Research Catalog

Title

[The dragon of Wantley] [graphic].

Publication

[173-? or later]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Lampe, John Frederick, 1703?-1751.
• Carey, Henry, 1687?-1743.

Description

2 prints : engraving, b&w; 40 x 25 cm. or smaller, image 11 x 19 cm.

Summary

Illustrated sheet music for songs from the burlesque opera The dragon of Wantley, each containing music for accompanied voice and flute. Both depict the principal male character, Moore of Moore-Hall (described in the libretto as a valiant knight), costumed in the tonnelet, a short hoop-skirt worn by male ballet dancers in the eighteenth-century.

Subjects

• Engravings
• Flute and continuo music > Scores and parts

Genre/Form

Engravings.

Note

• Moor circulating the cheerful glass is numbered at top right: 4.
• Moore coaxing Mauxalinda is numbered at top right: 12.

Source (note)

• Lincoln Kirstein.

Biography (note)

• The dragon of Wantley (music, John Frederick Lampe; libretto, Henry Carey) was first performed at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket, London, in 1737, and was so well received that it soon moved to the larger Covent Garden theatre, where it was presented in its definitive three-act form. Based on a Yorkshire legend, it featured a dragon (sung by a bass) that was vanquished by Moore of Moore-Hall, a man with two romantic interests, his current love Margery and his "cast-off mistress" Mauxalinda. Although this work was meant as a satire of the artificiality and overblown sentimentality of contemporary Italian opera, it was transcended by its score, the only one of Lampe's operas to survive in its entirety.
• Although these illustrations do not include the artist's name or signature, they may have been engraved by George Bickham, 1706?-1771, for the song collection The musical entertainer, the first edition of which appeared in 1737.

Contents

Moor[e] circulating the cheerful glass [song from Act I: Zeno, Plato, Aristotle] -- Moore coaxing Mauxalinda [song from Act I: By ye beer as brown as berry].

Call Number

*MGZFA-17 Anon Dra 1-2

OCLC

771303668

Title

[The dragon of Wantley] [graphic].

Imprint

[173-? or later]

Biography

The dragon of Wantley (music, John Frederick Lampe; libretto, Henry Carey) was first performed at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket, London, in 1737, and was so well received that it soon moved to the larger Covent Garden theatre, where it was presented in its definitive three-act form. Based on a Yorkshire legend, it featured a dragon (sung by a bass) that was vanquished by Moore of Moore-Hall, a man with two romantic interests, his current love Margery and his "cast-off mistress" Mauxalinda. Although this work was meant as a satire of the artificiality and overblown sentimentality of contemporary Italian opera, it was transcended by its score, the only one of Lampe's operas to survive in its entirety.

Although these illustrations do not include the artist's name or signature, they may have been engraved by George Bickham, 1706?-1771, for the song collection The musical entertainer, the first edition of which appeared in 1737.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Source

Gift; Lincoln Kirstein.

Added Author

Lampe, John Frederick, 1703?-1751. Dragon of Wantley. Zeno, Plato, Aristotle ; arranged.

Lampe, John Frederick, 1703?-1751. Dragon of Wantley. By ye beer ; arranged.

Carey, Henry, 1687?-1743. Librettist

Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996. Donor

Research Call Number

*MGZFA-17 Anon Dra 1-2