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L'allegro, il penseroso, ed il moderato : for the voice, harpsichord, and violin, with the chorusses in score/ composed by Mr. Handel.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio M1.A11 .H6 v. 10
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- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759.
- Standardized Title:
- Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato. Vocal score
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Milton, John, 1608-1674.
- Cantatas, Secular--Vocal scores with continuo.
- Cantatas, Secular.
- Milton, John, 1608-1674--Musical settings.
- Milton, John.
- Genre:
- Vocal scores with continuo.
- Cantatas, Secular.
- Musical settings.
- Cantatas.
- Notated music.
- Penn Provenance:
- Hopkinson, Edward Jr. (donor)
- Hopkinson, Francis
- Hopkinson, Oliver
- Physical Description:
- 1 vocal score (64 pages) ; 25 x 34 cm
- Contained In:
- Hopkinson collection of music. v. 10
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for Harrison & Co., [1784?]
- Notes:
- For mixed voices and orchestra; acc. arr for continuo.
- Overture arr. for keyboard.
- Figured bass not realized.
- English words.
- The libretto, by Charles Jennens, is adapted from Milton's L'allegro ed il penseroso and Jennens' Il moderato.
- "Nos. 34-37 of 'The new musical magazine'". Cf. Smith, W. C. Handel.
- Local Notes:
- With: Handel, George Frideric. [Dettingen Te Deum. Vocal score] The grand Dettingen Te Deum. London : Harrison & Co., [1784?]
- From the library of the Francis Hopkinson family -- Richards, Caroline. An eighteenth century music collection -- Thesis (M.A.) Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1968.
- Cited in:
- RISM A/I, H 465
- OCLC:
- 63666925
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