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Charles Dibdin

British musician, songwriter, dramatist, novelist and actor

Charles Dibdin (before 4 March 1745 – 25 July 1814) was an English composer, musician, dramatist, novelist, singer and actor. With over 600 songs to his name, for many of which he wrote both the lyrics and the music and performed them himself, he was in his time the most prolific English singer-songwriter. He is best known as the composer of "Tom Bowling", one of his many sea songs, which often features at the Last Night of the Proms. He also wrote about 30 dramatic pieces, including the operas The Waterman (1774) and The Quaker (1775), and several novels, memoirs and histories.

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Works

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  • Blow High! Blow Low!
  • Fantasia on British Sea Songs: IV. Tom Bowling
  • Go and on My Truth Relying
  • Lamplighter Dick
  • Oh What a Charming Thing’s a Battle
  • Poor Tom Bowling
  • Psalm 44: We have heard with our ears
  • Sound Argument: We Bipeds Made Up
  • The Brickdust Man
  • The Brickdust Man: Air. Get you gone, you nasty fellow
  • The Brickdust Man: Air. I am a lad, by fortune's spight
  • The Brickdust Man: Air. In short, dearest Moll, you alone were in fault
  • The Brickdust Man: Air. Oh, Molly, I'm charmed when I come in your sight
  • The Brickdust Man: Duet. Then let us agree
  • The Brickdust Man: Overture
  • The Ephesian Matron; or, The Widow's Tears
  • The Ephesian Matron; or, The Widow's Tears: Overture
  • The Ephesian Matron; or, The Widow's Tears: The Centurion's First Aria. What ho! charming dame, what ho!
  • The Ephesian Matron; or, The Widow's Tears: The Centurion's Second Aria. Zounds! I'm undone!
  • The Ephesian Matron; or, The Widow's Tears: The Duet. By Venus, mother of desire
  • The Ephesian Matron; or, The Widow's Tears: The Father's Aria. But more, a monument I'll raise
  • The Ephesian Matron; or, The Widow's Tears: The Maid's First Aria. If I was a wife
  • The Ephesian Matron; or, The Widow's Tears: The Maid's Second Aria. Men boast of their prudence and sense
  • The Ephesian Matron; or, The Widow's Tears: The Matron's Mad Aria. And while, grown frantic with my woes
  • The Ephesian Matron; or, The Widow's Tears: The Matron's Second Aria. But before you go away, sir
  • The Ephesian Matron; or, The Widow's Tears: The Trio. Hence, hence away
  • The Ephesian Matron; or, The Widow's Tears: Vaudeville. Thus old wits in wicked satires
  • The Grenadier
  • The Grenadier: Air. I'll handle the broom and the mop ever twirl
  • The Grenadier: Air. Oh my Jenny, I lie at thy feet
  • The Grenadier: Duet. Forever, false Jenny
  • The Grenadier: Duet. Silly Ralph, your Jenny's true
  • The Grenadier: Trio. I'll cut you to pieces if ever you dare
  • The Jolly Young Waterman
  • The Lucky Escape
  • The Padlock
  • The Padlock: Was I a Shepherd’s Maid
  • The Sailor's Adieu
  • The Wags, or, The Camp of Pleasure
  • The Wags, or, The Camp of Pleasure: The Joys of the Country
  • Tom Bowling
  • While Up the Shrouds