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| Id |
9984 |
| Category |
antiquarian music |
| Author / Composer |
CORRI, Domenico (1746-1825), arranger |
| Title |
[A select collection of the most admired songs, duetts, &c : from operas in the highest esteem, and from other works in Italian, English, French, Scotch, Irish, &c.] Volume 2d., Consisting of English Songs & Duetts. [Selected and edited by Domenico Corri]. |
| Place |
[Edinburgh, London] |
| Publisher |
[John Corri] |
| Publication Date |
[1779?] |
| ISBN / Plate No. |
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| Series |
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| Size |
Folio. [i (title)], 80, [ii (alphabetic index with musical incipits on the final leaf)] pp. |
| Description |
Contemporary quarter calf with marbled boards (front board detached, backstrip partly missing, scratched and worn). Engraved by John Johnson (fl.1772-d.1811). Many of the pieces have an ornate headpiece or depiction of an instrument. Title taken from vol.I (not present). Title-page to this volume reads: "Volume 2d. / Consisting OF English / SONGS & DUETTS / Tomo Secondo / ARIE E DUETTI / Inglesi / Butterworth Script. / J. Johnson Sculpt.". Includes four items by Handel: My dolly was the fairest thing [from Love in a Village]; The flocks shall leave the mountains, from Acis and Galatea; Pious orgies, from Judas Macchabeaus; Return, return o God of hosts, from Samson. Other music by Boyce, Giardini, Geminiani, Shield, Galuppi, Arne, Dibdin, Arnold, Monsigny, William Jackson, Henry Purcell and Thomas Linley. |
| Reference |
RISM A/I/2 and A/I/11 C 4056. BUC p.224. |
| Price |
£150.00 |
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