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'''The Beggar's Opera''', ballad opera composed by John Gay (1685-1732).
'''The Beggar's Opera''', ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay (1685-1732). The lyrics of songs in the ballad opera were set to the airs of popular broadsheet ballads, opera arias, church hymns and folk tunes of the time.


Available online at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/25063
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beggar's_Opera Wikipedia article]
 
 
== Online versions ==
 
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/25063 Gutenberg Project] - all song airs are shown as facsimile of original, but also available as PDF and MIDI files
*[http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/beggar.html Renascence Editions]
*[http://www.bibliomania.com/0/6/2/1088/frameset.html Bibliomania]

Latest revision as of 12:36, 17 April 2008

The Beggar's Opera, ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay (1685-1732). The lyrics of songs in the ballad opera were set to the airs of popular broadsheet ballads, opera arias, church hymns and folk tunes of the time.

Wikipedia article


Online versions