Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Dalton, John, 1709-1763
2. Milton, John, 1608-1674.
3. Young, Cecilia, 1712?-1789
4. Beard, John, 1715 or 1716-1791
5. Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785

Description

1. 1 condensed score (18 pages); 25 x 35 cm

Uniform title

1. Comus. Selections. Vocal score

Alternative title

1. Comus.

Subject

1. Masques with music > Excerpts > Vocal scores with piano

Call number

1. Mus. Res. *MS (Arne. Comus. 1783)

Note

1. Cover title.
2. Libretto altered from Milton's Comus by John Dalton.
3. For voice and keyboard; figured bass.
4. Date from the Catalogue of printed music in the British Library, 1981.
5. Contents and "Original dramatis personae" lists Mr. [John] Beard, Mrs. [Catherine] Clive and Mrs. Arne [Cecilia Young] -- on page [3].

Indexed in (note)

1. RISM A/I

Author

1. Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778, composer.

Title

1. Comus : a masque : as it is performed at the Theatres Royal in Drury Lane and Covent Garden / composed by Dr. Arne, for the voice, harpsichord, and violin.

Publisher

1. London : Printed for Harrison & Co., No. 18, Paternoster Row, [1783?]

Type of content

1. notated music

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Indexed in:

1. RISM A/I, A 1749.

Language

1. Staff notation

Connect to:

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

Added author

1. Dalton, John, 1709-1763, librettist.
2. Based on (work): Milton, John, 1608-1674. Comus.
3. Young, Cecilia, 1712?-1789, performer.
4. Beard, John, 1715 or 1716-1791, performer.
5. Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, performer.

Research call number

1. Mus. Res. *MS (Arne. Comus. 1783)