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Zusatztext ’... this splendid compilation, which offers 360 pieces of music, with dates, careful attributions. and editorial apparatus, is especially welcome. ... Reproduced from clear exemplars drawn from many libraries, the large-format individual songs are unusually easy to read. The handsome [...] Baldwin-Wilson edition should inspire much more attention to this valuable resource, previously so difficult of access.’ The Scriblerian Informationen zum Autor Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson edited the facsimile edition of The Complete Songs of Richard Leveridge (1997) and contributed over sixty articles to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Klappentext Contains 360 songs! showing what the public bought month by month as songs to sing! play and teach. This work serves as an important resource for scholars of the musical! theatrical! political and social life of the early 18th century. Zusammenfassung Contains 360 songs, showing what the public bought month by month as songs to sing, play and teach. This work serves as an important resource for scholars of the musical, theatrical, political and social life of the early 18th century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; Originals reproduced in this facsimile volume; Table of songs; The songs; Notes on the songs; Appendices; Indexes.
