Music researchers, bibliophiles, students of collectors and collecting are offered an exhaustive list of literature relating to private music collections that includes books and descriptive articles (both published and unpublished), manuscript lists, household inventories, and sale catalogs. The earliest list is dated 1467, the latest 1955. Present locations of collections are given. Book complements author's earlier work, Musical Instrument Collections: Catalogues and Cognate Literature (Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography, no. 47, 1981).

About the Author

James B. Coover (d. 2004) was emeritus S.U.N.Y. Distinguished Service Professor, Zigele Professor of Music, and former director of the Music Library, S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo, and a past president of the Music Library Association. 

DSMB 81 / 756p / 0-89990-099-2 / Hardcover / 2000 / $60.00

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