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The Music of the Bible
John Stainer
Biblical music history / organology · 1879 · English
John Stainer. The Music of the Bible. London, Paris and New York: Cassell, Petter & Galpin / Novello, Ewer & Co., 1879.
Stainer investigates musical references in the Bible, ancient instruments, ritual functions and the relationship between textual evidence and nineteenth-century ideas about biblical musical practice. The work is now most valuable as a historical study of biblical music scholarship and organology; archaeological and Near Eastern research has advanced substantially…
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The History of Music, Volume I
Emil Naumann
General music history · 1886 · English, translated from German
Emil Naumann. The History of Music, Volume I. London, Paris, New York and Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1886.
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…
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The History of Music, Volume II
Emil Naumann
General music history · 1886 · English, translated from German
Emil Naumann. The History of Music, Volume II. London, Paris, New York and Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1886.
The second volume continues Naumann’s historical synthesis into later European repertories and composers. Read together with the first volume, it provides a detailed example of nineteenth-century canon formation, biographical narrative and stylistic judgment. It is particularly useful when modern readers distinguish documentary material from the period’s teleological assumptions…
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Artur Schnabel: A Biography
César Saerchinger
Biography / performance history · 1957 · English
César Saerchinger. Artur Schnabel: A Biography. London: Cassell & Company, 1957.
Artur Schnabel: A Biography is a substantial biographical source on Artur Schnabel. Substantial post-war biography of Schnabel, valuable as an early documentary account of his Viennese background, chamber partnerships, Beethoven reputation, emigration, teaching and recording career. The dossier treats the book not merely as a life narrative but…
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Debussy: His Life and Mind, Volume I
Edward Lockspeiser
Scholarly biography, volume 1 · 1962 · English
Edward Lockspeiser. Debussy: His Life and Mind, Volume I. London: Cassell, 1962.
Debussy: His Life and Mind, Volume I is a substantial biographical or documentary resource concerning Claude Debussy. The dossier identifies the work by author and subject and places it within the history of performance, composition, institutions, repertory and reception where relevant. It is especially useful for distinguishing primary…
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Debussy: His Life and Mind, Volume II
Edward Lockspeiser
Scholarly biography, volume 2 · 1965 · English
Edward Lockspeiser. Debussy: His Life and Mind, Volume II. London: Cassell, 1965.
Debussy: His Life and Mind, Volume II is a substantial biographical or documentary resource concerning Claude Debussy. The dossier identifies the work by author and subject and places it within the history of performance, composition, institutions, repertory and reception where relevant. It is especially useful for distinguishing primary…
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