Ref NoMWT/MUS/1/0294
CollectionMax Tyler Music Hall Collection
TitleThey're getting larger
Name of creatorCoyne, Frank, performer
Date1897
Extent1 sheet music
DescriptionSheet music for piano and voice titled, “They’re getting larger”, appearing as two folio sheets (total 8 pages). Cover depicts the performer, in lithograph, dressed in a bow tie and stove-pipe hat with an umbrella. Inset is an image of a figure in tweeds with a bicycle with the caption, “My mother-in-law’s calves”; a row of bottles of various alcoholic drinks with the caption, “My appetite deserted me but my blessed thirst remained”; Chickens looking at very large eggs with the caption, “I blow down their beaks with the kitchen bellows. Result, Eggstraordinary”.
NotesBack cover has a list of "New and popular songs"
SubjectMusical Theatre
Music Hall
Comedy
Songs
PhysicalDescription250 x 350mm, black and coloured ink printed on paper
Related PersonWincott, Harry, composer and lyricist
Harry Leighton, composer and lyricist
Coyne, Frank, performer
Banks, H. G., lithographer
Related OrganisationReeder & Walsh, publisher
Alberto Hyman, New York, publisher
Related PlaceLondon
CategorySheet music
Access conditionsThis material is available for consultation at the University of Kent's Special Collections & Archives reading room, Templeman Library, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NU (specialcollections@kent.ac.uk).
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