Austen Music Transcripts
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This collection consists of transcripts by Gillian Dooley of a selection of items from the Austen family music collections owned by the Jane Austen’s House Museum and descendants of the Austen family, and held at the Hampshire Records Office, Winchester, and at Chawton House Library. Many of these transcripts were made directly from the manuscripts during a research trip to England in 2010. Other items are transcriptions or arrangements of items in the collection found in other sources. A major research project at Southampton University, led by Professor Jeanice Brooks, is studying these collections and their place in the wider musical culture of the period. Digital images of the full collection of music are now available online at Archive.org
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Item Jessy, or the happy pair(London Magazine, 1747) Gillian Dooley [transcriber]; Moore, EdwardSong from Austen music collections, CHWJA/19/1:20. Transcribed from manuscript for performance. MS available online at https://archive.org/stream/austen1671414-2001#page/n41/mode/2up. Words found in 'The Poetical Works of Edward Moore (London, 1806) p 143-4.Item Colin and Lucy: a ballad in seven parts for high voice and piano(J. Dale, 1783) Gillian Dooley [transcriber]; Giordani, Tommaso; Tickell, Thomas;Colin and Lucy (1783), A ballad in seven parts for high voice and piano; Music by Tommaso Giordani (c1730-1806), Words by Thomas Tickell (1685-1740), Transcribed and arranged for vocal duet by Gillian Dooley (2017) from the copy in the Austen Family Music Books reference no. CHWJA/19/8. https://archive.org/details/austenfamilymusicbooksItem Seaton Clifts(Southampton University Library (Internet Archive), 1785) Gillian Dooley (transcriber); Jane Austen (copyist); Philip Hayes (arranger)'To thy Cliffs rocky Seaton adieu. Adieu to Seaton Cliffs.' [Song.] ... The Words & Melody ... by a Gentleman of Oxford, at whose request Dr P. Hayes added a Bass and the Accompaniments.London : Printed for the Author ... by S. A. & P. Thompson, [1785?]. In Austen's manuscript she spells 'cliffs' as 'clifts'.Item Pauvre Jacques(Southampton University Library (Internet Archive), 1789) Gillian Dooley (transcriber); Jane Austen (copyist); Marquise de Travenet (composer/lyricist); Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (composer/lyricist)This is a transcript of a manuscript song in one of Jane Austen's music books, digitised by the University of Southampton Library. No composer is given in the manuscript. Many arrangements of this tune are recorded in various indexes, in different keys. In some the tune is attributed to Queen Marie Antoinette and the words to the Marquise de Travenet (1753-1828), or vice versa. There is a French Wikipedia page for this song which gives details of the various theories and further references, and provides a date of 1789. It is supposed to have been inspired by the story of a Swiss dairy-maid employed by Marie Antoinette.Item Laisse la sur l'herbette(1810) Gillian Dooley [transcriber]; Austen, Jane [copyist]; Pollet, Benoit (attrib.)Transcript of song in Jane Austen's handwriting in an album (catalogue no. CHWJA/19/7:18) digitised by University of Southampton at Internet Archive. Also includes English translation of words. Manuscript is online at https://archive.org/stream/austen1676459-2001#page/n81/mode/2up A song with this title by Benoit Pollet is held by University of Oxford Library with the title 'Le refus'. The tune is the same, with a different accompaniment and slight variations in the ornamentation of the refrain, and the words of verse 3 have significant differences.Item Captivity(2011-01-22T07:34:27Z) Dooley, Gillian Mary [transcriber and arranger]; Storace, Stephen [composer]; Austen, Jane [transcriber]Song in the form of a lament by Marie Antoinette from her imprisonment.Item Contented all day(2011-01-22T07:34:36Z) Dooley, Gillian Mary [transcriber]; Boyce, William [composer]Duet from 'The Chaplet'. Music headed 'Sung by Mr Beard and Miss Norris for the Chaplet'.Item Duo du Roi Theodore(2011-01-22T07:34:42Z) Dooley, Gillian Mary [transcriber]; Paisiello, Giovanni [composer]; Austen, Jane [transcriber]Duo from the opera La Roi Theodore a Venise, originally in Italian. Words begin 'Filles charmantes, jeunes amantes, daignez m'apprendre'.Item Catch (Joan said to John)(2011-01-22T07:34:52Z) Dooley, Gillian Mary [transcriber]; Austen, Jane [transcriber]Unaccompanied catch or round for three voices.Item Air with variations(2011-01-22T07:35:01Z) Dooley, Gillian Mary [transcriber]; Felton, William [composer]Air with 8 variations for keyboard solo.Item For tenderness form'd in life's early day(2011-01-22T07:42:38Z) Dooley, Gillian Mary [transcriber]; Paisiello, Giovanni [composer]; Linley, Thomas [arranger]Song arranged by Thomas Linley from an melody from Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Giovanni Paisiello. The original aria was 'Io son Lindoro'.Item Here's the bower she loved so much(2011-01-22T08:40:05Z) Dooley, Gillian Mary [transcriber]; Moore, Thomas [composer]; Austen, Jane [transcriber]Song lamenting the death of a young woman. With keyboard or possibly harp accompaniment.Item Hither Love thy beauties bring(2011-01-22T08:40:24Z) Dooley, Gillian Mary [transcriber]; Austen, Jane [transcriber]; Krumpholtz [composer]Pastoral love song - 4 verses with refrain.Item Hush-aby Baby(2011-01-22T08:40:40Z) Dooley, Gillian Mary [transcriber]; Austen, Jane [transcriber]Nursery song set for 2 voices and piano.Item I ha'e laid a herring in salt(2011-01-22T11:04:20Z) Dooley, Gillian Mary [transcriber]; Austen, Jane [transcriber]Scottish song: a busy farmer wants a quick answer to his proposal of marriage.Item Jockey and Jenny(2011-01-22T11:04:45Z) Dooley, Gillian Mary [transcriber]; Baildon, Joseph [composer]First line: 'Stern winter has left us ye trees are in bloom.' Duet for male and female voices, singing alternate verses (8 verses).Item The Joys of the Country(2011-01-22T11:04:59Z) Dooley, Gillian Mary [transcriber]; Dibdin, Charles [composer]; Austen, Jane [transcriber]Humorous song about the unglamorous aspects of country life. With violin and piano accompaniment.Item Lotharia(2011-01-22T12:09:57Z) Dooley, Gillian Mary [transcriber]; Arne, Thomas [composer]; McCauley, Fiona [arranger]Love song: first line 'Vainly now you strive to charm me'. 2 verses.Item The Lucky Escape(2011-01-22T12:10:21Z) Dooley, Gillian Mary [transcriber]; Dibdin, Charles [composer]Comic song about a ploughman who was enticed to sea. 4 verses.Item The Marseilles March(2011-01-22T12:10:33Z) Dooley, Gillian Mary [transcriber]; Rouget de Lisle, Claude Joseph; Austen, Jane [transcriber]Version of the Marseillaise, the French national anthem. 6 verses.
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