Browsing Austen Music Transcripts by Issue Date
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Jessy, or the happy pair
(London Magazine, 1747)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 ... -
Colin and Lucy: a ballad in seven parts for high voice and piano
(J. Dale, 1783)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 ... -
Seaton Clifts
(Southampton University Library (Internet Archive), 1785)'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 ... ... -
Pauvre Jacques
(Southampton University Library (Internet Archive), 1789)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 ... -
Laisse la sur l'herbette
(1810)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 ... -
Contented all day
(2011-01-22)Duet from 'The Chaplet'. Music headed 'Sung by Mr Beard and Miss Norris for the Chaplet'. -
Duo du Roi Theodore
(2011-01-22)Duo from the opera La Roi Theodore a Venise, originally in Italian. Words begin 'Filles charmantes, jeunes amantes, daignez m'apprendre'. -
For tenderness form'd in life's early day
(2011-01-22)Song arranged by Thomas Linley from an melody from Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Giovanni Paisiello. The original aria was 'Io son Lindoro'. -
Here's the bower she loved so much
(2011-01-22)Song lamenting the death of a young woman. With keyboard or possibly harp accompaniment. -
I ha'e laid a herring in salt
(2011-01-22)Scottish song: a busy farmer wants a quick answer to his proposal of marriage. -
Jockey and Jenny
(2011-01-22)First line: 'Stern winter has left us ye trees are in bloom.' Duet for male and female voices, singing alternate verses (8 verses). -
The Joys of the Country
(2011-01-22)Humorous song about the unglamorous aspects of country life. With violin and piano accompaniment. -
The Marseilles March
(2011-01-22)Version of the Marseillaise, the French national anthem. 6 verses.