Glee Clubs? A very long history, as this Cambridge blog reveals ...

This is the latest blogpost by Cambridge University Music Library - it's about a celebrated glee composer, John Wall Callcott.  Not just celebrated - prolific, too!

Take a look (click on the heading below):-

To celebrate to commemorate: John Wall Callcott (1766 – 1821)

• We have music by Callcott, too (though not so much) - look here;
• And we have historic glees by Callcott and others like him - here.

Ancient and Modern Glees, anyone?

When not promoting online resources and librarianly expertise, Karen sometimes finds herself peacefully cataloguing 'finds' from the past.

See what glee clubs were singing in the early nineteenth century ...

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