Anonymous MS. and Music scored for piano, with orchestral instrumentation indicated. Many directions in MS for the different dances, such as the Lancers, Quadrilles, Pantalon, etc. Two dance figures are written in French. 23 blank pages at end unscanned.
Subject (Topic):
Dance music--England--19th century, Dance--England, Dance--History--19th century--Handbooks, manuals, etc., Dance--Study and teaching--Great Britain, and Fiddle tunes--England
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.
Copyist's manuscript consisting of 22 chamber duets by Steffani.
Alternative Title:
Libro di duetti dello Stefani dell’ Illmo. Sigre. Alfonso Marsili
Description:
Agostino Steffani, Italian composer, especially known for his chamber duets for two voices and continuo., Also listed in finding aid for General Collection Manuscript Music Miscellany., Binding: contemporary parchment., and Blanks not scanned.
Subject (Name):
Marsili, Alfonso and Steffani, Agostino,--1654-1728
Hanover royal music archive, 1651-1951 (bulk circa 1770-1870)
Container / Volume:
Folder 944
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Volume contains songs, arias, and keyboard and other instrumental music in various hands, including by Princess Augusta (initialled, Windsor December 1st 1787); an early version of Yankee Doodle; by Weidemann and Vinci; two sets of six minuets, possibly in the hand of Frederick Nicolay (For Her Majesty’s Birth Day, 1788); and sketch possibly in the hand of Charles Frederick Horn.
Alternative Title:
Yankee Doodle
Subject (Topic):
Songs--Great Britain--Early works to 1800 and Yankee Doodle (Song)
Manuscripts in the Albi Rosenthal collection of Monteverdi and the birth of opera, 1579-1966
Container / Volume:
Folder 3
Image Count:
17
Resource Type:
Music (Printed & Manuscript)
Abstract:
Contains three musical dialogues (duets) and a madrigal for solo voice and continuo.
Description:
Blanks not scanned., Cover has arms of Marcantonio [Borghese], 1st Prince of Sulmona, 1616-1658., Faint contemporary signature in pencil on flyleaf verso: Armando[?] R[?], and Holograph MS, signed
Subject (Geographic):
Sulmona (Italy) --History
Subject (Name):
Borghese, Marcantonio --dedication
Subject (Topic):
Canzonets (Part songs), Italian, Madrigals, Italian --17th century, Music --17th century, Opera --Italy --17th century, Songs (High voice) --Scores, Songs (Medium voice) --Scores, and Songs, Italian
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