Musical Iconography

Howard Mayer Brown; Joan Lascelle

Published by Harvard University Press 1972

Musical Iconography

A Manual for Cataloguing Musical Subjects in Western Art before 1800

Howard Mayer Brown and Joan Lascelle

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674731745

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About this book

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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
PREFACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
ILLUSTRATIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xii
I. WHAT CAN WORKS OF ART TEACH US ABOUT MUSIC? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
II. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
III. FORMING THE LOCATOR SYMBOL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
IV. KIND OF REPRODUCTION AVAILABLE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
V. ARTIST AND HIS DATES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
VI. SCHOOL AND DATE OF WORK OF ART Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
VII. TITLE OF WORK OF ART Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
VIII. MEDIUM OR TYPE OF OBJECT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
IX. PRESENT LOCATION OF WORK OF ART Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Χ. SIZE OF WORK OF ART Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
XI. BIBLIOGRAPHY: SOURCES WHICH CONTAIN REPRODUCTIONS OR DISCUSSIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
XII. DESCRIPTION OF WORK OF ART Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
XIII. SUBJECT ENTRIES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
XIV. CLASSIFICATION SCHEME FOR PICTURES OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
APPENDICES Aids to Cataloguing Works of Art with Musical Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright year: 1972
Edition: Reprint 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 220
Illustrations
- Other: 24 halftones
Keywords: Music in art.; Art -- Themes, motives.

eBook

Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674731745

Hardcover

Published: December 11, 2013
ISBN: 9780674731738