Charles Dickens and Music

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Author

Lightwood, James T. (James Thomas), 1856-1944

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Produced by David Newman, Daniel Emerson Griffith and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

ML: Music: Literature of music

Subject

Music and literature

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eBook-No.

16595

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16595

Release Date

August 25, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.CHARLES DICKENS AND MUSIC
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.LIST OF WORKS REFERRED TO With Abbreviations Used
5. 5.CHAPTER I DICKENS AS A MUSICIAN — As a Singer — In Music Drama
6. 6.CHAPTER II INSTRUMENTAL COMBINATIONS VIOLIN, VIOLONCELLO, HARP, PIANO — Violin and Kit — Violoncello — Harp — Piano — Chorus.
7. 7.CHAPTER III VARIOUS INSTRUMENTS FLUTE, ORGAN, GUITAR (AND SOME HUMMERS) — Flute — Hummers — Clarionet — Bassoon — Bagpipes — Trombone — Organ — Barrel-Organ — Guitar
8. 8.CHAPTER IV VARIOUS INSTRUMENTS (continued)
9. 9.CHAPTER V CHURCH MUSIC — Parish Clerks — Anthems — Hymns and Hymn-Tunes
10. 10.CHAPTER VI SONGS AND SOME SINGERS — I.— National Songs — II.— Songs from 1780–1840 — III.— Contemporary Comic Songs — THE MAN THAT COULDN'T GET WARM. — Some Singers — Glee-Singing
11. 11.CHAPTER VII SOME NOTED SINGERS — The Micawbers — LITTLE TAFFLINE. — Captain Cuttle — LOVELY POLLY — Dick Swiveller — ALL'S WELL ( Duet ). — Teachers and Composers — Silas Wegg's Effusions — Book I, Ch. 5. — Book I, Ch. 15. — Book I, Ch. 15. — Book I, Ch. 15. — Book I, Ch. 15. — Book II, Ch. 7. — Book III, Ch. 6. — Book III, Ch. 6. — Book III, Ch. 6. — Book IV, Ch. 3.
12. 12.A LIST OF SONGS AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC MENTIONED BY DICKENS WITH HISTORICAL NOTES — A Cobbler There Was ( D. & S. 2) — A Frog He Would ( P.P. 32) — Alice Gray — All Hail to the Vessel of Pecksniff the Sire ( M.C. 11) — All in the Downs ( P.P. 3) — All's Well ( O.C.S. 56). — And She Shall Walk ( O.C.S. 66) — And You Needn't, Mr. Venus, be Your Black Bottle ( O.M.F. ). — A Stiff Nor'-Wester's Blowing, Bill ( D. & S. 49) — Auld Lang Syne (‘Holly Tree,’ D.C. 17, 28) — Away With Melancholy ( O.C.S. 58, O.M.F. ii. 6, P.P. 44, D.C. 8) — Bay of Biscay ( U.T. 31, D. & S. 39, P.P. 32) — Beethoven's Sonata in B. — Begone, Dull Care ( O.C.S. 7, E.D. 2) — Believe Me, if All Jarley's Waxworks so Rare ( O.C.S. 27) — Believe Me, if all Those Endearing Young Charms ( B.H. 55) — Beside that Cottage Door, Mr. Boffin ( O.M.F. ) — Bid Me Discourse ( S.B.T. 4) — Bird Waltz ( D. & S. 29, 38) — Black-eyed Susan ( A.N. ), or All in the Downs ( P.P. 3) — Bold Turpin Vunce ( P.P. 43) — Brave Lodgings for One ( P.P. 29) — British Grenadiers ( B.H. 49) — Britons, Strike Home ( S.L. ) — Buffalo Gals ( Letters ) — By the Sad Sea Waves ( Letters ) — Cheer, Boys, Cheer ( U.T. 