King Arthur : an opera in five acts
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Type of record: Book
Title: King Arthur : an opera in five acts
Other titles: King Arthur; Dido and Aeneas; Bonduca
Classmark: Large Music D-0/MUS
Creator(s): Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
Additional creator(s): Taylor, Edward (1784-1863) (Other); Dryden, John (1631-1700) (Other); Macfarren, Sir G A (1813-1887) (Other); Rimbault, Edward F (1816-1876) (Other); Purcell, Henry (1659-1695) (Other)
Related people: Taylor, Edward; Dryden, John; Macfarren, G. A; Rimbault, Edward F; Purcell, Henry; Purcell, Henry
Publisher: Printed for the members of the Musical Antiquarian Society, by Chappell
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1843
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 score (31, 143 p.)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/345428
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991018648799705181
Description
Head-piece.
The text of the play precedes the music.
Full score with figured bass.
No complete score of the opera is known to exist. This edition is as complete as the extant sources make possible. cf. Introd.
With: Dido and Aeneas : a tragic opera in three acts / composed anno domini 1675 by Henry Purcell, now first printed; edited by G. Alex. Macfarren (1841; 4, 58 p.) and Bonduca : a tragedy / altered from Beaumont & Fletcher ; the music composed by Henry Purcell ; edited and preceded by an historical sketch of early English dramamtic music by Edward F. Rimbault (1842; 35, 32 p.)
Additional description
Bound with two other works from the same series in volume with spine title: Madrigals - Weelkes. Volume contains: 1. (v.8) Weelkes, T.: The first set of madrigals, for three, four, five and six voices. 1843. -- 2. (v.9) Gibbons, O.: Fantasies in three parts. 1843. -- 3. (v.10) Dryden, J.: King Arthur : an opera in five acts. 1843
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