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OPERAS, ODES & ORATORIOS

Full scores and performing material for major works by Arne, Blow and Boughton through to Stanford, Storace and Wishart.

Arne, Thomas: Alfred Ref: MB47

Edited by Alexander Scott
Described as an 'English opera' Alfred was first performed in 1740 at Cliveden, the residence of Frederick, Prince of Wales. It is remembered today as the source of the patriotic song 'Rule Britannia'. Performing material for extended excerpts is available for rental.
First published in 1981.

Price: £82.00

Arne, Thomas: The Masque of Comus Ref: MB3

Edited by Julian Herbage
John Dalton's stage adaptation of Milton's Comus, with music by Thomas Arne, held the 18th-century stage for half a century in various forms. MB3 presents the complete text and music as first produced at Drury Lane Theatre in March 1738. Performing material is available for rental.
First published in 1951. Reprinted 1965.

Price: £82.00

Arne, Thomas: The Judgment of Paris Ref: MB42

Edited by Ian Spink
Composed in 1740, this is a fascinating late example of the English masque tradition, and a relatively early work by a composer who began to occupy a central role in the life of London's musical theatre at about the time when Handel was abandoning Italian opera in favour of oratorio. Performing material is available for rental.
First published in 1978.

Price: £67.00

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Blow, John: Venus and Adonis. Opera Ref: PC2

Edited by Bruce Wood

John Blow's pastoral opera Venus and Adonis, the second volume of the Companion Series, presents another key work from the decade of the 1680s, which was an important focus of transition between the pre-Restoration masque and the genres of opera and semi-opera. Long recognised as influential far beyond its modest scope, this delightful work is newly edited by the distinguished 17th-century scholar Bruce Wood, with the original and the revised version of the work printed in parallel text on facing pages - the first time an opera has ever been presented in this way. Full performing material for the opera, including single-version scores, is now available.
Hardback

Price: £65.00

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2. Blow, John: Venus and Adonis. Version 1. Instrumental Parts (Ref: Y282)

3. Blow, John: Venus and Adonis. Version 1. Performing Score (Ref: Y281)

Blow, John: Venus and Adonis. Version 1. Performing Score Ref: Y281

Edited by Bruce Wood

Version 1: Original Version

It is recommended that 32 copies of the performance score are purchased for a performance, for the producer, conductor, continuo player, Venus, Adonis, Cupid, Little Cupids (x 6) and the Chorus (x20). Minor roles (3 Shepherds, Shepherdess, Huntsman) are to be drawn from the Chorus.

Price: £9.95

People who bought this item also bought:

1. Blow, John: Venus and Adonis. Version 1. Instrumental Parts (Ref: Y282)

2. Blow, John: Venus and Adonis. Opera (Ref: PC2)

3. Grabu, Louis: Albion and Albanius. Opera (Ref: PC1)

Blow, John: Venus and Adonis. Version 1. Instrumental Parts Ref: Y282

Edited by Bruce Wood

Set of Instrumental Parts (4 x Violin 1/Recorder 1; 4 x Violin 2/Recorder 2; 2 x Viola; 2 x Instrumental Bass)

Customers requiring additional instrumental parts should purchase multiple sets as required.

Price: £50.00

People who bought this item also bought:

1. Blow, John: Venus and Adonis. Version 1. Performing Score (Ref: Y281)

2. Blow, John: Venus and Adonis. Opera (Ref: PC2)

3. Grabu, Louis: Albion and Albanius. Opera (Ref: PC1)

Blow, John: Venus and Adonis. Version 2. Performing Score Ref: Y283

Edited by Bruce Wood

It is recommended that 32 copies of the performance score are purchased for a performance, for the producer, conductor, continuo player, Venus, Adonis, Cupid, Little Cupids (x 6) and the Chorus (x20). Minor roles (3 Shepherds, Shepherdess, Huntsman) are to be drawn from the Chorus.

Price: £9.95

People who bought this item also bought:

1. Blow, John: Venus and Adonis. Version 2. Instrumental Parts (Ref: Y284)

Blow, John: Venus and Adonis. Version 2. Instrumental Parts Ref: Y284

Edited by Bruce Wood

Set of Instrumental Parts (4 x Violin 1/Recorder 1; 4 x Violin 2/Recorder 2; 2 x Viola; 2 x Instrumental Bass)

Customers requiring additional instrumental parts should purchase multiple sets as required.

