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François POIRIER, professeur de civilisation britannique

Victorian and Edwardian Songs and Music

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It's a Great Big Shame	Daisy Bell	England Arise!
The Houses in Between	By Jingo!	She Was Poor But She Was Honest
The Song of the Shirt	Drifted Away	Cordialement
Le Piccadilly		The March of the Women

Other songs, Victorian or otherwise		Pages d'accueil - Home Pages

A song pedlar, c. 1890

It's a Great Big Shame

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Written by Edgar Bateman, composed by George Le Brunn, 1895

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Daisy Bell

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Written and composed by Harry Dacre, 1892

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England Arise!

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Words and Music by Edward Carpenter, 1886

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The Houses in Between

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Written by Edgar Bateman, Composed by George Le Brunn, 1894

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By Jingo!

(Macdermott's War Song)

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Written & Composed by G. W. Hunt (1878)
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Plain instrumental sheet music to be found here.
Explications sur le vocabulaire généré par cette chanson.
Explanations (in French) on the new vocabulary created by this song.

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She Was Poor But She Was Honest

Anonymous, 19th c.

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The Song of the Shirt

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Words by Thomas Hood (1799-1845). First published in Punch, 1843
Music composed and sung by the Hutchinson family, arranged by S.O. Dyer, New-York, 1847

The Sempstress, by Richard Redgrave, 1846

Thomas Wood's piece captured the imagination of his contemporaries and numerous pictorial variations on the theme can be found, not only in Britain, but in America and Australia as well. In fact, the theme of the exhausted domestic worker on piece-work was already popular when Thomas Wood wrote his own interpretation. Here are a few links to more pictures:

http://www.louisville.edu/~fmhick01/seamstress.jpg
http://store1.yimg.com/I/pastpresent_1807_59212810
http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/images/object_images/22.gif
http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/images/object_images/8.gif
http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/images/object_images/9.gif
http://www.nga.gov.au/Exhibition/Edwardians/Images/MED/126773.jpg
http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/misc/blunden1.jpg

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Drifted Away

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This is the sort of parlour music which gave William Morris the (false) reputation of a music-hater.
Bland music and arch-conventional nostalgia, with poor lyrics
Le type même de la musique de salon qui a valu à William Morris la réputation imméritée de mélophobe.
Une musique indifférente, et un message de nostalgie forcenée dans de bien pauvres vers
Pp. 236-237 in Cassell's Family Magazine, March 1889

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Cordialement

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Le mois précédant la signature de l'Entente cordiale entre la France et le Royaume-Uni, le magazine Lectures pour Tous publiait cette partition de François Perpignan.
A month before the Entente cordiale was signed by French and British diplomats, the monthly Lectures pour Tous published this piano piece by François Perpignan
(pp. 514-515, Lectures pour Tous, 03/1904)

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Le Piccadilly

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Un peu plus tard, Eric Satie (1866-1925) composait ce morceau hybide où se mêlent la marche, le fox-trot et le rag-time -- une musique typiquement franglo-saxonne.
A little later, Eric Satie (1866-1925) composed this hybrid piece where the rhythms of a march, a fox-trot and a rag-time coexist -- a typically Frenglish piece.
(transcription par by Myriad)

c. 1897

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The March of the Women

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Even by the standards of the time, the lyrics of this song must have been laughable.
But the lady was in earnest, and nobody laughed.

The March of the Women.
Dedicated to the Women's Social and Political Union.
Copyright 1911 by Ethel Smyth, Mus. Doc.

1. Shout, shout, up with your song!
Cry with the wind, for the dawn is breaking;
March, march, swing you a-long,
Wide blows our ban-ner, and hope is waking.
Song with its story, dreams with their glory
Lo! they call, and glad is their word!
Forward! hark how it swells,
Thunder of freedom, the voice of the Lord!

2. Long, long -- we in the past
Cowered in dread from the light of heaven,
Strong, strong -- stand we at last,
Fearless in faith and with sight new given.
Strength with its beauty, Life with its duty,
(Hear the voice, oh hear and obey!)
These, these, beckon us on!
Open your eyes to the blaze of day.

3. Comrades -- ye who have dared
First in the battle to strive and sorrow!
Scorned, spurned -- nought have ye cared,
Raising your eyes to a wider morrow.
Ways that are weary, days that are dreary,
Toil and pain by faith ye have borne;
Hail, hail -- victors you stand,
Wearing the wreath that the brave have worn!

4. Life, strife -- these two are one,
Naught can ye win but by faitrh and daring.
On, on -- that ye have done
But for the work of to-day preparing.
Firm in reliance, laugh a defiance,
(Laugh in hope, for sure is the end)
March, march -- many as one,
Shoulder to shoulder and friend to friend.

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