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Article: Private Music Collections: Catalogs and Cognate Literature. (Book Reviews: Reference).
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Private Music Collections: Catalogs and Cognate Literature. By James B. Coover. (Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography, 8.) Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 2001. [xxxviii, 718 p. ISBN 0-89990-099-2. $75.] Index.
Music historians have long had an interest in the study of the provenance of unique or rare materials. This curiosity has been coupled in more recent times with an interest in how music has been disseminated and how individual collectors and libraries have assembled materials into collections.
For Jim Coover this investigation has been a labor of love. He has gathered the data for this book over a period of forty years, harvesting his ...