Product Description: The British Copyright Act of 1709 protected proprietors of books and music printed after 10 April 1710 who gave copies to the Company of Stationers in London. Upon receipt of a copy, usually within days of its first publication, the Stationers' Hall warehouse keeper entered details into a register...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In tracing the history of writings on music printing and publishing, this book discusses the theory of music bibliography. It examines such major topics as historical surveys of music printing and musical commerce and property; and surveys specific subjects ranging from type-specimen books to patent registrations, from the history of music libraries to bibliophilic editions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Krummel, D. W.

Product Description: The scope of American music reaches in time from the days of the first settlers up to today; in space from the Atlantic to the Pacific; in situations from the campfire around which folksongs were sung to the steel and granite of the Metropolitan Opera...read more