English music <1604 to 1904>
Subtitle: being the lectures given at the Music Loan Exhibition of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, held at Fishmongers' Hall, London Bridge, June-July, 1904
Series: The music story series; Music story series
Publisher: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd.; C. Scribner's Sons
Published: 1906
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 539
Subjects: Musical instruments; Music -- England -- History and criticism
Table of contents: title: The evolution of the pianoforte, by T.L. Southgate.- Our English songs, by W.H. Cummings.- The early English viols and their music, by H. Watson.- Madrigals, rounds, catches, glees, and part-songs, by E.M. Lee.- The recorder, flute, fife, and piccolo, by J. Finn.- Music in England in the year 1604, by Sir F. Bridge.- Our dances of bygone days, by A.S. Rose.- Masques and early operas, by A.H.D. Prendergast.- English opera after Purcell, by F.J. Sawyer.- Our cathedral composers and their works, by G.F. Huntley.- The single and double reed instruments, by D.J. Blaikley.- The water-organ of the ancients and the organ of to-day, by F.W. Galpin.- The regal and its successors: the harmonica, by T.L. Southgate.- The violin family and its music, by W.W. Cobbett.- The brass wind instruments, by J.E. Borland.- Some notes on early printed music, by A.H. Littleton.- Music of the country-side, by Sir E. Clarke