[Public Domain Review] Simple Songs: Virginia Woolf and Music

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  SIMPLE SONGS: VIRGINIA WOOLF AND MUSIC

*Last year saw the works of Virginia Woolf enter the public domain in 
many countries around the world. To celebrate Emma Sutton looks at 
Woolf’s short story ‘A Simple Melody’ and the influence which music had 
upon the writer who once wrote that music was ‘nearest to truth’.*

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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/01/09/simple-songs-virginia-woolf-and-music/>


New Collection Items


    DECAYED 19th CENTURY DAGUERREOTYPES

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A selection of strange and haunting decayed daguerreotypes which can be 
found in the collection of The Library of Congress. Daguerreotypes were 
extremely sensitive to scratches, dust, hair, etc, and particularly the 
rubbing of the glass cover if the glue holding it in place deteriorated. 
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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/01/08/decayed-daguerreotypes/>




    <http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/05/27/the-whole-booke-of-psalmes-collected-into-englishe-metre-1584/>


        THE FIRST NEW YEAR (1885)

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    A short little poem meditating on the inevitable end of all things
    and the power of new beginnings. Little is known about the author
    George Warwick although he appears to also be the author of this
    poem on the theme of Christmas
    <http://archive.org/stream/christmasidyl00warw#page/n1/mode/2up> in
    a similar pamphlet series kept by the Library of Congress. Read More
    » <http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/12/31/the-first-new-year-1885/>




    FRANK C. STANLEY SINGING AULD LANG SYNE (1910)

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Frank C. Stanley performing Auld Lang Syne, the poem written by the 
Scotsman Robert Burns which is traditionally sung to celebrate the start 
of the New Year at the stroke of midnight. The song’s Scots title may be 
translated into English literally as “old long since”, or more 
idiomatically, “long long ago” Read More » 
<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/12/28/frank-c-stanley-singing-auld-lang-syne-1910/>



ENGRAVINGS FROM OLIVER GOLDSMITH’S HISTORY OF THE EARTH AND ANIMATED 
NATURE (1825)


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    “Beautiful and appropriate” engravings for Oliver Golsmith’s History
    of the Earth and Animated Nature (1825). Goldsmith was (1730-1774)
    was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known
    for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield, his pastoral poem The Deserted
    Village, and his plays The Good-Natur’d Man and She Stoops to
    Conquer. Read More »
    <http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/12/27/engravings-from-history-of-the-earth-and-animated-nature-1825/>




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