Trombone History Bibliography: Primary Sources (Pre-20th century)

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Agazzari, Agostino. Del sonare sopra il basso. In Source Readings in Music History, vol. 3. ed. Oliver Strunk. New York: W. W. Norton, 1965. 64-71.

Agricola, Martin. Musica instrumentalis deudsch. Trans. and ed. William E. Hettrick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Ahle, Johann Rudolf, “Herr, nun läßt Du Deinen Diener,” in Neu-gepflantzten Thüringischen Lust-Gartens Ander Theil (1658), for bass voice, four trombones, and basso continuo (Gorxheim: Parow’sche Musikalien, 1992). Howard Weiner performance edition.

Albrechtsberger, Johann Georg. Anweisung zur Composition. Leipzig: Breitkopf, 1790.

Albrechtsberger, Johann Georg. Sämmtliche Schriften. Ed. Ignaz Ritter von Seyfried. Vienna: Anton Strauss, 1826.

Albrechtsberger, Johann Georg. Sämmtliche Schriften über Generalbass. Trans. Arnold Merrick. London: R. Cock, 1844.

Arbeau, Thoinot. Orchesography: A Treatise in the Form of a Dialogue. Trans. Mary Stewart Evans. New York: Kamin Dance Publishers, 1948.

Artusi, Giovanni Maria. On the Imperfections of Modern Music in Music through Sources and Documents. Ed. Ruth Halle Rowen. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1979).

Ashbee, Andrew. Records of English Court Music. Vol. 1 (1660-1685). Kent, England: Andrew Ashbee, 1986.

Ashbee, Andrew. Records of English Court Music, Vol. 3 (1625-1649). Kent, England: Andrew Ashbee, 1988.

Avins, Styra and Josef Eisinger, “Six Unpublished Letters from Johannes Brahms” in For the Love of Music: Festschrift in Honor of Theodore Front, ed. Darwin F. Scott. Lucca, Italy: Lim antiqua, 2002.

Bacon, Francis. Sylva sylvarum, or, A naturall history in ten centuries. London: Printed for W. Lee, 1626. Electronic reproduction: Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.

Bardi, Giovanni de’, “Discorso mandato a Giulio Caccini” in Oliver Strunk, Source Readings in Music History: The Renaissance, vol. 2. New York: Norton, 1965, pp. 100-111.

Beethoven, Ludwig van, Alfred Christlieb Kalischer, J. S. Shedlock, and A. Eaglefield Hull. Beethoven’s Letters. New York: Dover Publications, 1972.

Berlioz, Hector. The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz. Trans. and ed. David Cairns. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.

Bertali, Antonio, 13 sonate manoscritte a 2, 3, 5 e 6 strumenti. Stuttgart : Cornetto, gedruckt in Lizenz von ; Cassano : Musedita, 2002.

Bertali, Antonio, Sonata Sublationis. Magdeburg, Germany: Edition Walhall, 2005.

Bonanni, Filippo. The Showcase of Musical Instruments. New York: Dover, 1964.

Bonini, Severo. Discorsi e Regole. Trans. MaryAnn Bonino. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1979.

Bottrigari, Ercole. Il Desiderio. Bologna: Forni, 1969.

Bottrigari, Ercole. Il Desiderio, or, Concerning the playing together of various musical instruments. Trans. Carol MacClintock. Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1962.

The British Chronologist Comprehending Every Material Occurrence, Ecclesiastical, Civil, or Military, Relative to England and Wales, from the Invasion of the Romans to the Present Time … to Which Is Added an Index to the Whole. London: Printed for G. Kearsley, 1775.

Bunyan, John. The pilgrim’s progress from this world to that which is to come. New ed., divided into chapters, with the life of the author. Newark, 1818.

Burgkmair, Hans. The Triumph of Maximilian I. Trans. Stanley Appelbaum. New York: Dover Publications, 1964.

Burney, Charles. An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster-Abbey. New York: Da Capo Press, 1979.

Cavendish, George. The Life and Death of Cardinal Woolsey. Ed. Richard Standish Sylvester. London: Oxford University Press for the Early English Text Society, 1959.

Cellini, Benvenuto. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini. Trans. George Bull. London: The Folio Society, 1966.

Cellini, Benvenuto. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini. Trans. John Addington Symonds. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1948.

Cellini, Benvenuto. My Life. Trans. Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Cellini, Benvenuto. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini: A New Version by Robert H. Hobart Cust. Trans. Robert H. Hobart Cust. London: The Navarre Society, Ltd., 1927.

