Research Catalog

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Additional authors

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

Description

1. 2 prints : engraving, b&w; 40 x 25 cm. or smaller, image 11 x 19 cm.

Summary

1. 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.

Subject

1. Engravings
2. Flute and continuo music > Scores and parts

Genre/Form

1. Engravings.

Contents

1. 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

1. *MGZFA-17 Anon Dra 1-2

Note

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

Source (note)

1. Lincoln Kirstein.

Biography (note)

1. 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.
2. 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.

Title

1. [The dragon of Wantley] [graphic].

Imprint

1. [173-? or later]

Biography

1. 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.
2. 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

1. Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Source

1. Gift; Lincoln Kirstein.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Lampe, John Frederick, 1703?-1751. Dragon of Wantley. Zeno, Plato, Aristotle ; arranged.
2. Lampe, John Frederick, 1703?-1751. Dragon of Wantley. By ye beer ; arranged.
3. Carey, Henry, 1687?-1743. Librettist
4. Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996. Donor

Research call number

1. *MGZFA-17 Anon Dra 1-2