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Handel's Songs, Selected From His Oratorios: Volume 3

Description: This is the third volume of a five-volume anthology featuring arias and songs from various oratorios by G. F. Handel. The vocal score contains musical selections arranged for 1-2 voices with unrealized figured bass intended for harpsichord (continuo), oboe, or flute accompaniment. The English text is printed between the treble and bass, or alto staves. A publisher's note on the t.p. announced the availability of instrumental parts sold separately. The table of content indicates the oratorio f… more
Date: 1785
Creator: Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759
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Love in a Village: a Comic Opera As it is Performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden. For the Harpsicord, Voice, German Flute, or Violin.

Description: Vocal score for Love in a Village is broken into four labeled sections ('books'), each of which has a separate title page, and includes the music from the comic opera which has figured bass. Some of the music includes underlaid lyrics and the names of the persons who performed the pieces. Table of contents for the entire work is on page [1].
Date: 1763
Creator: Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778 & Bickerstaff, Isaac, 1735-1812
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Nouvelles parodies bachiques, mélées de vaudevilles ou ronde de table

Description: This a copy of vol. 2 of an anthology of French songs compiled by Christophe Ballad, music publisher of King Louis XIV. The work consists mainly of unaccompanied melodies with underlaid text for selected acts of the following tragedies: Proserpine (pp. 1-19); Le triomphe de l'amour (pp. 20-60); Persée (pp. 61-81); Phaeton (pp. 62-94); Amadis (pp. 95-125); Roland (pp. 126-155); Armide (pp. 169-176); Acis et Galatée (pp. 177-192). It contains also melodies for "Ballet du temple de la Paix" (pp. 1… more
Date: 1700
Creator: Ballard, Christophe, 1641-1715.
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Le mariage d'Antonio. Divertissement en un acte et en prose

Description: Lucile Grétry’s opera Le mariage d’Antonio premiered in Paris when she was a mere fourteen years old. As the second daughter of André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry, she was afforded lessons at a young age in counterpoint and declamation. Her father supplied the orchestral parts for her comédie mêlée d’ariettes after Lucile had composed the vocal, bass, and harp parts. Although Le mariage d’Antonio was a modest success, Lucile’s second endeavor, a divertissement mêlée d’ariettes entitled Toinette et … more
Date: 1786
Creator: Grétry, Lucile
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Thetis et Pelée; tragédie en musique

Description: Pascal Collasse was one of the few opera composers able to secure successful performances in the years following Lully’s death. Collasse then went on to supply the music for the entire opera, Thétis et Pélée, which was premiered at the Paris Opéra on 11 January 1689. Thétis remained popular throughout Collasse’s lifetime, in spite of its rather weak plot. Owing to its success is primarily the music, including a significant storm scene in Act II. This departure from the Lullian tradition is … more
Date: 1716
Creator: Collasse, Pascal, 1649-1709 & Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier), 1657-1757
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Le devin du village

Description: As with many French operas, Rousseau’s Le devin du village was first staged for the court, appearing at Fountainebleau on 18 October 1752. The work was then performed at the Paris Opéra on 1 March 1753. The historical importance of this short intermè is closely tied to its role in the famous Querelle de bouffons, a debate about the merits of French serious opera in comparison to Italian comic opera (especially Pergolesi’s La serva padrona).
Date: 1785
Creator: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
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A compendium of practical music in five parts, Teaching, by a new and easie method

Description: A compendium of practical music in five parts, Teaching, by a new and easie method, 1. The rudiments of song, 2. The principles of composition, 3. The use of discords, 4. The form of figurate descant, 5. The contrivance of canon, Together with lessons for viols, &c., third edition. First published under the title "The principles of practical musick."
Date: 1678
Creator: Simpson, Christopher, -1669
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F. Marini Mersenni harmonicorvm libri

Description: A music theory treatise by Marin Mersenne, concerned with the nature of sound and its consequences for how music is constructed.
Date: 1635
Creator: Mersenne, Marin, 1588-1648
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The Booke of Common Prayer

Description: 1611 edition of the Book of Common Prayer, with psalms. The psalms include incipits in Latin, and occasional notated settings, along with the traditional canticles (Benedictus, Magnificat, Nunc Dimmitis) for morning, evening, and night prayer, Te Deum, the Athanasian Creed, and other hymns and prayers.
Date: 1611
Creator: Church of England
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Manfred, dramatisches Gedicht in drei Abtheilungen, op. 115

Description: Incidental music for chorus and solo voices with orchestra, to the poem by Lord Byron; this volume includes the poem in German translation (12 p.) preceding the score.
Date: 1862
Creator: Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856
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Traité de la viole

Description: A 1687 treatise on playing the viol. The inside of the front cover contains a book plate identifying the item as having belonged to the violin maker. Arthur F. Hill, F.S.A.
Date: 1687
Creator: Rousseau, Jean, 1644-approximately 1700
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Il martirio: dramma sacro per musica

Description: Libretto for Il martirio di S. Adriano. Grove Music Online and similar items in WorldCat point to authorship by Girolamo Gigli for a composition by Giuseppe Fabrini, circa 1690.
Date: 1690~
Creator: Gigli, Girolamo, 1660-1722
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Grundsätze des Generalbasses als erste Linien zur Composition; Allgemeinfasslicher Unterricht im Generalbass: mit Rücksicht auf den jetzt herrschenden Geschmack in der Komposition, durch treffende Beispiele erläutert

Description: Two separate works bound together. The Kirnberger work includes 3 Abtheilungen, paged separately, containing musical examples. The 2nd and 3rd Abtheilungen are bound in reverse order.
Date: {178X,1805}
Creator: Kirnberger, Johann Philipp, 1721-1783 & Vierling, Johann Gottfried, 1750-1813
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Quatours de Boccherini - Mozart - violin 2

Description: Second violin parts for Sei quartetti per due violini, alto e violoncello obbligati, Dedicati a veri dilettanti e conscitori di musica, opera I ; Sei divertimenti per due violini, alto e violoncello, opera XI, libro quarto di quartetti ; Six quatuors à deux violons, viole et basse obligés, oeuvre XXXII / Boccherini. Trois quatuors nouveaux pour deux violons, alto, et basse, op. 37 ; Trois quatuors pour deux violons, alto, et basse / Mozart. Bound subsequent to publication.
Date: 1785~
Creator: Boccherini, Luigi, 1743-1805 & Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
Partner: UNT Music Library

Quatours de Boccherini - Mozart - violin 1

Description: First violin parts for Sei quartetti per due violini, alto e violoncello obbligati, Dedicati a veri dilettanti e conscitori di musica, opera I ; Sei divertimenti per due violini, alto e violoncello, opera XI, libro quarto di quartetti ; Six quatuors à deux violons, viole et basse obligés, oeuvre XXXII / Boccherini. Trois quatuors nouveaux pour deux violons, alto, et basse, op. 37 ; Trois quatuors pour deux violons, alto, et basse / Mozart. Bound subsequent to publication.
Date: 1785~
Creator: Boccherini, Luigi, 1743-1805 & Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
Partner: UNT Music Library
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