I work in a museum part of which portrays Victorian England. Does anyone have any ideas as to what music was around in the late victorian period and what was it played on.
I already play songs such as Molly Malone and tunes- Sweets of May, Fiery Clockface, etc. Using Whistle/recorder.
Any info gratefully received.
Since it is - I think - an Irish site, I suppose
you could do worse than look at Dubliner's material,
which though a little dated these days did manage
to capture that essential Irish quality of the
comical nature of life, and which for reasons
of education and talent happeded to be written
mostly back in the - to them in the lare 50's -
last century. So for example 'The Neat Little Still'
or 'Paddy Murphy The Tailor' both comical songs date back
to horse and cart Ireland.
I could not help but notice your location and
suggest looking in the library for 'Music Hall'
entertainment; likewise here on the internet there
are several sites providing scanned images of
popular musical 'Scores' which is how music was
- if I may use the modern term - broadcast in those
days.
Here in the US, but not I notice in Britain, the
Player-Piano - a mechanised scorereading Piano, which
the user pedaled - treadmill ho ho ho - like the
Bicycle, oh then oh then ... ahem.
In whatever case the scanned copies of popular songs,
listed by various criteria, which we today would have
difficulty understanding, may be found at the
Smithsonian.
Course most of that is US and not European popular
music.
Sorefingers - because last year the missus bought me
a present of a new guitar which shredded my finger
tips.
Mechanical ways of producing music would fit the scenery very nicely, and I am sure they were popular in Britain as well, including mechanical pianos. Never heard about them being pedaled, though.
Weren't broadsides of murder ballads still sold in the streets in Victorian times? There must be collections of tunes to those.
As a group dealing with stuff from that period I recommend the New Victory Band who recorded a nice LP in the 70s. Decidedly English, though.
Early Music
Early Music
I work in a museum part of which portrays Victorian England. Does anyone have any ideas as to what music was around in the late victorian period and what was it played on.
I already play songs such as Molly Malone and tunes- Sweets of May, Fiery Clockface, etc. Using Whistle/recorder.
Any info gratefully received.
Silvertone
# Posted on August 29th 2003 by Silvertone
Re: Early Music
Ah what a neat question!
Since it is - I think - an Irish site, I suppose
you could do worse than look at Dubliner's material,
which though a little dated these days did manage
to capture that essential Irish quality of the
comical nature of life, and which for reasons
of education and talent happeded to be written
mostly back in the - to them in the lare 50's -
last century. So for example 'The Neat Little Still'
or 'Paddy Murphy The Tailor' both comical songs date back
to horse and cart Ireland.
I could not help but notice your location and
suggest looking in the library for 'Music Hall'
entertainment; likewise here on the internet there
are several sites providing scanned images of
popular musical 'Scores' which is how music was
- if I may use the modern term - broadcast in those
days.
Here in the US, but not I notice in Britain, the
Player-Piano - a mechanised scorereading Piano, which
the user pedaled - treadmill ho ho ho - like the
Bicycle, oh then oh then ... ahem.
In whatever case the scanned copies of popular songs,
listed by various criteria, which we today would have
difficulty understanding, may be found at the
Smithsonian.
Course most of that is US and not European popular
music.
Sorefingers - because last year the missus bought me
a present of a new guitar which shredded my finger
tips.
# Posted on August 29th 2003 by sorefingers
Re: Early Music
Mechanical ways of producing music would fit the scenery very nicely, and I am sure they were popular in Britain as well, including mechanical pianos. Never heard about them being pedaled, though.
Weren't broadsides of murder ballads still sold in the streets in Victorian times? There must be collections of tunes to those.
As a group dealing with stuff from that period I recommend the New Victory Band who recorded a nice LP in the 70s. Decidedly English, though.
# Posted on August 30th 2003 by kuec