Charles Dickens and MusicLightwood, James T. (James Thomas)
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Charles Dickens and Music
Lightwood, James T. (James Thomas)
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Knowledge -- Music; Music and literature
When I arrived in London Town,
I got my lesson pat, &c.
WHEN IN DEATH I SHALL CALM RECLINE
Moore's _Irish Melodies_.
In 1833 Dickens wrote a travesty called _O' Thello_, in which
is a humorous solo of eight lines, to be sung to the air to
which the above is set.
WHEN LOVELY WOMAN STOOPS TO FOLLY (_O.C.S._ 56)
'Do my pretty Olivia,' cried she, 'let us have that
little melancholy air your papa was so fond of;
your sister Sophy has already obliged us. Do, child,
it will please your old father.' She complied in a
manner so exquisitely pathetic, as moved me.
When lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds, too late, that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy?
What art can wash her guilt away?
(Goldsmith's _Vicar of Wakefield_, ch. xxiv.)
WHEN THE HEART OF A MAN (_D.C._ 24, _O.M.F._ iii. 14)
Words by _Gay_ (_Beggar's Opera_). Set to a seventeenth-century
air.
If the heart of a man is depressed with care,
The mist is dispelled when a woman appears,
Like the notes of a fiddle she sweetly, sweetly
Raises our spirits and charms our ears.
WHEN THE STORMY WINDS (_D.C._ 21, _D. & S._ 23)
Words by _Campbell_, who may have taken them from an earlier
source. See 'You Gentlemen of England.'
WHITE SAND (_L.D._ i. 32)
An old glee. See p. 106.
WHO PASSES BY THIS ROAD SO LATE (_L.D._ i. 1)
(Blandois' Song.)
Words by _C. Dickens_. _H.R.S. Dalton._
An old French children's singing game. Dickens' words are
a literal translation. See _Eighty Singing Games_ (Kidson
and Moffat).
WHO RAN TO CATCH ME WHEN I FELL (_O.C.S._ 38)
From Ann Taylor's nursery song 'My Mother.'
WIFE SHALL DANCE AND I WILL SING, SO MERRILY PASS THE DAY
From 'Begone, dull care' (q.v.).
WILL WATCH, THE BOLD SMUGGLER (_Out of Season_)
_John Davy._
YANKEE DOODLE (_U.T._, _A.N._)
Mr. F. Kidson has traced this to 'A selection of Scotch,
English, Irish, and Foreign Airs,' published in Glasgow by
James Aird, c. 1775 or 1776.
YET LOV'D I AS MAN NE'ER LOVED (_O.C.S._ 50)
Words by _William Mee_. _Millard._
From 'Alice Gray.'
She's all my fancy painted her,
She's lovely, she's divine,
But her heart it is another's,
It never can be mine.
Yet lov'd I as ne'er man loved,
A love without decay,
Oh my heart, my heart is breaking,
For the love of _Alice Gray_!
'Alice Gray.' A ballad, sung by Miss Stephens, Miss Palon,
and Miss Grant. Composed and inscribed to Mr. A. Pettet by
Mrs. Philip Millard.
Published by A. Pettet, Hanway Street.
YOU GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND (_D. & S._ 23)
Old English Ballad.
A seventeenth-century song, the last line of each verse being
'When the stormy winds do blow.'
YOUNG LOVE LIVED ONCE (_S.B.S._ 20)
In _Sketches by Boz_ this sentence occurs:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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