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A.909.
- Record Id:
- 032-001947765
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001947765
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000035.0x0002e4
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- A.909.
- Title:
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VOCAL MUSIC; end of 18th cent. A collection of sacred and secular tunes bound after a printed copy of A Select Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes…By…Henry Boyd [1793]. Nos. 1-6 are of a sacred character, and, with the exception of the last, unaccompanied and anonymous. The names given in brackets to the first five, after the manner of hymn-tunes, are misleading, as they bear no resemblance to that class of composition. Purchased, 5 June 1891.
Paper; pp. 154. 130 x 210mm.
1. pp. 105-6. ‘O Thou to whom all Creatures bow’. (‘Cheshire’.)
2. pp. 107-8. ‘Thrice happy he that does refuse’. (‘Oxford’.)
3. pp. 109-10. ‘O render thanks to God above’. (‘Shropshire’.) This has a chorus (apparently in unison) wto the words, ‘Hallelujah’, at the end.
4. p. 111. The melody of ‘Hark, hark! Tis a Voice from the Tomb’. [By John Worgan, published in a collection of Vauxhall songs, about 1752.] The tune bears the title ‘Berkshire’.
5. p. 112. ‘Hail, holy faith’. (‘Norfolk’.)
6. pp. 113-14. ‘Hymn to Charity’, beg. ‘Hail, fairest Daughter of the Sky’.
7. p. 115. ‘Total Eclipse’: air from ‘Sampson’ by Handel. The melody and words only.
8. pp. 116-17. ‘Canst thou Mariana’ [sc. Marina]: ‘Song in Theodosious’ by Purcell. The words only.
9. pp. 120-1. ‘Rising Sun’, beg. ‘Hail to thy Brightness’; with a bass for harpsichord or pianoforte, in score.
10. pp. 121-2. ‘Ye happy sinners’, with a bass for harpsichord or organ, in score. By ‘Fenick’ (sc. Fenwick?).
11. pp. 122-3. ‘On the Death of Miss R__’, beg. ‘And is the lovely shadow fled’. Duet, with a bass for harpsichord or pianoforte, in score. Incomplete.
12. p. 126. ‘Johnny’s Grey Breeks’.
13. p. 127. ‘My own Kind Dearie’.
14. p. 127. ‘Jocky to the Fair’.
15. p. 128. ‘I have a bonny Wife of my Own’.
16. p. 128. ‘March way of "Jenny’s Babie"’.
17. p. 129. ‘Sae merry as we have been’.
18. p. 129. ‘Keep the Country, bonny Lassie’.
19. p. 129. ‘The Marquis of Granby’s delight’.
20. p. 130. ‘When absent from the Nymph I love’.
21. p. 130. ‘The Mill Mill O’.
22. p. 131. ‘My Friend and Pitcher’.
23. p. 131. ‘Miss Wright’s Reel’.
24. p. 131. ‘The Lass of Patie’s Mill’.
25. p. 132. ‘Anderson’s Fareweell’.
26. p. 133. ‘The Aberdeen Volunteers’ March’.
27. p. 133. ‘Miss Clark’s Reel’.
28. p. 134. ‘Her Absence will not alter me’.
29. p. 134. ‘Miss Jessie Smith’s Reel’.
30. p. 134. ‘Violet Anderson’s Reel’.
31. p. 135. ‘Come ashore, Jolly Tar’.
32. p. 135. ‘Miss M. Playfair’s Reel’.
33. p. 136. ‘The Highland Laddie’.
34. p. 136. ‘Lochaber no more’.
35. p. 136. ‘Maid of the Mill’.
36. p. 137. ‘Bonny Jean Gordon of Aberdeen’.
37. p. 137. ‘Saw ye nae my kind Peggy’.
38. p. 137. ‘Hearts of Oak’ [from ‘Harlequin’s Invasion’], by Dr. William Boyce [1759].
39. p. 138. ‘God save the King’ (see also p. 154).
40. p. 138. ‘The Lass of Richmond Hill’.
41. p. 138. ‘Lovely Nancy’.
42. p. 139. ‘Miss Gordon’s Reel’.
43. p. 139. ‘Roslin Castle’.
44. p. 139. ‘O! The Roast Beef of England’.
45. p. 140. ‘Duke of York’s Troope’.
46. p. 141. ‘Nancy Dawsone’.
47. p. 141. ‘Rose Tree’.
48. p. 141. ‘Tattoo’.
49. p. 142. ‘God save the Queen’ (quite different from the national anthem).
50. p. 142. ‘Oak Stick’.
51. p. 143. ‘The Flowers of Edinburgh’.
52. p. 143. ‘The Bed of Roses’.
53. p. 143. Melody of ‘Mall Brook’, sc. ‘Marlbrouck’ (see also p. 152).
54. p. 144. ‘Jacky Tar’.
55. p. 144. ‘Princess Royall’.
56. p. 145. ‘Scot’s Blue Bonnet’.
57. p. 145. ‘Lady Harriet hope’s Reel’.
58. p. 145. ‘Because He was a Bonny Lad’.
59. p. 146. ‘O’er the Hills and far away’.
60. p. 146. ‘The King’s Gig’.
61. p. 146. ‘Jenny Nettles’.
62. p. 147. ‘O, its Braw to the Married a Maiden’.
63. p. 147. ‘Tulloch Goram’.
64. p. 147. ‘Dainty Davie’.
65. p. 148. ‘John Anderson, my Jo’.
66. p. 148. ‘Calidonian Hunt’s Delight’.
67. p. 149. Melody of ‘Pauvre Madelon’.
68. p. 149. ‘A Soldier I am’.
69. p. 150. ‘Come, Rouse, brother Sportsman’.
70. p. 150. ‘Rule Britannia’ [from ‘Alfred’], by Dr. Thomas Augustine Arne [1740].
71. p. 151. ‘Money in both pockets’.
72. p. 151. ‘The Marquis of Huntly’s March’.
73. p. 152. Melody of ‘Mall Brook’, sc. ‘Marlbrouck’ (see also p. 143).
74. p. 152. ‘White Jock’.
75. p. 153. ‘Banks of the Dee’.
76. p. 153. ‘Logan Water’.
77. p. 154. ‘White Cocade’.
- Scope & Content:
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William Boyce, composer and organist: Thomas Augustine Arne, composer: Henry Purcell, composer and organist: Music: John Worgan, Mus. Doc.; composer: Fenick, alias Fenwick; composer: George Frideric Handel, composer: A collection of sacred and secular vocal music by (amongst others) John Worgan, George Frideric Handel, — Fenick, Henry Purcell, William Boyce and Thomas Augustine Arne: 18th cent.: Copies.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Music Miscellaneous
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001947765
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001947765
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1760
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- Late 18th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Arne, Thomas Augustine, composer, 1710-1778
Boyce, William, composer and organist, 1711-1779
Fenick, —, composer, fl 18th century
Handel, George Frideric, composer, 1685-1759
Purcell, Henry, composer and organist, 1658 or 1659-1695
Worgan, John, Mus Doc, composer