Music in Scottish Castles and Country Houses

Music in Scottish Castles and Country Houses
Catalogued and surveyed by Dr Roger B. Williams MBE
Hon. Music Advisor to NTS


Master Index – Single Item Selection

BUC : The British Union-Catalogue of Early Music
CPM : Catalogue of Printed Music in the British Library to 1980

Monday 6th October 2025

Links are provided to the relevant      > Composer    > Shelf List     > Song Writer/Librettist     > Printer/Publisher   .. &c ..    in all collections

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Newhailes NH 58/5-10  RBW 1827

Logier's | Theoretical & Practical Study | for the | Piano Forte | comprising | A Series of Compositions selected from the most Classical Works, both | Ancient and Modern | Being a continuation on Instructions on his System of | Musical Education; arranged with Inverted and Fundamental Basses, Finger'd throughout, and | Dedicated to his Pupils. | No. 1 (-5,7)
[1817]    Clementi & Co, and sold by him [ie Logier] at his Musical Saloon, 27, Sackville Street, Dublin  ::  Price [each no.] 5 Shills.

fol.  6 bks  Sig. 'Miss Anne Fergusson, Apl. 8th 1817' on t.p. no. 1; then 1st May 1817 (no. 2), 23 July 1817 (no. 4)

NB Concertos, etc scored as for Keyboard but with a figured bass and a real bass – not to be played but showing the harmonic progressions

no. 1 'Sketch of the Life of Corelli Extracted from Doctor Burney's History of Music' (pp.1-3) followed by Corelli's First Concerto (pp.3-15)
no. 2 'Sketch of the Life of Corelli Extracted from Doctor Burney's History of Music' (pp.1-3) followed by Corelli's Eighth Concerto (pp.4-18)
no. 3 'Sketch of the Life of Handel Extracted from Doctor Burney's History of Music' (pp.[5]-7) followed by Handel's Occasional Overture (pp.3-14)
no. 4 Continuation of 'Life of Handel Extracted from Doctor Burney's History of Music' (pp.[3]-5) followed by the Overture to Handel's Esther (pp.4-15)
no. 5 (or 6?) 'Sketch of the Life of Haydn Extracted from Doctor Burney's history of Music' (pp.[3]-4) followed by Haydn's Symphony no.53 (first two movements only, without introduction - pp.4-21)
no. 7 'Sketch of the life of Mozart Extracted from Doctor Burney's History of Music' (pp.[3]-5) followed by Mozart's Overture to Die Zauberflöte (pp.3-16)

Also: (in no. 1) Advertisement for Chiroplast-Hall,  April 20, 1816

Short Title  > Theoretical and practical study for the pianoforte, nos. 1-5,7
Cmp/Arr  > Johann Bernhard Logier (1777-1846) (arr.)   |   Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)   |   George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)   |   Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)   |   W A Mozart (1756-1791)
Auth/Ed  > Burney, Charles (1726-1814)
Pr/Pub/Bks  > Clementi & Co.   |   J.B. Logier
Former Owner  > Anne Fergusson [fl.1839]