[PDF] Memories Of A Musical Life eBook

Author : William Mason
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 2021-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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"Memories of a Musical Life" by William Mason. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : William Mason
Publisher :
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 28,54 MB
Release : 2016-06-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781332947829

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Excerpt from Memories of a Musical Life My father manifested a remarkable fondness for music at an early age. His parents did not intend that he should take up music as a profession, but his talent was not neglected. In 1812, be fore he was twenty, he heard of an open ing in a bank in Savannah, Georgia, and having secured the position, he went there. After business hours he continued his studies in music with an instructor named F. L. Abel, under whom he made rapid progress. He soon attempted com position, his first efforts being hymn-tunes and anthems. He arranged a collection consisting of a group of selections from William Gardiner's Sacred Melodies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Rosemary Richards
Publisher : Lyrebird Press lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 40,94 MB
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0734037996

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Music-lovers from Australia and New Zealand have collected and bound sheet music and handwritten music since the earliest years of settlement. In these nine essays, the authors discuss music and dance collections found in libraries, historic houses, archives and homes, explaining what these cherished artefacts reveal about the owners, their emotional life and their musical practice. Beautifully illustrated, and with suggestions for how these collections might be further explored or disseminated, this is a landmark book in the history of music in private life.

Author : William Mason
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 14,70 MB
Release : 2014-02
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ISBN : 9781295612642

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