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| Id |
22133 |
| Category |
antiquarian music |
| Author / Composer |
ISAAC, Elias (1747-1793) |
| Title |
The Black-Birds. A Cantata Set to Music by MR. Isaac, Organist at Worcester. [Score]. |
| Place |
[London] |
| Publisher |
Printed for the Author by J. Johnson |
| Publication Date |
[ca 1765] |
| ISBN / Plate No. |
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| Series |
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| Size |
Folio. 9pp. |
| Description |
Disbound. Drop title. Engraved. Opening recitative begins "The Sun had chas’d the Mountain’s Snow". Isaac is thought to have been a pupil of Maurice Greene. He was a lay clerk at Gloucester cathedral from 1743 and was elected organist at Worcester in 1747; from 1761 he conducted the Worcester “Music Meetings” as well as the Gloucester one from 1769-1787. He subscribed to both Boyce’s and Arnold’s sets of Cathedral Music. |
| Reference |
RISM A/I/4 I 86 (5 copies). BUC p.548. |
| Price |
£120.00 |
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