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

For more information on my Austen music projects, see my Jane Austen's Music site.

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    Air with variations
    (2011-01-22T07:35:01Z) Dooley, Gillian Mary [transcriber]; Felton, William [composer]
    Air with 8 variations for keyboard solo.
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    Austen Music Transcripts: Explanatory notes and references
    (2011-01-22T14:43:30Z) Dooley, Gillian Mary
    Explanatory notes regarding the Austen music transcripts, and lists of all items I have in my possession, whether transcripts, scans or photocopies.
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    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.
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    Catch (Joan said to John)
    (2011-01-22T07:34:52Z) Dooley, Gillian Mary [transcriber]; Austen, Jane [transcriber]
    Unaccompanied catch or round for three voices.
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    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/austenfamilymusicbooks
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    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'.
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    Dear is my little native vale
    (2011-05-28T14:48:38Z) Dooley, Gillian Mary [transcriber]; Hook, James; McCauley, Fiona [arranger]
    Dear is my little native vale', a song by James Hook.
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    Dirges and Sad Ditties from Jane Austen's Music Collection [concert program]
    (Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities, 2017-07-16) Dooley, Gillian Mary
    Program for closing concert of Immortal Austen conference (Adelaide: July 2017) presented by Flinders University. Performers were Gillian Dooley, Nicola Hardie Beveridge, Chris Rawlinson, Kirstine Moffat and Alistair Knight. The music was selected from the Austen Family Music Collection. Includes extensive program notes.
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    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'.
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    The Egyptian Love Song
    (2011-01-22T14:46:52Z) Dooley, Gillian Mary [transcriber]; Harington, Henry [composer]; Austen, Jane [transcriber]
    Duet by Henry Harington. First line: 'Sweet doth blush the rosy morning'.
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    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'.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Hush-aby Baby
    (2011-01-22T08:40:40Z) Dooley, Gillian Mary [transcriber]; Austen, Jane [transcriber]
    Nursery song set for 2 voices and piano.
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    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.
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    Jane Austen's Music: programs from performances
    (2011-01-22T14:44:38Z) Dooley, Gillian Mary
    Programs from various performances of music from the Austen family music collections (including the presentation by Flinders University Library in the Adelaide Fringe 2008). For the 2011 program Sweets of May see separate record.
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    Jane Austen's Songs of the Sea [Concert program]
    (South Australian Maritime Museum, 2017-11-04) Dooley, Gillian Mary
    Among the music in Jane Austen’s personal music collection are many songs about sailors and the sea. Britain was at war for most of Austen’s lifetime and two of her brothers were naval officers. The program includes songs about life at sea and coming home, songs about the wives and families left behind, sailors’ love songs, and songs about war and revolution. Many of the songs are drawn from the rich folk heritage of the period. Others are written by composers including William Shield, Samuel Arnold, Stephen Storace and the prolific Charles Dibdin, whose comic and sentimental songs Austen seems to have been especially fond of. There are arrangements of Haydn and Handel tunes, and there is even a love song written by Matthew Flinders – the colleague of Jane Austen’s younger brother.
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    Jane Austen: The French Connection
    (2020-10-17) Dooley, Gillian
    Concert program for Jane Austen: The French Connection, held at the Barr Smith Library Reading Room on Sunday 17 October 2020. A concert of French music from Jane Austen's music collection and that of her family. Songs by Paisiello, Devienne, Gretry, Storace and even (possibly) Queen Marie Antoinette, with music for solo harp by Krumpholtz and Dalayrac. Gillian Dooley (voice), Christine Morphett (harp), Mark Smith (cello).
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    Jessy, or the happy pair
    (London Magazine, 1747) Gillian Dooley [transcriber]; Moore, Edward
    Song 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.
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    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).