A bibliographic study of microfilm holdings in the music library at the University of Victoria
Date
1976
Authors
Jones, Trevor Norman
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Abstract
The object of this study is to provide ready access to material in the filmed music MS collection of the McPherson Library; to demonstrate detailed knowledge of these MSS, as well as the secondary sources and relevant bibliographic material; and to show general knowledge of the repertory contained in this collection. The method of approach was first to examine the RISM MS descriptions to ascertain standard format and style and then to research the following sources (in order) for pertinent information: 1 ) general standard encyclopaedias and dictionaries; 2) specific bibliographies and catalogues; J) indexes to masters' theses, doctoral dissertations and festschriften ; 4) indexes to periodicals and journals and 5) individual volumes on special subjects related in any way to the period of music in question. Part I, a chapter on music forms of the Renaissance, discusses common sacred and secular forms as especially found in the present collection of microfilm. In Part II, the descriptions of the MSS provide the following information (if available) in this orders:
Thesis entry number of the MS, the city, the library, the MS number (newest, then the former), the sigla or abbreviations used by musicologists beginning with the most standard abbreviation
Reel number (in the microfilm library)
Card Catalogue number
Source where the McPherson Library obtained the film
RISM number
Number of folios;
and in paragraph form:
1. City or area of origin of the MS
2. Date when the MS was compiled and possibly the name of the complier
3. Signficant history of ownership of the MS
4. The type of notation
5. Layout, microfilm legibility and degree of MS decoration
6. Description of contents, kind of music, number of compositions
7. Thematic index
8. List of contents by titles or first-line text
9. Concordances
10. Facsimile editions
11. List of composers represented, in alphabetical order.
Following Part II is an index to composers represented in the MSS. The bibliography provided is intended as a working bibliography and includes this thesis abbreviation or siglum for each source and the Library call number, if the work is in the Library.