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James Hook was organist successively at Marylebone Gardens and at Vauxhall Gardens, for over half a century in all, performing concertos nightly and composing over two thousand songs, a number of which remain in use, such as the mock-Scotch 'Within a mile of Edinbro' Town' and the English 'Lass of Richmond Hill'. ''(Source: 'Oxford Companion to Music', 1938)'' | James Hook was organist successively at Marylebone Gardens and at Vauxhall Gardens, for over half a century in all, performing concertos nightly and composing over two thousand songs, a number of which remain in use, such as the mock-Scotch 'Within a mile of Edinbro' Town' and the English 'Lass of Richmond Hill'. ''(Source: 'Oxford Companion to Music', 1938)'' | ||
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Revision as of 17:29, 8 March 2020
Life
Born: June 3, 1746
Died: c. 1827
Biography
James Hook was organist successively at Marylebone Gardens and at Vauxhall Gardens, for over half a century in all, performing concertos nightly and composing over two thousand songs, a number of which remain in use, such as the mock-Scotch 'Within a mile of Edinbro' Town' and the English 'Lass of Richmond Hill'. (Source: 'Oxford Companion to Music', 1938)
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List of choral works
- Bright Phoebus
- Come kiss me, dear Dolly
- The death of Crazy Jane
- Golden sun, thy warmth display
- The hawthorn buds begin to blow
- Hedsor Vale
- Hunting and drinking
- Hush, the god of love here sleeping lies
- In Yarrow Vale
- The lass of Richmond hill
- The monument of Queen Elizabeth
- One morning, Dame Turner's brisk maid
- Valentine's Day
- The Willow Song
- Ye gods, give that social delight
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