Mark had a query:
'My guess is that the music was
by the Albrici boys who were looking after "The King's Italian Musick"
at the time. Anyone hazard a guess if that is correct?'
Have you got access to a set of 'Highfill'? This is shorthand for 'a
BIographical Dictionary of Act
Hello..
The following from Mr Pepys on Easter Sunday, 7 April 1667:
"...and then to walk in the Parke, and heard the Italian musique at the
Queens chapel, whose composition is fine, but yet the voices of eunuchs
I do not like like our women, nor am more pleased with it at all than
with English
