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Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
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Published: 1969-03
Total Pages: 788
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Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
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Published: 1969-03
Total Pages: 788
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: New York Public Library. Rare Book Division
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 838
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Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 634
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Younger Fletcher
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 544
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard De Bury
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Published: 2019-06-12
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 0486832465
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Will always hold an honorable place for bibliophiles." — The University of Chicago Press One of the earliest treatises on the value of preserving neglected manuscripts, building a library, and book collecting, Richard De Bury's The Philobiblon was written in 1345 and circulated widely in manuscript form for over a century. The first printed edition appeared in Cologne in 1473, and several others soon followed as the invention of the printing press spread throughout the late Medieval world. The chapter titles of this legendary work reflect its nature, combining the author's love for and commitment to the importance of books and the knowledge they contain with thoughts on collecting them, lending them, teaching with them, and simply enjoying them: "That the Treasure of Wisdom is chiefly contained in books," "What we are to think of the price in the buying of books," "Who ought to be special lovers of books," and "Of the manner of lending all our books to students." The Prologue ends with the following thought: "And this treatise (divided into twenty chapters) will clear the love we have had for books from the charge of excess, will expound the purpose of our intense devotion, and will narrate more clearly than light all the circumstances of our undertaking. And because it principally treats of the love of books, we have chose after the fashion of the ancient Romans fondly to name it by a Greek word, Philobiblon." This volume offers modern bibliophiles a splendid edition of one of the first books ever to study, define, and, above all, praise their passion: the all-encompassing love of books.
Author: Henry Benjamin Wheatley
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 300
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 414
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anna Maria Busse Berger
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2019-10-08
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0520314271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award and Society of Music Theory's Wallace Berry Award This bold challenge to conventional notions about medieval music disputes the assumption of pure literacy and replaces it with a more complex picture of a world in which literacy and orality interacted. Asking such fundamental questions as how singers managed to memorize such an enormous amount of music and how music composed in the mind rather than in writing affected musical style, Anna Maria Busse Berger explores the impact of the art of memory on the composition and transmission of medieval music. Her fresh, innovative study shows that although writing allowed composers to work out pieces in the mind, it did not make memorization redundant but allowed for new ways to commit material to memory. Since some of the polyphonic music from the twelfth century and later was written down, scholars have long assumed that it was all composed and transmitted in written form. Our understanding of medieval music has been profoundly shaped by German philologists from the beginning of the last century who approached medieval music as if it were no different from music of the nineteenth century. But Medieval Music and the Art of Memory deftly demonstrates that the fact that a piece was written down does not necessarily mean that it was conceived and transmitted in writing. Busse Berger's new model, one that emphasizes the interplay of literate and oral composition and transmission, deepens and enriches current understandings of medieval music and opens the field for fresh interpretations.