Items matching music (results page 1)

Front CoverEccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564)

The book has been bound in an older (printed) music manuscript.

The book did not fit on my older scanner, but now I am able to show the entire cover.

Keywords: page images, book covers, music, colour, typography, lettering, book covers

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Added: 2006-03-15

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Printer’s Ornament with harp and vineThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A printer’s ornament from the end of a chapter or section. This one shows a lyre or harp together with vine.

Keywords: ornaments, music, christmas, musical instruments, harps, greyscale

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Added: 2004-06-15

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Printer’s ornament with birdsThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Two birds touch beaks, perhaps a mother feeding a baby, in this printer’s ornament, used as a tailpiece (tail-piece) at the end of a chapter. The design includes a harp, roses, ribbon or bunting and [...]

Keywords: ornaments, music, romance, roses, birds, musical instruments, harps, colour

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Added: 2014-08-26

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Music book and wreathsFamous Composers and their Music (1901)

Sheet music (score) with wreaths, perhaps of laurel leaves to signify victory; this is a detail from the musical border from the title page.

Keywords: music, sheet music, wreaths, xmas, christmas, page elements, ornaments, colour

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Added: 2010-11-14

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Musical BorderFamous Composers and their Music (1901)

This musical border features Greek or Roman busts at the corners, musical scores, laurel wreaths, musical instruments including violins, trumpets and horns, and is printed mostly in green and black. I [...]

Keywords: borders, colour, musical instruments, music

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Added: 2010-11-14

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Victorian Carol SingersPeter Parlay’s Annual (1856)

Three Victorian men are stnading singing Christmas songs; one of them plays the harp. A boy watches, and other figures stand in the background. The dress is from the early Victorian era. Jolly be our [...]

Keywords: christmas, xmas, music, people, singing, wassail, costumes, victorian england, victorian costumes, victoriana, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2013-12-12

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Wandering MinstrelModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band IV (1898)

This youth has a lute strapped to his back and holds an open manuscript book in his left hand in his right, a quill pen. Perhaps he is writing a song, although he won’t get far without an inkwell. He [...]

Keywords: minstrels, people, music, musical instruments, song-writing, books, pens, men, medieval, greyscale

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Added: 2023-12-10

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Music Hath CharmsHome Words for Heart and Hearth (1888)

A boy in a farmyard sits on a large wooden barrel open next to a well-pump and plays the flute. He wears a tunic down to his knees, a hat, leggings (we just see one knee) and I think tall boots. There [...]

Keywords: music, children, farmyards, animals, people, children, illustrations for children, musical instruments, flutes, greyscale

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Added: 2017-03-04

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Christmas MassModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band IV (1898)

Choirboys, an orchestra, a conductor who appears to be starting into space, an inuntersested congregation, some of whom are kneeling at at the door. It looks as if perhaps we see a minstrel’s gallery, [...]

Keywords: christmas, choirboys, boys, people, singing, music, religion, xmas, interiors, chapels, churches, musical instruments, greyscale

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Added: 2023-12-10

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Choirboy singing from balcony pulpitModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band IV (1898)

A beautiful boy chorister, or possibly a young lady by the costume and the long pointy fingers, is singing in a wooden pulpit or balcony high in the top-left corner of a page of sheet music (not shown [...]

Keywords: christmas, xmas, choirboys, boys, people, women, robes, singing, music, colour

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Added: 2023-12-10

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284.—The Harp, Accompanied by Other Instruments (cotton MS.).Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

[The Anglo-Saxons] put their own harp into the hands of the Royal Psalmist (Fig. 284) and indeed we see here King David on his throne, dressed as an Anglo-Saxon king. There’s also a violinist, a trump [...]

Keywords: royalty, people, musical instruments, music, christmas, religion, saxon england, greyscale

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Added: 2008-10-11

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Sculpture: Muse of PoetryGoethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

This full-page engraving is in the form of a three-dimensional sculpture: a mermaid sits in an alcove playing a musical instrument and petting a swan; she has a crown of flowers and long flowing hair. [...]

Keywords: sculpture, mythological figures, nudity, art, emblems, mermaids, birds, swans, musical instruments, poetry, music, greyscale

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Added: 2011-06-25

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Muse of Poetry, UnlabeledGoethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

A version of the Muse of poetry sculpture with theGerman writing removed.

Keywords: sculpture, mythological figures, nudity, art, emblems, mermaids, birds, swans, musical instruments, poetry, music, cartouches, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-06-25

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Two cherubs play flute and violinLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

A detail from Fig. 51, two winged cherubs sit playing musical instruments, one a twin pipe and the other a bowed instrument like an early violin.

Keywords: music, cherubs, bare feet, nudity, romance, christmas, musical instruments, greyscale

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Added: 2012-12-25

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Cherub with TriangleLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

A detail from Fig. 51, a winged cherubs sits playing a musical instrument, a triangle. He is naked, and his eyes glance to one side. He has a curl of hair.

Keywords: music, cherubs, bare feet, nudity, romance, christmas, musical instruments, angels, mythical creatures, greyscale

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Added: 2012-12-25

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Maenad and Faun Full Page BorderStock Designs of Page Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display Pages (1922)

In this full-page design a mænad, or female faun, part human and part goat, is sitting under a tree playing a pipe; a male faun is seated next to her playing pipes and with a laurel wreat round his ha [...]

Keywords: fauns, maenads, romance, mythological creatures, borders, full-page borders, colour, trees, musical instruments, musicians, music

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Added: 2020-11-16

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Faun playing pipes to his childrenStock Designs of Page Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display Pages (1922)

An adult faun, with the legs of a goat and garlands of flowers in his hair, plays the pan pipes to three faun children. All are topless and have horns. This is a clean design that could be used in p [...]

Keywords: fauns, maenads, romance, mythological creatures, children, horns, borders, full-page borders, colour, trees, musical instruments, musicians, music

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Added: 2021-09-10

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62a.—Initial capital letter “A” from Dance of Death AlphabetDie Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This decorative initial letter “A”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein the Younger and dating from 1523. It features a skeleton banging a drum (or tabor) with a bone, and also p [...]

Keywords: lettera, initials, death, skeletons, music, musical instruments, spirit, greyscale

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Added: 2009-03-07

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When Stars Are In The Quiet SkiesWorld’s Best Music (1900)

Sheet music for piano, a setting of Edward Bulwer (Lord Lytton)’s poem: 1 When Stars Are In The Quiet Skies     Then most I pine for thee;; Bend on me then thy tender eyes,     As stars look on the se [...]

Keywords: music, sheet music, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2006-10-24

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68b.—Printer’s Mark Detail: AngelDie Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol II.) (1881)

A trumpeting angel from a woodcut by Jost Amman, a detail from a trade mark for a printer.

Keywords: angels, music, christmas, wings, bare feet, greyscale

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Added: 2010-07-25

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