Known as the Braye Lutebook, after Adrian Verney-Cave, 6th Baron Braye, (1874-1952), the volume consists of a collection of lute music, by, or in the style of, John Dowland ([1563] - [1626]). A number of dances such as pavans, galliards, a saltcell, and the Antike, also the only contemporary source for Benedick�s song in the last act of Much Ado about Nothing.
Description:
Accompanied by transcription of verses, and some cookery recipes.
Subject (Topic):
Lute music--16th century, Recipes--Early works to 1800, and Songs--16th century
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.
Anonymous MS., Musical commonplace book: MS in two or three hands, Includes exercises, melodies without words, and unidentified songs, as well as two songs by Henry Purcell (1659-1695), an air by George Friedric Handel (1685-1759), and a song by W. Senhouse., and Several binder's blanks unscanned.
Subject (Name):
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759 and Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695
Subject (Topic):
Hymns, English -- Great Britain, Music--Instruction and study--England--Early works to 1800, Oratorios -- Excerpts, and Songs, English -- Great Britain