Charles Dickens and Music eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 152 pages of information about Charles Dickens and Music.

Charles Dickens and Music eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 152 pages of information about Charles Dickens and Music.

See p. 90.

I SAW HER AT THE FANCY FAIR (S.B.T. 11)

I SAW THY SHOW IN YOUTHFUL PRIME (O.C.S. 27)

Moore’s Irish Melodies, air ‘Domhnall.’

    I saw thy form in youthful prime,
      Nor thought that pale decay
    Would steal before the steps of time,
      And waste its bloom away, Mary.

ISLE OF THE BRAVE AND LAND OF THE FREE (M.J.)

Original.

IT MAY LIGHTEN AND STORM (M.C. 42)

Possibly from some old ballad opera, but more probably original.

JACK’S DELIGHT (TO) HIS LOVELY NAN (D.C. 11)

Words and music by C.  Dibdin.

From ‘Lovely Nan.’  Last two lines: 

But oh, much sweeter than all these,
Is Jack’s delight, his lovely Nan.

JIM CROW (A.N.)
          
                                          Unknown.

See p. 97.

I come from old Kentucky,
A long time ago,
Where I first larn to wheel about,
And jump Jim Crow;
Wheel about and turn about,
And do jis so,
Eb’ry time I wheel about,
I jump Jim Crow.

JOLLY YOUNG WATERMAN (It., P.P. 33)

Words and music by C.  Dibdin in The Waterman.

KING DEATH (B.H. 33)

Words by Barry Cornwall. Neukomm.

    King Death was a rare old fellow,
      He sat where no sun could shine,
    And he lifted his hand so yellow,
      And pour’d out his coal-black wine. 
        Hurrah for the coal-black wine!

John Leech used to sing ‘King Death,’ and it was of his voice that Jerrold once remarked, ’I say, Leech, if you had the same opportunity of exercising your voice as you have of using your pencil, how it would draw!’

LESBIA HATH A BEAMING EYE (Letter to Lemon)

Words by Moore.

Set to the delightfully gay air ‘Nora Creina.’

Lesbia hath a beaming eye,
But no one knows for whom it beameth,
Right and left its arrows fly,
But what they aim at no one dreameth!

LISTEN TO THE WATERFALL (B.H. 32)
                                            Lord Mornington.

From the glee ‘Here in cool grot.’

LITTLE TAFFLINE (D.C. 28)

Words by Prince Hoare. S.  Storace.

In the opera Three and The Deuce, produced in 1806.

See pp. 112, 113.

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