reeve dibdin (5 Ergebnisse)

No Binding. Zustand: Good. 3 pages, c1806. "The celebrated ballad sung by Mr Broadhurst at Sadler's Wells Theatre in the Venetian Water Romance of the Council of Ten. Chipped at the edges.

8vo. 20pp. Disbound; a little dusty and stained. Text only; music by Reeve, scenery by Andrews.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 19pp , 23 p. A new edition., 27pp, 23pp, 30pp new edition, 28pp published Woodfall not in British Library,(8pp,8pp,8pp,8pp). All bound in one contemporary volume disbound. Book.

Folio (34 x 25cm). Each song paginated separately, c. 130 pages total. Leather, worn at edges, some cracks and backstrip chipped. Some signs of water staining internally, not affecting text. Plate printed. Handwritten list of contents in brown ink to front endpaper. All songs by Dibdin signed by him in faded ink and 'Six Songs and a Glee' signed by composer William Bennett. Other works bound in volume: The much Admired Harp Song, Sung by Mrs Roffey, in the Grand Spectacle of Almoran and Hamet (Sanderson); A Translation of Adeste Fideles Come All Ye Blessed True Believers; The Morning (Fisin); Weep Weep for Poor Anna; Where shall I go to seek Repose (Payne); Life Let us Cherish (Mozart); The Favorite Song in the Stranger, the Music by Her Grace the Dutchess of Devonshire, Harmonized for Three Voices by Mr. Saml. Webbe; Paddy Bull's Expedition (Collins, Reeve); Forget me Not (Mozart); Eight Ariettes (Fisin); Six Songs and a Glee for three Voices (Bennett); The Flowers of the Forest (Hook).

Sheet music; folio (34 x 24.5 cm); engraved title, imprint over earlier text reading 'London printed & sold at No.28 Haymarket'; disbound; 73-77, [1] pp. A controversial song from the comic opera Family Quarrels, with libretto by the playwright Thomas Dibdin (1771-1841), and score by the actor and composer William Reeve (1757-1815). Miss Levi, Miss Rachel & Miss Moses proved unpopular with Jewish members of the audience when performed at Covent Garden Theatre in December 1802, who were offended by the signer John Fawcett's disguise as 'Aaron the Jew', and the song's musical similarity to the synagogue prayer, the Kaddish (Wagner, p.86). Dibdin defended what he considered a 'harmless joke' in a chapter of his autobiography entitled 'And the Twelve Tribes Waxed Wroth'. Richard Wagner, (Jewry in Music); Sheila A. Spector (ed.), Romanticism/Judaica: A Convergence of Cultures.