Dr Alice Little
@littleamiss.bsky.social
Historian of eighteenth-century music, researching folk music, history of collecting, tunebooks, national music, and museums. Also writing books and stories and drinking tea in the garden.
The image is a page from John Malchair’s tunebook at the VWML dating from the early 1780s, including typical marginalia about where/when/from whom he heard the tune, which is why I love this source. The tune itself begins: do dum do-be-do do do do, do dum do-be-do do ba-do dum.
January 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The image is a page from John Malchair’s tunebook at the VWML dating from the early 1780s, including typical marginalia about where/when/from whom he heard the tune, which is why I love this source. The tune itself begins: do dum do-be-do do do do, do dum do-be-do do ba-do dum.