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

Composer
Bononcini, Giovanni, 1670-1747 [Browse]
Uniform title
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(s)
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]: "Dedicati alla sacra maestà di Giorgio Re deila Gran Bretagna &c.".
  • "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
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