What A Blunder! : English Theatre Overtures 1760-1800 / edited by Robert Hoskins.

1760-1800 was a golden age of English comic opera. Sucessful works were published in piano reductions; rarely were full scores or orchestral parts made available. This volume contains the piano reductions to overtures of several operas: The Padlock (1768) / BY Charles Didbin -- May Day (1775) / by Thomas Arne -- The Spanish Barber (1777) / by Samuel Arnold -- The Agreeable Surprise (1781) / by Arnold -- The Castle of Andalusia (1782) / by Arnold -- The Turk and No Turk (1785) / by Arnold -- Inkle and Yarico (1787) / by Arnold -- Love in the East (1788) / by Thomas Linley -- The Haunted Tower (1789) / by Stephan Storace -- The Seige of Belgrade (1791) / by Storace -- The Travellers in Switzerland (1794) / by William Shield -- The Three and the Deuce (1795) / by Storace -- The Iron Chest (1796) / by Storace -- What a Blunder (1800) / by John Davy. With a foreword.

1 score (vi, 124 p.); 29 cm.
Language: English
Edition Number: AE 356
ISBN: 1877369705
ISBN13: 9781877369704
ISMN: M674512374
Distributor Number: AE356