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    Comus is a masque in three acts by English composer Thomas Arne. The work uses a libretto by John Dalton (1709-1763) that is based on John Milton's 1634...
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    purely carnal Pan or purely intoxicated Dionysos, Comus was a god of excess. A description of Comus as he appeared in painting is found in Imagines (Greek...
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  • a Shors' name for Topshur Comus (John Milton), a 1634 masque by John Milton Comus (Arne), a 1738 masque by Thomas Arne Comus (Handel), a 1745 short version...
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    first edition of Comus at Internet Archive Comus with illustrations by Arthur Rackham at Internet Archive Comus at Project Gutenberg Comus at Open Library...
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  • The masque Comus, or There in the Blissful Shades (HWV * 44) is a short version of John Milton's Comus, based on a libretto earlier made by John Dalton...
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    a masque sequence in his Romeo and Juliet and Henry VIII. John Milton's Comus (with music by Henry Lawes) is described as a masque, though it is generally...
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    Cibber (née Arne; February 1714 – 30 January 1766) was a celebrated English singer and actress. She was the sister of the composer Thomas Arne. Although...
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  • and arranged a separation. Dalton's libretto for the Comus of Thomas Arne was published as Comus, a Mask, now adapted to the Stage, as alter'd, from Milton's...
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  • Cecilia Young (redirect from Cecilia Arne)
    Arne on 15 March 1737. After their marriage, she appeared in several of her husband's stage productions including the immensely popular masques Comus...
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  • Porpora – Il trionfo di Camilla Luca Antonio Predieri – Zenobia Thomas ArneComus (London: William Smith). First performed 1738. Jean-Baptiste Barrière...
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    This list of compositions by Thomas Arne is sorted by genre. Arne composed numerous art songs throughout his career, most of which were written for the...
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    seasons there he played Macheath in The Beggar's Opera, Bacchanal in Arne's Comus and Arne's songs in the incidental music for several productions. From 1742...
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    role of Rosetta in Love in a Village and then sang in Comus and in Artaxerxes, all by Thomas Arne. During the 1787–8 season she was appearing at the Royalty...
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    not sing, except if they are supernatural, pastoral or, in the case of Comus and the popular Your hay it is mow'd, drunk. Secondary characters sing to...
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  • Symphony; Cello Concerto; Piano Concerto; Violin Concerto No. 1; Scenes from Comus symphonic serialism Leonardo Balada 1933 Spanish-American 6 symphonies[vague];...
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  • additional chorale by Bach himself at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig. Thomas Arne enlarges the orchestra at Vauxhall Gardens, taking on John Hebden as principal...
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    with Mrs Crouch in Dublin he played Lionel, and was first bacchanal in Comus, introducing the (Martini) duet 'O thou wert born to please me.' Then the...
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  • comte Ory at Tanglewood and in October he performed in Thomas Arne's rarely heard opera Comus with The Little Orchestra Society. In 1959 McCollum performed...
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  • tackle unusual works; performing in the United States premieres of Thomas Arne's Comus, Gluck's Paride ed Elena, and Darius Milhaud's Médée. Her performances...
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  • in The Universal Passion by James Miller (1737) First brother in Comus by Thomas Arne (1738) Egistus in Agamemnon by James Thomson (1738) Lanertes in The...
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  • Redeemer Liveth (From Messiah) Hugh Wood Sabrina Fair (From Scenes From Comus) John Stafford Smith The Star-Spangled Banner Mussorgsky Gnomus (From Pictures...
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    Beaumont and Fletcher's Bonduca, Ben Jonson's Epicoene and Volpone, Milton's Comus, and of other plays. He also produced an edition of the works of Beaumont...
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    concerts organised by Arne for his pupils in 1775, appearing in another pupils' concert in early 1776. She appeared in Arne's Comus at Covent Garden in...
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    Per; Cederlund, Goran; Hornfeldt, Birger; Jaderberg, Lars; Lemnell, Per-Arne; Martinsson, Berit; Skold, Kent; Swenson, John E. (1992). "Disease reveals...
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    The following year, a staged production of the work was put on by Thomas Arne and John Frederick Lampe at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket. The production...
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  • smart dresser and was nicknamed "Buck Spencer". She performed in Thomas Arne's Comus. Next, she performed at Marylebone Gardens, in the early 1770s. She moved...
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    opera was led by Thomas Arne, composer and producer. He was the author of the comic opera Rosamond (1733) and the serious Comus (1738), as well as the...
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    first songster. Her music and vehicles circulated nationally in print. Comus (1738) – a vehicle for Clive, Susannah Cibber, and Irish tragedienne James...
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  • Concerto in D minor, L.60 Jan Dismas Zelenka – Miserere, ZWV 57 Thomas ArneComus Antonio Bioni – Girita François Francoeur and François Rebel – Le Ballet...
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    Vernon's last performances were Artabanes in Artaxerxes, First Bacchanal in Comus, and Truemore in The Lord of the Manor by Jackson of Exeter, 1780. Until...
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