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GUEST,Phil d'Conch Maritime work song in general (725* d) RE: Maritime work song in general 12 Dec 23


c.1830
“...Then his wife* gave in generously lavish succession Mozart's "Non più di fiori," with Willman's obbligato accompaniment on the Corno di bassetto, a "Sancta Maria" of her host's composition (which she sang at sight with consummate effect and expression), a gracefully tender air, "Ah, rien n'est doux comme la voix qui dit je t'aime," and lastly a spirited mariner's song, with a sailorly burden chiming as it were with their rope-hauling. In these two latter she accompanied herself;...”
[Clarke, Life and Labors of Vincent Novello, Dwight's Journal of Music, vol.XX, no.25, 22 March 1862]
Mary Cowden Clarke (1809 – 1898)


*Maria Malibran (1808 – 1836)


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