Alceste : incidental music to Tobias Smollett's play of that name / composed by G.F. Handel ; the pianoforte accompaniment revised from that of the German Handel Society.

Format:

• Musical score

Author/Creator:

• Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759, composer.

Contributor:

• Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771, lyricist.
• Alexander Street Press.

Series:

• Classical scores library.

Standardized Title:

• Alceste. Vocal score

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771--Musical settings.
• Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771.
• Incidental music--Vocal scores with piano.

Genre:

• Musical settings.
• Incidental music.
• Vocal scores.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 vocal score (v, 82 pages))

Edition:

Vocal score.

Place of Publication:

London : Novello & Company, [20--?]

Language Note:

• Staff notation.
• In English.

Contents:

• Overture
• Act 1 : Grand Entrée ; Recit, Ye Happy People ; Soli and Chorus, Triumph, Hymen, in the Pair ; Solo and Chorus, Still Caressing, and Caress'd ; Air. Ye Swift Minutes as Ye Fly ; Chorus, O Bless, Ye Powers Above ; Air, Gentle Morpheus, Son of Night
• Act IV: Air, Ye Fleeting Shades ; Chorus, Thrice Happy Who in Life Excel ; Air, Enjoy the Sweet Elysian Grove ; Chorus, Thrice Happy Who in Life Excel ; Air, Come Fancy, Empress of the Brain ; Symphony ; Chorus, All Hail, Thou Mighty Son of Jove ; Symphony ; Recit, From High Olympus' Top ; Air, Tune Your Harps, All Ye Nine ; Ballo Primo ; L'ultimo Ballo ; Chorus : Triumph, thou glorious son of Jove
• Appendix: Air, Gentle Morpheus, Son of Night
• Appendix: Air, Come, Fancy, Empress of the Brain.

Notes:

• Title from resource description page (viewed March 22, 2016).
• For soprano, tenor, and bass solo voices, SATB chorus, and piano.
• Includes performance notes in English.
• Written in 1750.

OCLC:

950028664

Access Restriction:

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