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Choice Ayres, Songs and Dialogues, Books 1 and 2, 1673 - 79
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Choice Ayres, Songs and Dialogues, Books 1 and 2, 1673 - 79 by Various Score - Sheet Music

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Choice Ayres, Songs and Dialogues, Books 1 and 2, 1673 - 79 by Various Score - Sheet Music

SKU: ST.LA5A

Composed by Various. Library Volumes. Facsimile: Printed Scores, John Playford. Facsimile Score. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #LA5A. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.LA5A).

ISBN 9790220204180.


Facsimile: Printed Scores, John Playford
Introduction by Ian Spink

John Playford’s Choice Ayres comprises five books of songs published between 1673 and 1684. It contains the earliest songs of Henry Purcell and offers a wide selection by his contemporaries – John Banister, John Blow, Thomas Farmer, James Hart, Pelham Humfrey, Robert Smith and William Turner. Moreover, it is the richest source of dramatic songs for the period, with songs for ten of John Dryden’s plays and almost fifty by other Restoration dramatists – Aphra Behn, John Crowne, Sir George Etherege, Nathaniel Lee, Thomas Otway, Thomas Shadwell, Nahum Tate and William Wycherley, as well as the Davenant-Dryden-Shadwell version of The Tempest.

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