See also:1639 in music, other events of 1640, 1641 in music, list of years in music. See also: 1638 in music, other events of 1639, 1640 in music, list of years in music. ... Events December 1 - Portugal regains its independence from Spain and João IV of Portugal becomes king. ... See also: 1640 in music, other events of 1641, 1642 in music, list of years in music. ... This page indexes the individual year in music pages. ...
Il ritorno dUlisse in patria (The Return of Ulysses to His Country) is an opera (dramma per musica) in a prologue and three acts by Claudio Monteverdi to an Italian libretto by Giacomo Badoaro, based on the final portion of Homers Odyssey. ... Portrait of Claudio Monteverdi in Venice, 1640, by Bernardo Strozzi. ...
Unpublished continental music manuscripts of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
The music collection of the Royal College of Music, London : a listing and guide to parts seven, eight, and nine of the Harvester Microfilm Collection / compiled by Roger Bray.--Brighton, Sussex, England : Harvester Microfilm, 1985.
More than 200 music manuscripts including autographs of Handel--including Teseo (music not otherwise existent), Amadigi, Alexander's Feast (used by Handel himself for a performance at the Haymarket Theatre in 1739)--as well as autographs of Babell, Boyce, Greene and Handel's librettist, Charles Jennens are included.
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