Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera…
5th May 2017
This is a copy of the first appearance in print of Il musico prattico, by the Maltese composer and theorist Francesco Az[z]opardi (1748–1809). It was later ‘introduced as a textbook in Paris by Grétry: Cherubini based the 19th chapter of his treatise Cours de contrepoint (1835) on its analysis of imitation’ (New Grove). The translator is Nicolas-Etienne […]
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2nd December 2016
Here’s rare book: the first (and probably only) edition of A Selection from the Music in use at the Church of St John the Divine Fairfield, privately printed in—presumably—a small number of copies, in 1858. (This is Fairfield, Merseyside, by the way, not Connecticut.) The compiler was one J. B. Cooper. The whole thing is […]
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