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Antiquarian Booksellers, Autographs, Manuscripts, Music Books

“Lim Antiqua, established in 1989, selects, studies and offers autographs, manuscripts and music. The items are classified in three departments: autographs, music and books. The department Autographs contains autographs and documents from XVI to XX century by musicians, poets, writers, kings and emperors, politicians, artists and scientistsfrom Italy, Europe and other continents. The department Rare Music and Printed Music contains manuscript and printed music: sheet music and scores, chamber music, opera and full scores. First and rare editions in leather binding, illustrated editions and collections of famous musicians. The department Books contains books on music. Biographies of composers, conductors, musicians and singers; librettos in first and rare editions. Every selected autograph is offered with a description and image. New collections are published also on paper catalogues. We send them free to our customers (collectors, libraries and archives).”

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Scholarly and authoritative performing editions of sacred music from the 16th & 17th centuries 

“The Cantiones Press was founded in 1996 to provide attractive and authoritative editions of Renaissance choral music. The majority of works in our catalogue have either not previously been published at all, or cannot be obtained in formats which are financially viable for choirs and consorts. Each work is presented in a clear, uncluttered style, along with an introduction which gives valuable background to the music and a guide to the editorial processes by which the edition has been shaped. Our publications are therefore welcomed both by professional and amateur groups; by those with a specialist interest in the repertoire, and those who simply want to investigate exciting and intriguing new areas of choral music.”

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“Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution, the national museum of the United States. We are dedicated to supporting cultural diversity and increased understanding among peoples through the documentation, preservation, and dissemination of sound. We believe that musical and cultural diversity contributes to the vitality and quality of life throughout the world. Through the dissemination of audio recordings and educational materials we seek to strengthen people's engagement with their own cultural heritage and to enhance their awareness and appreciation of the cultural heritage of others. Our mission is the legacy of Moses Asch, who founded Folkways Records in 1948 to document "people's music," spoken word, instruction, and sounds from around the world. The Smithsonian acquired Folkways from the Asch estate in 1987, and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings has continued the Folkways commitment to cultural diversity, education, increased understanding, and lively engagement with the world of sound.”

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“The Voltaire Foundation is a world leader for eighteenth-century scholarship, publishing the definitive edition of the Complete Works of Voltaire (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire), as well as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), the foremost series devoted to Enlightenment studies, and the correspondences of several key French thinkers.”

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“January 2010 marked the beginning of the Europeana Regia project, which will digitise 874 rare and precious manuscripts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, with the collaboration of five major libraries located in four countries and the support of the European Commission. The project is expected to run for thirty months (January 2010 to June 2012) and will draw together three collections of royal manuscripts that are currently dispersed and which represent European cultural activity at three distinct periods in history: the Biblioteca Carolina (8^th and 9^th centuries), the Library of Charles V and Family (14^th century) and the Library of the Aragonese Kings of Naples (15^th and 16^th centuries). These manuscripts will be fully accessible on the websites of the partner libraries and will also be included in Europeana.“

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“Over the past 40 years, Ashgate has grown to become one of the world’s leading publishing houses. We understand the value of academic research and scholarship, and we are proud of our responsiveness, flexibility and independence. Our business is driven not by text books or journals but by a program of cutting-edge research publications and specialist reference books. All books published within the Ashgate list are subject to peer review by recognized authorities in the field. We publish over 700 titles a year in Humanities and Social Science subject areas, we have well-established reprint Reference series, and we are the publishers of the highly regarded Variorum series.“

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Lim Editrice S.r.l.

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“Early Music Online

Early Music Online is a pilot project in which 300 of the world’s earliest surviving volumes of printed music, held in the British Library, have been digitised and made freely available online. You can browse the digitised content in Royal Holloway's digital repository.

You can also explore detailed descriptions of the content via the British Library Catalogue. Included are in the catalogue are full details of each digitised book, with an inventory of the contents of each, searchable by composer name, title of composition, date and subject, and with links to the digitised content. (Click 'I want this' in the Library catalogue to access the digitised content.)

Full descriptions of each volume, with links to the digitised content, have also been included in the RISM UK database and COPAC, enabling researchers to locate and access this digitised content by several different means.

You may use the digitised content on Early Music Online in any way and for any such purposes that are conducive to education, teaching, learning, private study and/or research as long as you are in compliance with the terms and conditions of our licence.“

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“Cambridge University Press is the publishing department of the University of Cambridge. Dedicated to excellence, our purpose is to further the University's objective of advancing knowledge, education, learning, and research.

Our extensive peer-reviewed publishing lists comprises over 40,000 titles covering academic research, professional development, over 280 research journals, school-level education, English language teaching and bible publishing. This list is growing at a rate of over 4,000 ISBNs every year and spans subjects from aesthetics through to zoology, with authors ranging from Shakespeare to English language teaching author, Ray Murphy.

