Revolutionary Songs and Hymns: General Survey and Catalog

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PIERRE (Constant). Les Hymnes et chansons de la Révolution. General survey and catalog with historical, analytical and bibliographic notes. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1904, large in-4°, xiv-1040 pages, illustrations and musical scores throughout text, tables at end of volume, well-worn cardboard binding, fresh interior; cataloging 2337 compositions with historical, analytical and bibliographic notes, collected and transcribed by Constant Pierre. Covers the people's preference for song; nature, form and purpose of revolutionary period songs, subjects treated; melodies and tunes; hymns; manuscript and printed documents; musical editions; bibliographic sources; public and private collections; alphabetical tables of hymns and songs, popular melodies, tunes and their sources, authors.