29) — Copenhagen Waltz ( D. & S. 7) — Dead March. — Death of Nelson ( D.C. 52, D. & S. 48, O.M.F. iv. 3) — Di Piacer ( S.B.T. 1) — Downfall of Paris — Dragon of Wantley ( D.C. 38) — Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes ( O.M.F. iii. 14) — Dumbledumdeary ( S.B.S. 10) — Evening Bells ( D.C. 38) — Fare Thee Well, and if For Ever ( O.C.S. 58) — Fill the Bumper Fair ( N.T. ) — Flow On, Thou Shining River ( S.B.T. 1) — Fly, Fly from the World, My Bessy, With Me ( S.B.S. 2) — For England — For England, Home, and Beauty — For the Port of Barbados, Boys ( D. & S. 15) — From Sport to Sport ( O.C.S. 58) — Gee Up, Dobbin ( D.C. 12) — Glorious Apollo ( O.C.S. 13, 56) — Go Where Glory Waits Thee ( M.C. 11) — God Bless the Prince of Wales ( U.T. 29) — God Bless You, Merry Gentlemen ( C.C. ) — God Save the King ( S.B.S. 19, &c.) God Save the Queen ( M.C. 29) — Had I a Heart for Falsehood Framed ( D. & S. 14) — Hail Columbia ( M.C. 13, A.N. ) — Harmonious Blacksmith ( G.E. 21) — Has She Then Failed in Her Truth ( N.N. 49) — Heart of Oak ( B.R. 7, E.D. 12, U.T. 20, parody) — Helm a Weather, Now Lay Her Close ( O.M.F. ) — How Doth the Little— ( Ch. ) — I am a Friar of Orders Grey ( S.B.S. 8) ( Out of Season ) — I Care Not For Spring — I'd Crowns Resign, To Call Her Mine ( D.C. 25) — If I Had a Donkey ( O.C.S. 27) — If You'll Come to the Bower ( O.M.F. ) — I'll Tell Thee How the Maiden Wept ( O.M.F. ) — In Hurry, Post Haste for a Licence ( P.P. 10) — I Saw Her at the Fancy Fair ( S.B.T. 11) — I Saw Thy Show in Youthful Prime ( O.C.S. 27) — Isle of the Brave and Land of the Free ( M.J. ) — It May Lighten and Storm ( M.C. 42) — Jack's Delight (to) His Lovely Nan ( D.C. 11) — Jim Crow ( A.N. ) — Jolly Young Waterman ( It. , P.P. 33) — King Death ( B.H. 33) — Lesbia Hath a Beaming Eye ( Letter to Lemon ) — Listen to the Waterfall ( B.H. 32) — Little Taffline ( D.C. 28) — Lovely Peg ( D. & S. 10) — Marseillaise ( M.C. 15, E.D. 2, L.D. 2) — Masaniello ( S.B.T. 9) — May We Ne'er Want a Friend ( D. & S. 15) — Men of Prometheus ( S.B.T. 9) — Miss Wackles, I Believed You True ( O.C.S. 8) — My Boat is on the Shore ( G.S. ) ( D.C. 54, Letters ) — My Feelings I Smother ( O.C.S. 36) — My Heart's in the Highlands ( O.C.S. 2, S.B.S. 2) — Never Leave off Dancing ( D.C. 41) — No Malice to Dread, Sir ( O.M.F. ) — Non Nobis ( S.B.S. 19) — Now's the Day, and Now's the Hour ( D.C. 54) — Of All the Girls That Are so Smart ( O.C.S. 50) — Off She Goes ( S.B.T. 7) — Oft in the Stilly Night ( S.B.S. 13) — Oh Blame Not the Bard ( O.C.S. 35) — Oh Give Me But My Arab Steed ( O.C.S. 21) — Oh Cheerily, Cheerily ( D. & S. 32) — Oh Lady Fair ( G.E. 13) — Oh Let us Love Our Occupations ( Ch. ) — Oh Landsmen are Folly ( H.R. ) — Old Clem ( G.E. 12, 15) — Old King Cole ( O.C.S. 58, P.P. 36) — Over the Hills and Far Away ( Dr. M. , M.C. 36) — Over the Water to Charlie ( O.C.S. 27) — Paul and Virginia ( S.B.T. 7, L.D. 13) — Polly Put the