- Creator:
- Rainstorp, Walter., creator
- Published / Created:
- [late 18th century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn Music MS 12
- Image Count:
- 52
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book]
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- Creator:
- Kusser, Johann Sigmund, 1660-1727
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1690-1720]
- Call Number:
- Osborn Music MS 16
- Image Count:
- 229
- Resource Type:
- Music (Printed & Manuscript)
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Subject (Topic):
- Musicians
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book]