I like him who, doom'd o'er distant seas.Indian Air. No. 6 National Melodies. Autograph musical manuscript signed of a song for voice and piano
Ca. 1820.
2-1/2 pp. of an oblong bifolium. Notated in ink on 12-stave music paper. With "The Poetry by T. Moore Esq. Symphonies & accompaniment by Henry R. Bishop" to upper outer corner and "Not used" at head. Signed in full. Set to text by noted Irish poet Thomas Moore (1779-1852).
Somewhat worn and browned; creased at spine and at vertical folds with some short splits and small chips to blank areas; silked overall, with reinforcement to lower outer portions of both leaves affecting legibility.
Bishop, a noted English composer of the early Romantic era, is best-known for the songs "Home! Sweet Home!" and "Lo! Hear the Gentle Lark." He composed or arranged many operas, light operas, cantatas, and ballets and worked for all the major London theatres.
"In his day he enjoyed a commanding reputation as the guardian of the best traditions of English song, and for a time he kept English opera alive almost single-handed. Yet he is now remembered for little but the song Home, Sweet Home ... foreshadowed in Who Wants a Wife? (1816) and as a ‘Sicilian Air’ in a volume of National Airs which he edited in 1821." Nicholas Temperley and Bruce Carr in Grove Music Online.
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