Songs in the new opera call'd Thomyris : collected out of the works of the most celebrated Itallian authors, viz Scarlatti, Bonocini 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, Bonocini 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, [1708?]
Description:	1 vocal score (2 unnumbered leaves, 4, 56 leaves) ; 35 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Operas -- Excerpts -- Vocal scores with continuo. Operas -- Excerpts -- Vocal scores with continuo.
Format:	Music score Print
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9352637

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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:	Overture in score; arias arranged for voice and continuo; many arias also include the melody transposed "for the flute" at bottom of page. "Arias by Alessandro Scarlatti, Dieupart, Francesco Gasparini, Albinoni and Giovanni Bononcini. J.C. Pepusch arranged the music, composed fresh recitatives and directed from the harpsichord, while P.A. Motteux provided the libretto post facto."--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 and illustrated. University of Chicago Library copy is variant with title page and contents printed on separate leaves. University of Chicago Library copy with variant imprint on illustrated title page: "London Printed for & sould by I: Walsh ... and I. Hare at the viol and flute in Cornhill nere the Royall Exchange." Smith, W.C. Bibliography John Walsh 1695-1720, 254 Hunter, D.C. English opera and song books, 44 English words. Staff notation.

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