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Technical Notice
| Classical Composer: | Boyce, William |
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| Work: | Symphony No. 3 in C Major, Op. 2, "The Chaplet" |
| Year Composed: | 1760 |
| Instrumentation: | 0 2 0 1 - 0 0 0 0 - str - cont |
| Publishers: |
Universal Edition Schott Music John Walsh |
| Duration: | 00:05:00 |
| Period: | Baroque (1600-1750) |
| Work Category: | Orchestral |
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The third of the set, the Symphony No. 3 in C major, opens in more formal baroque style. It was originally the overture to The Chaplet, a two-act afterpiece first mounted at Drury Lane on 2nd December 1749. This was commissioned by David Garrick, with a libretto by Moses Mendez, a well-to-do Jewish stockbroker whose Portuguese grandfather had come to London as a doctor in the service of Queen Catherine of Braganza. The Chaplet is a pastoral piece, in which two shepherdesses, the innocent Laura and the more worldly wise Pastora vie for the attentions of the shepherd Damon. Like Richardson's Pamela, Laura refuses to grant her favours without marriage, a fate to which Damon finally succumbs, leaving Pastora to make what she can of the young treble Palaemon, already known to her, as it transpires. Attention has been drawn to the composer's use of the bassoon, in the tenor register doubling the violin melody in the A minor second movement, an effect Boyce uses elsewhere.
Writer: Keith Anderson
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