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Chronological list of sources

Many of the following make reference to Burney's writings in Rees's Cyclopaedia, (1802-1819)

Scholes, P. A., The Puritans and Early Music in England and New England, OUP, 1934 [Occasional references to Burney's articles in Rees]
Scholes, P. A., The Oxford Companion to Music, 1938 (and later eds) [Frequent citations to Burney's Rees articles, and also some illustrations from the work.]
Scholes, P. A., 'A New Enquiry into the Life and Work of Dr Burney', Proceedings of the Musical Association 67th Session, 1940–1941, pp 1–30. [pp 24–5 has section 'Burney an Encyclopaedist'.]
Scholes, P. A., The Great Dr Burney, 1948, Vol 2, pp 184–201, chapter LVIII, "Virtues and vagaries of a septuagenarian encyclopædist" [Throughout his biography Scholes made reference to, and some times quoted from, Burney's articles in Rees.]
Scholes, P. A., Dr Burney's Musical Tours in Europe, 2 vol, OUP 1959, [Scholes makes a number of references to, and quotations from Burney's Rees articles]
Oldman, C.B., 'Dr Burney and Mozart', Mozart Jahnbuch 1962/63. (1964), pp 73–81. [Includes extracts from Burney's Rees articles about Mozart.]
Lonsdale, Roger, Dr Charles Burney: a Literary Biography, OUP 1965, pp 407–431, chapter X, "Burney and Rees's Cyclopædia"
Lonsdale, Roger, 'Dr Burney's 'Dictionary of Music' ',Musicology Australia, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 159–171, 1979 [An account of Burney's Rees articles, with criticism of Scholes's discussion of them.]
Kassler, Jamie Croy, The Science of Music in Britain: A Catalogue of writings, Lectures and Inventions, 2 vol, Garland, 1979 [Both Burney and Farey sr. appear often in the Index. Rees's Cyclopaedia and music is discussed at pp 1200–1204.]
Grant, Kerry S., Dr Burney as Critic and Historian of Music. UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1983.[Throughout this book Grant made reference to, and some times quoted from, Burney's articles in Rees.]
Klima, Slava, Bowers, Garry, and Grant, Kerry S., Memoirs of Dr Charles Burney, 1726–1769, University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln and London, 1988.[Throughout this book the authors made reference to, and frequently quoted from, Burney's articles in Rees.]
Woolrich, A. P., Dr Burney and Rees's Cyclopaedia, Burney Letter, vol 23 no 1 Spring, 2017, pp 1, 2, 10-11 [This discusses Charles Burney's contribution to the Cyclopaedia on music. The Burney Letter is published by the Burney Society. ISSN 1703-9835.]
Woolrich, A. P., Consolidated edition of the Music Biographies from Rees's Cyclopadia, (1802-1819), Burney Letter, vol 23 no 2 Fall, 2017, pp 6-7. [This is an edited version of the fuller introduction to the biographies.]

Publications

An Essay towards a History of Comets that have appeared since the year 1742 ..., London, 1769
The Present State of Music in France and Italy: ..., London, London, 1771
The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Provinces..., London, 1773
- Modern editions
- Dr Burney's Continental Travels, 1770-1772, ed. C. H. Glover, 1927
- Dr Burney's Musical Tours in Europe, ed. P. A. Scholes, Oxford, 2 vol 1959
- Music, Men, And Manners in France and Italy, 1770, ed., from the original manuscript by H. Edmund Poole, London, 1969
A General History of Music, London, Vol 1, 1776, Vol 2, 1782, Vols 3 & 4, 1789
- Modern edition
- A General History of Music... by Charles Burney, ed by Frank Mercer, 2 vol, London, 1935, Rep. New York, 1957
Account of an Infant Musician [William Crotch] London, 1779
Account of Mademoiselle Theresa Paradis, of Vienna, ... London 1785
An account of the Musical Performances in Westminster Abbey ... In Commemoration of Handel, London, 1785
Numerous book reviews in the Monthly Review, London, 1785-1802
Verses on the Arrival in England of the Great Musician Haydn, London, 1791
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate Metastasio ... London, 3 vol, 1796
Hymn for the Emperor. Composed by Doctor Haydn trs. by Burney, London, 1799
Numerous musical articles written for Rees's Cyclopaedia between c1801-1808 and published 1802-1819

Charles Burney's papers

After his death in 1814, Burney's daughter, Frances, destroyed many, including his journals, or obliterated passages in other MS, and those that survive have become widely scattered: they may be found in the Osborn Collection at Yale University, the Berg Collection at New York Public Library, the British Library and the Bodleian Library, Oxford, as well as smaller public and private collections. (See Roger Lonsdale, Dr Charles Burney a Literary Biography, Oxford 1965 pp 495-497), For many years the Burney Centre at McGill University, Toronto, Canada, has been publishing the papers of the Burney Family, not only those of Charles, but also his daughter, Frances, the novelist

The Letters of Dr Charles Burney (1751-1814) General Editor: Peter Sabor

A scholarly edition of the Letters of Dr Charles Burney is being published in six volumes by Oxford University Press.

Vol 1 1751-1784 Edited by Alvaro Ribeiro, SJ, ISBN: 0-19-812687-5
Vol 2 1785-1793 (Forthcoming) Edited by Lorna Clark
Vol 3 1794-1800 (Forthcoming) Edited by Stewart Cooke
Vol 4 1801-1806 (Forthcoming) Edited by Stewart Cooke
Vol 5 1807-1809 (Forthcoming) Edited by Nancy Johnson
Vol 5 1810-1814 (Forthcoming) Edited by Peter Sabor