Dunoon Musical Association Secular Concert

Secular Concert in the Burgh Hall

(front and back page of poster)

A Secular Concert is held in the Burgh Hall, organised by Dunoon Musical Association. Admission to all parts of the Hall is one shilling.

This item was found in the Burgh Hall during renovation works 2014-17

The concert took place 5 years after the Burgh Hall opened. The significance of the item being secular is pertinent as one of the main reasons the Burgh Hall was built was because there was no non religious building available for meetings in the town.

On the back of this poster there is a drawing and notes between a couple of friends. Here is just some of the text we have been able to pick out:

‘I did not intend to speak frank to you’

‘let the dead past, bury its dead’

‘No I won’t let the dead bury their dead’

‘Why didn’t you come to the church on Sunday?’

‘I had to make the dinner in the morning and I had to eat it in the afternoon’

Secular Concert – Musical References

Research by David Dorren

SONGS
1. Spirits Advance from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwbhrXp45Oc&ab_channel=MarkTucker-Topichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwbhrXp45Oc&ab_channel=MarkTucker-Topic

Our Jack’s come home today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8cdkLlcEX8&ab_channel=hjuhjnhgz

Lyrics

Oh, Jack’s come home from from sea today
All brown & bronzed was he
For many years he’s been away
From his home across the sea
But his heart’s as true as it was of yore
His spirit’s light & gay
Little know the joy we felt when he came home today
Chorus
Our Jack’s come home today (2x)
The good ship Jane’s in port again
Our Jack’s come home today

Our Jack’s come home from sea today
To make his Nell his bride
With loving heart she ne’er despaired
Though all hope within her died
Her eyes grew dim, her cheeks grew pale
She slowly pined away
All danger’s past, he’s safe at last
For he came home today
Chorus

Where the bee sucks.(Shakespeare)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp5HlHA81lA&ab_channel=HuddersfieldChoralYouthChoirs

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uckUSYIwfwE&ab_channel=StHugh%27sChamberChoir

Sleep, gentle babe.

The Empress of the Wave. (The Sea is Britain’s Glory). Stephen Glover.

sheet music

https://www.sheetmusicwarehouse.co.uk/19th-century-songs-e/empress-of-the-wave-the-sea-is-britains-glory/

The Wreath. Julius Benedict (1804-1885)?

Song of the Zetland Fishermen.(Sir Walter Scott?)

Albion, on thy fertile plains.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avUJfRzuQ9M&ab_channel=DavidWyatt

(There is a transcript on the screen.)

Dear England.

An Old Romance(I think Stephen Heller 1813-1888)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrwBbY6WGio&ab_channel=PianoSusan

The Mistletoe Bough.Probably this.Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwwF5PLk5xM&ab_channel=MikeDonelly

Duncan Gray.This is in my 1909 Scottish Song Book–music and lyrics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l41UnB4Nepo&ab_channel=WilliamMcAlpine-Topic

Once upon my Cheek.I think it is Dr John Wall Callcott (1766 – 1821)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI7c7j3oxUI&ab_channel=GoldenAgeMedia

Slumber, Darling. Possibly Slumber, my Darling, 1862, by Stephen Foster (1826-1864)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhABYW51IDM&ab_channel=oppie47

Larboard Watch, published 1859. By Thomas E. Williams, English, date of birth unknown, died 1864?

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ln38qPzGXQ&ab_channel=TimGracyk

Music score on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/Larboard56493/mode/2up

Grandfather’s Clock,1876, By Henry Clay Work (1832-1884), who also composed “Marching through Georgia.

I mentioned that I knew Grandfather’s Clock. We all knew it from Children’s Favourites on BBC Radio every Saturday morning, probably a cut down version. I can even remember my very old great aunt singing it. It was very famous.

What I didn’t know was that Grandfather’s Clock was American, composed in 1876 by Henry Clay Work who is famous for”Marching through Georgia”

Many versions:

Tom Roush, with Lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su7IECXoKLg&ab_channel=TomRoush

Foster and Allen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBdkrPZe8XA&ab_channel=Foster%26Allen

Johnny Cash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0o8A4RccUY&ab_channel=JohnnyCash-Topic