Miscellany of theatrical music

Folger bibliographic ID: 233648
Folger call number: Y.d.1781
Folger holdings ID: 282638
Accession Number: 266461

Contains piano scores for Charles Dibdin's Padlock (libretto by Isaac Bickerstaff) (leaves 1-17) and Michael Arne's Cymon (libretto by David Garrick) (leaves 18-29r), followed by selections from contemporary opera, including Thomas Arne's Tom Jones (libretto by Joseph Reed) (leaves 29v-30v), Michael Arne's The thrush (leaves 34r-35r), Thomas Arne's Artaxerxes (leaves 35r-36r), Thomas Arne's Merchant of Venice (leaves 36v-37), a setting by Joseph Harris of a song by William Shenstone ("I told my nymph, I told her true," here in variant "I told my love") (leaves 38v-39r) and a duet ("Shall the hero laurels gain") from Thomas Arne's setting of Garrick's Ode upon dedicating a building to Shakespeare (leaf 39r)

General notes

Foliated in later hand: 1-39. Leaves 31-33 are stubs. Another unnumbered stub between leaves 28 and 29 and several more at end of volume Individual title pages: Padlock: a comic opera as perform'd at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane / compos'd by Mr. Dibdin, London (leaf 1) and Cymon: a dramatic romance perform'd at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane / compos'd by Michl. Arne (leaf 18)

Extended title: Miscellany of theatrical music ca. 1775

associated with: Bickerstaff, Isaac, 1735-1812
associated with: Garrick, David, 1717-1779
associated with: Reed, Joseph, 1723-1787