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GUEST,Blowz backdooring again Interesting eBay item (5) Interesting ebay item 22 May 05


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=42459&item=7322502080&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

The above might well be of interest to Mudcatters, interested in early C19th material (not sure if it's all English, but sounds as if a good proportion of it is.) The following is taken from the site:

"THE FESTIVAL OF ANACREON
Consisting of Admired Glees
For Three & Four Voices, selected by
An Eminent Professor"
Volume 1 (c.1820)
CD ROM FACSIMILE
This easy to use CD ROM is a facsimile reproduction of a charming little music book, containing popular glees (a type of part song) and madrigals, published in London by George Shade around 1820.

It contains high quality colour & monochrome scans (all at 300 dpi resolution), arranged as linked Adobe PDF documents, and can be viewed on any computer using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software. There are 32 songs (194 pages of music) in three and four part harmony, with an index and all pages are printable.

This collection is volume 1 (of 2 books), but is entirely self contained, being a compilation of the favourite glees of the day - A snapshot of amateur English music making and musical taste in the early 19th century. Many of the songs (such as Wellington's Health) are patriotic in nature, reminding us of just how recently the Napoleonic wars had ended. Other pieces are much older, proving that the regular performance of "early music" is really nothing new.


As I don't read music it's not much use to me...

Blowz


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