A pioneer in our field, we are committed to supporting innovation in learning and teaching. We publish without boundaries, ensuring our resources are accessible across the globe, in print, digital and online formats.

We take pride in supporting community programmes across the globe. Staff are encouraged to offer practical help, advice and funding to nurture vital charitable, educational and voluntary partnerships.

Playing a leading role in today’s global market place, we have over 50 offices around the globe, and distribute our products to nearly every country in the world. We publish authors based in over 100 different countries. …“

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“Tritó Edicions is a Catalan music publishers specialised in the Catalan, Spanish and Ibero-American repertoire.

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“The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections, and provides specialized services for adaptive reading and information access for the blind and other persons with disabilities.“

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“Welcome to the world’s most complete encyclopedia of organ stops!”

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“Founded in 1996, the bookshop is established in the historical district of the old Lyons, by the banks of the Saône. Since year 2001 it is located 25 quai de Bondy.

In this place of music and meetings, secondhand music scores and books may be found along with a collection from the 18th to 21th century.

The stock is very important and regularly supplied but it is therefore impossible for me to reference all the works that are stocked. You will find after a catalog presenting the latest acquisitions.

I hope you will enjoy this website that puts the emphasis on a point which is very important to me: my bookshop is not virtual! I am at your disposal and I hope I will soon have the pleasure to welcome you in Lyons.“

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“Ut Orpheus Edizioni is a specialized publishing house, founded in Bologna in 1994 with the purpose both to discover and promote the rich Italian and European musical heritage of the past centuries and to propose itself as a vehicle for the diffusion of the contemporary musical culture.

In the past few years Ut Orpheus has rapidly achieved a relevant place among the leading international publishing houses, gaining the praise of some of the most outstanding representatives of musical culture, and establishing non episodic relations with prestigious performers, musicologists and institutions, among whom Riccardo Muti, the Salzburg Festival, the Ravenna Festival, Christopher Hogwood, Kenneth Gilbert, Hopkinson Smith.

Ut Orpheus publishes the Opera Omnia of Luigi Boccherini, Muzio Clementi, Francesco Geminiani, and the complete editions of Alessandro Scarlatti's keyboard works, Claudio Monteverdi's madrigals and sacred music, Johann Sebastian Bach's lute works. It has recently started an important and innovative project aimed at the critical edition in diplomatic transcription of the Ars Nova codices. Starting from 2007, the journal 'Ad Parnassum', now in its seventh year, was included in the 'Musicology initial list' of the European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH). The catalogue gives particular relevance to the music for harp, guitar, recorder and keyboard instruments, as well as to the 20th century repertoire and the new authors, significantly including jazz and ethnic music.

Ut Orpheus Edizioni's catalogue presently houses over 1600 entries and it is distributed worlwide.”

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“Corda Music Publications have many hundreds of editions currently available, and regularly add new items to the catalogue. The website is intentionally designed without complicated graphics and animations so that information will download as quickly as possible. We apologise to those who prefer to sit by their flickering screens for hours at a time in order to admire kneecap-cracking graphics and all-singing all-dancing fantastickalls from the whizz kids of the Web.  …

The Early Music Catalogue is mostly on one long page, but there are some digressions available, - for example, the work on Jane Austen's music Jane Austen, including CDs, and another features the books by Judy Tarling on Baroque String Playing and The Weapons of Rhetoric. Our Early Music editions are for period instruments from approximately 1550 - 1800. They include a variety of consort music for viols, and works for voices and instruments. There is a range of books by the internationally acknowledged teacher Alison Crum designed for those learning to play the viol. Though we specialise in early music for strings, many of the consort pieces can also be performed by recorders, etc.  …”

Corda Music Publications, 183 Beech Road, St Albans, Herts AL3 5AN, Great Britain. Tel / Fax: (+44) 0 1727 852752

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“Welcome to OperaGlass. Here you can get detailed information on many operas, including:
    * Libretti
    * Source Texts
    * Performance Histories
    * Synopses
    * Discographies
    * Rôle Creators

plus pictures, background information, and more; also commemoration calendars, special features, and pointers to other opera information sites.  ..“

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“This database holds details of pre-1850 music sources preserved in libraries and archives in the UK and Ireland. It includes manuscripts from national, public and academic libraries, county and city record offices, cathedral and chapel libraries and some private collections.  It also now includes more than 300 printed anthologies from the 16th century, with links to digitised originals in the Early Music Online collection at Royal Holloway. We estimate that about two-thirds of surviving manuscript sources in the UK have now been documented. “

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“This website is a portal to information about and images of worldwide collections of medieval polyphonic music manuscripts (the resource does not include plainchant). The music and the manuscripts date from approx 800 to 1550 but we do have images from a few prominent later sources. This website includes detailed information for all the known sources of European polyphonic music (which is almost entirely vocal) and high-quality colour images of some manuscripts.“

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“Rummage on these pages for notes for recorders (and othe instruments) and for art reproductions or music seminars. Find out about the ensemble competition with workshops, courses and exhibition in Bruchsal/Baden Württemberg.

