Listeners to music - 1802
from Letter from Anna Seward to Thomas Park, Esq., 14 June 1802, page 33:
It is with poetry as with music. The sublime harmonies and the melodies of coyly elegant simplicity, please few in comparison with the numbers who are delighted with the Blue Bells of Scotland, and all such sort of airs.
cite as
Anna Seward, Letter from Anna Seward to Thomas Park, Esq., 14 June 1802. In Archibald Constable (ed.), Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, volume 6 (Edinburgh, 1811), p. 33. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1535812240015 accessed: 24 January, 2025
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| 'The Bluebells of Scotland' and other popular songs | |
| Art music |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 1802 |
| Medium | live |
Originally submitted by lcc5 on Sat, 01 Sep 2018 15:30:40 +0100
Approved on Fri, 07 Sep 2018 13:01:35 +0100