Price: £50.00

People who bought this item also bought:

1. Blow, John: Venus and Adonis. Version 2. Performing Score (Ref: Y283)

Boughton, Rutland: The Immortal Hour. Opera in 2 Acts Ref: HL12

Duration 135 minutes

Soprano, 2 contralto, tenor & 2 bass soloists, SATB choir; flute (doubling piccolo), oboe (doubling cor anglais), 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, bassoon, 2 horns, trumpet, tenor trombone, bass trombone, timpani, percussion (1), harp & strings.

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Boyce, William: Solomon: A Serenata Ref: MB68

Edited by Ian Bartlett
Scored for soprano and tenor soloists, SATB chorus and orchestra, the serenata Solomon is an outstanding example of the 18th-century pastoral genre at its most poetically rich and distinctive. At one time second only to the Messiah in popularity, it deserves equivalent notice today as a masterpiece of the English baroque and as a profuse flowering of Boyce's exceptional talents. Performing material is available for rental.
First published in 1996.

Price: £88.00

Bridge, Frank: The Christmas Rose. Opera in Three Scenes Ref: HL21

Duration 52 minutes

Soprano, mezzo soprano, tenor, baritone & bass baritone soloists. SATB chorus & female voice chorus; 2 flutes (one doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, tenor trombone, timpani, percussion (2), tubular bells, harp & strings

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Bush, Alan: Men of Blackmore. Opera in Three Acts Ref: HL46

Duration 130 minutes

Soprano, mezzo soprano, 2 tenor, 2 baritone, bass baritone & 2 bass soloists, SSAATTBB chorus (minimum 6 voices to each part); 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, cor anglais, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, double bassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 2 tenor & 1 bass trombone, tuba, timpani, percussion (2) & strings

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Bush, Geoffrey: If the Cap Fits. Opera in One Act Ref: HL51

Duration 35 minutes

Soprano, tenor & baritone soloists; flute (doubling piccolo), oboe, clarinet (doubling optional bass clarinet), bassoon, 2 horns, trumpet, trombone, timpani, percussion (1) & strings

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Eccles, John: Semele Ref: MB76

Edited by Richard Platt
An all-sung English opera that was completed in 1707 but which received its first London production only in 1972, Semele remains one of the great 'might have beens' of British music. Had it taken the stage as planned it could well have affected the development of English opera by showing that a native form, in spirit Purcellian and English rather than Italian, was indeed perfectly viable during the 18th century. Performing material available for rental.
First Published 2000. Hardback.

Price: £85.00

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Grabu, Louis: Albion and Albanius. Opera Ref: PC1

Edited Bryan White

Albion and Albanius is among the first operas in English, written to a libretto by John Dryden, and produced at the Dorset Garden Theatre, London, on 3 June 1685. Composed by the erstwhile Master of the King's Musick to Charles II, the score is of particular interest as representing the French style of Lully, unusual in English music at the time, and is in striking contrast to the score for Dryden's sequel to the work, King Arthur, with music by Purcell.
Hardback

Price: £80.00

People who bought this item also bought:

1. Blow, John: Venus and Adonis. Opera (Ref: PC2)

2. Blow, John: Venus and Adonis. Version 1. Instrumental Parts (Ref: Y282)

3. Blow, John: Venus and Adonis. Version 1. Performing Score (Ref: Y281)

Greene, Maurice: Ode on St Cecilia's Day and Anthem: Hearken unto me Ref: MB58

Edited by H Diack Johnstone
Two pieces with a distinctly Cambridge connection, the Ode being composed for the opening of James Gibbs' University Senate House in 1730, the anthem intended for performance in King's College Chapel on 25th March - Founder's Day - 1728. Performing material is available for rental.
First published in 1991.

Price: £80.00

Greene, Maurice: Phoebe Ref: MB82

Edited by H Diack Johnstone
Like its predecessor Florimel, Phoebe (1743), the second of Maurice Greene’s two operas, sets a libretto by John Hoadly. Probably written for performance at the Apollo Society, founded by Greene himself in 1733, this three-act opera, for four soloists and chorus, is a beautiful example of the English pastoral-masque genre, both musically and dramatically in the tradition of Handel’s Acis and Galatea.
Performing material is available for rental.
First published in 2004. Hardback.

Price: £85.00

Linley, Thomas: A Shakespeare Ode Ref: MB30

Edited by Gwilym Beechey
A delightful 'Ode on the Spirits of Shakespeare', this is a remarkable achievement by a young composer whose tragically early death, aged 22, deprived English music of a possible figure of genius who was an exact contemporary of Mozart. Performing material is available for rental.
First published in 1970, reprinted with corrections 1985.

