Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
book
BookPrinted Material
Author Scherer, F. M. (Frederic M.)

Title Quarter notes and bank notes : the economics of music composition in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / F.M. Scherer.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2004]
©2004

Item Status

Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML3795 .S34 2004    Available  ---
Description x, 264 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series Princeton economic history of the Western world
Princeton economic history of the Western world.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-258) and index.
Contents Introduction -- The political, social, and economic milieu -- Music composition as a profession -- Composers' backgrounds, aspirations, and economic rewards -- The geography of composer supply and demand -- Changes in transportation and composers' mobility -- The economics of music publishing -- Conclusion.
Subject Composers -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
Composers.
Economic conditions.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Composers -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
ISBN 0691116210