The Universal Musician or Songster's Delight (Various)

First Publication 1735 ca.
Genre Categories Songs; For voice, continuo; For voices with continuo; Scores featuring the voice; Scores with basso continuo; For voice, flute, continuo; For voices with solo instruments; Scores featuring the flute; For 2 voices; For unaccompanied voices; For 2 voices, continuo; For 1 voice; English language
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Work Title The Universal Musician or Songster's Delight
Alternative. Title The Universal Musician: or Songster's Delight. Consisting of the most Celebrated English and Scotch Songs, Favourite Cantata's, &c. Designed for the Entertainment of Lovers, Country Sportsmen, Jovial Companions, And all Others, who have any Taste for Mirth, Good Humor, and Polite Conversation
Composer Various
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No. None [force assignment]
First Publication. 1735 ca.
Librettist mostly unattributed, but includes
Thomas D'Urfey
Mr Lagford
Language English
Piece Style Baroque
Instrumentation voice, continuo (flute ad lib.); 2 voices
Extra Information Apparently not related to the similarly named Modern Musick-Master, or Universal Musician

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Composers without IMSLP pages (most songs are unattributed):

  • George Monro (d.1731)
  • Sig. Putti of Cambridge
  • John Webber (John Francis Webber?)
  • Mr Sandford
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