Cellini, Benvenuto. Vita di Benvenuto Cellini. Firenze: Stamperia di Guglielmo Piatti, 1831.

Cerone, Pietro. El Melopeo y Maestro. Naples: J. B. Gargano and L. Nucci, 1613.

Coles, Elisha. An English Dictionary: Explaining the Difficult Terms That Are Used in Divinity, Husbandry, Physick, Phylosophy, Law, Navigation, Mathematicks, and Other Arts and Sciences. London: S. Collins, 1676.

Coon, Oscar. Harmony and Instrumentation: The Principles of Harmony with Practical Instruction in Arranging Music for Orchestras and Military Bands. Cincinnati, OH: A. Squire, 1883.

Cox, H. Bertram and C.L.E. Cox. Leaves from the Journals of Sir George Smart. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907.

Day, Charles Russell and David James Blaikley. A Descriptive Catalogue of Musical Instruments Recently Exhibited at the Royal Military Exhibition, London, 1890. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1891.

De Lafontaine, Henry Cart, ed. The King’s Musick: a Transcript of Records Relating to Music and Musicians (1460-1700). London: Novello, 1909.

Dilich, Wilhelm. Das ander buch von der Beschreibung dero fürstlichen Kindtauff Herrn Mauritii des andern Landgrafen zu Hessen. Wolfenbüttel, 1601. Electronic facsimile edition: Wolfenbütteler Digitale Bibliothek. Image accessed at http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/gm-4f-411/start.htm?image=00135.

Dymoke, Tailboys. Caltha poetarum: or The bumble bee. Composed by T. Cutvvode Esquyre. London: Printed by Thomas Creede, for Richard Oliue, 1599. Electronic reproduction: Ann Arbor, MI: UMI.

Edgcumbe, Richard II. Musical Reminiscences, Chiefly Respecting the Italian Opera in England from the Year 1773 to the Present Time. 3rd ed. London: G. Clarke, 1828.

Englands Comfort, and Londons joy: Expressed in the Royall, Triumphant, and Magnificent entertainment of our Dread Soveraigne Lork King Charles, at his blessed and safe returne from Scotland. London, 1641. Digitized facsimile in Treasures in Full: Renaissance Festival Books. London: British Library (accessed January 2009 at www.bl.uk/treasures/festivalbooks/homepage.html).

Fetis, F. J. “A Manual for Composers, Musical Directors, Leaders of Orchestras, & Bandsmen” in The Musical World: A Journal of Music, the Drama, Literature, Fine Arts, Foreign Intelligence, &c., and Complete Record of the theatres and the Concert Room, vol. XLV (1867), 477-478.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1962.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. The Autobiography of Johann von Goethe. Trans. John Oxenford. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Goethe’s Autobiography: Poetry and Truth from My Life. Trans. R. O. Moon. London: A. Rivers, 1932.

Hall, Edward. Henry VIII. Ed. Charles Whibley. London: T.C. and E.C. Jack, 1904.

Henderson, William James. The Orchestra and Orchestral Music. Toronto: George N. Morang & Co., 1899.

Heylyn, Peter. A short view of the life and reign of King Charles (the second monarch of Great Britain) from his birth to his burial. London: Printed for Richard Royston at the Angel in Ivy-lane, 1658. Accessed from Early English Books Online.

Holmes, Edward. A Ramble Among the Musicians of Germany. New York: Da Capo Press, 1969.

Kastner, Georges. Manuel Général de Musique Militaire a l’Usage des Armées Françaises. Paris: Typographie de Firmin Didot Fréres, Imprimeurs de l’Institut de France, 1848 (Geneva: Minkoff Reprint, 1973).

Kling, H. Modern Orchestration and Instrumentation. New York, C. Fischer, 1902.

Kuhnau, Johann. The Musical Charlatan (Musikalische Quacksalber) trans. John R. Russell. Columbus, SC: Camden House, 1997.

La felice entrata dello imperatore in la citta famosa di Siena, co[n] li superbi apparati, [et] motti latini in lode di sua Maesta. Digitized facsimile in Treasures in Full: Renaissance Festival Books. London: British Library (accessed January 2009 at www.bl.uk/treasures/festivalbooks/homepage.html).

“The Leeds Festival,” The Musical Standard. October 20, 1883, 240.

Luther, Martin. The Letters of Martin Luther. Selected and trans. Margaret A. Currie. London: Macmillan, 1908.

Macdonald, Hugh. Berlioz’s Orchestration Treatise: A Translation and Commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Mathews, W.S.B. and Emil Liebling, Dictionary of Music. New York: The John Church Company, 1896.

