| Work Title
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The Muses Delight: Catches, Glees, Canzonets and Canons
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| Alternative. Title
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The Muses Delight: Catches, Glees, Canzonets and Canons composed by Dr. Philip Hayes, Professor of Music in the University of Oxford
The Muses’ Delight; The Muse’s Delight
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| Composer
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Hayes, Philip
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| I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.
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None [force assignment]
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| First Publication.
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1786-07-01
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| Librettist
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includes
- George Lyttelton (1790-1773), Lord Lyttelton
- Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (1748-1825)
- Inscription from the Cell at Lord Westmorland's
- Edward Young (1683-1765)
- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
- Count Del Medico
- Thomas Skelton Dupuis (1766-1795)
- Antoinette Du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières (1638-1694), translated by Rev. Philip Griffin
- Matthew Prior (1664-1721)
- Walter Raleigh (1554-1618)
- John Gay (1685-1732)
- Edmund Spenser (1554-1599)
- Rev. Philip Griffin
- Richard Steele (1672-1729, Miscellanies
- William Shenstone (1714-1763)
- Samuel Wesley Jr. (poet, 1691-1739)
- from Zannazarius
- Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
- Henry Carey (1687-1743)
- Anacreon, translated by Mr. Tillotson
- Otway
- from England's Helicon
- John Cunningham (1729-1773)
- Dr. William King
- a young gentleman at Westminster School
- from the Greek of Bion
- from the Greek of Anacreon
- Rowe
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| Language
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English, Italian, Latin
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| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period
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Classical
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| Piece Style
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Classical
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| Instrumentation
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3-6 equal voices, 2-6 voices; 4 voices, continuo; 2 voices, continuo
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