Shelfmark
Ibb5.5.23(03)
Author
Uniform title
[Birds. Vocal scores English & Greek]
Title
The music to The Birds of Aristophanes : as performed at Cambridge, November 1883 / composed by C. Hubert H. Parry ; with an English version by A.W. Verrall.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : sold for the Committee by Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co., New Bond Street, 1885.
Physical description
1 vocal score (iv, iv, 77 p.) ; 28 cm.
Language
English and Greek words; English words also printed as text on second preliminary sequence, p. [i]-iv.
Language
Staff notation.
Note
Orchestral accompaniment arranged for piano.
Note
With list of committee members, dramatis personae, and libretto.
Provenance
Blue ink stamp of Rackley Library on the front flyleaf.
Provenance
Ms. annotation in pencil on the front flyleaf, reading "A1".
Binding
19th century vellum binding; gilt title "Parry. Prometheus. Ajax. Birds" with gilt bands on spine within a brownish-red label; red edges; blank endpapers.
Copy-specific note
Bound with C. Hubert H. Parry's "Scenes from Shelley's Prometheus unbound" (Novello, Ewer & Co. [1880]), and "Ode from the Contention of Ajax and Ulysses" (Novello, Ewer & Co. [1885]).
Subject
Aristophanes Musical settings.
Subject
Incidental music Vocal scores with piano.
Subject
Greek drama Incidental music Vocal scores with piano.
Genre/Form
Vocal scores.
Genre/Form
Musical settings.
Genre/Form
Cantatas.
Genre/Form
Librettos.
Added entry--name
Aristophanes author.
Added entry--name
Verrall, A. W. (Arthur Woollgar), 1851 - 1912 translator.
Added entry--name
Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co. publisher.
Added entry--name
Rackley Library former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng grc grc
Identifier
B54279