MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION OF 18TH CENTURY ITALIAN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- BERKELEY MUSIC LIBRARY. Editor for the microfiche edition: Gloria Eive.
A microfiche facsimile edition of the complete collection including 88 newly-cataloged anonymous compositions. (The collection is described in Thematic Catalog of a Manuscript Collection of Eighteenth-Century Italian Instrumental Music, In the University of California, Berkeley, Music Library by Vincent Duckles and Minnie Elmer, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1963; 403 pp.)
The collection consists of some 1,200 instrumental works by 82 composers. At least 14 of these were pupils of Giuseppe Tartini; many others were associated with his "School of the Nations" in Padua. Many of the major composers of the century are represented in the collection as well as others who are still unknown to music historians. The collection was assembled during the second half of the l8th century and has remained intact since. The core of the collection are the 234 works by Tartini, some of which are unique to this collection. Also unique is a copy, in Italian, of Tartini's Libro de Regole, and 30 volumes of embellished slow movements of sonatas and concertos by Tartini and his pupils. The volumes were assembled, probably under Tartini's direction, for pedagogical purposes, and illustrate his ornamentation and performance practices set forth in the Libro de Regole. The microfiche edition will consist of some 600 microfiche, editorial notes, and supplement to the Duckles-Elmer catalog which includes descriptions of the newly-cataloged works and new annotations updating the published catalog. Each microfiche will be complete in itself, containing one or more item numbers identified and described as part of the fiche imaging. The collection will be purchasable in its entirety at an affordable price and as individual units. PRICES FOR THE COMPLETE COLLECTION AND SINGLE FICHE TO BE ANNOUNCED.
TCHAIKOVSKI, Peter Ilyich (1840 - 1893). Complete Works. (Polnoe sobranie sochinenii) Moscow State Publishing Co., Moscow and Leningrad, 1940-1971. The complete musical works originally published as 62 volumes in 88 bindings here to be issued as a microfiche reprint with the microfiche stored in fiche binders with eye-readable guides to the volumes contents and their retrieval from the microfiche. Text is in Russian: the contents guides in English and transliterations from the Russian where deemed helpful. The Moscow edition has generous pagination. In addition to full scores, the operas are in piano-vocal score and the ballets in piano reductions as separate volumes. The chamber works have parts, and certain symphonic works are transcribed for piano by Tchaikovski.
The Soviet publishing house issued limited press runs and did little if any reprinting of out-of-print volumes. As a result, few subscribers now own the complete set of original volumes of the Tchaikovski. The book edition is of course now out of print. The microfiche reprint will allow libraries either to acquire the Complete Works for the first time or to acquire volumes missing in their current collection of the printed volumes. We will offer affordable prices and honor all inquiries. UME expects to offer a three tier price structure: 1) prepayment/pre-publication subscription; 2) pre-publication price, and 3) list price after publication. The Complete Works of Tchaikovski totals nearly 27,000 pages. PRICES TO BE ANNOUNCED.
THE PERFORMING ARTS IN COLONIAL AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS, 1690-1783: Text Data Base and Index.The importance of this research tool cannot be overly emphasized. It is a compilation of all references to theater, poetry, music, and dance as found in 50,000 Colonial era newspapers and 10,000 supplements . The newspapers were published in 50 towns and cities in 15 states from Maine to Florida – altogether 167 newspaper runs, representing 500 to 600 different titles. The sources are news stories, notices, essays, lyrics, and advertisements read by 25 scholars over a six year period. The full text of the relevant sources were entered into the database for indexing and retrieval.
The newspapers are excellent documents of the extent the arts were involved in the daily lives of Colonial Americans. The gleaned information should add considerable exactitude to the historical appraisal of the cultural life of the colonies, making the CD-ROM a tool useful for a broad range of researchers and historians working in this period of American studies. The data is in four main groups: 1) The Database of transcriptions of all the relevant texts. 2) General Index of proper names, genres, subjects, and titles. 3) Song and Poetry Index of first lines. 4) Bibliography giving the location of every newspaper issue and supplement and explanations about issues not located. The Bibliography is linked to both the text and index so that issue-specific bibliographic data is accessible for screen display. The researcher will have numerous access paths to the data. PRICES AND AVAILABILITY TO BE ANNOUNCED.
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