Musical evenings : or, Selections, vocal & instrumental, from the best composers : manuscript, 1821 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Genre:Specimens

Physical Description:75 leaves, bound ; 20 cm

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:612216085

Notes:

Title continues: Illustrated with suitable words & remarks, and adapted to the performance of evening parties/ The musical part arranged by Vincent Novello/ The remainder written by Leigh Hunt

Manuscript possibly in the hand of Marianne Kent Hunt, with additions and revisions in the hand of Leigh Hunt

Leaves are tipped to stubs; the green leather binding is stamped "Bound by Rivière and Son."

Title page, contents page, preface and introduction, and "Evening the First" of a what was evidently a projected series

According to introduction, a project originally undertaken by Thomas Moore for the music publisher James Power, combining texts for reading aloud with musical selections for performance, intended for use in domestic settings; the 19 musical selections called for in the text are not included

Includes translations and new verses by Hunt

A variant draft (shorter and written earlier) was published in 1964 from a manuscript purchased in 1951 by the State University of Iowa Library (David R. Cheney, ed., Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, [1964])