A Collection of Musick by Several Hands
by Oswald, James
Full title: A Collection of Musick By several Hands both Vocal and Instrumental Most of which never before printed and Now published for the Use of Orpheus’s Club by James Oswald Dancing Master in Edinburgh
Publisher: Edinburgh: James Oswald
Date: [1736]
Description:
Oswald’s first substantial collection (after a book of minuets in 1734, now lost) includes sonatas, tune settings, vocal music, and finally A Sonata of Scots Tunes for two violins and continuo. This and other pieces were reprinted from the same plates in 1740 as part of 'A Curious Collection of Scots Tunes'.
Biographical info: Oswald was born in Crail in 1710, and died in Knebworth, Hertfordshire, in 1769. He was a musician and dancing master in Dunfermline, then went to Edinburgh, where he was a composer, publisher, cellist, and teacher. He moved to London in 1741, where he was a well-connected teacher, publisher, active in Society of the Temple of Apollo, and appointed Chamber Composer to the king in 1761. (Alburger; Grove)
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