<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>The three musicians</dc:title><dc:creator>Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872-1898</dc:creator><dc:date>[1896]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>BEIN BrSides 2014 380: The illustration appears have to been cut out of the magazine and is mounted on stiff card.</dc:description><dc:description>An illustration by Aubrey Beardsley of his poem, The three musicians, which appeared on pages 64-66 of the first issue (no. 1, Jan. 1896) of The Savoy, published by Leonard Smithers.</dc:description><dc:description>The poem recounts a walk in the woods by three musicians --a soprano, a Polish pianist, and a "slim, gracious boy" of unspecified musical talents-- but the illustration depicts only the soprano and the boy because "The Polish genius lags behind."</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>