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1 score (xxv, 71 pages, 2 pages of plates) : facsimiles ; 31 cm.
Italian cantatas for soprano and basso continuo. Oh giorno, oh infausto giorno ; Un sospiro a chi si muore ; Chi mai vi fe' sì belle ; E qual legge m'imponi ; Oh quante volte, oh quante -- Italian madrigal for soprano, alto, tenor, and bass: Chi mai vi fe' sì belle -- French airs for solo voice and basso continuo. La jeune Iris, dans un bocage ; Maman, ne grondez pas si fort ; Ce n'est plus un mystère ; Je n'entends plus dessous l'ormeau ; If faut, quand on aime une fois ; Un jour dans un vert bocage -- English catches for four equal voices. Happy is the man that findeth wisdom ; Fye! What mean you drunken elves.
Francesco Barsanti ; edited by Michael Talbot.
The continuo is unfigured and unrealized.
Edited principally from an autograph in the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Hamburg, M A/833 (cantatas); a set of parts in Madrigal Society, London, A 6-11 (GB-Lms 6-11) (madrigal); the "Bodner album," Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, Cologny-Genève, Ms. 11641-7 (airs); Royal College of Music, London, MS 208 (1st catch); and British Library, London, Catch Club collection H. 2788 (2nd catch).
Includes introduction and critical report.
Italian, French, and English words, also printed as texts with English translations on pages xviii-xxv.
Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era ; v. 197