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Additional authors

1. Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695.
2. Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759.
3. Bickham, George, 1706?-1771.
4. Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
5. Deutsch, Otto Erich, 1883-1967.

Description

1. 1 score ([26] p.) ; ill.; 29 cm.

Series statement

1. The Harrow replicas ; no. 2

Alternative title

1. Purcell and Handel in Bickham's Musical entertainer

Subject

1. Flute and harpsichord music, Arranged > Scores
2. Songs (High voice) with harpsichord

Contents

1. The submissive admirer -- The request to the nightingal -- Dimmi cara -- Si caro -- The address to Sylvia -- The delirious lady -- The melancholly nymph -- The beautiful charmer -- Mad Bess -- Achilles brought by Thetis to his tutor Chiron -- The invitation to Mira -- The taste -- The pleasures of life -- Phillis advised.

Call number

1. JOF 97-2

Note

1. Songs with figured bass ; some have transposed part for flute (to be substituted for soprano?) printed at end.
2. "Our selection includes facsimiles, reduced in size, of the title-page to the first volume and fourteen songs by, or in some way connected with, Purcell and Handel, together with one of the preliminary pages written by the penman Willington Clark and engraved by George Bickham, senior. Our plates, copied from the original in the Paul Hirsch Library at Cambridge, are, with one exception, all reproductions of the first issue"--Publisher's note, p. [25].

Language (note)

1. Chiefly English words ; 2 numbers have Italian words.
2. Commentary in English by Otto Erich Deutsch, p. [26].

Title

1. The Musical entertainer / engrav'd by George Bickham, junr.

Imprint

1. Cambridge, Eng. : W. Heffer, 1943.

Series

1. The Harrow replicas ; no. 2

Language

1. Chiefly English words ; 2 numbers have Italian words.
2. Commentary in English by Otto Erich Deutsch, p. [26].

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1. Request Access to Music & Recorded Sound Division Special Collections material

Added author

1. Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Vocal music. Selections; arranged.
2. Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Vocal music. Selections; arranged.
3. Bickham, George, 1706?-1771.
4. Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
5. Deutsch, Otto Erich, 1883-1967.

Cover title

1. Purcell and Handel in Bickham's Musical entertainer

Research call number

1. JOF 97-2