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Hunter, David (Ed.). Music Publishing & Collecting: Essays in Honor of Donald W. Krummel. Urbana, IL: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994. 252 pp. $45.00 (ISBN o-87845-095-5).

Reviewed by Barbara Henry, Head, Music Library, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064.

In 1965 Donald Krummel wrote an article entitled, “Bibliography’s Stepchild: The Printed Note,” in which he says that “throughout history . . . musical editions have been slighted in our book-oriented libraries” (Krummel, 1973, p.77). His long and distinguished career as teacher, scholar and librarian has been devoted to remedying this situation, both in libraries and in scholarly bibliographic research. Krummel has been a reference librarian in the Music Division of the Library of Congress, the head of reference and associate librarian at the Newberry Library, Chicago, and, since 1970, professor of music and librarianship at the University of Illinois. He “is one of those few who have been able to parlay the feel of the printed page, the hue of the catalogue, the scent of an oblique reference, into a lifelong pursuit and an unrivalled scholarly output” (p. xi). He began reviewing books and music for Notes: QuatierZy Journal of the Music Librury Association in 1957, and has had over 100 reviews in a great variety ofjournals since that time. His first substantial article also appeared in Notes, in 1959, to be followed by over 70 others, again in many different journals. He has also written or edited 11 books and written 24 articles in encyclopedias of music and librarianship, in addition to various other contributions. A complete bibliography of his writings rounds out this collection of essays, and it makes fascinating reading in itself.

Edited by David Hunter, Music Librarian at the University of Texas at Austin and himself a distinguished bibliographer, this Festschrift was compiled to honor particularly Krummel’s contributions to the field of music bibliography. It is divided into two parts: music publishing and music collecting, two facets of the “rich and diffuse” discipline of music bibliography, “the study of the printed documents of music” (Krummel, 1992, p.3). Publishing and collecting of music have long been of great interest to music librarians. Most collections of music assembled by individuals eventually find their way to libraries, and librarians themselves are also collectors for their institutions. Music publishing is a commercial enterprise quite separate and different from book publishing, and music librarians must have an understanding of this business in order to acquire the musical editions needed for their libraries. Much more research is needed in the fields of music publishing and collecting, and both are areas of particular interest to Krummel, so it is entirely appropriate that they should have been chosen as the focus of the nine essays that make up this volume. Equally appropriate is the wide variety of subjects, styles of writing and research methodologies expressed therein, for only such an array could pay tribute to Krummel’s own breadth and depth of knowledge and interest.

While there is no explicit connection between the essays, each takes the reader into a particular facet of the world of music publishing and collecting, and sheds some light on the influence of musical documents on society. One could say that each essay reflects a “portion of the music bibliographic universe” @xi). Nicholas Temperley, through painstaking examination of the few existing printed musical sources and detailed study of the records of two eighteenth-century London charity hospitals,

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provides us with a picture of the importance of music in the life of those institutions. James Coover brings to life that last of a London family who owned and managed “the oldest active music antiquarian firm in the Western world” (p. 39). William Lichtenwanger gives us the fruit of his many years of pouring over copyright legislation by providing a compact and lucid summary of music copyright law. Mark M&night samples the vast quantity of instrumental sheet music published in the United States between 1826 and 1870 to discern the most popular genres and their significance in the development of American music. Peggy Daub explores the formation and dispersal of the library of Queen Caroline (1683-l 737) consort of George II of Great Britain. Richard Nacnutt, in his translations of previously unpublished letters, takes us traveling to Italy with Rodolphe Kreutzer and his wife between 1796 and 1802, as they seek to acquire music and books for the library of the Paris Conservatoire. Calvin Elliker writes of the passionate dedication of the wealthy collector, Josiah Lilly, to making the music of Stephen Foster remembered and honored. Oliver Neighbor divulges the quirks and idiosyncracies of the major reference tool, CPM: The Catalogue of Printed Music in the British Library to 1980. Finally James FuId and David Hunter provide a fascinating compilation of bibliographical writings which have come from collectors of music, thus pointing out “the link between collecting and bibliography” (p.217). In conclusion there is, as mentioned, a bibliography of Krummel’s own writings, compiled by Jana Bradley and Christine Buetow. The contributors are Krummel’s friends, colleagues and students, and they include an antiquarian music dealer, a collector, librarians and scholars.

“Music bibliography as a specialty has emerged slowly but notably over the past sixty years, as earlier writings came to be identified as part of the subject and as new scholarship was added to the canon. The literature is now large and rich . . .” (Krummel, 1992, pix). This volume is a worthy contributor to this growing “canon” and should stimulate much new inquiry into at least nine areas of music bibliography.

REFERENCES

Krummel, Donald W. (1973) Bibliography’s stepchild: The printed note. In Carol June Bradley (Ed.), Reader in music librarianship (pp. 77-80). Washington, DC: Microcard Editions, 1973. (Reprinted from Library Journal 15 March 1965)

Krummel, Donald W. (1992). The Literature of music bibliography: An account of the writings on the history of music printing &publishing. Berkeley, CA: Fallen Leaf Press, 1992.

National Research Council. Information Technology in the Service Society: A Twenty-fmt Century Lever. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1994.270 pp. $29.00 (ISBN O-309 04876-I).

Reviewed by Blake Cronin, Dean and Professor of Information Science, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 47405 <bcronin@indiana.edu~.

In 1991 the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council (NRC) convened the Committee to Study the Impact of Information