# Musical Travels Through England

Author: Veal, George, 1740-1787; Beckford, Peter, 1740-1811 [Dubious author]; Bicknell, Alexander, -1796 [Dubious author]; Bicknell, John Laurence, 1740-1787 [Dubious author]; Day, Thomas, 1748-1789 [Dubious author]

Genre: Category: Humour

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64895

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Musical+Travels+Through+England+Veal&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

_While I was extracting the following sheets from my voluminous Journal, and connecting them together as accurately as I was able, in order to present the Public with a Specimen of my laborious investigation of the present state of_ MUSIC _in this my native country, I was somewhat at a loss to whom I could with most propriety inscribe my work. Whether to_ DOCTOR BURNEY_, as the original inventor of this species of composition, and the first musical traveller of our nation, to whom I stand so much indebted for the plan, and conduct of my book, and of whom I might truly say in his own words, “that he has long been my_ magnus Apollo_:”—or whether I was in duty bound to pay homage to the King...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-travels-through-england-64895/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-travels-through-england-64895/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/musical-travels-through-england-64895/chapters/3/index.md)