BURNEY, Charles. The Present State of Music in France and Italy . London: for T. Becket, 1771. 8°. 4 index leaves and advertisement leaf at end. [ Bound with :] BURNEY, Charles. The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces . London: for T. Becket, J. Robson and G. Robinson, 1773. 2 volumes, 8°. 4 index leaves at end of the first and 5 at end of the second volume. (Large bore holes running through volume I at lower and outer margin.) Together 2 works in 3 volumes in uniform contemporary speckled calf (rather obviously rebacked, old spines relaid), red sprinkled edges. FIRST EDITIONS. Dr. Burney (1726-1814) travelled to Italy in 1770 to collect material for his General History of Music (1776-89). Considering the prolific travel literature on Italy he found it "somewhat extraordinary" that no one had written on the subject of music "in that part of the world, where it has been cultivated with such success." He spent four months there, meeting musicians, consulting libraries, and adding to his collection of material. He found more music than in England, but that concert audiences were also more noisy and inattentive, largely because music was "cheap and common, whereas in England it is a costly exotic, and more highly prized." Ingamells p. 161; Pine-Coffin 770 3 . (3)
BURNEY, Charles. The Present State of Music in France and Italy . London: for T. Becket, 1771. 8°. 4 index leaves and advertisement leaf at end. [ Bound with :] BURNEY, Charles. The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces . London: for T. Becket, J. Robson and G. Robinson, 1773. 2 volumes, 8°. 4 index leaves at end of the first and 5 at end of the second volume. (Large bore holes running through volume I at lower and outer margin.) Together 2 works in 3 volumes in uniform contemporary speckled calf (rather obviously rebacked, old spines relaid), red sprinkled edges. FIRST EDITIONS. Dr. Burney (1726-1814) travelled to Italy in 1770 to collect material for his General History of Music (1776-89). Considering the prolific travel literature on Italy he found it "somewhat extraordinary" that no one had written on the subject of music "in that part of the world, where it has been cultivated with such success." He spent four months there, meeting musicians, consulting libraries, and adding to his collection of material. He found more music than in England, but that concert audiences were also more noisy and inattentive, largely because music was "cheap and common, whereas in England it is a costly exotic, and more highly prized." Ingamells p. 161; Pine-Coffin 770 3 . (3)
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