Armide : tragedie mise en musique / par Monsieur de Lully, escuyer, conseiller secretaire du Roy, maison, couronne de France & de ses finances, & sur-intendant de la musique de Sa Majesté.

Record ID: 
313948
Accession number: 
PMC 2103
Creator: 
Lully, Jean-Baptiste, 1632-1687.
Title: 
Armide : tragedie mise en musique / par Monsieur de Lully, escuyer, conseiller secretaire du Roy, maison, couronne de France & de ses finances, & sur-intendant de la musique de Sa Majesté.
Published: 
A Paris : Par Christophe Ballard, seul imprimeur du Roy pour la musique, ruë Saint Jean de Beauvais, au Mont-Parnasse, et se vend a la porte de l'Academie royalle de musique, ruë Saint Honoré, MDCLXXXVI [1686].
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Cary Fund in 2008.
Inscription/Markings: 

Contains over 30 contemporary corrections and alterations to the musical text, entered in dark brown ink; the inked paraph on the final p. may be in Lully's hand; there is also a stamped monogram on the final p. of the Prologue. Signature of an early owner in t.p. margin.

Notes: 

Score with figured bass; comprises a prologue and 5 acts.
Libretto by Philippe Quinault based on Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata; first performed at the Paris Opéra on 15 February 1686. Cf. New Grove opera.
1st ed.
Black notation; set in movable type.
Title vignette, head- and tail-pieces, and illustrated initial.
Error in pagination: lx misnumbered lxii.
Last p. blank.

Associated names: 

Quinault, Philippe, 1635-1688, librettist.
Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595. Gerusalemme liberata.
Ballard, Christophe, 1641-1715, printer.

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Department: 
Music Manuscripts and Printed Music
Music Collection: 
Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection