Sling the flowing bowl (Thomas Linley the elder)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-09-13). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 76 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
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General Information
Title: Sling the flowing bowl
Composer: Thomas Linley the elder
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Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: TTB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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Description: Sources attribute the music of this toast to Thomas Linley, but are divided on the source of the words. Some give authorship to Linley's wife, others to his son in law, Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Sheridan and Linley had a fruitful partnership writing in the toast genre; "here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen" being their most enduring creation). Most probably written for a theatrical afterpiece (currently unidentified) this item achieved an unlikely audience and is recorded as often encountered in the 1830s and '40s amongst American whalers off Valparaiso.