THE

BIOGRAPHICAL

FAMILY

MINSTREL:

A MUSICAL AND LITERARY JOURNAL.

EMBRACING

SKETCHES OF EMINENT MUSICAL MEN; ESSAYS ON VOCAL STYLE, CHURCH MUSIC, &c.;-FACTS SHEWING THE IMPORTANCE OF
MUSICAL INSTRUCTION IN COMMON AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS;-PHYSIOLOGICAL INQUIRIES INTO THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE HUMAN VOICE,
EAR, &C.;-WITH DIRECTIONS FOR THEIR CULTIVATION ;-ELEMENTS OF MUSICAL ELOCUTION, SIMPLIFIED AND ADAPTED

FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE USE;-HINTS TO PARENTS IN GIVING THEIR CHILDREN A MUSICAL EDUCATION ;-
RECORDS OF THE TRANSACTIONS OF MUSICAL SOCIETIES, &c.;-ANECDOTES OF MUSIC, WITH
ACCOUNTS OF ITS EFFECTS;-SELECT POETRY,-SACRED, MORAL, AND DEVOTIONAL;
ELEGANT AND USEFUL LITERATURE, &C., &c.

ALSO

A CHOICE SELECTION

OF

VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC:

ARRANGED, CENERALLY, FOR ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR AND FIVE VOICES, WITH AN ACCOMPANIMENT; OR FOR ONE, TWO, OR THREE INSTRUMENTS.

THE WHOLE

DESIGNED FOR THE PARLOR AND THE CHURCH, AND FOR SCHOOLS AND MUSICAL SOCIETIES.

PUBLISHED BY JAMES DE VOE, 104, BEEKMAN STREET, CORNER OF PEARL STREET.

1836.