Title from item., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., Unaccompanied melody., and Song in six stanzas, printed below title. The first stanza printed with music, the following five without music in three columns below.
Publisher:
Published 4th October 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Score and part, holograph, with dedication to Adeline Palianti
Description:
Jules Massenet, French composer., Song, with words by Victor Hugo., Staff notation., Vocal text in French., Title from cover., Date of creation supplied by cataloger., and Voice part includes text for all verses.
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Name):
Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912. and Palianti, Adeline.
Caption title. Without imprint., Place of publication supplied by curator., First line: Three rosy fac'd Topers as ever was known, On a Frolick one night ..., Additional two lines of music "For the German flute.", This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Staff notation., and In ink upper right: 31.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Drinking songs, Sheet music, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Wine, Law, Clergy, and Songs
Score of Satie's nine scènes nouvelles, holograph, with corrections by Satie and brief annotations written by dancer Serge Lifar and in unidentified hands. Appended are a transposition of Gounod's quintet from act three, written in holograph by Georges Auric, and a vocal score of the final octet, written in an unidentified hand, possibly that of Edouard Flament. Laid in are a text of the quintet, typescript, and an excerpt in vocal score showing the transition to the final scene, written in holograph by Satie
Description:
Charles Gounod's opéra-comique Le médecin malgré lui, with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on Molière's play, was first performed in 1858. For a revival at the Festival Français in Monte Carlo, Serge Diaghilev commissioned recitatives by Satie to replace original spoken dialogue. A final vocal octet was adapted by Georges Auric from Gounod's quintet in act three. Le médecin malgré lui, with nine "scènes nouvelles" by Satie and the final scene by Auric, was conducted by Edouard Flament at the Casino Theater, Monte Carlo, on January 5, 1924., Available on microfilm, Staff notation., Vocal text in French., Title devised by cataloger., Date of creation supplied by cataloger., and "Médecin malgré lui: opéra comique de Gounod" -- caption title, written in an unidentified hand.
Score, holograph, with corrections and conductor's markings. The score varies from the first published edition and is apparently an earlier version of the work. Accompanied by a fragment of score paper with Walton's name and the Sitwells' London address, written by Walton in holograph
Alternative Title:
Sinfonia concertante, piano, orchestra
Description:
William Walton composed the Sinfonia Concertante while living in London with the Sitwell family. Walton dedicated the three movements of the work to Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell. The Sinfonia Concertante was first published in 1928 and revised in 1943., a Available on microfilm, Staff notation., Title from cover., and Date of creation supplied by cataloger.
Manuscript music book containing hymns and songs, vocal parts only, for treble and tenor. Most are identified by names of hymn tunes or Psalm numbers, and most are without texts. Songs with texts include "An Elegy Made on the Death of Queene Mary" and "King George's Anthem." Music is preceded by printed leaves titled "The Gamut or Scale of Musick," rules for "finding your Mi," and "Musical Characters" (no place, publisher, or date); and manuscript "Rules for Tuning the Voice."
Description:
Staff notation., Vocal texts in English., and Title from title page.
Subject (Name):
Miles, Susanna, active 1759., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, and Mary II, Queen of England, 1662-1694
Subject (Topic):
Hymns, English, Singing, Instruction and study, Songbooks, English, and Songs, English
The musical score with lyrics of a drinking song "The jolly Bacchanalians" with a copy of William Hogarth's "A midnight modern conversation" which shows a large party of men smoking, drinking, and singing around a table with a large bowl in the center. Several of the men are clearly intoxicated, one has fallen off his chair, lost his wig and is sprawled on the ground
Alternative Title:
Jolly Bacchanalians
Description:
Title from item., Plate from: Universal harmony, or, The gentleman & ladies' social companion. London : Printed for the proprietors & sold by J. Newbery at the Bible & Sun in St. Paul's Church Yard, 1746., Engraved throughout; illustrated with a design after Hogarth's painting 'A midnight modern conversation' at top of plate., and "P. 55"--Upper right corner.
Publisher:
Printed for the proprietors & sold by J. Newbery at the Bible & Sun in St. Paul's Church Yard