A Catalogue Of The Musical Library Belonging To His Majestys Concert Of Antient Music Instituted In 1776 At The Rooms Tottenham Street Removed To The Concert Room At The Opera House In 1795 And To The Rooms Hanover Square In 1804 PDF Download

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T155447 With a list of subscribers and a final leaf of warning to subscribers of the necessity to inform the organizers of the concerts if they wish to cease their subscriptions. London: printed for W. Lee, [1795]. xvi,106, [2]p., plate; 8°