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A General History of Music, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period — Volume I
Charles Burney
Music history / primary historiographical source · 1776 · English
Charles Burney. A General History of Music, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period — Volume I. London: Printed for the author, 1776.
Volume I opens Burney’s monumental four-volume history with the ancient world and a substantial dissertation on ancient music. It documents late-eighteenth-century knowledge of Greek theory, modes, instruments and dramatic music and is especially valuable for studying how Enlightenment writers constructed a continuous history of European music from classical…
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A General History of Music, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period — Volume II
Charles Burney
Music history / primary historiographical source · 1782 · English
Charles Burney. A General History of Music, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period — Volume II. London: Printed for the author, 1782.
Volume II continues Burney’s survey through medieval and early-modern European music, with extensive attention to ecclesiastical traditions, notation, theory, counterpoint and the institutional conditions in which learned music developed. Musical examples and documentary citations make the book an unusually rich witness to eighteenth-century historical method.
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A General History of Music, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period — Volume III
Charles Burney
Music history / eighteenth-century criticism · 1789 · English
Charles Burney. A General History of Music, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period — Volume III. London: Printed for the author, 1789.
Volume III brings the history closer to Burney’s own era and becomes increasingly valuable as near-contemporary criticism. It treats the development of major national styles, opera and instrumental traditions with observations informed by Burney’s European travels and personal contact with musicians and institutions.
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A General History of Music, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period — Volume IV
Charles Burney
Music history / contemporary criticism · 1789 · English
Charles Burney. A General History of Music, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period — Volume IV. London: Printed for the author, 1789.
The final volume reaches Burney’s contemporary musical world and contains some of the set’s most important evidence for eighteenth-century performance, composition and reception. It also includes bibliographic material and extensive commentary on composers and institutions familiar to Burney at first or near-first hand.
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The Present State of Music in France and Italy
Charles Burney
Travel diary / music history / primary source · 1771 · English
Charles Burney. The Present State of Music in France and Italy. London: T. Becket and Co., 1771.
This expanded dossier identifies The Present State of Music in France and Italy by Charles Burney, with edition-level publication data and normalized title/author variants for reliable retrieval. The work is treated as both a bibliographic object and a historical source, so its contemporary terminology and judgements remain visible…
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The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces, Volume I
Charles Burney
Travel diary / music history / primary source · 1773 · English
Charles Burney. The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces, Volume I. London: T. Becket and Co., 1773.
This expanded dossier identifies The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces, Volume I by Charles Burney, with edition-level publication data and normalized title/author variants for reliable retrieval. The work is treated as both a bibliographic object and a historical source, so its contemporary…
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The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces, Volume II
Charles Burney
Travel diary / music history / primary source · 1773 · English
Charles Burney. The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces, Volume II. London: T. Becket and Co., 1773.
This expanded dossier identifies The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces, Volume II by Charles Burney, with edition-level publication data and normalized title/author variants for reliable retrieval. The work is treated as both a bibliographic object and a historical source, so its contemporary…
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