Chintz and Chippendale music score

Daisy McGeoch was an American dramatist and composer of popular ballads and parlour songs. ‘Chintz and Chippendale' is typical of her output - light, sentimental and aimed at a mass audience. The song uses Chippendale's name to evoke an imaginary lost world of lavender-scented houses and elegant women dressed in ‘vieux rose brocade… time-faded, half decayed'. ‘Chippendale' is thus both a style of furniture and a nostalgic metaphor for vanished gentility: 'For, alack-a-day, the days are gone Of chintz and Chippendale'.

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