Welcome to Musical Court Odes, 1660–1779, a research database to accompany the monograph ‘To Speak its Share of Publick Joy’: Musical Court Odes 1660–1779 by Estelle Murphy (Boydell & Brewer, forthcoming). The database presents an ongoing and open-access catalogue of the odes with transcriptions of their poetry, as well as some of the author’s observations associated with the data.
The collection may be listed and searched by incipit (first lines), poet, composer, place, and date. Full-text searching of the poetry transcriptions is enabled, even taking account of variant spellings. Additional information is found in ‘data notes’ (notes and other observations attached to specific data), and in documents made available in PDF: poetic scansion, analysis, music examples, etc. Links to the odes’ literary and musical sources are provided in cases that are hosted by external sites and accessible without subscription.
Intended to be an ongoing research tool, this resource invites contributions relating to the odes, their sources, poetic and musical transcriptions, analysis, and other relevant information. Enquiries may be sent to Estelle Murphy using the link at the foot of this page.
While most of the content of the database is accessible on open access to the public at large, some information and various documents connected with Estelle Murphy’s ongoing research are protected, requiring permission to access. In those instances a user-account and login may be requested.
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