Songs in the new opera call'd Thomyris : collected out of the works of the most celebrated Itallian authors, viz Scarlatti, Bononcini and other great masters : perform'd at the Theatre Royall : these songs are contriv'd so that their symphonys may be perform'd with them.

Songs in the new opera call'd Thomyris : collected out of the works of the most celebrated Itallian authors, viz Scarlatti, Bononcini and other great masters : perform'd at the Theatre Royall : these songs are contriv'd so that their symphonys may be perform'd with them.

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Uniform title:	Thomyris. Selections.
Imprint:	London : Printed for I. Walsh : and P. Randall, [1707]
Description:	1 vocal score (1 unnumbered leaf, 2 unnumbered pages, 56 leaves) ; 35 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Operas -- Excerpts -- Vocal scores with continuo. Operas -- Excerpts -- Vocal scores with continuo.
Format:	Music score Print
Local Note:	University of Chicago Library copy lacking added passe-partout title page. University of Chicago Library copy bound with Bononcini, Giovanni, 1670-1747. Songs in the new opera, call'd Camilla. London : I. Walsh : I. Hare, [1706].
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3844088

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Other authors / contributors:	Scarlatti, Alessandro, 1660-1725, composer. Bononcini, Giovanni, 1670-1747, composer. Dieupart, Charles, approximately 1670-approximately 1740, composer. Gasparini, Francesco, 1661-1727, composer. Albinoni, Tomaso, 1671-1750, composer. Motteux, Peter Anthony, 1660-1718, librettist. Pepusch, John Christopher, 1667-1752, arranger of music.
Notes:	Arranged for voice and continuo; many arias also include the melody transposed "for the flute" at bottom of page. "The libretto was by Peter Motteux, adapted to airs by Scarlatti and Bononcini. These were arranged and recitatives composed by Pepusch"--Grove's dictionary of music and musicians, volume VIII, page 435. Arias by Alessandro Scarlatti, Dieupart, Francesco Gasparini, Albinoni and Giovanni Bononcini--Grove music online, November 7, 2013. "The last song--'Lost in pleasure'--listed on Contents as p. 57, was apparently never published"--Hunter. Added title page, engraved. Copy imperfect: lacking page 46. University of Chicago Library copy with leaf 8 unnumbered and leaf 17 misnumbered "16." Smith, W.C. Bibliography John Walsh 1695-1720, 254 Hunter, D.C. English opera and song books, 44a English words. Staff notation.

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