Six English Cantatas After the Italian Manner. Score

by John Ernest Galliard

$850 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Folio. Contemporary leather-backed marbled boards with manuscript title label to upper. 1f. recto engraved passepartout title, verso blank , 1f. recto dedication, verso blank , 28 pp. + 28 blanks interleaved. Engraved. Scored for solo voice and figured bass, with text by John Hughes, William Congreve, and Matthew Prior.The elaborately engraved title incorporates a flute, recorder, bassoon, trumpet, violin, lute, horticultural and architectural motifs, an open

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