Our friends at Edinburgh University Library’s Centre for Research Collections have been 
cataloguing their historical music collections, and it was with great excitement that I found these Excel spreadsheets online this evening! Looking at the Reid Concert Hall Cupboard sequence, I found Thomas Hamley Butler’s Gin a body meet a body – a piano rondo from 1810. It was registered at Stationers’ Hall on 13 April that year. It’s very late at night, so I didn’t keep looking, but this certainly entices me to look much, much more closely. Extraordinary useful lists, and fabulously fun!
- Reid Music Library page on the CRC website, where these lists can be found:-
KB Excel)(Oh, I just found another Stationers’ Hall piece. Haley’s Le Dilettante d’Auvignon. Someone, stop me …..)
Karen McAulay, Musicologist 