Look at title pictures and score examples.

We deliver scores in foreign countries for the real costs.

You can download our annual prospect in 2009 with all new titles as a PDF document or print out.

However, they can also order our newsletter or you can send us a message.

 Have fun while rummaging.”

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“Since its inception in 1983, The Opera Quarterly has earned the enthusiastic praise of opera lovers and scholars alike for its engagement within the field of opera studies. In 2005, David J. Levin, a dramaturg at various opera houses and critical theorist at the University of Chicago, assumed the executive editorship of The Opera Quarterly, with the goal of extending the journal’s reputation as a rigorous forum for all aspects of opera and operatic production. Under his stewardship, the journal is resituated squarely at the intersection of performance, theory, and history, with a purview encompassing
contemporary developments on the stage and in the academy.

We invite you to join those subscribers who have found The Opera Quarterly to be the definitive publication for anyone serious about opera. With a new objective, layout, and design, there is no better time to begin reading!

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The Opera Quarterly is covered by the following abstracting/indexing services:

ISI Arts & Humanities Citation Index
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Did Bach really mean that?  by Colin Booth

“Did Bach Really Mean That? Deceptive Notation in Baroque Keyboard Music is an introduction to some of the most important conventions underlying the notation used by Baroque composers. Without an understanding of these conventions, a modern performer can fall into a literal reading of the score, which can sometimes result in either a partial, or a mistaken interpretation. Such a performance may not only be different from what the composer intended: it may also be simplistic and unexciting.

Colin’s long-standing concern for possible meanings lying beneath the surface of notation, was particularly encouraged by twenty years of teaching by Colin Tilney (at Dartington and at other summer schools) and by discussions with Dr. John Byrt, a passionate advocate of idiomatic rhythmic performance of apparently equal notes.

The book originated in a series of lectures given at Dartington International Summer School. Colin was repeatedly asked by participants, whether the content of the lectures was to be available as a book, and the present volume is the result of a further decade of work to that end. It eventually took the form of a systematic exploration of notational conventions, from the most basic (note-length and touch) through to rhythmic complexities, notational formulae, and certain aspects of ornamentation.

Far from imposing any rules, however, the book can liberate players from a literal dependence upon the score, reveal hidden possibilities within it, and enable performers to get that bit closer to the mindset of Baroque composers themselves. J.S.Bach was and is the most important of these, and Colin’s recording of the Goldberg Variations is not just a personal “take” on this magnificent work, but an audible demonstration of his understanding of certain features of it, as explored in the book. “

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“The Clavis music publications were established with the aim of researching, making available and publishing lesser known and unpublished Renaissance and Baroque music and to provide new study material for professional musicians.

The idea of publishing music and in particular Baroque music , was inspired by a long term collaboration with the L’Ensemble Recitar Cantando from Pesaro, a group of young musicians and scholars specialised in 15^th – 18^th century vocal and instrumental music, chamber music, prose theatre and the musicological study of historical sources.

In 2004 L’Ensemble Recitar Cantando was awarded first prize ( the Arcangelo Corelli Award) in the “Dino Caravita” contest in the Ancient Chamber Music section.

As Clavis intends to expand and extend the music publications we would be very happy to receive and evaluate any proposals from scholars, musicians or music lovers who wish to submit works to our editorial team. “

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“Founded in 1999, Symétrie is exclusively dedicated to music and offers books in musicology, writings and correspondences of musicians, essays, dictionaries, novels as well as scores (from baroque music to contemporary music), journals and scientific databases. Symétrie is the associate editor of the “Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française.””

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“The Royal Society, the national academy of science of the UK and the Commonwealth, is at the cutting edge of scientific progress.

We support many top young scientists, engineers and technologists, influence science policy, debate scientific issues with the public and much more. We are an independent, charitable body which derives our authoritative status from over 1400 Fellows and Foreign Members.“

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“

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library contains the principal rare books and literary manuscripts of Yale University and serves as a center for research by students, faculty, and other scholars, whether affiliated with Yale or not. Materials do not circulate, but may be used in the Reading Room on the court level after researchers register with the Beinecke.

One of the largest buildings in the world devoted entirely to rare books and manuscripts, the library has room in the central tower for 180,000 volumes and in the underground book stacks for over 600,000 volumes; it now contains about 500,000 volumes and several million manuscripts. Temperature and humidity controls ensure that stored materials are protected for future generations. ..”

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