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Add MS 11518
- Record Id:
- 032-002109288
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002109288
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000040.0x0002ca
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 11518
- Title:
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'Comus': two settings of Milton's Masque, which includes portions of an opera by Handel
- Scope & Content:
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1. Five songs, with a bass, in score, as written for the original representation at Ludlow Castle in 1634, viz.: 'From the Heav'ns now I fly'; 'Sweet Echo'; 'Sabrina fair'; 'Back, Shepherds, back'; and 'Now my task is smoothly done.' 'Henry Lawes.' ff. 1-2b.
2. Another setting, in 3 Acts, for solo voices and 4-part chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments for trumpets, horns, flutes, oboes, bassoons, strings, and drums, and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score, by Dr. Thomas Augustine Arne [1738]. The adapter (1740?) has taken ff. 58-71 bodily from Handel's 'L' Allegro,' of which work he has inserted several numbers from a contemporary printed edition. ff. 3-107b.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002109288
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002109288
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume (107 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Paper. Quarto.
- Custodial History:
- Bookplate of Eobert Smith [of St. Paul's Churchyard]. Other owners were Dr. [Samuel] Arnold, [James] Bartleman, and W. Kitchiner (1822).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Arne, Thomas Augustine, composer, 1710-1778
Lawes, Henry, composer - Subjects:
- Odes
Operas