Title
Coombs's Divine amusement for the use of churches, chapels, schools, and private families : consisting of hymns, psalms, anthems & other sacred pieces, selected from the works of Marcello, Handel, Haydn, Luther, Mason, Boyce &c. forming a most complete collection of devotional music / composed & arranged with peculiar care for the voice, organ or piano forte, by J.M. Coombs, organist of Chippenham & formerly of the Cathedral Salisbury..
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Divine amusement for the use of churches, chapels, schools, and private families
Imprint
London. : Printed & sold by Preston at his wholesale warehouses, 97, Strand., [18--]
Physical description
1 score (67 p.) ; 25 cm
Note
For voice and figured bass, the figured bass realized.
Note
40 metrical psalms, 4 hymns and 2 anthems; named composers are: Battishill, Bond, Boyce, Broderip, Callcott, Carey, J.M. Coombs, Coombs of Bristol, Grigg, Handel, Harrington, Harwood, Haydn, Phocion Henley, Howard, Martin Luther, Madan, Marcello, Milgrove, Mozart, Pasiello [sic, i.e. Paisiello], Paxton, Pleyel, Randal, Wainwright, C. Wesley; the anthem on p. 60-61 is "taken from a Mass, and arranged by Precentor Mason."
Provenance
Inscription on psalm 137, p. 46: "Elizabeth Chubb Wood Park Cornwall 1843".
Provenance
Formerly in the possession of Hooke Church; given to the Cathedral Library by the Rev. T.M.F. Biles, Toller Porcorum, Dorset, in October 1980. Note of gift now in Acquisitions File.
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (20th century, reprinted 2019) with design based on the Dean and Chapter seal, and inscription “Sarvm Cathedral Library.”
Copy-specific note
Bound in: 84 unnumbered pages of ruled manuscript paper (12 staves), 12 of these with music in manuscript. There are two distinct groups of pages with music in manuscript, each group consisting of 6 contiguous pages, one group being at the one end of the 84 unnumbered pages, the other group at the other end; each group appears also to be in a hand distinct from the other. The contents of one group expands the printed collection of sacred pieces and includes: Hymn for Christmas Day [March from Judas Maccabaeus] / Handel ; Hymn for Whitsunday / Milgrove ; Hymn for Good Friday / Handel ; Hymn for the Sacrament ; Psalm 106th / Herschel ; Portuguese Psalm 137th; the other group includes 3 piano pieces with fingering: Gentil housard / [Fernando Sor] ; The bards bequest ; Rule Britannia / [Thomas Arne] ; [followed by an incomplete piece, apparently either for 2 treble instruments and piano or for 2 pianos, entitled] For[?] the trembling leaves[?].
Copy-specific note
With 2 cartoons or caricatures drawn on [detached] upper pastedown, one is saying, "O, Lord our God arise," the other, "Amen."
Copy-specific note
Price 6s unbound.--Title page.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: lacks the "Index" and the first leaf of music ([Morning hymn, and, Evening hymn]).
Subject
Sacred songs with organ.
Subject
Sacred songs with continuo.
Subject
Piano music.
Subject
Music Manuscripts.
Subject
Metrical psalms.
Added entry--name
Coombs, J. M. (James Morris), 1769-1820
Added entry--name
Biles, T. M. F. (Timothy Mark Frowde) donor.
Added entry--name
Chubb, Elizabeth, active 1843 associated name.
Added entry--name
Preston, T. (Thomas), -1834 bookseller.
Added entry--name
St Giles (Church : Hooke, Dorset, England) former owner.
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