Record ID:
314486
Accession number:
PMC 2117
Creator:
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.
Title:
Shakespear's garland, or, The Warwickshire Jubilee : being a collection of ballads, &c. : as perform'd in the Great Booth at Stratford upon Avon / composed by Mr. Dibdin.
Uniform title:
Songs. Selections
Published:
London : John Johnston, [1769].
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Cary Fund in 2010.
Contents:
[1st Part]: Sweet Willy ; The mulberry tree ; The jubilee : a roundelay [Sisters of the tuneful strain] ; The Warwickshire lad -- 2d Part: Being a collection of ballads as perform'd at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Serenade for 2 voices, with an accompanyment for a guittar [Let Beauty with the sun arise] ; Sung by Miss Radley [All this for a poet, O no] ; Duett [Let us sing it and dance it].
Notes:
For 1-2 voices and continuo; 1 piece with guitar obbligato; 4 tunes transposed "for the guitar, or German flute."
Words by David Garrick.
In 2 parts with separate title pages.
1st ed. for Stratford.
Engraved.
Associated names:
Garrick, David, 1717-1779, lyricist.
Johnston, John, publisher.
Department:
Music Collection: