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Selected texts by members of the Burney family are available online.


Frances Burney (1752-1840)

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CeciliaÌý(1782)

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    Ìý(1778-80)
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    Ìý(1793)
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    The WandererÌý(1814)

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Diary and Letters of Madame D'ArblayÌý(1842)

"Edited by her niece [Charlotte Barrett]."

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Charles Burney (1726-1814)

ForÌýrecordings of Charles Burney's work. see his biography page.

Ìý(1773)
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The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands and United ProvincesÌý(1775)
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Ìý(1785)(1834 reprint)
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A General History of Music, from the earliest ages to the present periodÌý(1789)
Ed. Frank Mercer; 1935 Harcourt Brace edition (reprinted by Dover)

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Ìý(1796)
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Memoirs of Doctor BurneyÌý(1832)
"Arranged from his own manuscripts, from family papers, and from personal recollections,
by his daughter, Madame d'Arblay [Frances Burney]."

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The , available on .

Scores for hymns: 1769: PDF icon cb_hymns_1769.pdf, 1790:ÌýPDF icon cb_hymns_1790.pdf, 1817: PDF icon cb_hymns_1817.pdf.

: an index of printed music manuscripts ca. 1600-1800 held by libraries in the UK and worldwide.

: catalogue of Burney's compositions and written works (as author, editor, and translator). This includes links to 2 of Charles Burney's music scores, 13 collections which included his work, 51 music scores extracted from the General History, and 1 translation of a letter by Tartini, as well as digitised texts of his General History, Life of Metastasio and the 2 volumes of Travels. The page also links to pages with music scores by his nephew, Charles Rousseau Burney (1747-1819), and granddaughter, Cecelia Burney (1797-1821).

"Dr Charles Burney and Hymn Tunes" by A.P. Woolrich:PDF icon cb_hymns_woolrich.pdf

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, available on Archive.org.

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The below documents by A.P. WoolrichÌýrecreate the texts of Dr Charles Burney’s writings in Rees’s Cyclopaedia. Because the full PDFs are around 12mb, users with slower Internet may wish to check the individual index lists before downloading the full documents.

For an introduction and overview of the work, see the Digitization Introduction: PDF icon rees_digitization_introduction.pdf

For general articles, see the General files:ÌýPDF icon rees_general_list.pdfÌý Ìý|Ìý ÌýPDF icon rees_general_fulldocument.pdf

For biographies, see the Biography files:ÌýPDF icon rees_biographies_list.pdfPDF icon rees_biographies_fulldocument.pdf

Addendum of Kepler's biography:ÌýPDF icon rees_kepleraddendum.pdf

Addendum of Putavari's biography: PDF icon rees_putavariaddendum.pdf

See also the music plates:ÌýPDF icon rees_musicplates.pdf

These documents are generously released by A.P. Woolrich under theÌý.


James Burney (1750-1821)

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Excerpt on the topic of the Maoris of New Zealand.
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Ìý(1791)
Facsimile copy of letter dated September 5, 1791.
Made available online by the State Library of New South WalesÌý.

Ìý(1813)
Chapters four and seven of Volume III.
Made available online by Colin Choat and Bob Forsyth forÌý.

Ìý(1816)
Excerpts from Volumes I and IV.
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Ìý(1816)
Selected excerpts from chapters one through seven.
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Ìý(1819)
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