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Thomas Linley, Jr.
The Song of Moses
Edited by Peter Overbeck
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ISBN 0-89579-451-9 |
(2000) xiii+265 pp. |
$103.00 |
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Notwithstanding his short career, Thomas Linley, Jr., (1756–78) is one of
the most remarkable English composers in the second half of the eighteenth
century. A student of Boyce and Nardini, he was leader and violin soloist
for his father’s concerts in Bath and London’s Drury Lane Theater. Linley
composed music for the violin, for the stage and, most importantly, three
choral works, one of which is the oratorio The Song of Moses (1777),
based on a rhymed paraphrase of the Bible by John Hoadly. The Song of
Moses is one of the few indigenous English oratorios from this period.
Composed in the tradition of Handel, Linley’s work imaginatively combines
effective text setting with music elements Linley acquired in his work for
the theater and also draws on galant models for some of the airs.
The edition is based on the only known source of the work in the British
Library. Supplementary numbers to Linley’s anthem Let God Arise (C
7 in this series) are included in an appendix.
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