Music by Thomas Pettman
1835 - The Moonlight
The Moonlight, The Moonlight
The words by T. Hayes Jnr. Esqr.
Composed and respectfully inscribed
by permission to
Miss Hodgson
(of Sandwich)
by
T. Pettman
Ent. Sta. Hall Price 2/=
London
Published by Coventry and Hollier, late Preston, 71 Dean Street, Soho
Ramsgate
R.T. Jarman, Music Seller, Harbour St.
Robert Thomas Jarman appears as a bookseller in Pigot's Directory for 1840.
William Henry Elgar (1821-1906), father of the composer, served an apprenticeship with Coventry and Hollier about this time.
The only Hodgsons living in Sandwich at this time seem to have been the family of Daniel Hodgson, a banker, who became a Freeman of the Borough on 9 May 1817 by virtue of owning a local property.
His daughters Jane, Clara and Augusta would have been in their late teens in 1835.
(Interestingly, he was declared bankrupt in 1842
.)
The Moonlight! the Moonlight!
How beautiful it beams!
It silvers o'er the fleecy clouds,
And lightens o'er the streams;
It plays upon the waterfall,
And gems the dewy leaf,
And e'en its very shadow
Is like the joy of grief.
The Moonlight! The Moonlight!
Love's radiant eye hath been
The mirror of its brightest ray,
The magic of its scene.
Of mem'ry's richest treasures
There is not one so dear,
As heaven's light reflected
From beauty's pearly tear.
The Moonlight! The Moonlight!
It hallows earth's decay,
And beautifies the crumbling stone
With its celestial ray!
It glides as 'twere a river,
And bathes in liquid light
The valley's verdant bosom,
The mountain's lofty height.
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1840 - Good Bye
Good Bye
Song
Sung by Mr Pettman at a
Dinner given to the Revd. G.W. Lewis MA
upon his leaving Ramsgate,
composed and respectfully inscribed to
Miss Gorbell
of the Admiralty House, Deal
by
Thomas Pettman, Professor of Music and Singing
Ent. Sta. Hall Price 2/=
London
Published for the author by R. Cocks and Co., 20 Princes Street, Hanover Square,
Music Sellers in Ordinary to her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria I.
To be had also at the Libraries
and of the Author, High Street, Ramsgate.
On the first page, before the music, is:
The following songs may be had by the same composer
The Hope of Britannia (dedicated by s d
express permission to the Queen) 2 0
The Moonlight how beautiful it beams 2 0
Land of the Beautiful and Brave 2 0
Come to the Lake 2 0
England - Farewell 2 0
You'll meet me love down by the river 2 0
Sacred Songs
Blessed is the heart that
considereth the Poor and Needy 1 0
I will arise and Go to my Father 1 0
If we say that we have no sin 1 0
Quadrilles
The Royal Coronation Quadrilles
(dedicated by permission to the Queen) 3 0
Royal Kent Quadrilles
(dedicated to HRH the Duchess of Kent) 3 6
Royal Harbour Quadrilles 3 0
Townley House do 3 0
Select do 3 0
3 sets of Royal Harbour Waltzes, each 1 0
George William Lewis, M.A., was curate at the chapel of ease at Ramsgate, and left there to become vicar of St Peter's Southwark in 1839.
Francis Gorbell was proprietor and headmaster of Admiralty House, a boys' boarding school in Queen Street, Deal.
His daughter, Mary Watson Gorbell, would have been about 14 in 1839.
Presumably Thomas gave her lessons.
There is a little parting word
Which few can hear without a sigh
No wonder when its sound is heard
It draws a tear from friendship's eye.
For who can hear the last goodbye,
Without one pang of silent sorrow
To think the friends who now are nigh
May be far distant on the morrow.
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1841 - The New Missionary Hymn
The New Missionary Hymn
written by James Montgomery Esqr.
composed and arranged for the
Organ or Piano Forte
and
Respectfully Inscribed
to the
Revnds T. Fisher and Adams
by
Thomas Pettman, Professor of Music and Singing
Ramsgate
Ent. Sta. Hall Price 2/=
London
Published for the Revds Fisher and Adams by R. Cocks and Co., 20 Princes Street, Hanover Square,
Music Sellers in Ordinary to her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria I.
and may be had at the libraries of Ramsgate and Margate, or of the author, 90 High Street, Ramsgate.
The whole of the proceeds to go to the new organ.
The opening words are: "Hark the song of Jubilee".
The hymn was written by James Montgomery in 1818.
(In 1854 it was set by Sir George Elvey to the tune St George's Windsor, a tune later used for Come, ye thankful people, come.)
In view of the date, the "new organ" is unlikely to have been the four-manual William Hill organ installed at St George's, Ramsgate, in 1854.
A search of the Clergy List shows nobody named Fisher or Adams with any Kentish connection.
However, the 1841 census shows a Thomas Fisher, aged 34, at Preston by Wingham, with his wife and three children.
He was a Wesleyan Minister.
(At the time, were were Methodist chapels at Broadstairs (built in 1823), St Lawrence (before 1800), Manston (1834) and Bethel Chapel in Hardres Street, built in 1810.
In addition, Pigot's Directory for 1840 lists a Rev Jno Hughes Adams at Union Crescent, Margate.
(The 1841 census gives his age as 50.)
Hark! the song of jubilee,
Loud as mighty thunders roar,
Or the fullness of the sea
When it breaks upon the shore:
Hallelujah! for the Lord
God omnipotent shall reign;
Hallelujah! let the word
Echo round the earth and main.
Hallelujah! hark! the sound
From the depths unto the skies,
Wakes above, beneath, around,
All creation's harmonies;
See Jehovah's banner furled,
Sheathed His sword; He speaks; 'tis done!
And the kingdoms of this world
Are the kingdoms of His Son.
He shall reign from pole to pole
With illimitable sway;
He shall reign, when, like a scroll
Yonder heavens have passed away:
Then the end; beneath His rod
Man's last enemy shall fall;
Hallelujah! Christ in God,
God in Christ, is all in all.
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HD - 16 March 2010
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