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Music (Brotherton Collection)

Archive Print Collection: BC Music

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Type of record: Book

Title: Music (Brotherton Collection)

Level: Collection

Classmark: BC Music

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/56173

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Contains many items from the library of W T Freemantle, from whom Lord Brotherton purchased numerous books. A special feature of the collection is the group of Mendelssohn manuscripts and letters which are described elsewhere. Among the printed works there are very many scores (mostly 19th century), representing a great many composers, and much song music. The composers are too numerous to list, but among those particularly well represented are Beethoven, Handel, Rossini, Mendelssohn and Dibdin. There are also biographies of composers, books on musical theory, and runs of a number of periodicals (eg 'Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung'; 'The Harmonicon'; 'Musical world'). The earliest book shelved with this collection is John Playford's three-volume 'An introduction to the skill of musick...', 1697, but the Incunabula section of the Brotherton Collection boasts a copy of F Gaffori, 'Practica musicae', 1497.

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