Shelfmark
MS 395
Author
Title
Victoria - our Queen! [manuscript] / [music by] Barnby ; [text by A.C. Ainger].
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Eton?, ca. 1887]
Physical description
1 ms. score ([6] p.) ; 31 x 26 cm. + 1 magazine.
Language
English words.
Language
Staff notation.
Note
Place and date of production devised by the cataloguer. The song was included in the book "Eton songs" published in London, by Novello, Ewer & Co., in 1891 and 1892, and it is dated 1887.
Note
Holograph score in black ink.
Note
For keyboard instrument and mixed voices (SATB) printed on two staves with interlinear text.
Note
Accompanying material: A copy of the "Eton College Chronicle", no. 770, dated Tuesday, July 13, 1897, describing the Eton College celebrations and confirming that "Victoria - our Queen!" was performed.
Note
First line of text: "While the whole wide realm rejoices".
Note
Written for the Jubilee celebrations at Eton College in July 1897.
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 395.
Provenance
Loose slip with a red typewritten inscription reading "Authograph manuscripts of "Victoria-our Queen" by Sir Joseph Barnby Precentor (1875-1892). Presented to Eton College Music Schools by Mrs. Albert Mellor in 1958".
Subject
Barnby, Joseph, 1838 - 1896 Manuscripts.
Subject
Ainger, Arthur Campbell, 1841 - 1919 Musical settings.
Subject
Subject
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with piano Scores.
Subject
Music Manuscripts.
Subject
Songs with piano.
Genre/Form
Scores.
Genre/Form
Choruses, secular.
Genre/Form
Songs.
Genre/Form
Musical settings.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Mellor, Albert donor.
Added entry--place
England. Eton.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B53320