Innovative Songs For The Army. Secure Checkout [jQge7zkK]

Scarce, not recorded in NSTC, BL has a copy under David Lee as composer, no copies on OCLC or RLIN.

“The Author of the following “Songs for the Army”, after a service of some years in the Imperial Hungarian Hussars, felt, upon his return to England, the total want of those Soul-stirring incentives to National Military Glory, which he had found to exist in almost all the Continental regiments… our gallant regiments… possessed no Songs to perpetuate that individual prowess which has immortalized the Numbers of their several corps, no songs which they might term their own… “ [From the author’s introduction.]

The first 16pp. have the lyrics to the ten songs, the following pages have the lyrics and scores for them, each with an individual engraved title page, and each with the price of 2/-. The titles are “The Guards”; “Song for the Mess”, “The Hussar”, “The Rifles”; “Sons of the Highlander…”; “The Fighting Brigade”; “The Eighty-Seventh Foot”; “The Regiment”; “The Scots Greys”; and “My Own Brown Bess”.

This copy “authenticated” with Pigot’s signature on the general title page.