Melting Airs (Hayes, William)

		Movements/Sections 1 First Publication 1765 Genre Categories Glees; For 4 voices; For unaccompanied voices; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the soprano voice; Scores featuring the bass voice; Scores featuring the tenor voice; English language

Sheet Music

• Scores (2)

Scores

 Complete Score
*#40763 - 0.24MB, 1 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 191x⇩

PDF scanned by Simon Heighes
Simon Heighes (2009/10/7)

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First edition

Publisher Info.:

Oxford: For the Author, 1765.

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

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 Complete Score
*#175324 - 0.05MB, 1 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 34x⇩

PDF scanned by Internet archive
Fynnjamin (2012/2/2)

Publisher Info.:

The British Minstrel, and Musical and Literary Miscellany, Vol.3
Glasgow: William Hamilton, n.d.

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General Information

Work Title	Melting Airs
Alternative Title

Composer	Hayes, William
Key	B♭ major
Movements/Sections	1
First Performance	1763
First Publication	1765
Librettist	John Hughes
Piece Style	Baroque
Instrumentation	SSSB or TTTB voices

Misc. Comments

Published in William Hayes's second book of 'Catches, Glees and Canons' (1765). This little work was one of the earliest simple harmonised Glees for unaccompanied voices. It won Second Prize at the Nobleman and Gentlemen's Catch Club in London in 1763.