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Sir John Hawkins' History of Music (John Wall Callcott)
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Sibelius 2
- Editor: Jonathan Goodliffe (submitted 2004-01-11). Score information: A4, 1 page, 68 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Sir John Hawkins' History of Music
Composer: John Wall Callcott
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: TTB (possibly SSA)
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published:
Description: Catch scored in treble clefs, probably written for male voices. The music has been transcribed in modern score format as it was intended to be sung. There is also an edition - "The Historians" in a version closer to the original "Catch" notation.
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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.



