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Words And Tunes From The Best Poets And Musicians

350+ Song Lyrics With Sheet Music, Selected And Arranged By John Hullah Professor Of Vocal Music In King's College, London. Published By Macmillan And Co London, Circa 1884

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 Words And Tunes From The Best Poets And Musicians 350+ Song Lyrics With Sheet Music About This Book

THIS VOLUME contains the majority of the best Songs, by deceased poets and musicians, of Great Britain and Ireland. That it has been possible to compress any­thing answering to this description into so small a compass is due to a variety of causes, of which defi­ciency of material whence to choose has assuredly not been one. But, the best things, in every kind of art, are necessarily few. The field of choice, too, has been limited in the present instance to pieces which fully answer to the popular idea of a song—a thing, the first condition or qualification of which is that it can be sung, and to which, therefore, apt notes are as essential and as important as apt words. Moreover, it was desirable that the collection should consist ex­clusively of National songs—songs which, through their tiuth to nature, their felicity of expression, and the operation of time, have sunk "deeper than did ever plummet sound" into the hearts of the people among whom they have sprung up and circulated.


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