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Music Deposited by Stationers' Hall at the Library of the University and King's College of Aberdeen, 1753–96

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Richard Turbet
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Under the provisions of the 1709 Copyright Act, Scottish universities were entitled to a copy of each printed work entered at Stationers' Hall, London. This entitlement ceased in 1836 when the five Scottish universities agreed to receive an annual payment in lieu of the privilege of deposit. Amongst the many difficulties thrown up by the well-intentioned legislation of 1709, a peculiarly Aberdonian aspect was that the Act specified only ‘the Four Univerisities in Scotland’ provoking arguments as to which of Aberdeen's two universities, King's College or Marischal College, should be the recipient. Although this was- resolved in favour of King's College, it is clear that friction persisted. As late as 1826 the Aberdeen Censor was urging, ‘I wish the members of Marischal College would look to what has become o’ the Stationers' Hall music'. This seems to be the only reference in contemporary literature to the collection.

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Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle , Volume 30 , 1997 , pp. 139 - 162
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Copyright © Royal Musical Association, 1997

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References

1 John Feather, A Dictionary of Book History (London. 1986), 78–81.Google Scholar

2 Peter John Anderson, Fasti Academiae Mariscallanae Aberdonensis (Aberdeen, 1889), i, 387–90.Google Scholar

3 The other three universities were St Andrews, Glasgow and Edinburgh.Google Scholar

4 Aberdeen Censor, 2 (1826), 263.Google Scholar

5 Barry Cooper, ‘Catalogue of Early Printed Music in Aberdeen Libraries: a Complete List of Music and Music Literature Published Before 1801 Held by Aberdeen University and Aberdeen Public Library’, Research Chronicle, 14 (1978), 2–138; Barry Cooper and Richard Turbet, ‘Catalogue of Early Printed Music in Aberdeen Libraries: Supplement, 1979–1988', Research Chronicle, 23 (1990), 170–6. Richard Turbet is cataloguing the present Stationers’ Hall Music Collection.Google Scholar

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7 For the bibliographical references see note 6, above. Entries other than [RISM] B/II, [RISM] B/VI, BUCEM, BLC, CPM, MEPC or Walsh refer to RISM A/I.Google Scholar

8 In the course of routine cataloguing, while this paper was being typed, the elder Thomas Linley's When ‘tis night (London, 1794) was revealed as item 26 in volume 94 of the Stationers’ Hall Music Collection. The song is from the entertainment The glorious first of June put together by Sheridan et al, with music by Storace et al, though it is unlikely to be from the items ofthat title attributed to Storace and listed under M 1794 or L 1795. It is included neither in Cooper's Catalogue nor in its Supplement.Google Scholar