Annie Maria Baxter manuscript music album, July 1852, bound together with published set of 'The Camp...
Annie Maria Baxter manuscript music album, July 1852, bound together with published set of 'The Campbell Town Waltzes', 1849
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Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1849-1852
Call Numbers
MLMSS 9902
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Physical Description
Contents
0.3 metres of textual material (1 box) - manuscript
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Level of description
Fonds
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Scope and Contents
Contents
MLMSS 9902 (1 BOX)
A manuscript music album of mostly vocal scores with piano accompaniment (approx. 70) containing popular English folk songs, ballads and operas from the colonial period with many pieces transcriptions of works composed or arranged by George Linley (1798-1865), compiled and transcribed by Annie Maria Baxter. Album is bound wit...
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Full title
Annie Maria Baxter manuscript music album, July 1852, bound together with published set of 'The Campbell Town Waltzes', 1849
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
Compilation of 19th century published music.
Signature / Inscriptions
Signed and dated on title page 'Annie Maria Baxter, Plymouth, July '52'
Conservation note
Fragile binding. Some pages are loose.
Published information
This music album is referred to in:
Richards, Rosemary. ‘“To Display Her Chief Accomplishment”: Domestic Manuscript Music Collections in Colonial Australia’. In Performing History: Approaches to History across Musicology, edited by Nancy November. Boston, U.S.A.: Academic Studies Press, 2020, 320–36. Accessed 31 December 2020. https://www.academicstudiespress.com/out-of-series/performing-history...
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Hordern House, 4 October 2016
Administrative / Biographical history
Annie Maria Baxter (née Hadden, later Dawbin) (1816-1905), pioneer and diarist, was born on 24 November 1816 in Devon, England, the daughter of James Hadden, an English army officer. She was married first to Lieutenant Andrew Baxter (b. 7 December 1813) on 8 February 1834 in England, and second to Robert Dawbin (b. 21 October 1827) on 1 September 1...
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
MLMSS 9902
Record Identifier
Yr8MqwDn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yr8MqwDn
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Reference code
1001738
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