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Collection of vocal music : copyist's manuscript, 1834.

Record ID
115153
Accession number
MA 957
Creator
Linley, W. (William), 1771-1835.
Biographical Data
British composer.
Object title

Collection of vocal music : copyist's manuscript, 1834.

Uniform title
Vocal music. Selections
Date
1834.
Provenance
Bookplate of William Hayman Cummings (1831-1915) with his initials: W H C. The bookplate is based on William Caxton's printer's device.
Inscriptions/Markings
"This Book contains M:S: Glees, Elegies, Madrigals, & Epigrams the whole the composition of William Linley of Furnivals Inn Chambers"
Notes
Copyist's manuscript of 34 pieces, dated 1799-1830; many are signed at the end "RH Billings music copyist" and are dated by him 1833 or 1834.
Author of texts anonymous or unidentified.
Most titles are taken from text incipits; for those pieces with separate titles, text incipits are given in parentheses.
Contents
How sweet is Love's first gentle sway -- Bacchus to Melpomene ( O! Virgin pale with anguish'd eye) -- Hail! great Apollo -- Come Chloe fill the genial bowl -- Rosy god of wine to thee -- O fairest of the virgin band -- In secret pining have I sigh'd -- No never shall my soul forget -- O Wisdom! If thy soft controul -- God of the bow and patron of the song -- In vain the spring proclaims -- To Ariel ( Sweet airy being) -- Fairy land ( Would you the fairy regions see) -- Zepherus ( Zephyr whither art thou straying) -- Ere yet we slumbers seek -- Whilst around us the songs -- No other love my heart shall know -- How can I sing of fragrant sighs -- Sweet Echo sleeps thy vocal shell -- How sweetly could I lay my head -- Have you not seen the timid tear -- There is strange music in the stirring wind -- Poor Adelaide! -- I am the comforter of those that mourn -- Lone bird of eve whose liquid throat -- Sweet warbler to whose artless song -- Mourn we his loss -- The glories of our birth and state -- If ought of oaten stop -- Let us dance let us sing -- Ah! me, (quoth Venus,) young and so unkind -- Chloris I swear by all I ever saw -- Phillis you little rosy rake -- Your mother says my little Venus.
Associated names
Cummings, William Hayman, 1831-1915, former owner.