Dr. Charles Burney A Literary Biography

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ISBN: 9780198128854 | 0198128851
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 10/30/1986

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Drawing on a wealth of unpublished material, this intimate study of one of the most engaging and energetic men of his age throws new light on his musical and literary career and on his acquaintance with such luminaries as Handel, Haydn, Rousseau, Garrick, and Johnson.

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List of Plates	p. xiii
Abbreviations and Cue Titles	p. xv
Childhood and First Years in London, 1726-51	p. 1
King's Lynn and the Return to London, 1751-69	p. 38
Musical Travels, 1769-73	p. 80
The First Volume of the History of Music, 1773-6	p. 134
Burney and Sir John Hawkins, 1770-89	p. 189
Burney in the Johnsonian Circle, 1776-84	p. 226
Burney and the Court, 1784-9	p. 292
Memoirs of Metastasio, 1789-96	p. 347
'Astronomy, an Historical and Didactic Poem', 1796-1801	p. 381
Burney and Rees's Cyclopaedia, 1801-5	p. 407
Burney's 'Memoirs'	p. 432
Last Years, 1805-14	p. 456
Appendices
Burney's setting of Thornton's Burlesque Ode on St. Cecilia's Day	p. 485
Cancellations in the History of Music, Volume I	p. 491
Bibliography	p. 495
Index	p. 509
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