Record ID
314682
Accession number
PMC 2121
Creator
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.
Object title
A collection of English songs and cantatas / compos'd by Mr: Chas: Dibdin. Opera primo.
Uniform title
Songs and cantatas, op. 1
Published
[London] : Printed for the author & sold at his lodgings the shoe and saddle warehouse Catherine Street in the Strand., [1763].
Credit line
Purchased on the Cary Fund in 2010.
Notes
2 cantatas and 6 songs, mostly for voice, 1-2 violins and continuo (figured bass), in score.
1st ed.
Library copy lacks letterpress list of subscribers described in another copy.
1st ed.
Library copy lacks letterpress list of subscribers described in another copy.
Contents
Taste : a cantata (To town adieu) -- Florimel (O Florimel when thou art near) -- The pensive swain (Farewell ye murm'ring gliding streams) -- Truth (The anxious thoughts of love are o'er) -- The bridal day (Ye swains that reap the ripen'd corn) -- The spinning wheel (One summers eve, as Nancy fair) -- A hymn to love (O'er ye valleys and hills) -- Liberty : a cantata (Great Britain's genius slumb'ring on ye sea).
Associated names
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814, publisher.
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