James Alexander Hamilton (1785–1845) was an English compiler of musical instruction books. (From Wikipedia)
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Hamilton, James Alexander, 1785-1845, trans.: Letters to a Young Lady, on the Art of Playing the Pianoforte, From the Earliest Rudiments to the Highest State of Cultivation: Written as an Appendix to Every School for That Instrument (London: R. Cocks and Co., ca. 1840), by Carl Czerny (multiple formats at archive.org)
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Hamilton, James Alexander, 1785-1845: A catechism of music (G. Schirmer, 1891), also by J. Jousse, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, and Theodore Baker (page images at HathiTrust)- Hamilton, James Alexander, 1785-1845: A cathecism of the rudiments of harmony and thorough bass : practically illustrated by an addition of forty-six examples to be filled up by the student (S.T. Gordon, 1865) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hamilton, James Alexander, 1785-1845: A course of counterpoint and fugue (R. Cocks and co., 1837), also by Luigi Cherubini (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hamilton, James Alexander, 1785-1845: A dictionary of 3500 Italian, French, German, English, and other musical terms. (O. Ditson & co., 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hamilton, James Alexander, 1785-1845: A dictionary of two thousand Italian, French, German, English, and other musical terms. (E. J. Jaques, 1842) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hamilton, James Alexander, 1785-1845: Hamilton's catechism of the organ : revised, corrected, and enlarged, with an historical introduction and a list of the principal metropolitan, country, and foreign organs (R. Cocks, 1842), also by Joseph Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hamilton, James Alexander, 1785-1845: Hamilton's catechism on the nature, invention, exposition, development and concatenation, of musical ideas, illustrated with examples from the most celebrated authors ... (R. Cocks and Co., 1838) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hamilton, James Alexander, 1785-1845: Hamilton's celebrated dictionary, comprising an explanation of 3,500 Italian, French, German, English, and other musical terms, phrases and abbreviations, also a copious list of musical characters, such as are found in the works of Adam [and others] With an appendix, consisting of a reprint of John Tinctor's Terminorum musicae diffinitorium, the first musical dictionary known. (R. Cocks, 1860), also by Johannes Tinctoris and John Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hamilton, James Alexander, 1785-1845: Hamilton's celebrated dictionary; comprising an explanation of 3,500 Italian, French, German, English, and other musical terms, phrases and abbreviations ... With an appendix, consisting of a reprint of John Tinctor's "Terminorum musicae diffinitorium," the first musical dictionary known. (R. Cocks, 1849), also by Johannes Tinctoris and John Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hamilton, James Alexander, 1785-1845: Letters to a young lady, on the art of playing the pianoforte, from the earliest rudiments to the highest state of cultivation : written as an appendix to every school for that instrument (R. Cocks & Co., 1842), also by Carl Czerny (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hamilton, James Alexander, 1785-1845: A new theory of the resolution of discords, according to the modern system (R. Cocks & co., 1830), also by Anton Reicha (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hamilton, James Alexander, 1785-1845: The self-instructor in musical composition, and thorough bass ... to which has been added Hamilton's treatise on fugue and double counterpoint, together with a translation of Schneider's celebrated work on arranging for a full orchestra and military band (Mason Brothers, 1853), also by I. B. Woodbury and Friedrich Schneider (page images at HathiTrust)
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