Sir John Hawkins' History of Music (John Wall Callcott)
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- Editor: Jonathan Goodliffe (submitted 2004-01-11). Score information: A4, 1 page, 68 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Sir John Hawkins' History of Music
Composer: John Wall Callcott
Lyricist: Probably the composer
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: TTB
(possibly SSA)
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published:
Description: Catch scored in treble clef, written for male voices. The music has been transcribed in modern score format as it was intended to be sung.
- Possible error(s) identified. Error summary: Catch form transcribed incorrectly See the discussion page for full description.
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Original text and translations
English text
Have you Sir John Hawkins' hist'ry?
Some folks think it quite a myst'ry.
Music fill’d his wond’rous brain
How d’ye like him, is it plain?
Both I’ve read and must agree
that Burney’s hist’ry pleases me.