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English song book

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Description: An anonymous compilation of about sixty songs, without musical notation, including love songs, sea songs, drinking songs, parodies (on Chevy Chase, and on Hamlet's soliloquy beginning "To dance or not to dance," written in an Oxford ballroom), and others. A Table of Contents is given at the front of the volume. There are many blank pages.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1791.
Call number: mssHM 69649
Provenance: Purchased from Julian Browning Rare Books and Manuscripts, 1997.
Dimensions: 20 cm :
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Dick's quadrille call-book, and ball-room prompter ... : To which is added a sensible guide to etiquette and proper deportment in the ball and assembly room, besides seventy pages of dance music for the piano

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This is a compilation by Dick and Fitzgerald of previously published sources on ballroom dance. Although advertised as a ballroom prompter, only one page is devoted to calling figures in a quadrille. The book contains rudimentary etiquette advice and dance instructions for numerous dances including the grand march, quadrilles, contradances such as "Virginia Reel," "Pop Goes the Weasel," "Spanish Dance," and "Sicilian Circle." Also described are various round dances such as the polka, polka redowa, modern plain waltz, Boston Dip, varsovienne, and galop. The manual concludes with 104 figures for the popular parlor game, the German (also known as the cotillon)

238960

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Commonplace book. English poetry and songs : manuscript ; hymns, poetry, correspondence and printed material

Manuscripts

The material includes: HM 82903 (1) - a commonplace book of English poetry, songs and hymns (1865-1902); 92 pages with additional blank pages, entries written in several hands of various ages. There is an autograph note on the inside front cover: "This book was given to me by Lady Abercomby, Lady Dysarts oldest friend at Adelaide House, St Leonards."

mssHM 82903 (1-6)

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L'histoire notable de la Floride sitvee es Indes Occidentales : contenant les trois voyages faits en icelle par certains capitaines & pilotes françois

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"A comprehensive account, or rather compilation, of the four several French expeditions-- 1562, 1564, 1565, 1567-- covering the letters of Laudonnière for the first three, and an anonymous account, perhaps by the editor Basanier, of the fourth." --Winsor. Narr. and crit. hist., v. 2, p. 293.

18739

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The book of songs

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Collection of poems and songs.

614040

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We three: Henry, Eddie, and me

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Self-published family memoir and history compiled by Harriet Williams Myers in 1945. Focuses on biographies of Myers and her brothers Henry Smith Williams and Edward Huntington Williams, including anecdotes about their childhoods and a compilation of their later accomplishments. Includes the text of an articles on birds by Henry Williams, the text of various songs and poems meaningful to the family, and the text of obituaries for Henry and Edward Williams. Also includes several printed illustrations, some original photographs of members of the Williams family, and a letter from the author explaining her reasons for writing the book, dated January 1945.

mssHM 75361

Comoedyes and pastoralls : with their songs, as also one booke of epigrammes by W.P. Esquier ... exscriptum anno salutis 1647. : manuscript, 1647

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William Percy (1575-1648), third son to the Eighth Earl of Northumberland, was an amateur dramatist and poet. Work is a transcription by Percy in 1647 of six of his plays (The Cuck-Queanes and Cuckolds errants, Arabia siticus, the Faery pastorall or Forest of Elves, A country tragaedye in Vacuniam, the Aphodysia and Necromantes), songs and epigrams.

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