Antique Musicals

George Gershwin

George Gershwin was born Jacob Gershwine on September 26, 1898. He died on July 11, 1937 and was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical…

September 1, 2023Information, Musicians and Makers

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Vellum

Vellum is prepared animal skin or membrane, typically used as writing material. Parchment is another term for this material, from which vellum is sometimes distinguished, when it is made from…

April 11, 2023Glossary, Information

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Graduals

Graduals. The gradual is a chant or hymn in the Mass, the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist in the Catholic Church, and among some other Christians. It gets its name…

January 21, 2023Glossary

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Felix Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor born on the 3 February 1809. His works were prominent in the early Romantic period and one of his most…

November 12, 2022Information, Musicians and Makers

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Nativity

The artistic depictions of the Nativity or birth of Jesus, celebrated at Christmas, are based on the narratives in the Bible, in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, and further…

September 28, 2022Information

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Illuminated manuscripts are hand-written books with painted decoration that generally includes precious metals such as gold or silver. The pages were made from animal skin, commonly calf, sheep, or goat.…

July 15, 2022Information

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Lute

A lute is a stringed musical instrument that includes a body and a neck which serves both has a handle and as a means of stretching the strings beyond the…

October 9, 2020Information, Musical Instruments

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Jean-Philippe Rameau

Jean-Philippe Rameau (25 September 1683 – 12 September 1764) was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the…

July 7, 2019Information, Musicians and Makers

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Choreography

Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion, form, or both are specified. Choreography may also refer to…

July 7, 2019Glossary, Information

Leaflet, Raoul-Auger ( 1659 / 1660-1710 ). COMPLETE OF DANCES CONTAINING VERY LARGE NUMBERS, BIG ENTRANCES OF BALLET OF MR PECOUR. PARIS: SHEET, 1704.

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Raoul Feuillet

Raoul Feuillet. Raoul Auger Feuillet (c.1660–1710) was a French dance notator, publisher and choreographer most well-known today for his Chorégraphie, ou l'art de décrire la danse (Paris, 1700) which described…

July 7, 2019Information, Musicians and Makers

Dibdin, Charles. COLLECTION OF PRINTED SONGS, OVER A DOZEN SIGNED BY THE COMPOSER ("CDIBDIN"), INCLUDING AN APPARENTLY UNIQUE SOURCE FOR THE SONG 'HOW GOOD AND HOW KIND OF HIS DEAR MAJESTY' FROM "THE OLD WOMAN OF EIGHTY"

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Charles Dibdin

Charles Dibdin. Charles Dibdin was a British composer, musician, dramatist, novelist and actor. With over 600 songs to his name, for many of which he wrote both the lyrics and…

July 7, 2019Information, Musicians and Makers

A GERMAN ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX SET WITH AN ENAMEL PORTRAIT MINIATURE BY LES FRÈRES SOUCHAY, MARKED, HANAU, CIRCA 1780, STRUCK WITH THE HANAU TOWN MARK FOR 19 CARAT GOLD, A CROWNED LETTER K AND A MARK RESEMBLING THE CHARGE MARK OF JULIEN ALATERRE

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George Handel

George Handel, born Georg Friederich Händel, was born in 1685 in Halle-upon-Saale, Duchy of Magdeburg (then part of Brandenburg-Prussia), to Georg Händel and Dorothea Taust. His father, aged sixty-three when…

July 7, 2019Information, Musicians and Makers