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  • Additional music to The beggar's opera : as it is performed at the Lyric theatre, Hammersmith / arranged and composed by Frederic Austin.

    • Notated music
    • London ; New York : Boosey, c1922.
    • 1922
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JMF 90-703Offsite
  • The Beggar's opera [sound recording] / John Gay ; new performing version by Richard Bonynge and Douglas Gamley ; orchestrated by Douglas Gamley.

    • Audio
    • New York : London : Distributed by Polygram Distribution, p1981.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LSRX 8755Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Polly / written by Mr. Gay ; drawings by William Nicholson.

    • Text
    • London : W. Heinemann, 1923.
    • 1923
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMF 92-121Offsite
  • The Music of John Gay's The beggar's opera / edited and arranged from eighteenth-century sources by Jeremy Barlow.

    • Notated music
    • Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JMF 92-158Offsite
  • The beggar's opera, by John Gay. A faithful reproduction of the 1729 ed., which includes the words and music of all the airs, as well as the score for the overture. With commentaries by Louis Kronenberger and Max Goberman on the literary and musical background and with the original words of all the airs that John Gay adapted for this work.

    • Text
    • Larchmont, N.Y., Argonaut Books [1961]
    • 1961-1729
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 95-10421Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • From the press of John Walsh [sound recording] : a profile of English taste in the early Eighteenth century.

    • Audio
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
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    Audio *LTCO 216 (F)Offsite
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  • The Beggar's opera [videorecording] / by John Gay ; a BBC-TV production in association with RM Arts and Philips Classics Productions ; produced and directed by Jonathan Miller.

    • Moving image
    • [Netherlands] : Philips ; New York, N.Y. : Manufactured and marketed by PolyGram Video, [p1991], c1983.
    • 1991-1983
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *LVD 28 (F) Program notes on filePerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The beggar's opera.

    • Text
    • New York, Huebsch, 1920.
    • 1920
  • The beggar's opera / written by Mr. Gay.

    • Text
    • London : M. Secker, 1920.
    • 1920
  • The beggar's opera. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Written by Mr. Gay.

    • Text
    • London, n.p., n.d.
    • -
  • Thomyris, queen of Scythia. An opera, as it is perform'd at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. Most humbly inscrib'd to the Right Honourable the Lord Ryalton. By P. Motteux.

    • Text
    • London, J. Tonson, 1707.
    • 1707
  • The beggar's opera. Written by Mr. Gay. To which is prefixed the musick to each song ...

    • Text
    • London, W. Heinemann, 1921.
    • 1921
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KL (Fraser) (Gay. J. Beggar's opera)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • A musical dictionary. [The whole carefully abstracted from the best authors in the Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and English languages. By] James Grassineau.

    • Text
    • New York, Broude Brothers [1966]
    • 1966
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Mus. Res. *MD (Grassineau, J. Musical dictionary)Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • A musical dictionary; being a collection of terms and characters, as well ancient as modern; including the historical, theoretical, and practical parts of music ... The whole carefully abstracted from the best authors in the Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and English languages. By James Grassineau.

    • Text
    • London, J. Wilcox, 1740.
    • 1740
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MD (Grassineau, J. Musical dictionary)Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Drexel 1058Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • Polly : an opera : being the second part of the Beggar's opera / written by Mr. Gay. The foreword by Oswald Doughty.

    • Text
    • London : Daniel O'Connor, 1922.
    • 1922
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MZ (Pepusch, J. C. Polly)Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • The beggar's opera / written by Mr. Gay ; to which is prefixed the musick to each song.

    • Text
    • London : W. Heinemann, 1922.
    • 1922
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MZ (Gay) (Gay, J. Beggar's opera. London, 1922)Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • A musical dictionary: containing a full explanation of all the terms made use of in ... music: also explanations of the doctrines of ancient music, and ... inquiries into the nature of sound ... together with a full description of all the various kinds of musical instruments ... abstracted from the best authors in the Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and English languages, by James Grassineau ...

    • Text
    • London, J.Robson, 1769.
    • 1769
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Drexel 1059Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • The beggar's opera, as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn-Fields. Written by Mr. Gay ...