Kettle On ( B.R. 24) — Red Ruffian, Retire! ( S.B.C. 8) — Rule Britannia ( D. & S. 4, 39, U.T. 2, M.C. 11, 17, A.N. , D.C. 8) — Sally in Our Alley — Satan Finds Some Mischief Still ( D.C. 16) — See from Ocean Rising ( S.B.T. 7) — She's All My Fancy Painted Her ( O.C.S. 7) — She's Like the Red, Red Rose ( O.C.S. 8) — Shivery Shakey, Ain't It Cold ( Dr. M. ) — Since Laws Were Made for Every Degree ( O.C.S. 66, L.D. ii. 12) — Tyburn Tree. — Since the First Dawn of Reason — Song About a Sparkling Bowl ( Ch. ) — Song About the Slumbering Echoes in the Cavern of Memory ( D.C. 33) — Strew Then, Oh Strew a Bed of Rushes ( O.C.S. 65) — Tamaroo ( M.C. 32) — Tarry Trousers ( D. & S. 39) — Tell Me, Shepherds ( E.D. 2) — The Brave Old Oak ( S.B.S. 2.) — The Bull in the China Shop — The Cherub That Sits Up Aloft ( U.T. 5) — The Cordial That Sparkled for Helen ( O.C.S. 61) — The Dashing White Sergeant ( D.C. 28) — The Gay, the Gay and Festive Season ( O.M.F. ) — The Great Sea Snake — The Ivy Green ( P.P. 6.) — The Light Guitar ( S.B.T. 1, O.C.S. ) — The Miller of the Dee ( O.M.F. ii. 1) — The Ratcatcher's Daughter ( Out of Season ) — The Seven Ages ( S.B.S. 14) — The Soldier, Tired ( S.B.C. 4) — The Woodpecker Tapping ( D.C. 36, L.D. 35, S.B.T. 1, M.C. 25) — The Young May Moon — Then Farewell, My Trim-Built Wherry ( O.M.F. ) — There Let 'em Be, Merry and Free, Toor-rul-lal-la ( O.C.S. 56) — Though Lost to Sight, to Memory Dear ( D. & S. 48) — Thrown on the Wide World ( O.M.F. ) — Time of Day ( S.B.C. 8) — 'Tis the Voice of the Sluggard ( M.C. 9) — 'Twas Ever Thus From Childhood's Hour ( O.C.S. 56, D.C. 38) — Villikens and His Dinah — Wapping Old Stairs ( U.T. 3) — Weep for the Hour ( O.M.F. ) — We Met ( O.C.S. 36, S.B.T. 11) — We're a'Noddin' ( B.H. 39) — We Won't Go Home Till Morning ( P.P. 7) — What Are the Wild Waves Saying? — When He Who Adores Thee ( O.C.S. 35) — When I Went to Lunnon Town, Sirs ( G.E. 15) — The Astonished Countryman, or, a Bustling Picture of London. — When in Death I Shall Calm Recline — When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly ( O.C.S. 56) — When the Heart of a Man ( D.C. 24, O.M.F. iii. 14) — When the Stormy Winds ( D.C. 21, D. & S. 23) — White Sand ( L.D. i. 32) — Who Passes by This Road so Late ( L.D. i. 1) — Who Ran to Catch Me When I Fell ( O.C.S. 38) — Wife Shall Dance and I Will Sing, so Merrily Pass the Day — Will Watch, the Bold Smuggler ( Out of Season ) — Yankee Doodle ( U.T. , A.N. ) — Yet Lov'd I as Man Ne'er Loved ( O.C.S. 50) — You Gentlemen of England ( D. & S. 23) — Young Love Lived Once ( S.B.S. 20)
13. 13.INDEX OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
14. 14.INDEX OF CHARACTERS
15. 15.GENERAL INDEX
16. 16.A LIST OF VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC ASSOCIATED WITH DICKENS AND WITH THE CHARACTERS IN HIS NOVELS
17. 17.TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

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