Research Catalog

Title

Compilation of songs and glees.

Publication

London : [various publishers], [between 1805 and 1828]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Reeve, William, 1757-1815.
• Drexel collection

Description

1 score ([179] pages); 35 cm

Alternative Title

• Collection of selected melodies
• Glees

Subjects

• Scores
• Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with piano
• Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied
• Glees, catches, rounds, etc

Genre/Form

Scores.

Note

• Compilation of sheet music containing primarily glees for 3 or 4 voices, with and without piano accompaniment; also includes selections from "Out of place" by William Reeve and John Braham.
• Dating based on premiere of "Out of place" [1805] and the final collection of glees composed by Horsley published in his lifetime [1828].

Contents

My mother bids me bind my hair / composed by Joseph Haydn, harmonized by [Samuel] Webbe -- As on a summer's day / the poetry by Rowe, composed by John Stafford Smith -- Here's health and long life to our King / words by T. Hudson, music by J. Blewitt -- Prithee foolish boy / Richard John Samuel Stevens -- Sweet poet of the woods / William Horsley -- See smiling from the rosy east / Reginald Spofforth -- Shepherd's joys / William Horsley -- Dull repining sons of care / John Wall Callcott -- Out of place. Overture / William Reeve -- William Tell / John Braham -- Out of place. The almanack maker / William Reeve -- Out of place. A little queer old man / John Braham -- Out of place. Love & money ; Quintetto & chorus / William Reeve -- Out of place. Bim bom bell / John Braham -- Out of place. The fortune of war / lyrics by Charles Dibdin Jr., music by William Reeve -- Dulce domum / John Braham -- Out of place. Quintetto / William Reeve -- Out of place. Blow, blow ye gentle gales / John Braham -- Out of place. Finale / William Reeve -- A cruel fate / Theodore Aylward -- On softest beds / George Berg -- O salutaris hostia / John Danby -- Hush to peace / J. Rodgers -- Sweet nymph of my devotion / William Horsley -- Music's the language of the blest above / Samuel Webbe -- O Venus regina / poetry by Horace, composed by Benjamin Cooke -- The sparkling beam ; O come o bella / Samuel Webbe -- Yours or mine. Pilgrim's trio / William Shield -- Merrily over the rolling sea / Frederick Gladstanes -- Shakespeare's loadstars / William Shield -- Crown the passing hour with joy / William Horsley -- Oh stay sweet fair / John Stevenson -- Abelard ; From this roof my shepherd went / John Wall Callcott.

Call Number

Drexel 4195

OCLC

938091780

Title

Compilation of songs and glees.

Publisher

London : [various publishers], [between 1805 and 1828]

Type of Content

notated music

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Language

Staff notation.

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Added Author

Container of (work): Reeve, William, 1757-1815. Out of place. Selections. Vocal score.

Drexel collection.

Spine Title

Collection of selected melodies

Glees

Research Call Number

Drexel 4195