Six instructive lessons taken from familiar airs ... for the improvement of juvenile performers... No. 6, Happy tawny Moor.

Record ID: 
405552
Accession number: 
PMC 1189.8
Title: 
Six instructive lessons taken from familiar airs ... for the improvement of juvenile performers... No. 6, Happy tawny Moor.
Published: 
London : Printed by Clementi & Co. 26, Cheapside, [between 1798 and 1800].
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Mary Flagler Cary Fund in 1998.
Notes: 

For piano.
Melody presumably taken from air in The mountaineers / Samuel Arnold.
Full title page reads: Six instructive lessons taken from familiar airs will be printed in numbers on a single sheet for the improvement of juvenile performers, with appropriate chords & keys ascending & descending, & will consist of the following subjects. 1. Indian air. 2. Life let us cherish. 3. The honey moon. 4. There's na lack about the house. 5. Away with melancholy. 6. Happy tawny Moor.

Associated names: 

Arnold, Samuel, 1740-1802. Mountaineers. Oh happy tawny Moor.