Music Collection (page 9)

The Little Duchess by Robert Courtneidge and Bertram Davis
Promotional postcard for The Little Duchess, a musical play by Robert Courtneidge and Bertram Davis, lyrics Bertrand Davis and Percy Greenbank

The House that Jack Built
Promotional postcard for The House that Jack Built, Howard and Wyndhams Royal Pantomime, at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, 14th December 1911

Simon Le Bon in Cornwall
Simon John Charles Le Bon (b. 1958), English musician, in Cornwall, at the time his yacht capsized during the Fastnet race off Falmouth

Music Hall, Leominster, Massachusetts, USA
Music Hall in Leominster, Massachusetts, USA, with shops on the ground floor. Date: circa 1911

Cat playing the piano on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Viola da gamba or bass viol with carved ivory head and neck.. Chromolithograph from an illustration by William Gibb from A.J

Welsh harps.. Single Welsh harp, ancient triple Welsh harp and modern triple Welsh harp. Copperplate engraving by John Lee from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts

The Beggars Opera, Aldeburgh Festival 1963
English Opera Group production of The Beggars Opera (John Gay, in Brittens realization) at the Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh, 20 June 1963. Act III, near end; at Newgate Gaol

Snake charmer with snake, India. Date: circa 1890s

Band of 7th Queens Own Hussars
Band of the 7th Queens Own Hussars, playing, in India. Date: C.1913

Musical gathering of composers and musicians, 1853
Musical gathering of composers and musicians in London. From left to right: A. Bazzini, H. Blagrove, Goffrie, Blumenthal, H. Vieuxtemps, Lazarus, S. Phatten, Jarrett, F

Shame Flute - German punishment for being a poor musician
A Shame Flute ( Schand Flote ) - German punishment for being a poor musician - you had to face the public wearing (around the neck) a heavy iron flute

Pablo Sarasate - Spanish violinist
Pablo Sarasate (1844-1908) Spanish violinist. Date: circa 1901

Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay - sung by Lottie Collins
" Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay" is a vaudeville and music hall song. The songs first known public performance was in Henry J. Sayers 1891 revue Tuxedo, which was performed in Boston, Massachusetts

Praetorius, Michael (1571-1621)

A group of Persian musicians
A group of four Persian musicians playing their instruments. 1818

Queen Elisabeth of Romania playing the organ
Queen Elisabeth of Romania (1843 - 1916), formerly Elisabeth of Wied, wife of King Carol I of Romania. Also known by her nom de plume of Carmen Sylva, she is pictured here playing the organ. c.1910

J. W Walkers Organ at the Great Exhibition, 1851
An organ in the Tudor style, designed by Banks and Barry, adapted for a hall or music room. Date: 1851

Music Hall Song / Parcel
A burlesque ballad: who knows what a parcel may contain? An abandoned baby, a pawned overcoat, a strippers costume, a dog for drowning... Date: 1894

Charleston by Yva
An expressionist photograph capturing the spirit of the 1920s with a charleston dancer, and a black saxophone player capturing the atmosphere of jazz admirably

Boer War Memorial unveiling, Haverfordwest, South Wales
Commemorative photograph of the unveiling of the Boer War Memorial at St Mary the Virgin Church, High Street, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

Boys Band at Hollybrook Cottage Homes, Southampton
The boys band at Hollybrook cottage homes at Shirley Warren, Southampton. The homes were opened in 1911 by the Southampton Union to accommodate pauper children away from the workhouse

Christmas crackers box label
Label for a box of Batgers Carnival crackers featuring a couple in fancy dress, he dressed as Harlequin, playing a ukelele and a banjo

Listening to Records
A teenage girl with a bouffant hairdo puts her Cliff Richard album on the record player

Joseph Haydn / Creation
JOSEPH HAYDN Austrian musician and composer communing with nature, with a quotation from his oratorio, The Creation, below

Gaby Deslys / 1913
GABY DESLYS French singer and music hall artiste

Strauss Wood Concert
A concert conducted by Richard Strauss and Henry Wood held at the Queens Hall, London

Mathilde Wesendonck
MATHILDE WESENDONCK (or Wesendonk) German poet who though married infatuated Richard Wagner who set her poems to music - the Wesendonck Lieder

Dancers at Night
This tempera painting depicts a night time scene of costumed dancers performing to music from a stringed instrument and tambourine, around a grand statue of a fine garden terrace. Date: circa 1918

Music cover, Little Spanish Villa by the Sea, recorded by Debroy Somers and his Band. Date: 1932

A Scottish Highland Piper. Date: circa 1940s

Highland Scottish cat playing the bagpipes by Louis Wain Date: 1903

SCHUBERT/TROUT
Die Forelle (The Trout)

NADIA-JULIETTE BOULANGER French music teacher and conductor Nadia Boulanger, with her own teacher, Raoul Pugno in 1910 Date: 1887 - 1979

The Dave Clark Five, English pop group Date: 1964

Music cover, Down at the Old Bull & Bush, words by Russell Hunting, Percy Krone and Andrew B Sterling, music by Harry Von Tilzer, sung with enormous success by Miss Florrie Forde. Date: 1905

My Country Lane by Edgar Bateman & Albert Perry
Promotional music sheet for My Country Lane music hall song by Edgar Bateman and Albert Perry. The singer, Alec Hurley, portrayed here, specialised in coster songs

The Pickwick Quadrille by Fred Revallin
Promotional music sheet for The Pickwick Quadrille, by Fred Revallin, taken from Pickwick by James Albery which was first performed at the Lyceum Theatre on 23rd October 1871 with Henry Irving as

Daisy Bell Waltz by Karl Kaps
Promotional music sheet for the Daisy Bell Waltz by Karl Kaps, based on the popular song Daisy Bell by Harry Dacres famous song

Greetings card, Jazz drummer on timpani (kettle drums). 20th century

Royal Music Hall - waiting to go on 1900
Standing in the entrance to go on stage at the Music Hall, Holborn, London. Date: 1900

Highlanders pipe themselves back from the trenches, WW1. 1914-1918

George H. Chirgwin know as the White-Eyed Kaffir
George H. Chirgwin (14 December 1854 17 November 1922) was a popular British music hall star billed as " the White-Eyed Kaffir", a black face minstrel act

Chanteclair or Hi! Cock-a-Lorum by Joe Peterman and Geo Ricketts co, with music by Frank Leedham. First produced at the Oxford Music Hall on 20th June 1910

Cavalier King Charles spaniel at the piano
Unusual Friends - Cavalier King Charles spaniel at the piano. 1950s

Choirbook number 7. Gregorian chant. 15th. century. The Visi
Choirbook number 7. Gregorian chant. 15th. century. Antiphonary By Master of Burgo de Osma. Parchment. The Visitation of Mary to her cousin Elizabeth. Drop cap D. Miniature. Spain

Orpheus playing his lyre. Relief from Thessaloniki. Greece
Orpheus, wearing a Phrygian cap and surrounded by the beasts charmed by the music of his lyre. Relief from Thessaloniki. Greece

United States. New York. Central Park. Strawberry Fields. Me
United States. New York. Central Park. Strawberry Fields, dedicated to the memory of the musician John Lennon. Memorial mosaic. Imagine. Detail

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