Includes complete 1952 edition of the author's Sistème de notasion pour les lètries, with original title page, colophon and cover (p. 1-101). and Sistème de notasion pour les lètries -- Bouleversement de la science phonétique -- La gamme lettriste intégrale -- Manifeste pour un lettrisme sériel -- La dadalettrie, ou mort concrète du lettrisme -- Prélude à l'hyperphonie, ou art total des moyens de communication sonores -- L'hypergraphologie, ou vers un art intégral.
Publisher:
Richard-Masse,
Subject (Topic):
Language and languages--Phonetic transcriptions, Lettrism, and Musical notation
Title etched above image., Plate numbered '32' in upper right corner., Two lines of music with text loosely printed below them: Britons, strike home. Revenge, revenge your country's wrongs., Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. In a series of ... prints. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757]., Temporary local subject terms: Fall of the Newcastle Administration -- The Duke of Newcastle as salmon., and Mounted to 17 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
To be had at Edwards and Darlys facing Hungerford in the Strand
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, of a choir breviary, containing part of the offices for Epiphany
Description:
In Latin., Musical notation on four-line red staves., References to Thomas Becket struck through on verso., Layout: double columns of 51 lines., Script: gothic liturgical hand., and Decoration: Rubricated. Initials in blue with red penwork. Large illuminated initial "A" with full border on verso, gilt.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Breviaries, and Musical notation
Title from item., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Unaccompanied melody., and Song in six stanzas, printed below title. The first stanza printed with music, the following five without music in three columns below.
Publisher:
Published 4th October 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Plate numbered '48' in lower right corner., Song in six stanzas, printed below title. The first stanza printed with music, the following five without music in three columns below., and Temporary local subject terms: Skulls -- Taxidermy -- Hour-glasses -- Puns.
Publisher:
Published 4th October 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Musical notation, Pregnancy, Shoemakers, Shoemaking, Stores & shops, and Wigs
An engraved sheet folded and mounted on wooden sticks secured with brass and bone hardware to form a fan, probably designed as a portable aide-memoire, includes musical scores for eighteen dances as well as directions for the dance steps -- e.g., "The 2nd Lady Lead round the 2d. Gent, the Gent. Do the Same, Lead Down the middle up again Cast off. Pousete" is given for the Duke of Clarence's Fancy. The decorative border is hand-colored in pink. On the verso is a sheet decorated with a small emblem with musical instruments and notations
Description:
Title from engraved text at top head of sheet., Place of publication suggested by preponderance of Scottish tunes., Date of publication based on the arrival of the waltz in England in 1791, included in this selection. See Oxford companion to Music (7th ed.), page 1112., and Width of sheet is an approximation, trimmed within plate mark. A separate sheet mounted on verso is printed with an emblem incorporating musical instruments. The contemporary fan case is covered in mottled green and orange Dutch gilt paper.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland
Subject (Topic):
Country-dances (Music), Country dancing, Musical instruments, and Musical notation
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, from a German gradual, containing parts of the chants for several saints' feasts in November. Interlinear neumes for Gregorian chant
Description:
In Latin., Script: protogothic., and Decoration: rubricated. Large and small capitals in red ink. Drawing of a face within one large capital "D."
Engraved card printed within black mourning border, illustrated above title with an image of Prince Leopold and Britannia in front of Princess Charlotte's tomb adorned with her portrait and topped with an urn. Six numbered stanzas of a hymn and two staves of music are engraved at the bottom
Description:
Title from item., All engraved., First lines of "The funeral hymn, being part of the burial service paraphrased": 1. How short, how narrow is the span, how few the years allow'd to man! ..., "The music selected and alter'd by E.W. Smith, of St. Georges Chapel, Windsor"., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. Crabb, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817 and Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865,
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Britannia (Symbolic character), Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Grief, and Musical notation