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- TITLE_SECTIONTitle Section
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- TABLE_OF_CONTENTSContents
- CHAPTERSir Frederick Weld: pastoralist, politician, painter
- ILLUSTRATIONCanterbury Plains—Waimakariri [1850] watercolour 17x24.5cm Art Coll. Rack 252 (c) (Scrope/Weld Collection)
- ILLUSTRATIONLake Rotomahana [1854] watercolour 13.5x34cm Art Coll. Rack 251 (Scrope/Weld Collection)
- ILLUSTRATIONMt. Egmont (Taranaki) from near one of the block houses to the right of Marsland Hill behind the town of New Ply[mout...
- ILLUSTRATIONMotunau to Banks Peninsula [1850] working sketch from Journal 28 November—16 December 1850; Trip to Canterbury of HMS...
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- CHAPTERA question of authenticity: Alfred Hill, Ovide Musin, the Chevalier de Kontski and the Wellington Orchestral Society,...
- ILLUSTRATIONAntoine de Kontski (1817-1899), most famous member of a Polish family of precocious musicians, who toured New Zealand...
- ILLUSTRATIONDe Kontski was not averse to using his name in ‘testimonials’. Advertisement from the Evening Post of 23 October 1896.
- ILLUSTRATIONThe advertisement for de Kontski’s farewell concert reflects the furore with which he had been received by the public.
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- CHAPTERPrinted music before 1801 in the Alexander Turnbull Library
- ILLUSTRATIONThe title-page and a typical page from Turnbull's earliest example of English music printing, the Manualead Usum per ...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe title-page opening of Playford’s Introduction to the Skill of Musick (London, 1674).
- ILLUSTRATIONThe Collins passe-partout title frame, with an engraved supplementary centre plate for Handel’s Songs in L’Allegro ed...
- ILLUSTRATIONA page from the Walsh-issued Overtures fitted to the Harpsicord or Spinnett (1730?).
- ILLUSTRATIONThe first page of Geminiani’s Sonate a violino, violone ecembalo (1716) showing Thomas Cross’s engraving. Compare wit...
- CHAPTERNotes and Comments
- CHAPTERNotes on Contributors
- CHAPTERAlexander Turnbull Library
- CHAPTERNotes on Manuscript Accessions
- CHAPTERNotes on Art Accessions
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- CHAPTERFriends of the Turnbull Library
- CHAPTERALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY
- CHAPTERTRUSTEES OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF NEW ZEALAND
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