Empire of the song : Victorian songs & music / Olivia Bailey.
- Format:
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- Author/Creator:
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- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
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- Physical Description:
- 128 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 28 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
- Other Title:
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- Victorian songs and music
- Victorian songs & music
- Place of Publication:
- London : Caxton Editions, 2002.
- Contents:
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- Contents of compact disc: Song without words no. 1, in E major / Mendelssohn
- Serenade / Elias Parish Alvers
- Scherzo : [from A midsummer night's dream] / Mendelssohn
- Largo : from Xerxes [arr. for organ] / Handel
- Spring song / Mendelssohn
- Dance tune : from Hansel & Gretel [arr. for music box] / Humperdinck
- Venetian folk song / Mendelssohn
- Etude in E / Chopin
- Love's fascination / Thomas
- Skaters waltz / Waldteufel
- Megan's daughter / Thomas
- Drink old England dry : traditional
- The Mikado. Three little maids ; A wand'ring minstrel ; Behold the Lord High Executioner / Gilbert & Sullivan
- The pirates of Penzance. I am the very model of a modern major general ; Poor wandering one ; When a felon's not engaged
- A policeman's lot is not a happy one / Gilbert & Sullivan.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Contains:
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- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847. Lieder ohne Worte, piano, op. 19b. Nr. 1
- Parish-Alvars, Elias, 1808-1849. Serenade, harp.
- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847. Sommernachtstraum. Scherzo
- Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Serse. Ombra mai fù; arranged.
- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847. Lieder ohne Worte, piano, op. 62. Nr. 6, Frühlingslied
- Humperdinck, Engelbert, 1854-1921. Hänsel und Gretel. Brüderchen komm tanz' mit mir; arranged.
- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847. Lieder ohne Worte, piano, op. 19b. Nr. 6, Venetianisches Gondellied
- Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849. Etudes, piano, op. 10. No. 3
- Thomas, John, 1826-1913. Welsh melodies, harp. Serch hudol.
- Waldteufel, Emil, 1837-1915. Patineurs.
- Thomas, John, 1826-1913. Welsh melodies, harp. Merch Megan.
- Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900. Mikado. Selections
- Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900. Pirates of Penzance. Selections
- Drink old England dry.
- ISBN:
- 1840674687
- OCLC:
- 51194569
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