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Poor Tom Bowling, or the Sailors epitaph / by Dibdin.
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- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.
- Standardized Title:
- Oddities. Poor Tom Bowling; arranged
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Songs with piano.
- Sea songs.
- Operas--Excerpts, Arranged.
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Songs with piano.
- Sea songs.
- Songs.
- Excerpts.
- Arrangements (Music)
- Notated music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 score (2 unnumbered pages) ; 32 cm
- Contained In:
- Keffer Collection of Sheet Music.
- Other Title:
- Here a sheer hulk lies poor Tom Bowling.
- Poor Tom Bowling.
- Sailors epitaph.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : printed at Carr & Co.'s Musical Repository, [1794]
- Notes:
- Song; for voice and piano.
- Composed by Dibdin for his table entertainment The oddities.
- Caption title.
- English words; 1st verse printed between the two staves of music and verses 2-3 printed as text following the music.
- First line of text: Here a sheer hulk lies poor Tom Bowling.
- Transposed part for flute or guitar at bottom of p. [2].
- Cited in:
- Sonneck-Upton. Early secular American music, p. 339.
- OCLC:
- 80129832
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