An Album of Five Songs.
SYMONS, Arthur and Sir William Henry HADOW
£40.00
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20 pp. Stapled as issued. Oxford: Sydney Acott & Co., n.d. [between 1896 and 1899].
Of the five songs published here, two take lyrics from living poets: Symons' “Memory" from the "Bianca" sequence in London Nights (1895), and Stevenson's “Bright Is the Ring of Words,” from Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896). These poems have been set to music numerous times, but this is surely the first occasion for both. Hadow was a noted music scholar and editor who held several academic posts, beginning with Dean of Worcester College, Oxford. He gained his knighthood as an educator whose work led to the restructuring of elementary and secondary education in England. Not in Beckson et al. Covers a little dusty, but in very good condition.
Stock Code: 236162
