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In the Mahoney Music Collection are two competing music histories.

  • Writer: Doris Peterson
    Doris Peterson
  • Mar 18, 2024
  • 1 min read

Updated: 2 days ago

Charles Burney’s and John Hawkins’s multi-volume histories were both published in London in the late 1700s (around 1776.) How are they different, and how are they similar? Why did the authors say negative comments about the other’s history?


Small etching of a seated figure framed by a wreath.
Burney's history of music
Hawkin's history of music

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