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Thread #154520   Message #3626110
Posted By: treewind
14-May-14 - 04:52 PM
Thread Name: Beggar's Opera (John Gay)
Subject: RE: Beggar's Opera (John Gay)
Are there any actual Handel tunes in it?
It was written as a reaction against Handel's lavish opera productions featuring outrageously expensive Italian soloists, and contains occasional parodies of Handelian "Italian opera" style - but does it use any of his actual melodies?

At least one song from the opera, Cease your Funning reappears as the morris tune Constant Billy.