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Givditta: drama sacra

Description: Libretto for Giuditta. The preface is dated May 10, 1697. Gigli is identified here under the name Amaranto Sciaditico.
Date: 1697
Creator: Gigli, Girolamo, 1660-1722
Partner: UNT Music Library

Historische Beschreibung der edelen Sing- und Klingkunst, in welcher deroselben Ursprung und Erfindung, Fortgang, Verbesserung, unterschiedlicher Gebrauch, wunderbare Würckungen, mancherley Feinde

Description: Und zugleich berühmteste ausüber von Anfang der Welt biss auff unsere Zeit in möglichster Kürtze erzehlet und vorgestellet werden, aus denen vornehmsten Autorobus abgefasset und in Ordnung gebracht von Wolfgang Caspar Printzen, von Waldthurn.
Date: 1690
Creator: Printz, Wolfgang Caspar, 1641-1717
Partner: UNT Music Library

Issé

Description: 1724 score of André Cardinal Destouches' opera Issé. Destouches’s Issé premiered in 1697, just nine years after the death of Jean-Baptiste Lully. The tradition of featuring new operas at the court prior to a public premiere—common during Lully’s later years—was reinstated with this work. When Destouches revived the opera in 1708, he enlarged the original three-act work to five acts. This allowed for expanded divertissements, choruses, and more elaborate arias, which appealed to contemporary… more
Date: 1697
Creator: Destouches, M. (André Cardinal), 1672-1749 & La Motte, M. de (Antoine Houdar), 1672-1731
Partner: UNT Music Library

Il martirio: dramma sacro per musica

Description: Libretto for Il martirio di S. Adriano. Grove Music Online and similar items in WorldCat point to authorship by Girolamo Gigli for a composition by Giuseppe Fabrini, circa 1690.
Date: 1690~
Creator: Gigli, Girolamo, 1660-1722
Partner: UNT Music Library
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