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Music score of Polly : Gay : manuscript, [1777-1782] | WorldCat.org

Parts

12 parts in 7 v., bound ; 31 cm.

612743071

Ballad opera in three acts

Title derived from gilt-stamped text on spine

Includes parts for 1st and 2nd violin (2 parts each), viola, bass (2 parts), 1st and 2nd flute/oboe (2 parts), 1st and 2nd horn (2 parts), and harpsichord

Musical arrangements of songs attributed to J.C. Pepusch to a libretto by John Gay, with the libretto revised by George Colman the elder and new songs added by Samuel Arnold for the premiere performance at the Haymarket Theatre, London, on 19 June 1777--Cf. New Grove opera

Written in an unidentified hand with numerous revisions, additions, insertions, and cuts by Arnold and other later hands

Some songs in 2nd violin part dated 1782

Bound separately in modern half green morocco and green cloth, spine and covers gilt, original wrappers with paper labels bound in

In English