terminology, while its broad cultural claims should be compared with modern scholarship.
RESEARCH VALUE
For research use, this record is intended to preserve both bibliographic identity and historical context. Because the book belongs to an earlier phase of musicology or criticism, its factual observations can remain highly useful while broader aesthetic, racial, national or evolutionary assumptions should be checked against modern scholarship and current critical editions.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC AND SEARCH VALUE
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RESEARCH USE AND LIMITS
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