Price: £76.00

Locke, Matthew and Gibbons, Christopher: Cupid and Death Ref: MB2

Edited by Edward J Dent
Today's revival of interest in 17th-century English music-theatre owes much to pioneering early Musica Britannica volumes which made available for the first time authoritative editions of works such as James Shirley's Cupid and Death, an important example of the Renaissance masque tradition surviving from this period. Performing material is available for rental.
First published in 1951, revised 1965.

Price: £58.00

Locke, Matthew: Dramatic Music (including Psyche) Ref: MB51

Edited by Michael Tilmouth
A collection that highlights Locke's pivotal role in laying the foundations of English dramatic music, combining the traditions of the Masque with the new optimistic manner of recitative. This volume also contains The Empress of Morocco and The Tempest, with the music by Humfrey, Banister, Reggio and Hart. Performing material for Psyche is available for rental.
First published in 1986.

Price: £98.00

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Purcell, Henry: The Fairy Queen Ref: PE12

Edited Bruce Wood and Andrew Pinnock

Presented in a highly praised new production by Glyndebourne Opera in 2009, this edition of Purcell's third semi-opera, The Fairy Queen, offers a new and definitive version of words and music prepared by two leading scholars in the field. The playtext, anonymously adapted from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, is printed in full, and the role of the various sources, and the relationship of the manuscript theatre score to the printed word-books of 1692 and 1693, are thoroughly reappraised. The other sources include music manuscripts which have not previously been examined, and which prove to have a significant bearing on the musical text. Full account is taken of the varied instrumental resources and conventions accessible to the Restoration composer, reflected in the multi-purpose performing material for the edition which is available for rental (HL390).
Hardback

Price: £95.00

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Purcell, Henry: Three Occasional Odes Ref: PE1

Edited Bruce Wood

In addition to Celestial music and Great Parent, hail!, formerly in Miscellaneous Odes and Cantatas which is now replaced by PE27 Symphony Songs, PE1 contains The Yorkshire Feast Song, Of old, when heroes thought it base, which was the inaugural volume of the series, published in 1878 and edited by a founder-member of the society, W. H. Cummings. The first English score with full Baroque instrumentation, including trumpets and oboes, it is a consummate display of orchestral mastery, and represents the composer’s first response to Giovanni Battista Draghi’s 1687 setting of Dryden's Cecilian Ode From Harmony. Performing material is in preparation.
Hardback

Price: £65.00

Senator, Ronald: Echoes. Scenes from a History of London Ref: HL276

Duration 80 minutes

Echoes is a panorama of the history of the City of London for the young, commissioned for the City of London Festival in 1986 with a libretto by Ursula Vaughan Willliams.

Soprano and/or alto soloist, SA chorus, flute, clarinet, horn, harp, percussion & string quintet [alternatively with piano only or piano and percussion]

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Shield, William: Rosina Ref: MB72

Edited by John Drummond
A retelling of the biblical story of Ruth in a rural north-of-England setting, Rosina was Shield's fourth opera, and was a considerable success at its premiere on the last day of December, 1782. Rosina's importance lies in its musical charm, its content (which includes borrowed and original vocal numbers), and in its status as the only English opera of the period for which orchestral parts survive. Performing material will be available for rental.
First published in 1998.

Price: £80.00

Stanford, Charles Villiers: The Travelling Companion. Opera in Four Acts Ref: HL207

Duration 180 minutes

2 soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, 3 baritone, bass baritone & 2 bass soloists, SATB choir; piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, cor anglais, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contra bassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (3 players including wind machine & thunder machine), 2 harps & strings.

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Storace, Stephen: No Song, No Supper Ref: MB16

Edited by Roger Fiske
A delightful late 18th-century stage-piece by a gifted composer who befriended the young Mozart. Regularly revived in amateur or professional productions, it makes an important contribution to our understanding more of a little-known and neglected area of English operatic history. Performing material is available for rental.
First published in 1959 and reprinted with corrections 1975.

Price: £72.00

Storace, Stephen: Gli Equivoci Ref: MB86

Edited by Richard Platt
This is the first published version of a major comic opera written in 1786 for Vienna’s Burgtheater, to a da Ponte libretto adapted from Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. A pupil of Mozart, Stephen Storace was a major figure in English opera of the late 18th century, and Gli equivoci is a unique testament to his versatility and promise. The work is issued in a reduction for voices and keyboard, with an English singing translation. The full score and performing material are in preparation.
First published in 2008. Hardback

Price: £99.00

Wishart, Peter: The Clandesine Marriage Ref: HL226

Duration 160 minutes

2 soprano, mezzo soprano, contralto, 2 tenor, baritone, bass baritone & bass soloists; 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, percussion & strings.

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