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Compiled by Raoul F. Camus. This second phase of the National Tune Index (NTI) is a computer-generated seven-part index of some 13,500 item citations taken from over 200 sources found in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, and France.
Fully compatible with phase I of the NTI/1 (18th Century Music), phase 2 places a primary emphasis on the roots of early American wind band, field music, percussion, and ceremonial music. For that reason, Hessian, French and British sources form a major portion of the database.
The period covered runs from 1636 (Marin Mersenne's Harmonie Universelle) to 1836 (Samuel Cooper's A Concise System of Instructions and Regulations for the Militia and Volunteers of the United States).
Seven indexes from the data base have been prepared for this microfiche
publication:
I. TEXT INDEX: titles, first lines, tune names, and refrains.
II. MUSIC INDEX: incipits in scale degrees.
III. MUSIC INDEX: incipits in stressed note sequence.
IV. MUSIC INDEX: incipits in interval sequence; an interval conversion
table is included as a convenience to non-musicians and non-specialists.
V. SOURCE INDEX: full bibliographic and content information of all
sources cited, grouped into three genre classifications: American
imprints, manuscripts, and European instrumental collections.
VI. AUTHOR INDEX: name of composer or arranger of the music,
author of any texts, and compiler or person whose name is associated
with the source.
VII. PERFORMER INDEX: name of any performers or organizations
mentioned in the source other than the title.
The wind and ceremonial music cited in this NTI includes published tutors for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, keyed bugle, trumpet, fife, and drum; collections of social and ceremonial music: arrangements for wind band: field music manuals and collections, both printed and manuscript; individual marches and pieces relevant to the wind band; military regulations containing bugle, trumpet, fife and drum signals; and horn signals for the hunt.
The National Tune Index: Early American Wind and Ceremonial Music, 1636-1836, is a major and unprecedented achievement in early American music studies certain to close a gap in research into a heretofore poorly documented yet important area of study.
It is published from a computer database compiled by Raoul Camus, noted wind band scholar and historian. The music covered in this work played a vital role in the life of early America, combining social, religious, military and ceremonial experiences and traditions.
Using the best of computer output microfilm (COM) technology, the information is generated directly onto microfiche for the optimum clarity of image, thereby bypassing the photographic process. (This same COM process was used for the NTI/1.) The result is a highly readable, well-organized research tool, a pleasure for scholars to work with and an important addition to any library with research materials concerning the music of early America.
Published in a microfiche binder with fiche storage panels, containing eye-readable printed contents guides for each microfiche, and a printed User's Guide explaining the organization of all the materials in NTI/2 and instructions for researching from various points of information.
NTI/2 is the equivalent of about 5,000 pages of printed book material.
Complete Microfiche Edition with Fiche Binder & printed User's Guide:..............$195.00
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