Stave Collection

Medieval frolics: wine, women and song
An alfresco medieval social gathering, with mixed bathing and music making. Date: c.1430

Victor Capoul / Gill
Victor Capoul (1839-1924) tenor of the Opera Comique and among the very earliest singers to be recorded

Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)

Hoover Vacuum Cleaner Window Display with a musical theme Date: 1948

Antiphonal (Incunable Fragment)
Two consecutive leaves from an incunable antiphonal, parchment. Text in black ink with red rubrics. Musical notation in a German gothic hufnagel style on a 5-line stave printed in red with F

Noted Hymnal (Fragment)
Leaf from a hymnal, parchment. Text in a gothic script in two columns interspersed with musical notation in a German gothic hufnagel style on a 4-line stave with C marked. Date: 13th Century

Ta-ra-ra-Boom-de-ay - popular song
Ta-ra-ra-Boom-de-ay - the popular song in musical notation, with portraits Date: 1890s

Two gentlemen composers in a music room before a piano, 19th century. The portly man says, I d give three operas to have created your romance

Fantoft Stave Church near Bergen, Norway
View of Fantoft Stave Church near Bergen, Norway, dating back to the 12th century. Built of wood, it is decorated with stylised horses heads, influenced by the Asa, or horse worship of the Vikings

Norway Fantoft Church
A fine example of a stave church Date: circa 1890

Borgund Stave Church, Norway
Borgund Stave Church, in the municipality of Laerdal in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. Built sometime between 1180 and 1250 AD. Date: circa 1910s

La Marseillaise. National anthem of France by Rouget de Lisle. 1792. Carnavalet Museum. Paris. France

Music cover, Louis Armstrong, Takes Two To Tango, words and music by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning. 1952

Christmas carol music by James Lyon -- Hark! Christmas bells are ringing wildly. The music is on two staves, with the lower stave containing the upper stave music played backwards

Traditional Swiss Costume - Woman from Tessin (Val Verzasca)
Traditional Swiss Costume - Woman from the Valle Verzasca, a valley in the Locarno district of the Canton of Ticino (Tessin), Switzerland. Date: circa 1909

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

French trouveur - 14th century musician
A French trouveur, after a drawing from the poems of Guillaume de Machaut. Date: 14th century

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

Norwegian Church
A Stave Church in the Norwegian Folk Museum at Bygdoy, Oslo, Norway. Date: 12th century

Borgund Church, Norway
Borgund Stave Church, Norway - two familes return from the church in horse drawn carts Date: circa 1910s

Wimbledon Queue
A long queue for tickets for the Wimbledon tennis tournament, with only a Hot Dog stand to stave off the hunger and boredom! Date: 1979

Sing Me A Song, childrens book / Ellen Welby
Two children leaf their way quietly through a book. Sing Me A Song, childrens book front cover

Norway Borgund Church
A fine example of a stave church

Surveying with a Compass
Surveying with a mounted compass

German Musicians 1520
A group of German musicians perform on a wide variety of instruments to provide music for dancers : lute, bagpipes, clarinet, trombone, flute, drum, monochord are featured

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