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.
Collection includes songs, with simple piano accompaniments, by Samuel Arnold (1740-1802); William Reeve (1757-1815); Thomas Simpson Cooke (1782-1848); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791); Thomas Moore (1779-1852); Samuel Chapple (1775-1853); John Davy (1763-1824); John Andrew Stevenson (1761-1833); John Braham (1774-1856); John Percy (1749-1797); Joseph Mazhinghi (1765-1844); Michael Kelly (1762-1826); William Thomas Parke (1762-1847); William Shield (1748-1829); James Hook (1746-1827); Georg Joseph Vogler (1749-1814); and Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)., Holograph., and With index.
Subject (Name):
Arnold, Samuel, 1740-1802, Braham, John, 1774-1856, Chapple, Samuel, 1775-1833, Cooke, T. (Thomas), 1782-1848, Davy, John, 1763-1824, Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809, Hook, Mr. (James), 1746-1827, Kelly, Michael, 1762-1826, Mazzinghi, Joseph, 1765-1844, Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791, Parke, William Thomas, 1762-1847, Percy, John, 1749-1797, Reeve, William, 1757-1815, Shield, William, 1748-1829, Stevenson, John, 1761-1833, and Vogler, Georg Joseph, 1749-1814