The great Dr. Burney : his life, his travels, his works, his family and his friends.
| Author/creator | Scholes, Percy A. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London, New York : Oxford University Press, 1948. |
| Description | 2 volumes : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | v. 1. Antecedents -- Childhood and boyhood (1726-1744; to the age of 18) -- The London debut (1744-c. 1746; aged about 18-20) -- In aristocratic circles (1746-1748; aged about 20-22) -- A London organist (1748-1751; aged about 22-25) -- English parish church music in Burney's day -- The migration to Norfolk (1751; aged 25) -- The wonderful new organ (1754; aged 28) -- The later Lynn period (1755-1760; aged 29-34) -- First years in Poland Street (1760-1764; aged 34-38) -- 'The cunning man' (1766; aged 40) -- An interlude: British musical taste in the 1760s -- The second marriage (1767; aged 41) -- The Oxford doctorate (1769; aged 43) -- The journey to Italy (1770; aged 44) -- Italian experiences (1770; aged 44) -- The journey home (1770; aged 44) -- In Queen Square (1771-1772; aged 45-46) -- The journey to Germany (1772; aged 46) -- In Germany (1772; aged 46) -- Down the Iser and the Danube to Vienna (1772; aged 46) -- From Vienna to Berlin (1772; aged 46) -- At the court of Frederick the Great (1772; Burney aged 46 and Frederick aged 60) -- Hamburg and home (1772; aged 46) -- Trouble with the Germans (1773; aged 47) -- Last days in Queen Square and first days in St. Martin's Street (1773-1775; aged 47-49) -- Burney's 'tours' are parodied (1774; aged 48) -- Fanny's first suitor (1775; Fanny aged 23 and her father 49) -- The sailor son (1774-1780; Burney aged 48-54 and James Burney 24-30) -- The magnum opus and its rival (1776; Burney aged 50 and Hawkins aged 57) -- The good and bad in Burney's History -- Burney and the Streatham coterie (1776-82; aged 50-56) -- Some of Burney's Streatham friends -- Two musical parties in St. Martin's Street (1777; Burney aged 51) -- A criminal in the family (1777; Burney aged 51; the criminal nearly 20) -- The Burney family produces a novelist (1778; Fanny aged 25 and her father 51) -- The Garricks and the Burneys (Garrick's death, 1779; Garrick aged 62 and Burney 53) -- The Burneys in the Gordon riots (1780; Burney aged 50). |
| Contents | v. 2. The Streatham coterie breaks up (1782; Burney aged 56, Fanny aged 30, Mrs. Thrale aged 41; Johnson aged 73) -- Burney amongst the water nymphs (1783; aged 57) -- The Burneys come to know old Mrs. Delany and Fanny to learn court etiquette (1783; Fanny aged 31, her father 57, and Mrs. Delany 83) -- Burney's children and stepchildren in 1783 (Burney aged 57) -- Other family matters (up to 1783, when Burney was 57) -- The Burneys lose some old friends (1783-1784; Burney aged 57-58) -- Burney becomes organist of Chelsea hospital (1784; aged 57) -- The Handel commemoration (1784; Burney aged 58, Handel 25 years dead) -- Burney and the burglars (1785; Burney aged 59) -- The Burneys and the bluestockings (the 1780s and 1790s; Burney in his fifties and sixties, and Fanny in her thirties and forties) -- Fanny enters the royal service (1786; Fanny aged 34, her father aged 60) -- Burney and his friend Haydn (1791-1795; Burney aged 65-69, Haydn 59-63) -- The musical graduates (from 1790; Burney aged 64) -- Disasters amongst the Worcester Burneys (1785-1792; Burney himself aged 59-66) -- Fanny's romantic marriage (1793; Fanny aged 41, her father 67) -- The tragedy of Susan Burney (1786-1800; Susan aged about 32-46 and Burney 60-74) -- Burney again a widower (1796; aged 70) -- Burney and Herschel: astronomers (1797-1799; Burney aged 71-73, Herschel 59-61) -- The death of Burke and a visit to the scenes of Burney's youth (1797; Burney aged 71, and Burke 68) -- London music-making towards the end of the eighteenth century -- Virtues and vagaries of a septuagenarian musical encyclopedist (1801-1805; Burney aged 75-79) -- Death of an old friend: the inventive Merlin (d. 1804, aged 69; Burney aged 78) -- The octogenarian becomes a convert to Bach (1807-1814; aged 81-88) -- Fanny's ten years' absence in France and her adventurous return (1802-1812; Fanny aged 50-60, her father 76-86) -- Burney's family in 1814 (Burney aged 88) -- Burney's brother-in-law, Arthur Young (from 1784 to 1814; Young aged 43-73, Burney 58-88) -- Fanny's last novel (1814; Fanny aged 62, her father aged 88) -- The long life ends (12 April 1814; aged 88) -- Burney's will and memorial -- Burney's family after his death -- Some Burney letters -- Appendices. |
| Bibliography note | Bibliography: v. 2, pages 331-392. |
| LCCN | 48010001 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML423.B9 S3 V. 1 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |
| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML423.B9 S3 V. 2 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |