Sacchini, Antonio (1730-1786)
Artaserse, Opera (1768)
Aria "Mentre il cor conmeste voci"
Soprano, fagotto obigato, clarini, strings
Soro Academi Biblioteket, Soro, Denmark, shelf R149, RISM 150201353
The same work, set for tenor rather than soprano, appears as a liturgical work,
with the middle 2/4 section omitted:
Aria in C a Tenore et Fagotto solo, violini, alto viola, clarini et basso
“Exsurgat deus, disipentur inimici ejus et
fugiant qui oderunt eum, a facie ejus” (Psalm 67, verse 2)
(Let God arise and let his enemies be scattered)
The original of this version, marked Archivium Musicum Strahov, cannot be located.
Copies from the Voxman collection at Univ. Iowa are barely legible.
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/music/voxmanarchive.html
A provisional score and computer-generated mp3 file are on-line.
I am grateful to Vaughan McAlley for preparing this version of the aria.
Lucio Vero, Opera (1764)
Aria “Mio bene adorato”
Tenor, oboe solo, fagotto solo, two *voce umane, strings con sordini.
RISM 451.018.867
D-MÜs Santini Sammlung, Münster, Germany Shelf No; SANT Hs 3483a (Nr 2)
*Between the two violin staves and the viola stave there are two parts for "voce umane"
notated in bass clef, often used in thirds in unison with violins in tutti passages, with
some solo passages and figure work alternating with oboe and bassoon.
Tenor or alto oboes were probably the intended instruments.
Another version of this aria, Mus.Hs.1073 Mus (Nr.9) in the Österreichische
Nationalbibliothek Wien lists the instrumentation:
2 Violini, 2 Corno Inglese, Oboe Solo. Fagotto Solo. Viola e Basso