Singing Collection (#14)

Street music: a ballad singer, 1865
A ragged ballad singer sings on a street corner. Ladies in crinolines hurry past him, but three ragged children show interest. Date: 1865

Greenlanders singing combat, c. 1800
Natives of Greenland gather outdoors for a singing contest. Date: c. 1800

Russian soldiers sing, 1855
A tableau showing Russian soldiers sing in a circle at Gallatz Camp at the mouth of the Danube. Date: 1855

Finlanders singing, c. 1800
A domestic interior in Finland c. 1800. Two men look as though they are about to start dancing, whilst a man seated at the table plays for them. Date: c. 1800

Street music: orphan ballad singers
Orphan ballad singers perform in a street. An audience of children listen, whilst a woman seated on a bench looks thoughtful

The Sphere Christmas Number 1939
Front cover of The Sphere Christmas Number featuring a Dutch painting by Terborch of two ladies singing and playing a lute. A servant boy brings in a tray. Decoration by Harold Nelson. Date: 1939

Montenegrin soldiers singing warsongs
Montenegrin soldiers singing war songs outdoors, by the light of the moon

Street music: Barrel organ in Amsterdam
A man plays a barrel organ on the streets of Amsterdam, accompanied by a singing lady

Street music: Paris balladeer
Two fashionably dressed young women laugh at a ballad singer as he sings in a Paris street. Perhaps he is singing a comic song. Date: 1912

Peaceful scene in cemetery
Wild flowers grow and intertwine in this peaceful cemetery scene, with a bird perched on a leaf singing, and a snail crawling along slowly below. 1925

German bard sings in medieval hall
A German bard plays his harp in a smokey medieval hall. Date: Medieval

A timekeeper: singers in 1831
A robed choirmaster beats time whilst the choir sing lustily. Date: 1831

The Graphic Christmas Number front cover 1930
Front cover of The Graphic Christmas Number featuring a pre-WWI Christmas party with people enjoying a music recital. Date: 1930

Singer and orchestra, 1871
A female singer performs on stage, accompanied by a mixed orchestra and choir, 1871. Date: 1871

Seville, Spain - The Six of the Cathedral - the boy dancers of Sevile Cathedral in their traditional costume. Date: circa 1906

Stock Exchange Notes (3 / 4) - Bear Market
Stock Exchange Notes - Bear Market - The Tone was generally poor! 1903

Duet for viol and flute - The siren of the stage
Two musicians decorate sheet music for flute and viol. The lyrics warn against the seductive charms of ladies with beautiful singing voices

Italian Bas relief of a group of singing Boys
Florence (Firenze) - Museum di S.Maria del Flore - Bas relief by Luca della Robbia depicting a group of singing boys (choirboys?). Date: circa 1910s

Adenes le Roi, French troubadour
Adenes le Roi(c. 1240-c. 1300), French trouvere, performs to an audience of medieval ladies out of doors Date: 13th century

Chamber music
A group of chamber musicians rehearse around a piano in a domestic setting. Date: 18th century

The Song of the Siren
Two beautiful sirens sing their entrancing songs from their seats on some perilous rocks - their magic and beauty luring sailors to a terrible end... Date: 1932

A medley of Edinburgh musicians

The Music Party - after Titian
The Music Party. A teacher guides a boy singing from some sheet music. Date: 16th century

An idyllic rural scene: a farmhouse surrounded by fertile land, with a hedgehog and rabbit roaming peacefully, and a bird singing happily in the foreground. 1925

Choristers at the coronation procession of James II, 1685, in Westminster Abbey. Children from Westminster choir and the Chapel Royal

Village choir practice
The Village choir practice. Date: 1871

Singers - bas relief by Luca della Robbia
Bas relief of singers by Luca della Robbia - Museo di S. Maria del Fiore, Florence, Italy Date: 15th century

Rhapsody, by Brunelleschi
Lovely illustration showing an 18th century couple, the man in cloak and mask, listening to the birdsong of a small bird that has been released from its cage. 1927

Community singing
The man who sang the words of the wrong verse. Date: 1928

False-set-o
A women singing on stage hits the high note and her dentures come flying out. 1930

Theatre from a Box 1909
A group of theatre goers watch a show of singing and dancing from a theatre box. Not all of them seem to be totally impressed. Date: 1909

Piano Girls
Four young ladies listening to a piano recital. Date: 1930s

Accordion Picnic Girls
Four crazy girls, singing enthusiasticall to their accordions beside their sports car, in the middle of the countryside! Date: 1930s

Brazilian Musician
A crooner of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America, singing into the large microphone and strumming his guitar Radio Rio. Date: 1930s

Ladies Athens Chorus
Members of the Ladies Athens Chorus, photographed shortly before their tour of England, to give recitals of Greek National Songs, wearing their lavish native costumes. Date: 1930

BONE-YARD MELODIES
Four puppies dressed as humans, singing Bone-yard Melodies together. Date: early 1930s

Chodenland Spinners
Women of Chodenland, (Bohemia, Czechoslovakia), spinning flax at their humming spinning wheels, singing folk songs as they spin in their colourful red dresses. Date: 1930s

Singing Surfer
Singers are not softies : Our cameraman caught Gay just as he was flat-diving into the surf and called him a song- and-surf man. Gay is a true athlete, muscular and lean. 1940s

Thrush in an Apple Tree
A Thrush singing in an apple tree. Date: 1960s

Singing Mothers Choir - Salt Lake Tabernacle, Utah, USA
The 900 Singing Mothers of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints (The Mormons) Relief Society performing in front of the organ inside the Salt Lake Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah

The Christmas Waits, 1911
A group of singers and musicians (or Waits) walking through the snow to entertain their fellow men at Christmas time. Date: 1911

Androgynous Banquets
Scene depicting the Final Song and the Union of Brothers and Sisters chain. Date: 1890s

Blind Hannah Brentford, 1827
Hannah Brentford, blind musician of Bunhill-row, shown here aged 24 giving a street performance of hymns, accompanied by her violin

Queen Elizabeth II and Duke of Edinburgh - Remembrance servi
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh singing during the remembrance service held at the Cenotaph in London annually. Date: 1952

And all the little singing birds listen to the tune (The Fairy Flute). 1922

News of a fair and a marvellous thing, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell we sing. From a poem by William Morris. 20th century

Do you ever hear the fairies? You can hear them if you will, singing little songs of dream, when all the house is still. 20th century

Music at home - singing, 1880s
Two ladies inspect something new-the sheet music to the latest song to sing together. Date: 1880s

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