Roberts, Henry [engraver]

CALLIOPE OR ENGLISH HARMONY - A COLLECTION OF THE MOST CELEBRATED ENGLISH AND SCOTS SONGS NEATLY ENGRAV'D AND EMBELISH'D [TWO VOLUMES]

London: Printed for & sold by John Simpson, n.d. [c.1746]. Reissue. Octavos, 2 volumes; VG; newly rebacked in quarter leather, brown cloth boards, new endpapers; text block gilt; Both vols.: frontispiece, [6], 200 pages; Publisher's advertisement following index in volume 1.;

A total of approximately 400 pieces of music included herein, the vast majority being one page long, each illustrated with a large pictorial head-piece to each song, engraved by Henry Roberts.

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Originally printed in two and then three volumes by H. Roberts. Originally issued in parts of 8 pages each by Henry Roberts between 1737 and 1746, with the general title page, index, and frontispiece supplied with the final part of each volume. Now reprinted from the same plates and reissued by John Simpson.;

The composers named in this collection are Lampe, Monro, Corelli, Green(e), Thomas Phil[l]ips, Sandford, Lutman, Carey, Handel, Digard, Stanley, Anthony Young, Arne, Leveridge, Wood, Barker (of Coventry), Hayward, Brereton, Flacton, Popely, Boyce, Gouge, Ravenscroft, Kempton, William Fisher (of Hereford), Gunn, Gladwin, Froud, Hawkins, Holcombe, Barnard, Anglosini, Say, Vanbrugh, Cannington, Galliard, S. Howard, Geminiani, Putti, Jonathan Martin, Allcock, Henry Purcell, R. Vincent, Betts, Wise, Webber, Hayden, M. Eccles, Weldon, Brown, Marchand, John Hudson, Stubley, Seedo, Lestrange, Harris, Clarke, Preluer / Perlleur [Prelleur?], Fisher Tench, Duncalfe, Markwell, Alland, James, Graves, Henry Burges Junior, Festing, Cox, Worgan, Russell, W. Hodson, Miss Worgan, Travers, Hasse, Oswald, Wideman, W. Hayes (of Oxford), Corfe, Larken, Tortoriti, Crome, Heighington and Crookenden. [COPAC];

Mostly for high voice or 2 voices and continuo (partially figured bass); version for flute (i.e. recorder) at end of each song.;

This edition not in ESTC. COPAC shows Universities of Edinburgh, Oxford, and Glasgow, and Kings College. Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog shows The Royal Library, Denmark.;