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
Caption title., In verse; without the music., First line: Spite the detraction, fraud, and spleen ..., "Price one penny"--Below imprint., Thirteen lines of advertisements for further Fairburn publication printed at bottom of sheet, including a second imprint statement identical to the one above., and Edge mounted on upper half of the sheet. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and published by John Fairburn, 2, Broadway, Ludgate-Hill
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Caption title., In verse; without the music., First line: Spite the detraction, fraud, and spleen ..., "Price one penny."--Below imprint., Twenty-three lines of advertisements printed at bottom of sheet, including a second imprint statement identical to the one above., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and published by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate-Hill
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
In two columns with the title in a ribbon atop a woodcut below stanza one. Stanzas 2 and 3 below image. A sailor at a seaside tavern (Jack Ocum) dances with a young woman as he holds his tankard. The fiddle music is played by a man who stands beside a woman in the tavern doorway. In the distance on the right is a sailing ship and along the shore, two men in a row boat
Alternative Title:
Oddities. Song
Description:
Title from item., One of the songs from Charles Dibdin's 'The oddities', first presented in 1789., First line reads: A sailor's life's a life of woe., Imprint transposed from above around lower edge of image and from the bottom of the sheet., Anonymous. By Charles Dibdin., and Not in ESTC.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Pitts, Great Saint Andrew St. ; Sold by C. Sheppard, Lambert Hill, Doctors Commons
Gin-shop, Peep into a prison, and Look through the land from north to south
Description:
BEIN BrSides 2011 72: 44 x 30 cm., Caption title., Signed: Z. [i.e. Hannah More]., Date from Spinney., Verse - "Look through the land from north"., Following imprint: "Great Allowance will be made to Shopkeepers and Hawkers.", Price from imprint: "Price an Half-penny, or 2s, 3d, per 100, 1s, 3d, for 50, 9d. for 25.", A Cheap repository tract., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by S. Hazard, (printer to the Cheap Repository for moral and religious tracts) at Bath; by J. Marshall, printer to the Cheap Repositories, No. 17, Queen-street, Cheap-side, and No. 4, Aldermary Church-yard; and R. White, Piccadilly, London; and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country
For high or medium voice and piano., Caption title: The moony, moony man., First line: Way up in the moon, there lives a great big yaller coon; first line of chorus: De moony moony man., Title p. illustration of a photo of a minstrel chorus with inset photo of George Evans signed: White., and Page [2] (1st count) and p. [1-2] at end blank; publisher's advertisement on p. [3] at end.
Publisher:
Chas. K. Harris
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Topic):
Songs (High voice) with piano, Songs (Medium voice) with piano, Minstrel music, and African Americans
Riot, Half a loaf is better than no bread, and Come neighbours, no longer be patient and quiet
Description:
Caption title below woodcut., Signed: Z. [i.e. Hannah More]., The sheet is headed: "Cheap repository"., First line reads: Come neighbours, no longer be patient and quiet., In two columns with a woodcut above the title., At foot of second column, in square brackets: Entered at Stationers Hall., Beneath imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers., "Price an halfpenny, or 2s. 3d. per 100. - 1s 3d. for 50. - 9d. for 25.", and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Marshall, (printer to the Cheap Repository for moral and religious tracts) No. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, and No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard; and R. White, Piccadilly, London; by S. Hazard, (printer to the Cheap Repository) at Bath; and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers in town and country
