Musical Iconography : A Manual for Cataloguing Musical Subjects in Western Art before 1800 / Howard Mayer Brown, Joan Lascelle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Howard Mayer, author.

Lascelle, Joan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Themes, motives.

Music in art.

Local Subjects:

Art--Themes, motives.

Music in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.): Zahlr. Abb.

Edition:

Reprint 2013

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Musicologists have increasingly recognized that works of art can teach them a great deal not only about music in earlier ages but especially about the place of musical instruments in the civilization of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Pictorial representations provide valuable evidence concerning the instruments that were available and the manner in which music was performed in various places at various times. The material is abundant but, until now, it has been difficult to organize. Authors Brown and Lascelle started to collect reproductions of works of art with musical subjects and to compile an index of what they had collected; but found they first had to devise a uniform cataloguing system that would be applicable to all kinds of works and would make available quickly and easily the information needed by students of music. They describe in detail their system, which has worked beautifully for all of the objects they have catalogued.

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

I. WHAT CAN WORKS OF ART TEACH US ABOUT MUSIC?

II. Introduction

III. FORMING THE LOCATOR SYMBOL

IV. KIND OF REPRODUCTION AVAILABLE

V. ARTIST AND HIS DATES

VI. SCHOOL AND DATE OF WORK OF ART

VII. TITLE OF WORK OF ART

VIII. MEDIUM OR TYPE OF OBJECT

IX. PRESENT LOCATION OF WORK OF ART

Χ. SIZE OF WORK OF ART

XI. BIBLIOGRAPHY: SOURCES WHICH CONTAIN REPRODUCTIONS OR DISCUSSIONS

XII. DESCRIPTION OF WORK OF ART

XIII. SUBJECT ENTRIES

XIV. CLASSIFICATION SCHEME FOR PICTURES OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

APPENDICES Aids to Cataloguing Works of Art with Musical Subjects

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

0-674-73174-3

OCLC:

1013936054