Bound volume, inscribed 'BD Lyall, 1878', containing printed sheet music of songs with pianoforte accompaniments, all published in London unless otherwise indicated

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      GB 176 6192/2/6
  • Dates of Creation
      c.1793 - 1830
  • Language of Material
      English French Italian
  • Physical Description
      1 volume

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Contains the following items:

Bound volume, inscribed 'BD Lyall, 1878', containing the following printed sheet music of songs with pianoforte accompaniments, all published in London unless otherwise indicated:

'Le Troubadour a la Croisade' by T Latour (Chappell & Co);

'As it fell upon a day' duetto from The Comedy of Errors, words by Shakespeare, music by Henry R Bishop (Goulding, D'Almaine, Potter & Co [c.1827]);

Untitled song beginning 'Di tanti palpiti e tante penne' [?from Tancredi by Rossini];

'Dolce dell'anima' from the opera Sargino by Signor Paer (Rt Birchall [?1805]);

'Oh come volano' by Felice Blagini (Rt Birchall);

'Sweet's the Rosy Breath of Morning' music by CM Sola (no publisher named);

'Verginella desolata' by N Vaccaj (Rt Birchall);

'Non piu mesta accanto al fuoco' from the opera La Cenerentola by Rossini (Messrs Birchall & Co);

'I have come from a happy land' the celebrated dancing girls song by William Kennedy arranged to a hindostan air by RA Smith (Robert Purdie, Edinburgh, [c.1830]);

'Until we meet again' a ballad by Thomas Haynes Bayly and Charles T Martyn (JB Cramer, Addison & Beale);

'Bolero arranged as a duet for two voices with … Spanish guitar by P Verini (sold by T Boosey & Co, whose label obscures the printer's name. Initialled 'PV');

'Love in thine eyes' by Mr Jackson of Exeter (Preston & Son [?1793]);

'Care Pupille' and 'Amor che nasce' by Blangini, arranged by Magrath (printer unknown);

'Ah Maria' duettino sung by the Misses Ashe, by 'SC esq' (Royal Musical Repository);

'Eh! Vogue ma nacelle', words by PJ Beranger, music by Auguste Panseron (Panseron, Paris). Stamped;

'Non bastan quelle lagrime' duet from the opera Elisabetta Regina d'Inghilterra by Rossini (Rt Birchall);

Huit Nouveaux Nocturnes Italiens by Felix Blangini (Blangini, Paris);

'Maman c'est bien dommage' by Mlle Annette de Lihu (Annette de Lihu, at Watson's, [?1815]). Signed 'Annette de Lihu';

'Filles du Hameau' as sung by Mlles de Lihu arranged for pianoforte or Spanish guitar (printed for de Lihu, by H Falkner [c.1824])