Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli: Giulietta e Romeo: opera seria. In 3 acts.
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'Giulietta e Romeo: Opera Seria' in 3 Acts, with overture, symphonies, and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, horns, corno inglese, clarinets, bassoons, trumpets, drums, strings, and a figured bass for harpsichord or pianoforte, in score, by Zingarelli. Characters: Giulietta, Romeo, Everardo, Teob...
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. Olimpiade: opera in 3 acts.
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'Olimpiade': Opera in 3 Acts, with overture, symphonies, and accompaniments for oboes, horns, trumpets and strings, in score, by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi [1735]. An English owner of the MS has noted in pencil two or three numbers borrowed from earlier works by the same composer. Characters as...
'Le belle Nimfe, madrigali a sei voci', by Claude Le Jeune, Pietro Filippo, Andrea Gabrieli, Filippo de Monte, Giovanni Ferretti, Luca Marenzio, Giovanni della Croce, Peter Sweelinck, and other French and Italian composers. In 4 part-books; lacking the tenor and quintus parts.
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'Le Belle Nimfe': a collection of Madrigals for 6 voices, made apparently at the beginning of the 17th century and evidently taken from works then engraved, especially from , which first appeared in 1583. The dates appended below are those of the first editions in which the Madrigals in question...