Ref NoMWT/MUS/1/0619
CollectionMax Tyler Music Hall Collection
TitleDifferent styles of singing or (some sang high, and some sang low)
Name of creatorLeyton, George
DateNo date
Extent1 sheet music
DescriptionSheet music for piano and voice titled “Different styles of singing or (some sang high, and some sang low)” appearing as two folio sheets (4 pages total). The cover depicts, in lithograph, the performer in a smart suit and pince-nez reading a piece of sheet music. Also there are depictions of various singers, a tenor, a basso profundo who ‘gets his voice into his boots and can’t get it up again’ and a mezzo soprano, ‘a giddy young thing of forty’.
NotesBack cover has an advertisement: 'What the stars sing. Reeder and Walsh's latest comic songs'.
SubjectMusical Theatre
Musical Theatre
Music Hall
Comedy
Songs
PhysicalDescription250 x 350mm, black and coloured ink printed on paper
Related PersonHorncastle, George, composer and lyricist
Rees, T., arranger
Leyton, George, performer
Related OrganisationReeder & Walsh, publisher
H.G. Banks, lithographer.
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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