Music Collection (page 6)

London Bridge (New Version), words and music
London Bridge is broken down, ... My fair Lady! Build it up with penny loaves... iron and steel... silver and gold... etc

The Tune That He Loved Best by David Wright, showing a woman sat listening to a gramaphone. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

Ancient Persian Music
A Dervish of Ancient Persia in long green robe with fur trimming; he wears an ornate hat and plays a woodwind instrument

Verdi / Rigoletto / Liebig
The celebrated quartet from the last act

Turandot Liebig 2
Ping, Pang and Pong, three courtiers

Massenet / Thais / First
Sybil Sanderson and Charles Delmas in the first production of this opera which tells of an Egyptian courtesan who converts to religion and dies as a desert hermit

Siegfried and Fafner
Siegfried confronts Fafner, who has taken on the shape of a dragon while he protects his hoard of treasure

Corno Di Bassetto
The CORNO DI BASSETTO (sometimes called the Bassett Horn) is virtually an alto clarinet

Bassoon & Sarrussophone
Bassoon and Sarussophone from the Wurlitzer catalogue

Japan - the Shakuhachi
A Japanese musician plays the SHAKUHACHI, a wind instrument resembling the western flute

Jullien at Covent Garden
Jullien conducts a concert at Covent Garden Theatre, featuring not only his own concert orchestra but no less than four military bands !

Racial / French Accordeon
A typical French street or cafe musician playing the one-step for accordion

COSTUME FOR 1815-1820
French & German dress 1815-20 according to a later source: cut-away coat & white trousers, pelisse with mancherons & dresses with profusely trimmed hemlines

Caruso as Pinkerton
Signed self-caricature by the opera singer Enrico Caruso : Caruso as Lieutenant Pinkerton

Fantasy Animals / Neptune
Hippocampi, beasts who were half horse, half fish, draw Neptunes chariot across the sea

Fats Waller Album
Cover for album of swing compositions featuring Fats Waller, dated 1938 to 1942

Camille Bos, ballet dancer, rehearsing La Grisi
Mademoiselle Camille Bos, ballet dancer at the French Academie de Musique et de Danse, rehearsing La Grisi

Ballet dancers exercising at the French Academie de Musique et de Danse. (1 of 2)

Tosca opera music cover by Puccini
TOSCA the death of Scarpia Date: 1900

Janet Baker, Bryan Drake and Peter Pears
Janet Baker, Peter Pears and Bryan Drake rehearsing Schumann in the Jubilee Hall, for the concert in Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall on 21 June 1963, entitled Pot Pourri

Humming-birds--or--a dandy trio. Cartoon showing three fashionable dandies singing and playing instruments in a well-furnished room. Date 1819

The Ravens of Wotan

The Rocky Twins in London, 1929
The Rocky Twins dressed as sailors in London, April 1929 1929

Gus Elen / Spoofer 1905
GUS ELEN Ernest Augustus Elen) Music hall entertainer

Ella Shields / Pyke 1927
ELLA SHIELDS Music hall entertainer: Burlington Bertie from Bow

The Rocky Twins, 1928 Date: 1928

Banjo with pink flowers on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Russian pianist and composer Anton Grigorevic Rubinstein
Half-length portrait of the famous Russian pianist and composer Anton Grigorevic Rubinstein (1829-1894) - founder of the St Petersburg Conservatoire in 1862. Date: circa 1890

Scene from the opera, Madame Butterfly, by Giacomo Puccini
The lead character, Cio-Cio San (Madame Butterfly) in Puccinis opera in three acts. Date: c.1910

Horn Lesson in a Wine Cellar
A group of gentlemen and a small boy congregate in a wine cellar to practice playing the horn whilst enjoying a drink or two (non-alcoholic for the small boy of course)

Cabaret by W. R.s Stott
A wintery scene showing skaters dancing to music on the ice at a mountain resort

Old Church Music 1500
Specimen page of church music, with notation for singing, hand written on vellum

Social / Chat Noir 1908
The audience at the Chat Noir cabaret in Montmartre, Paris

Wurlitzer Mandolin 1924
The Wurlitzer Banjo Mandolin outfit - only 35 dollars !

Blanche Bates / Butterfly
Blanche Bates in the stage play Madam Butterfly by Long & Belasco on which the opera is based

Titanic Hymn Sheet 1912
A photograph of the ship on the cover of a French music sheet: the hymn was played by the band on deck as the ship sank

Victoria Monks / Variety
VICTORIA MONKS Music hall entertainer: Bill Bailey

Harry Lauder / Pyke
(Sir) HARRY LAUDER Scottish music-hall entertainer

Man & Concertina / Photo
A young man is photographed playing his concertina

Schweitzer / Postcard 1956
ALBERT SCHWEITZER French theologian, philosopher, missionary physician and music scholar with his antelopes at Lambarene, Africa Date: 1875 - 1965

Schweitzer / Postcard
ALBERT SCHWEITZER French theologian, philosopher, missionary physician and music scholar

Mozart / Nozze / Buchel
(The Marriage of Figaro) Susanna helps Cherubino escape

Parsifal - Liebig 6
Act three : Parsifal heals Amfortas with the sacred Spear

Palladium Theatre / 1912
The cover of a programme for the Palladium theatre, London. The bill featured Marie Lloyd

Cornet on its Own
The CORNET-A-PISTONS - usually known simply as the Cornet, has a tube half the length of the trumpet, and consequently plays an octave higher

Vocal Cornet (Wurlitzer) 1
A trio of Vocal Cornets from the Wurlitzer range

Trumpet (Wurlitzer)
Wurlitzer trumpet outfit

Lady Plays the Violin
A lady plays the violin

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