Mattheson, Johann. Der vollkommene Capellmeister. Translated with critical commentary by Ernest C. Harris. Ann Arbor Michigan: UMI Research Press, 1981.

Mersenne, Marin. Harmonie Universelle, vol. 3. Paris: Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1975.

Mersenne, Marin. Harmonie Universelle. Trans. Roger E. Chapman. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1957.

Neville, Sylas Neville. The Diary of Sylas Neville 1767-1788. Ed. Basil Cozens-Hardy. London: Oxford University Press, 1950.

New-Orleans Commercial Bulletin, New Orleans, Lousisana, December 28, 1835; Issue 30.

A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; Comprehending All Branches of Useful Knowledge. London: Printed for W. Owen, 1763.

Nichols, John. The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth, vol. 1. New York: Burt Franklin, 1823.

Niecks, Frederick. A Concise Dictionary of Musical Terms: To Which is Prefixed an Introduction to the Elements of Music. London: Augener, 1884.

Niecks, Frederick. A Concise Dictionary of Musical Terms, 2nd ed. London: Augener Ltd., 1884.

Niedt, Friederich Erhardt. The Musical Guide (Die Musicalische Handleitung). Trans. Pamela L. Poudin and Irmgard C. Taylor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.

North, Francis. A philosophical essay of musick. London: Printed for John Martyn, Printer to the Royal Society, at the Bell in Saint Paul’s Church-Yard, 1677. Accessed on Early English books Online.

Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, February 17, 1852.

Novello, Vincent. A Mozart Pilgrimage: Being the Travel Diaries of Vincent and Mary Novello in the Year 1829. Transcribed and compiled by Nerina Medici di Marignano; edited by Rosemary Hughes. London: Ernst Eulenburg Ltd., 1975.

The Ohio Observer, Hudson, Ohio, January 19, 1843; p. 12; Issue 3.

Praetorius, Michael. Syntagma Musicum II. Translated and edited by David Z. Crookes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.

Praetorius, Michael. Syntagma Musicum III. Translated by Jeffery T. Kite-Powell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

The Raleigh News and Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, October 1, 1882; Issue 159.

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolai. Principles of Orchestration. Translated by Edward Agate. New York: Kalmus, 1912 (original version, 1891).

Shaw, George Bernard. London Music in 1888-89 as Heard by Corno di Bassetto (Later Known as Bernard Shaw) with Some Further Autobiographical Particulars. New York: Vienna House, 1973.

Shaw, George Bernard. Music in London, 1890-1894. London: Constable and Co., 1932.

Smart, Peter. A sermon preached in the cathedral church of Durham. London: Printed by Bernard Alsop and Thomas Fawcet, 1640. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Digital Library Production Service, 2001.

Smart, Peter. A short treatise of altars, altar-furniture, altar-cringing, and musick of all the quire, singing-men and choristers. Durham, England, 1629. Reproduction of the originals in Durham Cathedral Library. Early English Books Online.

Spagnoli, Gina. Letters and Documents of Heinrich Schütz, 1656-1672: An Annotated Translation. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1990.

Speer, Daniel. Vierfaches Musikalisches Kleeblatt. (Ulm, Germany, 1697) in Howey, Henry Eugene, A Comprehensive Performance Project in Trombone Literature with an Essay Consisting of a Translation of Daniel Speer’s Vierfaches Musikalisches Kleeblatt. DMA diss, University of Iowa, 1971.

Stevens, Denis. The Letters of Claudio Monteverdi. London: Cambridge University Press, 1980.

“A Succinct Account of the Coronation of their most Excellent Majesties King George III and Queen Charlotte, on Tuesday the 22d of September 1761,” The Royal Magazine or Gentleman’s Monthly Companion. London: Printed for J. Coote, at the King’s Arms, September, 1761.

Tovey, Donald Francis. Essays in Musical Analysis, vol. 5. London: Oxford University Press, 1972.

Virdung, Sebastian. Musica getutscht. Trans. Beth Bullard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Virgiliano, Aurelio. Il dolcimelo (facsimile edition). Florence: Studio per Edizione Scelte, 1979.

Weigel, Johann Christoph. Musicalisches Theatrum (facsimile edition). Basel: Bärenreiter Kassel, 1964.

Whitelocke, Bulstrode. A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654. Vol. 1. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855.

Wilson, John, ed. Roger North on Music: Being a Selection from his Essays Written during the Years c. 1695-1728. London: Novello and Company Ltd., 1959.