A general history of music
Subtitle: from the earliest ages to the present period. To which is prefixed, a dissertation on the music of the ancients
By: By Charles Burney
Publisher: Printed for the author
Published: 1776
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: History and criticism; Music; Muziek; Geschiedenis (vorm)
Notes: First edition. A 2d edition of v. 1 was published in 1789.

Vol. 2, printed, like the other 3 vols., with the long s, and with a leaf of "corrections and additions" at end, differs in these and other particulars from a later printing, also dated 1782, but printed with the modern s, as in the 2d edition of v. 1.

Some of the musical illustrations are engraved.

With vol. 4 is bound the author's An account of the musical performance in Westminister-abbey, and the Pantheon ... in commemoration of Handel ... London, 1785.

"Chronological list of the principal books published on the subject of music in England, during the present century": v. 4, p. [687]-688.