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488 results for: Title - A Musical Entertainment

51
23 August 1699 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

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25 November 1699 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

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29 November 1699 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

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01 December 1699 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

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07 December 1699 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

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03 January 1700 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

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04 January 1700 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

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05 January 1700 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

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06 January 1700 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

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31 January 1701 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal Entertainments-Signor Mancini, formerly Servant to the late King of Spain

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25 August 1701 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Dance: [By] 6 Companies of Rope Dancers; who] [are joyned in one, they being the greatest Performers of Men, Women, and Children, that could be found beyond the Seas, where will be performed such wonderful variety of Dancing, Vaulting, Walking on the Slack Rope, the Sloaping Rope-; [you will see a wonderful Girl of 10 years of Age, who walk backward up the sloaping Rope-Girl of 10 years[, driving a Wheel-barrow behind her; [also you will see the Great Italian Master, who not only passes all that has yet been seen upon the low Rope, [but he Dances[ without a Pole upon the Head of a Mast [as high as the Booth will permit, and afterwards stands upon his Head on the same-Great Italian Master; [You will also be entertained with the many Conceits of an Italian Scaramouch, who Dances on the Rope [with 2 Children and a Dog in a Wheel-barrow, and a Duck on his Head-Italian Scaramouch

Dance: Such variety of Dancing, Vaulting, Walking on the Slack/Rope, Tumbling, as has never been seen in this Fair before-

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11 May 1702 @ Hampstead Wells

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Masters; with particular Entertainments on the Violin-Mr Dean

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01 June 1702 @ Hampstead Wells

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Masters; with particular Entertainments on the Violin-Mr Dean; Singing-Mr Hughs

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11 July 1702 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: Bury Fair

Music: The last New Entertainment compos'd for Flutes on the Stage,-Mr Bannister, Mr Bannister's Son

Song: Mrs Lyndsey

Dance:

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18 August 1702 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

Entertainment: Several Extraordinary Entertainments, as will be express'd in the Bills

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16 October 1702 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Entertainment: With several Extraordinary Entertainments that are particularly bespoke by some Gentry, which will be express'd at large in the great Bills

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20 October 1702 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ibrahim; The 13th Emperor Of The Turks

Song: A new song-Mrs Shaw, never perform'd before, compos'd by a Gentleman lately arriv'd from Dublin

Music: An Extraordinary Entertainment , all of Flutes-Mr Paisible

Dance: A Mimick Night Scene- after the Italian Manner by a newScaramouch, Harlequin; A new dance-Cottin, Mrs Bicknell

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23 October 1702 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip To The Jubilee

Song: A new song-Mrs Campion; Dialogue between two Beaus and two Coquet Ladies-

Dance: A new dance-Mrs Campion, Laferry; An Entry-Mrs Campion; the Dance- originally performed in The World in the Moon

Music: An Entertainment of New Instrumental Musick-Mr Bannister

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26 October 1702 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Entertainment: Several pretty Entertainments-

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22 December 1702 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lancashire Witches; Or, Teague O Devilly, The Irish Priest

Music: several Entertainments of Musick by himself- The FamousSignor Gasperine lately arriv'd from Rome, in Consort with others

Song: Since Times are so Bad-Leveridge, Mrs Lindsey

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13 March 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Mode And The New

Song: Leveridge

Music: Several Entertainments on the Violin-Gasperini

Dance: The Devonshire Girl-; particularly a Quaker's Dance-

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19 April 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Music: Sonatas-Gasperini; A New Entertainment-the whole Band; in which some extraordinary Parts upon the Flute Violin and Hautboy-Paisible, Banister, Latour

Song: Leveridge

Dance: DuRuel, Mrs Campion; with a new dance-the Devonshire Girl in imitation of Mlle Subligne

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27 April 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Music: As17030419 with an entertainment composed by Keller-

Dance: DuRuel, Mrs Campion

Entertainment: Vaulting. Vault on the manag'd Horse, where he lyes with his Body extended on one Hand in which posture he drinks several Glasses of Wine with the other, and from that throws himself a Sommerset over the Horses Head, to Admiration-Evans lately arrived from Vienna

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May 1703 @ May Fair

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Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Dance: That Variety of Rope/danceing and Tumbling-; as far exceeds all that has ever yet been publickly seen; where the Lady Mary, who has given such great Satisfaction to the highest Nobility of the Kingdom, will outdo whatever she has perform'd before

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18 June 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Music: Entertainment of flute music-Bannister, Bannister's son; A new instrumental piece-the best hands

Dance: The Highland, The Whip of Dunboyne-Claxton

Entertainment: Imitations. The Famous Mr Clynch will for this once, at the desire of several Persons of Quality, perform his Imitation of an Organ with 3 Voices, the Double Curtel, the Bells, the Huntsman with his Horn and Pack of Dogs-Mr Clynch; All which he performs with his Mouth on the open Stage, being what no Man besides himself could ever yet attain to