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incidental music8
dance music1
harpsichord music1
minuets1
songs (medium voice) with piano1
songs with continuo1
songs with harpsichord1

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Bickerstaff, Isaac2
Bickerstaff, Isaac (1735-1812)2
Jordan, Dorothy2
Jordan, Dorothy (1761-1816)2
Locke, Matthew (1621-1677)2
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)2
Abrams, Miss (1758-1821)1
Arne, Michael (1741?-1786)1
Birchall, Robert (1819)1
Boyce, William (1711-1779)1

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The favorite airs sung by Miss Young in the Belles Stratagem : to which is added the much admired minuet performed in the masquerade scene

Arne, Michael (1741?-1786); Cowley, Mrs (1743-1809)

[1780]

Incidental music to the play by Hannah Cowley. Actually only one song, in score, with guitar or german flute part (with words) on p. 7, and keyboard reduction of the minuet, with German flute or gui...

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The castle spectre : as now performing with unbounded applause at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Kelly, Michael (1762-1826); Lewis, M G (1775-1818)

[1798]

Incidental music to the play by M.G. Lewis.

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The bonny milk maid

Eccles, John (1668-1735); D'Urfey, Thomas (1653-1723)

[n.d.]

Song for voice and continuo (unfigured bass); with a version for the flute. One of the songs contributed by J. Eccles to the music for T. D'Urfey's play 'The comical history of Don Quixote, the seco...

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The favorite airs in The critic : sung with universal applause by Miss Field[,] Miss Abrahams & Sigr. Delpini at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane adapted for the voice, harpsichord, violin, German flute & guittar

Giordani, Tommaso (1733?-1806); Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816); Forster, Mrs (1789); Abrams, Miss (1758-1821); Delpini, Mr (1828)

[1781?]

Music for the play by R.B. Sheridan. A trio in French and duet in Italian, for voices with two violins and continuo (unfigured bass); both also have versions "adapted for the harpsichord, with Engli...

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Since then I'm doom'd : sung by Mrs. Jordan in the Spoil'd child

Bickerstaff, Isaac (1735-1812); Jordan, Dorothy (1761-1816)

[ca. 1790]

Song sung in the play by I. Bickerstaffe, arr. on two staves for voice and piano. Composer unknown.

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Sung by Mrs. Jordan in the Spoil'd child

Bickerstaff, Isaac (1735-1812); Jordan, Dorothy (1761-1816)

[ca. 1790]

From the play by I. Bickerstaffe, arr. on two staves for voice and keyboard, with a version for the flute. Composer unknown. First line: 'I am a brisk and sprightly lad'.

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The original songs, airs, & chorusses, which were introduced in the tragedy of Macbeth in score

Leveridge, Richard (1758); Locke, Matthew (1621-1677); Boyce, William (1711-1779); D'Avenant, Sir William (1606-1668); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Birchall, Robert (1819)

[1770]

Incidental music for D'Avenant's adaptation of Shakespeare's play. "Probably by Richard Leveridge" (except for 'Witches dance')--New Grove. For solo voices and SATB chorus with string accompanimen...

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The celebrated music introduced in the tragedy of Macbeth

Locke, Matthew (1621-1677); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Collet, C D; Novello, Vincent (1781-1861)

[1862]

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