Singing Collection (page 18)

Nuts in May, words and music
Here we go gathering nuts in May, On a cold and frosty morning.... Date: 1886

How many miles to Barley Bridge? words and music
How many miles to Barley Bridge? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle light? Yes, and back again

Here come three dukes, words and music
Here come three Dukes a-riding, with a rancy tancy tee. And pray what is your will, Sirs? With a rancy tancy tee

Here we come up the green grass, words and music
Here we come up the green grass, On a dusty, dusty day. Fair maid, pretty maid, Give your hand to me.... Naughty miss she won t come out

Do you know the muffin man? words and music
Do you know the muffin man, Who lives in Drury Lane?

Here come three tinkers, words and music
Here come three tinkers three by three To court your daughter fair lady. Oh, can we have a lodging here...?

Romans Eating at Home
Roman eating scene (actually the profligate son of the tragedian Aesop dining off priceless singing-birds) - in Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta Memorabilia, 1475

LA Musique Des Chats
LA MUSIQUE DES CHATS A French showman invites you to hear his singing cats, who also, it seems, play the violin, plucking the catgut

Theodoric Enters Rome
Theodoric, King of Ostrogoths, enters Rome

C8 Religious Costume
Ecclesiastical habits, priests singing and making music

Hester Thrale / Hopwood
HESTER THRALE Friend of Dr Samuel Johnson, and wife of the brewer, Henry Thrale; she later married her Italian singing teacher and became Mrs Piozzi

Hymns Round Piano
Mama accompanies her children and their father in hymn- singing at the piano

Pierrot Concert Party
A seaside concert party troupe in pierrot costume singing and dancing

C14 Monks Singing
Three monks singing

Winning Singer Crowned
The winning performer in a singing contest is crowned with a laurel wreath by the goddess of Victory

Children Singing
Mother, seated at the piano, encourages a group of young singers

Congregation Singing
A Church of England congregation stand up to sing a hymn

French Fete Des Fous
La Fete des fous et des Diacres - the FEAST OF FOOLS, on December 26-28, when the mass is burlesqued and all indulge in obscene dancing and singing in the churches

Children Sing in Church
Thirteen children sing in a church pew : they don t seem to be a formal choir, but they are all in their best clothes, and most are singing heartily

Nightingale Singing 2
(Daulius luscinia) Nightingale singing

Little Women / Singing
Tink ob yer marcies, chillen, tink ob yer marcies !;

Music at Home, Piano 19C
Two women and a girl making music at the piano

Singing in Church 1870S
A pretty young woman and three children singing in the village choir

A Concert / Jordans C17Th
A family concert: Soo D oude Songen Soo Pepen De Jongen". Three generations & a dog at the dinner table sing or play instruments. The old man & woman wear spectacles

RING O ROSES 1950S
A group of girls play Ring O Roses holding hands

Singer - Two Girls
The career of a music teacher is not one of unalloyed pleasure

Sailors Singing Carols
British sailors rehearsing Christmas carols on board their ship, H.M.S. Arethusa, which took part in the Normandy landings on D-Day in June 1944

Jean Jaures, Speaking
JEAN JAURES depicted singing the revolutionary song La carmagnole, which contains the words Tous les bourgeois on les pendra ! (we shall hang every bourgeois)

BURNING OWD BARTLE
Burning Owd Bartle, West Witton, Wensleydale, Yorkshire, England, when an effigy stuffed with straw is burnt as thanksgiving to the Harvest God. Date: 24 August

Capricorn / Furness
The Modern Zodiac: An Artists Almanac of English Society. Scenes of the month include snowballing, waits singing carols, pantomime characters, relations, gifts & parties

Game : Wallflowers
Players form a circle round a selected girl, singing She can dance and she can sing, she will wear a wedding ring

Church Choir Singing
A church choir of boys and girls singing joyfully

Ballad Singers
Ballad singers: the man plays the violin and hobbles on his false wooden leg, while the woman sings from the ballad sheets

Egyptian Singer
An Egyptian professional singer accompanies herself on the tambourine : her singing will inspire calls of Allah preserve your voice ! etc from her audience

Full-Bodied Singer
A full-bodied singer gives voice on stage

C17 Singing Lesson / 27
A music teacher gives a singing lesson

Carol Singing Girls
Two girls and a boy sing carols indoors though dressed for outdoors - perhaps they are visitors who have been invited in ?

Carol Singing at Home
A German family sing carols by the Christmas tree

Children Carolling
Four children sing carols by moonlight, accompanying themselves on music instruments

Carol Singers
Three children sing carols in the street

American Waits
Waits performing outside a chocolate (drink) shop in New England

Two policemen guide a drunken man home -- Heres a hand my trusty friend. He rewards their kindness by singing all the way home!

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