Music Manuscripts By Arthur Searle

Book Music manuscripts copy

Sparse Doesn t delve deeply into the history of notation conventions like you d hope Explains what s in the British Library and how it got there but at 80 pages of mostly prints of manuscripts scarce at that yo Gives it s nod to illuminated scrolls I was pleased to learn there s pictures of drunk organists and pig farmers in the profane books going back to early days of polyphony 13C The book s best feature is the reproduction of raw often much revised autographs from composers central to the history of classical music in England Venice and Vienna Arthur Searle