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Music

Images

  • Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855.
  • A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by E. de Boulonnois, 16--.
  • Page 113: Krishna playing his flute to the cows and Radha who is immersed in the river, while an old man smoking a hookah observes. Watercolour drawing.
  • Saint Cecilia with Saint Paul the Apostle, Saint John the Evangelist, a bishop and Saint Mary Magdalen. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after Raphael.
  • Hunting: snares for catching ground-feeding birds, and musical notation of bird-song. Engraving, c.1762 by B.-L. Prevost.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    'A sweet shrill voice' : the countertenor and vocal scoring in Tudor England / Simon Ravens.

    Ravens, Simon. | Date: 1998
    • Books
    • Online

    The study of primitive music / [Charles S. Myers].

    Myers, Charles S. (Charles Samuel), 1873-1946. | Date: [1912?]
    • Archives and manuscripts

    MS.1422

    | Date: c.1755
    • Books

    From Spice Girls to Riot Grrrls.

    Indrawaty, Augustinna Tuty | Date: [2017]
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Techniques for engraving maps (top), and musical notation (below): tools shown between. Engraving by Defehrt (maps) and Madame de Lusse (music).

    | Reference: 40512i
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