The singing bourgeois : songs of the Victorian drawing room and parlour / Derek B. Scott.

"First published in 1989, The Singing Bourgeois challenges the myth that the 'Victorian parlour song' was a clear-cut genre. Derek Scott reveals the huge diversity of musical forms and styles that influenced the songs performed in middle class homes during the nineteenth century, from...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Scott, Derek B. (Author)
Other title:Songs of the Victorian drawing room and parlour.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Music in nineteenth-century Britain.
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Table of Contents:
  • Songs on compact disc: Kathleen Mavourneen / words by Mrs. Crawford ; music by F.N. Crouch
  • Come into the garden, Maud / words by Alfred Lord Tennyson ; music by Michael William Balfe
  • It was a dream / words by R.E. Francillon ; music by Sir Frederic H. Cowen
  • The lost chord / words by Adelaide A. Proctor ; music by Sir Arthur Sullivan
  • The holy city / words by Frederic Weatherly ; music by Stephen Adams
  • Kasmiri song / words by Laurence Hope ; music by Amy Woodforde-Finden
  • The trumpeter / words by J. Francis Barron ; music by J. Airlie Dix
  • Thora / words by Frederic Weatherly ; music by Stephen Adams
  • On the road to Mandalay / words by Rudyard Kipling ; music by Oley Speaks
  • Tommy lad! / words by Edward Teschemacher ; music by E.J. Margeston
  • The floral dance / words and music by Katie Moss.