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Roderick D. Cannon's A Bibliography of Bagpipe Music Published by (Out
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Introduction
UNTIL his recent retirement Dr Roderick Cannon (BSc, DPhil, DSc) was a Reader in
Chemistry at the University of East Anglia, Norwich and has written many books
on the subject. He is also a piper and has spent many thousands of hours
researching and writing a number of books about the history of bagpipes and its
music. One of the more notable is A Bibliography of Bagpipe Music which
he started researching in 1961 and over the next thirteen years visited many
libraries and private collections in United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Poland
and the United States of America. John Donald Publishers Ltd published the book
in 1980 and it immediately became recognised amongst collectors as their
‘Bible’; at last they had detailed knowledge of what was out there. The accuracy
of the information in this book is a credit to the author. Even now with the
advantage of hindsight there are few errors. The biggest problem for Cannon was
locating all editions of all books and even now over thirty years later there
are still many to be found... [more]
Arrangement of Material
DIFFERENT editions of a book are distinguished by Roman numerals in bold type, I, II, etc, and they are so referred to in the text, as for example, 'edition III', not 'the 1908 edition'. For each edition the description follows a uniform plan in six sections as follows: Title; Imprint; Other publication data; Pagination and contents; Location and description of individual copies; Discussion... [more]
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