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Sheet music from the 1740s: On Greenwich Park

Sheet music. On Greenwich Park

On Greenwich Park. Engraving by Thomas Kitchin. Words by Mr Young set to music by Mr Jackson. Page 21 from the Universal Harmony or, the Gentleman & Ladie's Social Companion: consisting of ... English and Scots songs, cantatas &c. &c. With a curious design, by way of headpiece ... set to music for the voice, violin, hautboy, German & common flute, with a thorough base for the organ, harpsichd. spinet, &c. by the best masters ... (London: J. Newbery, for the Proprietors). The sheet was included in both the 1745 and 1746 editions. It is not known from which edition this copy was extracted.

Click here to view a complete copy of the 1745 edition in the National Library of Scotland (digitised by the Internet Archive).

Verse two of the song refers to the birds in Greenwich Park. Reference to the birds was also made by the Observatory’s assistant William Rogerson in an article specifically about the birds in the Park which was published in two parts in the 1833 edition of The Youth’s Instructer and Guardian and found by Daniel Beltiki during the course of his research on the Observatory’s assistants.

Click here for part 1 (pp.203–206)

Click here for part 2 (pp.239–244). Note: some pages appear in duplicate

 

Further Reading

The work is referenced on page 82 of Frank Kidson’s British music publishers, printers and engravers (1900)