The Victorian Popular Ballad by J.S. Bratton
By J.S. Bratton
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The most famous of these was Evans's in Covent Garden, where a chairman introduced the vocal offerings of soloists both amateur and professional, and all who felt inclined sang the choruses. Between the two extremes were the majority of taverns which offered facilities for singing, where the patrons were of the respectable working classes, and included many women. The professional turns for such places came from the pleasure gardens and minor theatres, all of which provided work for singers and musicians because of the prohibition upon straight dramatic performances in any except the two Patent theatres.
In coffee-houses and taverns the regulars formed their own 'Catch and Glee Clubs' and 'Harmonic Meetings', and they could seek models for their singing by visiting the various pleasure gardens, such as the New Spring Gardens which opened at Vauxhall in 1732, where, in between sporting fixtures, professional singers and actors performed. oorshows of a distinctly risque kind; and there were also the rather more respectable, but still all-male, song and supper rooms. The most famous of these was Evans's in Covent Garden, where a chairman introduced the vocal offerings of soloists both amateur and professional, and all who felt inclined sang the choruses.
Willson Disher describe~ the sailor created by Dibdin as exhibiting 'courage, generosity, simplicity of heart, unworldliness, warmth of affection, love of present enjoyment, and thoughtlessness of tomorrow'; it would be just to add to these admirable characteristics his xenophobia and pugnacious self-satisfaction in the matter of the number of foreigners he could take on single-handed. The use of nautical jargon in sea-songs was older than the Jack Tar stereotype, but the twisting of the terms of the sea into a metaphorical tangle of 'colourful' expression on all subjects is peculiar to the Dibdin tradition, and had a long life on the nineteenth-century stage.