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The Music of the Most Ancient Nations

Carl Engel
Ancient music / organology / comparative music history · 1864 · English
Carl Engel. The Music of the Most Ancient Nations. London: John Murray, 1864.

Engel surveys the music of ancient civilizations, with particular attention to Assyrian, Egyptian and Hebrew evidence and to archaeological discoveries then reshaping nineteenth-century ideas about early instruments. The book combines iconography, textual sources and organological comparison.

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The Literature of National Music

Carl Engel
Bibliographic survey / folk and national music · 1879 · English
Carl Engel. The Literature of National Music. London: Novello, Ewer & Co., 1879.

Engel organizes the literature of national music around songs, poetry, dance tunes, sacred repertory, instruments, treatises and other documentary sources. The book is both a bibliographic map and a statement of nineteenth-century interest in folk and national traditions.

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Researches into the Early History of the Violin Family

Carl Engel
Organology / bowed instruments · 1883 · English
Carl Engel. Researches into the Early History of the Violin Family. London: Novello, Ewer & Co., 1883.

Published posthumously, Engel’s study traces bowed string instruments and the ancestry of the violin through literary, visual and surviving-instrument evidence. It reflects the formative period of systematic organology in Britain.

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Conductor Willem Mengelberg, 1871–1951: Acclaimed and Accused

Frits Zwart
Scholarly biography / conducting history · 2019 · English
Frits Zwart. Conductor Willem Mengelberg, 1871–1951: Acclaimed and Accused. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019.

Conductor Willem Mengelberg, 1871–1951: Acclaimed and Accused is a substantial biographical or documentary resource concerning Willem Mengelberg. 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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