Music Expressive (2 results)

Condition: Very Good. 9 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 15.5 x 24.5 cms. Category: Journal of Aesthetics; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Original copper engraved sheet music with head-piece 'expressive of the sense of each particular song' (23 x 14.5 cm). Mounted. Songs by various composers, mostly for solo voice and continuo (figured bass), with versions for the flute, most headed by an engraved illustration. An expanded reissue of the 'English Orpheus', originally published by the engraver, Thomas Kitchin. Lyrics read, "Whilst Strephon on fair Chloe hung & gently woo'd & sweetly sung ye nymph in a disdainful air thus smiling mock'd ye shep. Care swains I know that you discover in my form a thousand charms, can you pint me out a lover worth,y encircling arms. Boy no more approach my beauty 'till you equal merrit boast, to adore me is aduty thousands witnesses to their Cost. Stung to the heart the reclining swain, on the vain maid retorts again foolish creature did each feature bloom beyond the pride of nature, artful feigning, Coy disdaining, vain coquet destroy them all, go o'erbearing, proud ensnaring, lay a thousand fops despairing, then complying, sighing, dying, to some fool a victim fall nymphs like you whilst their deceiving, Angels all in front appear but ye sot their arts believing but ye sot their arts believing finds ye devil in ye rear.".…