Record ID:
225646
Creator:
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.
Title:
The return of Ulysses to Ithica : a favorite song in The whim of the moment / composed & sung by Mr. Dibdin.
Uniform title:
The whim of the moment. The return of Ulysses to Ithica
Published:
London : Printed & sold by Preston & Son, [1789?]
Notes:
Caption title.
Part "For the German Flute"--P. 3.
Stanzas 2-8 printed as text on p. 3.
Collection's copy is a photocopy from a volume of sheet music by Dibdin offered for sale by Richard Macnutt (Tunbridge Wells, England) in 1973.
The tune is similar to that of Yankee doodle.
The whim of the moment, a table entertainment, was first performed on 23 January 1789. Cf. New Grove Opera online (accesed 18 April 2003).
Department:
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