A collection of cantatas, in score
MS. Tenbury 972
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
A collection of cantatas, in score
Shelfmark
MS. Tenbury 972
Summary
Contents:
(fol. 1) Who'll buy a heart. John Stanley
(fol. 4v) Aloft and near her highest noon. John Stanley
(fol. 6v) Cymon a rough unpolished swain. John Stanley
(fol. 10v) Alas my Julia, now no more. John Stanley
(fol. 16) Cease Eugenio thus to gaze. John Stanley
(fol. 19) In vain I try my every art ('The Chaplet'). William Boyce
(fol. 20) Balmy sweetness ever flowing. William Boyce
(fol. 21v) Beneath this sad and silent gloom (recit and aria from 'Lydia'). Thomas Arne
(fol. 22v) The festive board was met (4 movements from 'The School of Anacreon'). Thomas Arne
(fol. 25v) Wander, Lydia (from 'Lydia'). Thomas Arne
(fol. 26v) Who quits the lilly's fleecy white (from 'Solomon'). William Boyce
Items 1-5 are from Stanley's 'Six cantatas' op. 8 (1748). Items 2 and 5 are incomplete.
Except for item 1, the scribe is the main copyist of MS. Tenbury 752.
Date
mid-18th cent.
Language
English
Physical extent
1 volume
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Collection contents
Music manuscripts from the Library of St Michael's College, Tenbury Wells
A collection of cantatas, in score
