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A special loan exhibition of musical instruments, manuscripts, books, portraits, and other mementoes of music and musicians, formed to commemorate the tercentenary of the granting by King James I of a charter of incorporation to the Worshipful company of musicians in 1604 .., 1904
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1by Wynkyn de Worde in 1495. It contains only a few notes, as in the case of Gerson's "Collectorium super Magnificat," the first German specimen.
3The above remarks have more especial reference to the Art of Music Printing, the history of which is fairly well represented. During the latter part of the fifteenth century, and the early portion of the sixteenth, the publications in connection with Music consisted chiefly of treatises on the Art and Science of Music, and works for use in the service of the Church. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, England was certainly a musical nation, and quantities of madrigals and other works were published. These which began in 1575 and continued until about 1630 maintain the highest rank. The collection of Madrigals of this period now exhibited is probably larger than any previously brought together. An enormous number of books of Psalms with music were published during about the same period, and the present Exhibition is particularly rich in the display of these Books. A large number of Madrigals and some Psalters of foreign production are also shown.
5The modern Opera was invented in Italy, and its first example, "The Euridice," by Jacob Peri, printed and performed in the year 1600, will be found among the exhibits. The first Oratorio was also produced in Italy about the same time, but unfortunately no copy of this is procurable.
7Many good men worked hard for the advancement of the Art during the seventeenth century. Their achievements bring us to the time of the giants of Music—Bach, Handel, Purcell, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven—these masters, and their more recent successors, will be found well represented in this and other portions of the Exhibition.
9A. H. LITTLETON.
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