An Authentic Account
Channel: TKG
Date: 23/04/2022

Fourteen original improvisations for piano by Tom Gally. Cover illustration by Sara Gally.

Occasion of the Embassy 0:00
Thoughts on Patronage 2:49
Presents for the Emperor 5:44
The Indolence of the Stronger and the Industry of the Weaker 8:25
Tempestuous Weather 12:10
Instance of Political Morality 15:57
Uniformity of the Winds 18:53
Other Sovereigns 23:03
Floating Islands 26:54
Late Revolutions 30:31
Master of the Lion 33:41
Squadron Sets Sail 37:16
To Cross the Bar 40:29
Arrival at Tacoo 43:44

All of the tracks on this album can also be downloaded as mp3 files from the following page:

https://gally.net/music.html

“An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China: including cursory observations made, and information obtained in travelling through that ancient empire, and a small part of Chinese Tartary; together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion of His Majesty's ship the Lion, and the ship Hindostan, in the East India company’s service, to the Yellow Sea and Gulf of Pekin, as well as of their return to Europe; taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney, Sir Erasmus Gower, and of other gentlemen in the several departments of the embassy” by George Staunton, originally published in 1797, can be read and downloaded for free at the Internet Archive:

Volume 1
https://archive.org/details/authenticaccount01stau/page/n5/mode/2up

Volume 2
https://archive.org/details/authenticaccount02stau/page/n7/mode/2up

Volume 3 (plates)
https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008481562/page/n9/mode/2up

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