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Music in the life of Benjamin Franklin.
Streaming audio Available online
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- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Hildebrand, David, singer, instrumentalist.
- Series:
- Classical music library.
- Classical music library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790--Songs and music.
- Franklin, Benjamin.
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Ballads, English--United States.
- Ballads, English.
- Music.
- United States.
- Chamber music.
- Drinking songs.
- Music--United States--18th century.
- Songs, Scots.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Songs and music.
- Songs.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Colonial Music Institute, 2006.
- Language Note:
- Selections mostly sung in English.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Contents:
- The rising sun (2:17)
- The old man's wish / John Blow (3:45)
- Dieu d'Amour / Gretry (1:30)
- Adagio K.V. 356 (K.V. 617a) / Mozart (3:09)
- Que l'Histoire sur l'Airain (4:25)
- Minuetto II / Brillon (2:10)
- J'ai perdu mon Euridice / Gluck (4:22)
- Fair Venus calls / David Vinton (1:40)
- The anthem sung at Chester (1:22)
- Auld Robin Gray / Lady Anne Lindsay (later Barnard) (5:23)
- The Antediluvians were all very sober (1:51)
- The free Mason ; The Mason's daughter (2:18)
- The stol'n kiss / William hayes (3:34)
- The mother country (2:19)
- The downfall of Pyracy (4:25)
- See, down Maria's blushing cheek / Hopkinson (1:28)
- Hallow e'en / Oswald (3:09)
- The Spanish lady (3:45)
- Sae merry as we twa hae been / Robert Bremner (2:02)
- La Voltaire & La Franklin (1:51)
- I sing my plain country Joan / Henry Carey (2:35)
- Wise men flatt'ring / Handel (4:13)
- Ode on the death of Franklin / Thomas A. Arne (4:24).
- Participant:
- David Hildebrand, voice, harpsichord, recorder, fortepiano ; Ginger Hildebrand, baroque violin, hammered dulcimer, baroque guitar, voice ; Julianne Baird, soprano ; with instrumental acc.
- Notes:
- Program notes by Julianne Baird linked to from resource.
- Recorded in 1987.
- Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Classical music library). Available via World Wide Web.
- Contains:
- Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787. Orphée et Eurydice. J'ai perdu mon Eurydice
- Grétry, André-Ernest-Modeste, 1741-1813. Mariages samnites. Dieu d'amour en ce jour
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Adagios, glass harmonica, K. 356, C major
- Other Format:
- CMI-H106
- 783707402246
- OCLC:
- 841414940
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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