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Nancy or The Parting Lovers (1740)

About

This work is a collection of music from the opera Nancy, or The Parting Lovers which was premiered at the Covent Garden Royal Opera House in 1739. The opera's music and text were both written by Henry Carey, an English composer and librettist known for satirical operas that criticized Italian opera.  Nancy, or The Parting Lovers was one of the first operas to incorporate ordinary, contemporary people as a major part of the plot, as it followed a romantic engagement between a sailor and his lover who are separated when the former is forced into military service.
  • Resource Type: Sheet Music​
  • Year Published: 1740
  • Contributor(s): ​
    • ​Henry Carey (composer & librettist)
  • Terminology Utilized: 
    • ​​"Common Flute" = Vertical Flute
    • "Flute" = Vertical Flute
    • "German Flute" = Transverse FLute
    • "Flute" = German Flute
  • Location of Publication: London
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Terminology

This work regularly utilizes the terms "German Flute," "Common Flute," and "Flute" to refer to the vertical and transverse flute. On the cover page it is specified that the opera's "symphonies and basses & the song part throughout" had been "seperately transpos'd for the German and common flute." The music sometimes differentiates different parts for the transverse and vertical flutes using the terms "German Flute" and "Common Flute" respectively but, at other points, a part that could work for either instrument is simply dubbed "Flute."
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Pages 5 (left) and 6 (right) of Nancy, or The Parting Lovers with the former page showing two parts - one specifically for German Flute and one for Common Flute - and the latter page showing a single combined part for either instrument.
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  • Home
  • About The Project
  • The Poster
  • Select Analyses
    • 16th Century >
      • The King's Musick
    • 17th Century >
      • A Vade Mecum for the Lovers of Musick (1679)
      • The Genteel Companion (1683)
      • Thesaurus Musicus (1693)
      • A Collection of New Ayres (1695)
      • The Compleat Flute-Master (1695)
    • 18th Century >
      • A comparison between the French and Italian musick and opera's (1709)
      • The Modern Musik-Master (1730)
      • The Bird Fancyer's Delight (1717)
      • A Short Explication of Such Foreign Words, as are Made use of in Musick Books (1724)
      • Grassineau Musical Dictionary (1740)
      • Nancy or The Parting Lovers (1740)
      • The Compleat Tutor for the Flute (1746)
      • Dictionarium Musica (1770)
      • The Present State of Music in France and Italy (1771)
      • The Elements of Musick Display'd (1772)
      • Longman & Broderip 1774 Music Catalog (1774)
      • A General History of the Science and Practice of Music (1776)
      • New Music: Engraved, Printed, and Sold by John Preston (1781)
    • 19th Century >
      • The Cyclopædia (1819)
  • The Index
    • Poster Footnotes