Cantate e duetti : dedicati alla sacra maestà di Giorgio re della Gran Bretagna &c. / da Giovanni Bononcini.

Composer
Bononcini, Giovanni, 1670-1747 [Browse]
Format
Musical score
Language
Italian
Published/​Created
Londra : [publisher not identified], 1721.
Description
1 score ([8], 99 pages) ; 24 x 34 cm, oblong folio

Details

Subject(s)
Dedicatee
Library of Congress genre
Contains
Notes
  • Comprises 6 cantatas for soprano, 6 for contralto, a duet for soprano and contralto, and a duet for 2 contraltos; accompaniment for one or two treble instruments (sometimes specified as 2 violins) and continuo.
  • Unrealized figured bass for keyboard instrument.
  • Dedication (in Italian) on p. [3].
  • "The names of the subscribers" on p. [5]-[8]. Princeton copy contains four additional hand-written names.
  • Engraved throughout, except for letterpress subscribers' list.
  • Music treasures at Princeton
Language note
Italian words.
Script
Staff notation.
Contents
Ecco Dorinda il giorno -- Da te che pasci ogn'ora -- Barbara ninfa in grata -- Dolente e mesta vo sospirando -- Il Lamento d'Olimpia -- O frondoso arboscello -- Luci barbare spietate -- Care luci del mio bene -- O mesta tortorella -- Siedi, Amarilli mia -- Lasciami un sol momento -- Misero pastorello -- Già la stagion d'amore -- Pietoso nume arcier.
References
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
Place name(s)
England London
Other title(s)
Cantate e dvetti
OCLC
18737707
Other views
Staff view

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