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Add MS 37501

Record Id:

032-002053868

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002053868

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000046.0x000367

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add MS 37501

Title:

Scenes from Operas, by various 18th century composers, including Jean Baptiste Lully and André Campra.

Scope & Content:

ff. 157. 'Recueil d'Airs de Lully [etc.]': a collection of scenes from operas by that composer and others named below, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings, occasionally flutes, oboes, or bassoons, and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score.

The Operas are: 1. 'Persée' [1682]. Act i, sc. 24; ii, 4; iii, 1-5; and iv, 2, 3 (middle). 'Lully.' ff. 2, 13, 20b, 33. 2. 'Les plaisirs de la Campagne' [1719]. Two soprano airs: — 'Amour, répand tes douces flam[m]es'; and 'Ces douces retraites.' '[T.] Bertin [de la Doué].' ff.40, 41b. 3. 'La reconoissance d'Iphigénie,' sc. 'Iphigénie en Tauride' [1704]. Act v, sc. 1 (with slight omissions at both ends). 'Campra' [and Desmarets]. f. 42. 4. 'Aréthuse' [1701]. 'Air des Jardiniers,' 'L'aurore Naissante' (chorus), 'II n'est point de C[o]eur sauvage' (bass air), 'Ah, que les mouvements' (soprano air), 'Marche des habitans de la mer,' 'Que dans un si beau jour' (Neptune — afterwards Thetis), 'Air des nauranniers' (?). 'Campra.' ff. 48b-53b. 5. 'Roland' [1685]. Act ii, sc. 2; iii, 2; iv, 1, 2. 'Lully.' ff. 54, 58b, 64b. 6. 'Scilla' [1701]. Act i, sc. 5 (end). 'Theobal[do di Gatti].' f. 76. 7. Unnamed. Musette, f. 77. 8. 'Bellérophon' [1679]. Act ii, sc. 5, 6 (beginning); iv, 1. 'Lully.' ff. 78, 82. 9. 'Achille et Polixène' [1687]. Act ii, sc. 3-5. 'Colasse.' f.84. 10. 'Enée et Lavinie' [1690]. Overture and Prologue (including the scene missing from the British Museum copy of the original edition). 'Colasse.' f.92. 11. 'Proserpine' [1680]. Ritournelle (unidentified); Act ii, sc. 7; iv, 4. 'Lully.' ff. 106, 106b, 108b. 12. 'Amadis de Gaule' [1684]. Act ii, sc. 3. 'Lully.' f. 113b. 13. 'L' Europe galante' [1697]. Entrée v, sc. 1-5 (middle). 'Campra.' f. 121. 14. 'Les festes Vénitien[n]es' [1710]. 'LesDevins [de la Place St. Marc' — seconde entrée nouvelle] ; Entrée iv, sc. 2-end. 'Campra.' ff. 136b, 151b.

Collection Area:

Music Collections

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002053868

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-002053868

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 volume (157 folios)

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
French

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1714

End Date:

1724

Date Range:

c 1719

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Paper oblong octavo

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Bertin de la Doué, T-
Campra, André, of Add MS 37501
Colasse, Pascal
Desmarets, Henri, composer, 1661-1741
Gatti, Theobaldo, composer and musician, 1650-1727
Lully, Jean Baptiste, composer

Subjects:

Operas