Mus. 837

Printed. Complete set of three performing parts (vocal score; two violin parts).

Mus. 837 Bassani, Giovanni Battista, ca. 1650-1716 Harmonia festiva, being the thirteenth opera of divine mottetts. Compos'd by Seignior Bassani. For a single voice with proper symphonies. [Violino primo. Violino secondo. [Score: voice and basso continuo.] Bound together, but separately paginated.] London: Printed by William Pearson, for John Cullen ... and John Young, [1708] ESTC, T154449; RISM A/I B1202

Provenance: from the Aldrich bequest, listed in Archives 1717, item H10, as 'Bassani Harmonia festiva', qualified in Dowding (main hand) as '13th Opera of Mottets. Lond.'

Upright format, 340 x 217 mm. Retains C18th upper wrapper of thin white paper, annotated 'Bassani's 13th opera' in an unidentified late C17th hand. Now within an early C20th binding of stiff card and vellum, the two violin parts bound in after the titlepage. Shelfmark 'H.10' on titlepage. Bookplate 2. C19th shelfmark: K.4.51.

Microfilm: The printed music of Christ Church, Oxford, reel 46.
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