Genre Categories | Elegies; Funeral music; For voice, keyboard; |
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Work Title | Gray's Elegy |
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Alternative. Title | An Elegy written in a country church yard |
Composer | Billington, Thomas |
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. | Op.8 |
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | ITB 2 |
Text Incipit | The curfew tolls the knell of parting day |
Librettist | Thomas Gray (1716–1771) |
Language | English |
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Classical |
Piece Style | Classical |
Instrumentation | voice, keyboard (or harp); 3 voices |