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Individual Items
On this page are listed some of the more unusual or interesting items in Special Collections which are not part of a named collection. The library has, through donation or purchase, gathered many interesting items over the years. Autograph manuscripts, first edition copies of 16th- and 17th-century scores and treatises, high-quality modern reproductions of famous treatises, signed copies of works: on this page you'll find some of the items to which we just had to draw attention, but which didn't fit anywhere else! This page will be updated as we comb our special collections for more gems.
Floyd, Carlisle. Susannah : a musical drama in 2 acts. Autograph manuscript, in ink.
A gift of the composer to the Florida State University College of Music, on permanent loan to the Warren D. Allen Music Library.
(SPEC ML96 .F56 S87)
Hawkins, Sir John (1719-1789). A general history of the science and practice of music
(London : Printed for T. Payne and son, 1776). In five volumes.
(SPEC ML159 .H349 1776)
Marpurg, Friedrich Wilhelm (1718-1795). Kritische Einleitung in die Geschichte und Lehrsätze der alten und neuen Musik. Nebst acht Kupfertabellen.
(Berlin : G. A. Lange, 1759)
(SPEC ML169 .A2 M35 1759)
Aaron, Pietro. Toscanello, Opera Dell'Eccellentiss ... : Nella quale, dopo le laudi, la origine, la difinitione, & la diuisione della musica; con essatissimo, & ageuolissimo trattato s'insegna tutto quello, che alla pratica del cantare, & del comporre canti in musica, & a diuenire perfetto musico, è necessario. Con l'aggivnta fatta dall'avtore stesso, innanzi che morisse, hora nuouamente con sommo studio, & diligentia riueduta, ricorretta, & ristampata.
(Venetia : Appresso D. Nicolino, 1562). Currently the oldest item in our collection.
(SPEC ML171 .A12 1562)
Fux, Johann Joseph (1660-1741). Gradus ad Parnassum, oder, Anführung zur reglemässigen musialischen Composition.... First German edition.
(Leipzig : Im Mizlerischen bücherverlag, 1742).
(SPEC MT40 .F83 G732 1742)
Penna, Lorenzo (1613-1693). Del li primi albori musicali per li principianti della musica figurata : distinti in tre' libri ; dal primo spuntano li principij del canto figvrato ; dal secondo spiccano le regole del contrapvnto ; dal terzo appariscono li fondamenti per suonare l'organo ò clavicembalo sopra la parte / del p.f. Lorenzo Penna da Bologna ... In questa quarta impressione dall'autore riueduti, e accresciuti ... First edition.
(Bologna : per Giacomo Monti, ad instanza di Marino siluani, 1684).
(SPEC MT6 .A2 P46 1684)
Artusi, Giovanni Maria (d. 1613). L'Artusi overo delle imperfettioni della moderna musica ragionamenti dui : ne'quali si ragiona di molte cose utili, & neccessarie alli moderni compositori : Novamente stampato. First edition.
(Venetia : G. Vincenti, 1600).
(SPEC MT55 .A784 A784 1600)
Clio and Euterpe : or British harmony ; a collection of celebrated songs and cantatas by the most approv'd masters curiously engrav'd with the thorough bass for the harpsichord and transposition for the German flute. Embellish'd with designs adapted to each song. In [three] volumes, volume the first containing near two hundred airs. First edition.
(London : H. Roberts, 1762).
(SPEC M1738 .C55 1762)
Alfonso X, King of Castile and Leon (1221-1284). Cantigas de Santa Maria. Edición facsímil del códice T.I.1 de la Biblioteca de San Lorenzo el Real de El Escorial. In two volumes.
(Madrid : Edilán, c1979.).
(SPEC M2 .A4 1979)
Il codice Squarcialupi : Ms. Mediceo Palatino 87, Biblioteca laurenziana di Firenze
(Firenze : Giunti Barbèra ; Libreria musicale italiana, c1992)
(SPEC M2 .S6857 1992)
Il codice J.II.9 : Torino, Biblioteca nazionale universitaria. Edizione in facsimile
(Lucca : Libreria musicale italina, 1999)
(SPEC M2 .C6335 1999)
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