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Terpsichore's Banquet : or, Select beauties of various national melodies : consisting of Spanish, Maltese, Russian, Armenian, Hindostan, English, Swedish, German, French, Swiss, and other favourite airs ; most of them never before published ; & now arranged with basses properly adapted to the harp, or piano-forte ; to which are added Variations to several of the airs, & a solo, opera 13th

Title
Terpsichore's Banquet : or, Select beauties of various national melodies : consisting of Spanish, Maltese, Russian, Armenian, Hindostan, English, Swedish, German, French, Swiss, and other favourite airs ; most of them never before published ; & now arranged with basses properly adapted to the harp, or piano-forte ; to which are added Variations to several of the airs, & a solo, opera 13th / composed by Edward Jones, bard to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Regent.
Author
Jones, Edward, 1752-1824.
Publication
London : Printed for the author, in the Lord Steward's Court-Yard, near the ball room, St. James's Palace, [1813]

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Notated musicSupervised use Drexel 3989-3989.3Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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Additional Authors
  • Burney, Edward Francis, 1760-1848.
  • Thornthwaite, A., active 18th century.
  • Rimbault, Edward F. (Edward Francis), 1816-1876.
  • Drexel Collection.
Description
29 p. of music : frontis.; 34 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • First part only.
  • For piano or harp.
  • Frontispiece drawn by E. Burney, engraved by Thornthwaite.
Indexed In (note)
  • Catalogue of the valuable library of the late Edward Francis Rimbault (London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge)
Provenance (note)
  • Formerly owned by Edward F. Rimbault.
Contents
A Spanish air, played by the band of General Ballastero's army -- A waltz -- The graces favourite : a Spanish waltz -- The tank -- Contradazi Maltessi : a carnival dance -- An air of the island of Goza -- Contradazi Maltessi, or The pilgrims' dance -- A kinght's dance -- Waltz -- Contradazi Maltessi, with castanets -- A castanet dance of the Maltese -- Cotnradazi Maltessi -- A Maltese air -- A plaintive Swedish air -- An elegant air of a Danish song -- Air of three notes by J.J. Rousseau... -- A tune of cour notes, played on the nasal-flute by the natives of Otaheite -- A favourtie Spanish bolero -- An Armenian pastorale -- Villanella d'amour -- Forlana -- The grand march in the opera of the Zauberflote, composed by Mozart -- A little Armenian pastorale -- The favourite waltz of Mozart -- L'air de troubadour -- Le perigordin -- A minuet -- The recovery -- A maltese pyrric dance -- A Maltese air -- A mask-ball dance of the Maltese -- A Maltese air -- A Maltese air -- Minuetto -- The chimes, or carillons -- The garland dance of the Maltese -- A Maltese jig -- A Maltese air -- A moorish air -- The tarentella -- Moo-lee wha -- The oar song of the Chinese - The Hanoverian waltz -- A favourite old English march -- A minuet -- The college hornpipe -- The march in Richard the first -- An elegant minuet, in the overture of Alexander Sevrus / ccomposed by Mr. Handel -- A Schiessal and a Reind'l.
Call Number
Drexel 3989
OCLC
630195517
Author
Jones, Edward, 1752-1824.
Title
Terpsichore's Banquet : or, Select beauties of various national melodies : consisting of Spanish, Maltese, Russian, Armenian, Hindostan, English, Swedish, German, French, Swiss, and other favourite airs ; most of them never before published ; & now arranged with basses properly adapted to the harp, or piano-forte ; to which are added Variations to several of the airs, & a solo, opera 13th / composed by Edward Jones, bard to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Regent.
Imprint
London : Printed for the author, in the Lord Steward's Court-Yard, near the ball room, St. James's Palace, [1813]
Indexed In:
Catalogue of the valuable library of the late Edward Francis Rimbault (London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge), p. 70, item 1137.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Edward F. Rimbault.
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Added Author
Burney, Edward Francis, 1760-1848. Cover designer
Thornthwaite, A., active 18th century. Engraver
Rimbault, Edward F. (Edward Francis), 1816-1876. Former owner
Drexel Collection.
Research Call Number
Drexel 3989
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