Parlour Song Book

This volume contains 71 songs for voice & piano running from the sublime to the ridiculous & represent all the important types of song:*Sentimental*Descriptive*Pathetic & proselytizing*Dominant themes & preoccupations of the time*Love, death, childhood, home patriotism, social & oral improvement*From the principal contemporary sources: opera, ballad concerts, family troupes, the minstrels & the musical hallThe editor provides witty & knowledgeable commentary on the composers, lyricists, & sources then in vogue.