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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 31672
Title:: Orfeo: Opera, by Christoph Willibald von Gluck.
Scope & Content:: Vol. I. ff. 148. 'Orfeo [ed Euridice]'; in 3 Acts, with overture, ballets, symphonies, and accompaniments for double orchestra, consisting of flutes, chalumeaux, oboes, cornetti (?Zinken), horns, trumpets, drums, bassoons, trombones, harp (occasionally), and strings, in score, by Christoph Wil...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (148 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 31673
Title:: Orfeo: Opera, by Christoph Willibald von Gluck.
Scope & Content:: Vol. II. ff. 85. Another copy of the same work, [as Add MS 31672, VOL I.] here styled a cantata. The general contents of the present MS are similar to those of the preceding one, except that the former ends (ff. 74-85) with the duet, 'Vieni, appagga il tuo consorte,' in an elaborated form, and...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (85 folios)

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