Dido and Aeneas : a tragic opera in three acts
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Type of record: Book
Title: Dido and Aeneas : a tragic opera in three acts
Other titles: Dido and Aeneas
Classmark: Large Music D-0/MUS
Creator(s): Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
Additional creator(s): Tate, Nahum (1652-1715) (Other); Macfarren, Sir G A (1813-1887) (Other)
Related people: Tate, Nahum; Macfarren, G. A
Publisher: Printed for the members of the Musical Antiquarian Society, by Chappell
Publication city: London
Date(s): [1841]
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 score ([4], 2, 4, 58 p)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/303217
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991004706189705181
Description
"Written by Nahum Tate"--p. [1] (3rd group).
"Now first printed."
Probable date of composition between 1688 and 1690; cf. Grove's 5th ed.
Publication date from NUC pre-1956.
Libretto: p. [1]-4 (3rd group).
Additional description
Bound with three other works, from the same series, in volume with spine title: Madrigals & motets - Gibbons. Volume contains: 1. (v.3) Gibbons, O.: Madrigals and motets for five voices. 1841. -- 2. (v.4) Purcell, H. Dido and Aeneas : a tragic opera in three acts. 1841. -- 3. (v.2) Wilbye, J.: The first set of madrigals: for three, four, five and six voices. 1841. -- 4. (v.1) Byrd, W.: A mass for five voices : composed between the years 1553 & 1558 for the old cathedral of Saint Paul. 1841
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