William Hayman Cummings Bibliography

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WILLIAM HAYMAN CUMMINGS (1831–1915)

Purcell (1881)

📖 No sheet music included.

ℹ️ The Great Musicians.

https://archive.org/details/cu31924017712690/page/n6/mode/2up

Handel (1904)

📖 72 pages long. Divided into short chapters. No sheet music included.

ℹ️ Bell's Miniature Series Of Musicians.

https://archive.org/details/handel00cummgoog/page/n12

God Save The King: The Origin, And History Of The Music And Words Of The National Anthem (1902)

📖 Sheet music included.

ℹ️ "SCARCELY a month passes without some paragraph appearing in the public journals concerning the origin of the music of our National Anthem. Untenable theories, which have often been refuted, are paraded as new discoveries; discussions more or less relevant ensue, are read with avidity, and then, becoming forgotten, are allowed to repose in obscurity for a time, but with a certainty that in due course the whole matter will be
re-opened. I propose, therefore, in the following pages, to state and consider various theories which have been advanced, and to publish some documents by Dr. Burney and others which are of great weight and value, and which have never before been made public."
(Preface)

https://archive.org/details/godsavekingorigi00cummiala/page/n5/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/godsavekingorigi00cumm/page/n5/mode/2up

Dr. Arne And Rule, Britannia (1912)

📖 Sheet music on pages 36 & 132.

ℹ️ "The glorious National Song, "Rule, Britannia", is familiar to the whole British race; nevertheless very few men and women are acquainted with the history of its birth and parentage.

In the following pages I have endeavoured to chronicle all the facts which are discoverable by diligent research, and to present them in an attractive and entertaining manner.

The life of Dr. Arne, the composer of Rule, Britannia," offers to the reader and to the music student an interesting and instructive story, showing that natural ability, even when combined with genius, is not sufficient to ensure a triumphant and successful career. Morality and conscientious rectitude in the affairs of life are essential, and had Arne exercised these, his exceptional gifts might have enabled him to surpass his great contemporary, Handel.

It only remains to be noted that many letters and documents are here printed for the first time, some of them copied from the original autographs in my possession. They illuminate much which has hitherto been obscure and uncertain in the career of a famous composer."
(Preface)

https://archive.org/details/cu31924022272623/page/n7/mode/2up
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