Wou'd you gain the tender creature. From Acis and Galatea. Set by Mr. Handel

All titles

• Wou'd you gain the tender creature. From Acis and Galatea. Set by Mr. Handel
• Acis and Galatea. Songs

People / Organizations

• John Gay (Author)

Imprint

London : printed and sold by R. Falkener, [1770?]

Added name

Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759.

Publication year

1770

ESTC No.

T186508

Grub Street ID

222654

Description

[4]p. : music ; 2°.

Note

A song from John Gay's 'Acis and Galatea'

First line of text: "Wou'd you gain the ten-der creature, soft-ly, gent-ly,"

Includes 'A catch for three voices' beginning "The sil-ver swan who, li-ving, had no note ..", musically adapted from Orlando Gibbons's madrigal

Printed on one side of a sheet

Horizontal chain lines.

Uncontrolled note

Pp. [1] and [4] blank