Eccles: The Judgment of Paris
Series: Baroque Era Publisher: A-R Editions
This edition is part of the collection Eccles: Works
The Judgment of Paris
Edited by Eric J. Harbeson
B203 Eccles: The Judgment of Paris
978-1-9872-0016-4
Full Score (2018)
9x12, xvii + 126 pp.
$165.00
SKU
B203
Performance Parts (Available Separately)
B203R
Rental Parts (2023)
Set of 20 partbooks: 1000 rec. 1, rec. 2, 0400 timp. 33221 choral score
John Eccles’s opera The Judgment of Paris was one of at least four operas on the same libretto (written by William Congreve) composed for the 1701 Prize Musick competition sponsored by the London’s Kit-Cat Club with the aim of promoting native English, all-sung opera; it won second place in the competition, after John Weldon’s setting (Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, vol. 94, ed. David W. Music), though it later became the most popular of the settings composed for the competition. Scored for soloists, chorus, strings and continuo, with individual movements featuring transverse flute, recorders, and trumpets and timpani, the opera unfolds within a single act and depicts the mythological story of Paris and the three goddesses. This is the first publication of the opera in a critical edition.
The Judgment of Paris
Symphony for Mercury
From high Olympus—Oh Hermes—This radiant fruit behold (Mercury, Paris)
Oh ravishing delight! (Paris)
Fear not mortal—Happy thou of human race (Mercury, Paris)
Saturnia, wife of thund’ring Jove, am I (Juno)
This way mortal bend thy eyes (Pallas)
Hither turn thee gentle swain (Venus)
Trio: Hither turn thee gentle swain (Venus, Pallas, Juno)
Distracted I turn (Paris)
Let ambition fire thy mind (Juno, chorus)
Awake, awake, thy spirits raise (Pallas)
Oh what joys—Oh how glorious (Pallas, chorus)
Stay lovely youth—One only joy (Venus, chorus)
Nature framed thee sure for loving (Venus)
I yield, I yield (Paris)
Hither all ye Graces (chorus)