Sights for Sounds: The Roles of Illuminated Initials in Italian Music Manuscripts

The scholarship on illuminated initials is substantial, yet there is a significant absence of information when discussing the initials found in music manuscripts specifically. In this paper, I endeavor to supplement the current scholarship by focusing my research on music manuscripts produced in Italy between 1250 and 1500 A.D. in order to provide examples of the relationships between image, music, and text in the context of use. I use mainly iconographic research methods, though a considerable amount of background information is reliant on the research of other authors in the field of medieval philosophy and theology. Through my research I have concluded that the use of illuminated initials in medieval Italian music manuscripts enhances the function of the manuscript by providing another layer of understanding which audience members could use to aid them in their meditation, prayer, and in the performance of the music.

Classical Guitar Music in Printed Collections: A New Index and a Model for Indexing Instrumental Music in Score Collections

Classical Guitar Music in Printed Collections is a new, open-access, online index to the contents of published score collections for classical guitar. Its interlinked, alphabetized lists allow one to find a composition by title or composer, to discover what score collections include that piece, to see what other works are included in each collection identified, and to locate a copy in a library collection. Accuracy of identification is guaranteed by incipit images of each work. The article discusses how this index differs from existing bibliographies of the classical guitar literature, its structure and design, and technical details of its publication.

A collection of the most approved pieces of music from various authors: transcribed while member of Harvard University, from July 1789 to July 1793

John Pierce kept this journal while he was a student at Harvard College. It consists of manuscript musical scores with annotations indicating the occasions at which the music was performed. These occasions included commencements, public exhibitions and Dudleian lectures. A note indicates that one anthem was prepared by Samuel Holyoke at Pierce's request, to be performed at Pierce's class commencement exercises, held on July 13, 1793. Several annotations were made in May 1794, the year following Pierce's graduation. There is a table of contents on the last page.

Christmas carols; old English carols for Christmas and other festivals.

"Published, autumn 1922."

Purcell ode, and other poems,

Also published, London, 1896, under title: Ode for the Bicentenary commemoration of Henry Purcell. With other poems...

The National union catalogs, 1963- A cumulative author list representing Library of Congress printed cards and titles reported by other American libraries.

Mode of access: Internet.

National union catalog; a cumulative author list representing Library of Congress printed cards and titles reported by other American libraries.

Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Popular college songs : a collection of the latest songs as sung at Harvard and other colleges, together with the best of the old favorites /

Principally with piano accompaniment.

Church psalmody : a collection of psalms and hymns, adapted to public worship. Selected from Dr. Watts and other authors.

A Baptist edition was published under title: Manual of Christian psalmody.

The camp-meeting chorister, or, A collection of hymns and spiritual songs : for the pious of all denominations to be sung at camp meetings, during revivals of religion and on other occasions.

Without music.

Spiritual songs, for social worship : adapted to the use of families and private circles in seasons of revival, to missionary meetings, to the monthly concert, and other occasions of special interest /

Mode of access: Internet.

Psalms and hymns, principally for public worship : selected from Dr. Watts and other authors /

Without music.

The whole book of psalms in metre : with hymns suited to the feasts and fasts of the church, and other occasions of public worship.

Without music.

The Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts : to which are added select hymns from other authors and directions for musical expression /

Includes indexes.