Hamilton's modern instructions for the pianoforte, newly enlarged and improved; containing all the requisite precepts and examples on the rudiments of music, fingering, &c. and illustrated by seventy-three exercises, sixty-nine preludes and favorite airs, twelve chants and four vocal pieces, with piano accompaniment, viz. the Christian pilgrim's song "I will arise", "Eve's lamentation", and Barker's "Weep not for me", embracing four new exercises, viz. an exercise on octaves, an exercise on arpeggios, an exercise on chords, an exercise on double notes / composed by Czerny expressly for this edition, and additional valuable lessons, selected and arranged by him from the works of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Weigl ; the whole revised and fingered throughout by Carl Czerny.
Hamilton, James Alexander, 1785-1845
Category
Books
Date
1854
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Erddig, Wrexham
NT 3225911
Summary
Bibliographic description
246th edition. [1], 54p. : music ; 37cm (fol.) Seller's blind stamp: R. Cocks & Co. ... Some pencil marking and annotation. Provenance: inscribed at head if titlepage: Horsfall. Binding: nineteenth-century plain paper wrappers.
Provenance
Given by Philip Yorke III (1905-1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973.
Makers and roles
Hamilton, James Alexander, 1785-1845 Carl Czerny (1791-1857)