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1. Rural beauty, or, Vaux-Hal Garden
- Creator:
- Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1737?]
- Call Number:
- 737.00.00.04
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- notated music and still image
- Abstract:
- "View overlooking gardens, showing a band playing from the orchestra on the right; elegantly dressed figures strolling through gardens or seated at tables amongst trees; head-piece illustration to 'The Musical Entertainer', p. 21; with the score of a song below, all printed from the same plate."--British Museum catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Vaux-Hal Garden and Vauxhall Garden
- Description:
- Title from item., Dedication beneath title: To the Rt. Hon. [the] Ld. Visct. Baltimore, these four plates are humbly inscrib'd., Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music on two staves with interlinear words. Additional four stanzas in two columns below., Opening words: Flora, Goddess, sweetly blooming ..., Plate from: Bickham, G. Musical entertainer., Musical entertainer is sometimes attributed to George Bickham, Senior., Plate numbered "21" in upper right corner., "No. VI."--Lower left corner., and Eighteenth-century watermark. For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- G. Bickham
- Subject (Geographic):
- Vauxhall Gardens (London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Songs with piano, Songs with harpsichord, and Songs, English
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Rural beauty, or, Vaux-Hal Garden
2. Susanna Miles her singing book
- Creator:
- Miles, Susanna, active 1759, compiler
- Published / Created:
- 1759.
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS VOL 1034
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 27
- Resource Type:
- notated music
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Susanna Miles her singing book