Neal and Manwaring

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Dates Active in Dublin: 

[1737?] 1740–c. 1744

Business Type: 
Music publisher
Address(es): 

Corelli's Head, College Green

Details: 

Occasional publishing partnership between William Neal and William Manwaring between c.1737 and 1744.

Imprints: 'William Manwaring and William Neal' and 'Messrs Neal and Manwaring'.

[Dates and addresses differ according to sources: Berry and Carolan (2010) gives Neal & Manwaring at Corelli's Head College Green in 1737, Boydell (Calendar) gives the partnership dates as 1740 to 1744 and Munter gives them as 1740 to 1741.]

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Published (as listed in Carolan, 2010)

  • A Collection of ye Favourite Songs out of the Celebrated Masque of Comus and ye Oratorio of Athalia, with Several of the Choicest Balat Songs, 8–11 November 1740
  • A Second Collection of ye Celebrated Songs out of the Masque of Comus, with Several of the Choicest Balat Songs Sung by Mrs Clive &c., 10 August 1741
  • The Monthly Masque or an Entertainment of Music. Consisisting of Four Celebrated Songs, Set for the Violin, German Flute and Harpsicord [sic]. By the Best Masters (nos. 4 and 6), c.1744
    • See Also: 

    Manwaring, William
    Neal, William

    Source(s): 

    Berry, Henry F., 'House and Shop Signs in Dublin in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries', The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, 5th ser., 40.2 (30 June 1910), 81–98 (p. 87)

    Boydell, Brian, 'Music, 1700–1850', in Eighteenth-Century Ireland 1691–1800, ed. by T.W. Moody and W.E. Vaughan, A New History of Ireland, IV (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), pp. 568–627 (p. 591)

    A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes Proper for the Violin, German Flute or Hautboy, [ed. by] John and William Neal, facs. edn by Nicholas Carolan (Dublin: John and William Neal, 1724; repr. Dublin: Folk Music Society of Ireland, 1986), pp. xviii, xx–xxii

    Boydell, Brian, A Dublin Musical Calendar 1700–1760 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1988), p. 259

    Munter, Robert, A Dictionary of the Print Trade in Ireland: 1550–1775 (New York: Fordham University Press, 1988), pp. 179–80

    A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes Proper for the Violin, German Flute or Hautboy, [ed. by] John and William Neal, 2nd facs. edn by Nicholas Carolan (Dublin: John and William Neal, 1724; repr. Dublin: ITMA/Folk Music Society of Ireland, 2010), pp. 21-22, 25, 27

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Manwaring, William (1)’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Manwaring, William (2)’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Manwaring, William (3)’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Last Update: 16-03-2018