Interesting eBay item

Subject: Interesting ebay item
From: GUEST,Blowz backdooring again
Date: 22 May 05 - 04:19 PM

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=42459&item=7322502080&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

The above might well be of interest to Mudcatters, interested in early C19th material (not sure if it's all English, but sounds as if a good proportion of it is.) The following is taken from the site:

"THE FESTIVAL OF ANACREON
Consisting of Admired Glees
For Three & Four Voices, selected by
An Eminent Professor"
Volume 1 (c.1820)
CD ROM FACSIMILE
This easy to use CD ROM is a facsimile reproduction of a charming little music book, containing popular glees (a type of part song) and madrigals, published in London by George Shade around 1820.

It contains high quality colour & monochrome scans (all at 300 dpi resolution), arranged as linked Adobe PDF documents, and can be viewed on any computer using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software. There are 32 songs (194 pages of music) in three and four part harmony, with an index and all pages are printable.

This collection is volume 1 (of 2 books), but is entirely self contained, being a compilation of the favourite glees of the day - A snapshot of amateur English music making and musical taste in the early 19th century. Many of the songs (such as Wellington's Health) are patriotic in nature, reminding us of just how recently the Napoleonic wars had ended. Other pieces are much older, proving that the regular performance of "early music" is really nothing new.


As I don't read music it's not much use to me...

Blowz

Subject: RE: Interesting ebay item
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 22 May 05 - 04:31 PM

Obviously available on the basis that it is both "out of print" and out of copyright.
Presumably like the CDROMs of comic scans that regularly appear on e-bay, the seller can re-copy the CD and sell it numerous times. Until someone gets a copy and puts it on-line in an easily searched database.....


Nigel

Subject: RE: Interesting ebay item
From: Peace
Date: 22 May 05 - 04:40 PM

See

Langolee 3

in the DT.

Subject: RE: Interesting ebay item
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 23 May 05 - 09:01 AM

Thanks for passing on the tip,Blowz. It sounds like an interesting resource for a choral group.

Subject: RE: Interesting ebay item
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 24 May 05 - 08:19 AM

There were no offers, it has now ended.