The air balloon set to music by George Chard, one of the choiristers of St. Paul's Cathedral, and inserted at the particular request of several correspondents
Bella C. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Sheet Music (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI Search this
Physical description:
2 pages of music 27 cm
Type:
Songs and music
Sheet music
Place:
England
Date:
1784
To 1901
1780-1790
Notes:
Caption title
Chorus repeats last line of each verse
For voice and piano or harpsichord
Text from the poem by Mr. Oakman, reproduced in anthology: The minor pleasures of life / selected and arranged by Rose Macaulay. London : V. Gollancz, 1934, page 96: This puffed up machine (1784)
