BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN HYMNALS (BAH). Edited by L Ellinwood and E. Lockwood. A listings of 7,500 citations with title, imprint, year of publication, compiler, pagination, location of copy indexed, intended religious denomination, and name of indexer. The BAH is the equivalent of 1,500 printed pages and is the companion to the Dictionary of American Hymnology.-- $80.00
DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN HYMNOLOGY: FIRST-LINE INDEX (DAH). Edited by L. Ellinwood. Produced by the Hymn Society of America. A compilation of approximately 1,200,000 first-line citations from 192,000 hymns published from the years 1640 to l978 in North and South America in all languages using the Roman alphabet. Some 140 religious denominations are represented. Information includes first lines of hymns, refrains, titles, original first-lines of translated hymns, authors, translators, date of publication, reference to the hymnal (see Bibliography above), etc. An 118-page introduction explains how to use the Dictionary and has a list of authors' pseudonyms, essays on hymns with problematic authorship, and the entire list of source hymnals (see BAH) in denominational code sequence. This very large store of information is rendered on microfilm for sequential search in a most practical and economical format. Its equivalent size in book format is incalculable. The Dictionary is in rollfilm format, silver or diazo film, 16mm, negative image. On 179 reels with printed User's Guide. Stored in archival film boxes.
Silver-halide, on safety-based polyester film-- $4,890.00
Diazo film, high contrast, black-line, polyester base-- $3,850.00
DWIGHT'S JOURNAL OF MUSIC. Editor and founder: John Sullivan Dwight (1813-1893). Boston, 1852-1881. Published weekly, then fortnightly. One of the finest English language music journals ever published. Contains critical reviews of printed music and performances, new music notices, music news from French, German, English and American papers, and correspondence; also writings on the graphic and plastic arts, poems, short stories. This journal is absolutely vital to research on music in America. Volumes 1-41 (Numbers 1-1051); a total of 8,528 pages.-- $320.00
THE JOHANNES HERBST COLLECTION (c. 1752-1812). The complete collection of Herbst manuscripts in the archives of the Moravian Foundation in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Published in four sections: A.) CONGREGATION MUSIC: 493 Manuscripts of 1,000 vocal-instrumental works for worship. B.) MANUSCRIPT SCORES: 45 large manuscript scores of large vocal works by mostly famous non-Moravian composers of Europe. C.) MISCELLANEOUS SCORES: keyboard pieces, song collections, etc. D.) ADDENDA containing the Book of Texts to the Congregation Music in Part A with the original German and a modern English translation. The Herbst Collection contains the works of 58 composers, mostly Moravians and some baroque and classical masters. The text throughout is mostly German. The Collection has well over 1,000 works totaling 11,676 pages.
Microfiche Edition (in 2 binders) with Contents Guides.--$590.00
Rollfilm Edition, silver positive, 16mm on special order.-- $590.00
THE NATIONAL TUNE INDEX: 18th Century Secular Music (NTI/1). (The British-American Repertory). By Kate Van Winkle Keller and Carolyn Rabson. A major, ground-breaking and comprehensive reference tool which for the first time gives access to the secular repertory of 18th century America. Published in l980, the NTI/1 has since served as the definitive tool for research in the music of the period. It has been of value to musicologists, folklorists, performers, and historians of dance, drama, and social culture, and of British music. It is a computer-derived index of information on 38,500 British-American secular tunes, songs, and dances taken from 520 sources in the US, Great Britain, and Canada. Its extensive cross-indexed listing is in the form of five large indexes. 1) TEXT INDEX: Titles, first lines, tune names, refrains. 2) MUSIC INDEX: Incipits in scale degrees. 3) MUSIC INDEX: Incipits in stressed note order. 4) MUSIC INDEX: Incipits in interval sequence 5) SOURCE INDEX: Bibliographic information and contents of all sources arranged in nine genres.
The NTI/1 was compiled under an NEH grant with the sponsorship of the Sonneck Society for American Music. The microfiche is computer output microfiche (COM), recording data directly from computer tape onto fiche without the photographic process and with a high compression of 3,600 entries per microfiche. The text is ASCII character. A printed User's Guide (softbound, 108 pages) gives complete instructions on using the NTI/1.
The National Tune Index is the equivalent of 15,000 pages of printed book text. Issued complete with fiche, binder, and User's Guide. $385.00
THE NATIONAL TUNE INDEX: Early American Wind and Ceremonial Music, 1636-1836 (NTI/2). By Raoul Camus. Fully compatible with NTI/1(above), this second phase of the NTI covers the roots of early American wind band, field music, percussion, and ceremonial music. British, French, and Hessian sources form most of the database with others from Sweden, Belgium, Ireland, and other parts of the UK. The NTI/2, like NTI/1, is an unprecedented foray into an area of early American music heretofore inaccessible and confused. The music covered in this work played a vital role in the life of early America, combining social, religious, military, and ceremonial traditions and experiences. There are seven indexes to the data: 1) TEXT INDEX: first lines, tune names, refrains. 2) MUSIC INDEX: Incipits in scale degrees. 3) MUSIC INDEX: Incipits in stressed note sequence. 4) MUSIC INDEX: incipits in interval sequence with a conversion table for researchers not specialized in music. 5) SOURCE INDEX: Bibliographic and contents details for all cited sources. They are grouped into three genre classifications. 6) AUTHOR INDEX: Name of composer or arranger, text author, compiler, etc. 7) PERFORMER INDEX: Name of performers or organizations mentioned in the source other than title.
The NTI/2 is on computer output microfiche (COM) using state of the art processing. Each fiche is self-explanatory in itself with a summary index of the fiche contents and frame (page) location shown on each fiche. This work is issued in a special fiche storage binder system with archival fiche panels and printed User's Guide. Altogether there are 13,500 entries from 200 sources and is the equivalent of 5,000 pages of printed book format. Published in l989. Complete Edition with fiche binder and User's Guide.-- $195.00
THE VOLUMES OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE MTNA (Music Teachers National Association), 1876-1950. A reprint of all the volumes plus a new index and two extra volumes of special interest. The complete microfiche publication is in two parts. PART 1:The Volumes of the Proceedings, 1876-1950 totaling 17,300 pages; the Historical Handbook, 1893; and the Souvenir program of the 19th convention, 1897. PART 2: Index to the Volumes, by John Schietroma, New York, 1979. The Index has both subject and author indexes; 300 pages.
The MTNA Volumes are the richest, most varied collection of writings on music to be found in America's past. No research on America's musical life from the last quarter of the 19th century to post-World War II can be complete without reference to these volumes. The MTNA is America's oldest continuing musical organization. Its members throughout its history included performers, conductors, vocal and instrumental teachers, composers, publishers, music librarians, music critics, musicologists and music educators.
The Volumes include over 2,000 articles, addresses, and reports by 871 authors which were published formally each year as bound books. The writings of this wide range of authors understandably cover every aspect of musical life in America and trace the historical path of its development: the growth of music institutions and strengthening of the structure of the professional channels of activity; the conscious work applied by music advocates to improve the fields of scholarship, teaching, performance, and criticism; the unprecedented dissemination of music materials and performances brought on by each new relevant technology. The incipient and mature stages of each of these phenomena are to be found as topics of discussion in some form in the Volumes.
The search through these ample volumes is eased by the included separate Index which has 1,200 subject categories with cross references.
The complete microfiche edition totals 17,774 pages and is issued in two microfiche shelf storage binders.-- $895.00
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