A collection of 80 dances, with a description of steps and tunes.
Description:
34 blank leaves at end unscanned., Contents organized by numbered openings, not paginated or foliated., and Holograph MS.
Subject (Topic):
Dance music--England--18th century, Dance--England--Early works to 1800, Dance--History--18th century--Handbooks, manuals, etc., Dance--Study and teaching--Great Britain--Early works to 1800, and Fiddle tunes--England--Early works to 1800
In several languages, chiefly containing musical material. Contents include: recipes and remedies, poems, an alphabetical list of the people known to Kusser, lists of various kinds of music, lists of tunings of various instruments, instructions for the preparation of a copper plate for engraving, 2 puzzle-counterpoints devised by Kusser, songs, a short treatise on the enharmonic scale, a tabulation of drum rhythms, a treatise on flute-playing, a long treatise on counterpoint, systems for bringing a spinet into equal temperament, notes on the cost of putting on a concert in Dublin, the registration of the organ at Trinity College, Dublin, and a list of 33 directions ""What a virtuoso who comes to London should observe.""
Description:
Holograph. Composed in England and the continent. last page, p. 448, adhered to back pastedown. Text on back pastedown illegible.
Collection of poems, songs, epitaphs, epigrams and riddles, partly original and partly by friends and other writers; some of the verses carry dates of composition as early as 1713, and many were written during visits to Tunbridge Wells, England.
Collection of poems, songs, epitaphs, epigrams and riddles, partly original and partly by friends and other writers; some of the verses carry dates of composition as early as 1713, and many were written during visits to Tunbridge Wells, England. and Includes titles: XVII Accrostick on Miss Frances Jeffreys - Bath 1736, XVIII wrote when Queen Caroline was appointed regent, See Gulliver's Travels, CCXXIII a true account of a monster call'd a yahoo, CCXXIV answer, CCXXXII to Dean Swift, occasion'd by the following lines in his satire on Doctor D.
Consisting of full scores of original liturgical works for chorus and orchestra, including: 1) Char-Freytag und Grossen-Sabbath, Drey Chore... 2) Cantata zum Gedaechtnis. Des in Barby am 2.ten April 1786. Selig entschlafenen Bruders Johann Christian Friederich von Watteville.
Description:
Binders blanks and several blank leaves unscanned. and Holograph.
Subject (Topic):
Cantatas, Sacred--18th century, Choruses, Sacred--18th century, Memorial music--Europe--18th century, and Sacred vocal music--18th century--Manuscripts
Consisting of words and music of pieces by Georg Friedrich Handel (1685-1759), Maurice Green (1695-1755), Johann Adolph Hasse (1699-1783), etc. Many pieces untitled, identifiable selections are: 1) Song in the Oratorio of Joshua 2) Minuet in the Chaplet 3) March in Ptolemy 4) Minuet in the overture of Alexander's Feast 5) Jack Latten with Variations 6) Tis Liberty dear Liberty 7) Pow'rful guardians of all Nature 8) Let me wander not unseen 9) Haste thee Hymph 10) Sarabande 11) Gavot. 12) Concerto by Sig. Hasse 13) Minuet 14) Song in Judas Maccabeus 15) Song by Dr. Green 16) Sonata 17) In the overture of Sosarmes.
Description:
Autograph MS. and Binding: Contemporary mottled calf, rubbed, with broken spine.
Subject (Name):
Greene, Maurice, 1696-1755, Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759, and Hasse, Johann Adolf, 1699-1783
Consisting of a collection of canons, catches, canzonets, and glees for 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices. 75 pieces, of which approximately 50 are signed and dated by Hayes. Some are poems set to music (by Hayes?) -- writers include: Samuel Westley [sic], Mr. Shenstone, Robert Herrick, Edmund Spenser, Philip Griffin, John Gay, Alexander Pope, and Robert Dodsley.
Description:
Although noted in contents on pastedown, p. 5-8 wanting., Bookplate of Sir Walter Parratt (1841-1924)., Holograph MS., and There is an index of titles on the front endpaper.