    • Text
    • London, Printed for J. Watts, 1733.
    • 1733
  • The wedding: a tragi-comi-pastoral-farcical opera. As it is now acting at the Theatre-Royal, in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. With an Hudibrastick Skimmington. By Mr. Hawker ... To which is prefix'd, the overture, by Dr. Pepusch. With an addition of the musick to each song, engrav'd on copper-plates.

    • Text
    • London, Printed for W. Mears, and sold by S. Birt, 1729.
    • 1729
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Drexel 5673Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • The beggar's opera. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn-Fields. Written by Mr. Gay ... To which is added, the musick engrav'd on copper-plates.

    • Text
    • London, J. Watts, 1728.
    • 1728
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KC 1728 (Gay, J. Beggar's opera. London (1st ed.))Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The beggar's opera. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn-Fields. Written by Mr. Gay ...

    • Text
    • London, Printed for J. Watts, 1728.
    • 1728
    • 2 Items
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    Text *KC 1728 (Gay, J. Beggar's opera. London (2nd ed.))Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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    Text Drexel 5675-5675.7Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • The beggar's opera. A comic opera. By John Gay. Adapted for theatrical representation, as performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane ...

    • Text
    • Dublin, Printed by Graisberry and Campbell, for William Jones, 1791.
    • 1791
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NCOF (Gay, J. Beggar's opera 1791 Dublin)Offsite
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  • Appendix to Grassineau's Musical dictionary, selected from the Dictionnaire de musique of J.J. Rousseau.

    • Text
    • London, Printed for J. Robson, 1769.
    • 1769
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Drexel 1059Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • The Beggar's opera and Lionel and Clarissa [sound recording] :/ music and book by Gay/Pepusch, arr. Austin, and Bickerstaff/Dibdin arr. Reynolds

    • Audio
    • Sparrows Green, England : Pavillion Records, p1991.
    • 1991-1925
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 13968 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • "The lonely shepherd" [sound recording] : cantatas / by J.C. Pepusch.

    • Audio
    • Djursholm, Sweden : BIS ; New York : Dist. by Qualiton Imports, p1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 20528 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The beggar's opera [sound recording] / with new settings of the airs and additional music by Frederic Austin.

    • Audio
    • [United States] : London, [1962]
    • 1962
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 30599 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Encore [sound recording] : an hour with Cantilena.

    • Audio
    • Ocean, N.J. : Musical Heritage Society, [1984]
    • 1984-
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 35448 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Early 18th century oboe sonatas [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • England : Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre, 1958.
    • 1958
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 36279 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Le group des instruments anciens de Paris [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • Paris, France : Pathé, [196-?]
    • 196
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 37121 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • In memoriam : Edith Weiss Mann [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • New York : Westminster, p1953.
    • 1953
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 49028 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Sonata in C minor [sound recording] ; Sonata in E minor / Telemann. Sonata in F major / Pepusch. Sonata in F major / A. Scarlatti.

    • Audio
    • New York : Westminster, [195-?]
    • 1950-1959
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 49407 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • A New Ground [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • Karlskoga, Sweden : Opus 3, [1979?]
    • 1979-1978
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LSRX 12918 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The Beggar's opera [sound recording] / John Gay & John Pepusch ; [edited and orchestrated by Denis Stevens].

    • Audio
    • Tinton Falls, N.J. : Musical Heritage Society, [1979?]
    • 1979
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LSRX 17113 (F) [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    Audio *LSRX 17113 (F) [Notes]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Trio sonatas [sound recording] / by W.F. Bach, J.C. Pepusch, J.B. Loeillet, G.P. Telemann.

    • Audio
    • Los Angeles, Calif. : Baroque, [19--]
    • 19
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 52998 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The beggar's opera [sound recording] / [by John] Gay & [John Christopher] Pepusch ; [edited and orchestrated by Denis Stevens].

    • Audio
    • Universal City, Calif. : ABC Classics, p1979.
    • 1979
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LSRX 15705 (F) [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    Audio *LSRX 15705 (F) [Libretto]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Baroque music of love and war [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • Tinton Falls, N.J. : Musical Heritage Society, p1983.
    • 1983-1980
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LSRX 20142 (CF) [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    Audio *LSRX 20142 (CF) [Texts]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Glyndebourne anniversary set [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • London : His Master's Voice, p1984.
    • 1984-1934
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LRX 8802 (CF) [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    Audio *LRX 8802 (CF) [Texts]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The Art of the flute [sound recording] / Jean-Pierre Rampal.

