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3 February – The Messenger Boy, by James T. Tanner and Alfred Murray, with lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank, and music by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton (additional numbers by Paul Rubens), opens at the Gaiety Theatre, and runs for 428 performances. [22]
John Goss (1800–1880) John Lodge Ellerton (1801–1873) Elias Parish Alvars (1808–1849) Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810–1876) George Alexander Macfarren (1813–1887) William Christian Sellé (1813–1898) Henry Smart (1813–1879) William Sterndale Bennett (1816–1875) Henry Charles Litolff (1818–1891) Edmund Chipp (1823–1886) Henry ...
Males. John; William; James; Charles; George; Frank; Joseph; Thomas; Henry; Robert; Edward; Harry; Walter; Arthur; Fred; Albert; Samuel; David; Louis; Joe; Charlie ...
Music hall songs were sung in the music halls by a variety of artistes. Most of them were comic in nature. There are a very large number of music hall songs, and most of them have been forgotten. In London, between 1900 and 1910, a single publishing company, Francis, Day and Hunter, published between forty and fifty songs a month.
Little Boy Blue: England 1744 [57] First mentioned in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book. Little Jack Horner 'Little Jack Horner sat in a corner' Great Britain 1791 [58] The earliest surviving English edition is from 1791. Little Miss Muffet 'Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet' United Kingdom 1805 [59] The rhyme first appeared in print in Songs for ...
1859: Popular Music of Olden Time, William Chappell (1809–1888) (ed.) 1882: Northumbrian Minstrelsy – A Collection of the Ballads, Melodies and Small-Pipe Tunes of Northumbria, J. Collingwood Bruce (1805–1892) and John Stokoe (eds.) [2] 1882: English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Francis James Child (1825–1896) (ed.)
Michael Head (1900–1976) Christopher Headington (1930–1996) Anthony Hedges (1931–2019) Victor Hely-Hutchinson (1901–1947) Muriel Emily Herbert (1897–1984) William Herschel (1738–1822) Kenneth Hesketh (born 1968) Alistair Hinton (born 1950) Christopher Hobbs (born 1950) Alun Hoddinott (1929–2008) Joseph Holbrooke (1878–1958 ...
Music Hall, Britain's first form of commercial mass entertainment, emerged, broadly speaking, in the mid-19th century, and ended (arguably) after the First World War, when the halls rebranded their entertainment as Variety. [1]