Editorial introduction

NRO, MS 11232 is a bound volume containing 12 lectures as assembled by A. H. Mann. Several of these lectures have original titles by Crotch that indicate they were part of an 1818 lecture series. According to Crotch's General Account of all the Courses of Lectures, a group of eight new lectures was read at the Surrey Institution that year. The lectures are described as follows (Crotch's exact spelling and organization are preserved): Surry Institution 1818. 8 New Lectures Lecture I Feb^y 13. Introductory. Gradus ad Parnassum Clementi Dulce & Utile. Cramer. II Feb^y 20. Duke & Utile Continued – Haydn’s Quartetts adapted, Gelinek's Haydn Nehrlich III [Feb.] 27^th More Haydn's Quartetts adapted – Mozart D^r Kreutzer's Rondo IV March 6^th La Chasse & N^° 10 Haydn Sinfonias V [March] 13^th 1^st & 2^nd Acts of Don Giovanni Mozart. (20^th Good Friday) VI [March] 27^th 3^rd Act of D— VII April 3^rd Alexander's Feast – Handel VIII [April] 10^th Dettingen Te Deum D^°