    • Audio
    • Los Angeles, CA : Everest, [1968]
    • 1968
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 61205 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The Recorder. Vol. 2 [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • New York : Musical Heritage Society, [197-]
    • 1970-1979
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 66267 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The beggars' opera : a comic opera, in three acts / by John Gay ; printed from the acting copy, with remarks, biographical and critical.

    • Text
    • London : John Cumberland, 19, Ludgate Hill, [ca. 1827]
    • 1827
  • Beggar's opera [sound recording] : and, Polly.

    • Audio
    • East Barnet, Hertfordshire : Symposium, [2002]
    • 2002-1921
    • 2 Items
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    Audio *LDC 32325Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    Audio *LDC 32325Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Richard Pilbrow and Harold Prince present the beggar's opera [sound recording] / [libretto] by John Gay ; [music by John Christopher Pepusch].

    • Audio
    • [London] : Sony West End, [199-?], p1968.
    • 1990-1968
    • 2 Items
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    Audio *LDC 47845Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    Audio *LDC 47845Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Polly : an opera : 1777 / music by Johann Christoph Pepusch ; rearrang'd and new airs compos'd by Samuel Arnold ; libretto by John Gay ; revis'd by George Colman, the elder ; edited by Robert Hoskins.

    • Notated music
    • Wellington, N.Z. : Artaria Editions, c2004.
    • 2004
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JMF 12-228Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • Songs in the new opera call'd Thomyris / collected out of the works of the most celebrated Itallian authors, viz. Scarlatti, Bononcini, and other great masters ; perform'd at the Theatre Royall ; these songs are contriv'd so that their symphonys may be perform'd with them.

    • Notated music
    • London : Printed for J. Walsh[,] servt. to her Ma[jes]tie at the Harp & Hoboy in Katherine Street near Somerset House in ye Strand : and J. Hare[,] instrument maker at the Golden Viol and Flute in Cornhill near the Royal Exchange, [1711]
    • 1711
    • 1 Item
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    Notated music Drexel 4854.4Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • Polly : an opera, being the second part of the Beggar's opera / written by Mr. Gay ...

    • Notated music
    • London : Printed for the author, MDCCXXIX [1729]
    • 1729
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music Drexel 4958 v.2Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • The beggar's opera : as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn Fields / written by Mr. Gay ; with the ouverture in score, the songs, and the basses, (the ouverture and basses compos'd by Dr. Pepusch) curiously engrav'd on copper plates.

    • Notated music
    • London : Printed for John Watts, at the Printing-Office in Wild-Court, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, MDCCXXIX [1729]
    • 1729
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music Drexel 4959Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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    Notated music Drexel 4958 v.1Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • The beggars opera : as it is perform'd at both theatres / with the additional alterations by Dr. Arne, for the voice, harpsichord, and violin, the basses entirely new.

    • Notated music
    • London : Printed for T. Straight & Skillern, in St. Martins Lane, next the Strand ..., [1776?]
    • 1777
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music Drexel 4961Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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    Notated music Mus. Res. *MS (Pepusch. Beggar's opera. 177-)Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • Christmas concerto [electronic resource].

    • Audio
    • Colchester, Essex, England : Chandos, [2000], p1993.
    • 2000-1975
    • 1 Resource

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    https://nypl.naxosmusiclibrary.com/catalogue/item.asp?cid=CHAN6630
  • The lonely shepherd [electronic resource] : cantatas / by J.C. Pepusch.

    • Audio
    • Djursholm, Sweden : BIS ; New York : Dist. by Qualiton Imports, p1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Resource

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    https://nypl.naxosmusiclibrary.com/catalogue/item.asp?cid=BIS-CD-965
  • Triosonaten [electronic resource] / Johann Christoph Pepusch, William Williams.

    • Audio
    • Hannover : Thorofon, p1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Resource

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    https://nypl.naxosmusiclibrary.com/catalogue/item.asp?cid=CTH2055

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