MS copy of trios, quartets, and sonatas by various composers.
Description:
From the Luttrell Library, but without mark of ownership., Some blanks unscanned., and Volume contains flute or first violin parts to each piece. Composers include Johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht (1715-1786); Hauer; Antonio Filis; Giovanni [Johann Baptist] Vanhal, Misliwecek, called Il Boemo; Guglielmo Kuessner, or Kuesner; and Carlo Francesco Chiabrano (1723-?)
Subject (Name):
Chiabrano, Carlo Francesco, b. 1723, Kleinknecht, Johann Wolfgang, 1715-1786, Myslivecek, Josef, 1737-1781, and Vanhal, Johann Baptist, 1739-1813
Subject (Topic):
Sonatas (Flute and continuo)--Parts, Sonatas (Flute, violin and continuo)--Parts, and String quartets--Parts
A collection of 87 anonymous French love songs and vaudevilles, with an alphabetical index at the back.
Description:
Anonymous MS., Binder's blanks unscanned., Binder's title: Recueil de Vaudevill, Binding: Contemporary French blue morocco, gilt with the arms of Michel Begon on front and back., Bookplate of E. Valdruche., Index starts at p. 305 but is discreetly paginated., and Pages 292-304 blank (but with printed floral borders) and unscanned.
Subject (Name):
Valdruche, Eugene, d. 1913?, provenance
Subject (Topic):
Chansons--18th Century, Songs, French--18th century--Texts, Songs--France--18th century, Vaudeville--France--Early works to 1800, and Vaudevilles--Librettos
"Ich [habe] die Texte ... nicht selbst gesammlet, sondern auf etlichen Bogen beysammen gefunden ... die zu Halle, bey Hemmerde, unter dem Titel: Gebete und Lieder für Kinder, gedruckt eine ... Hr. M. Sturm ... ist der Herausgeber ... auch wohl der Verfasser von einigen." and Numerous errors in binding.
Publisher:
in Commission bey B.C. Breitkopf und Sohn
Subject (Name):
Sturm, Christoph Christian, 1740-1786. Gebete und Lieder für Kinder
13 items at front of volume (with one fragment), 21 written from back. Openings numbered discretely from both ends., Anonymous MS., Copy of tenor parts, evidently by a singer for choir use. Composers include: Daniel Roseingrave (1650-1727); John Blow (1649-1708); Robert Creyghton (1639-1734); Henry Hall ([1655]-1707); Anthony Walkeley (1672-1718); Jeremiah Clarke ([1673]-1707); William Pennycourt; John Jackson (d.1688)., Numerous blanks unscanned., Pagination supplied by cataloger., and With incomplete index.
Subject (Name):
Blow, John, d. 1708, Clarke, Jeremiah, 1669?-1707, Creighton, Robert, ca. 1639-1734, Hall, Henry, ca. 1656-1707, Jackson, John, d. 1688, and Roseingrave, Daniel, d. 1727
Subject (Topic):
Anthems, Morning service music, and Sacred vocal music
Consisting of a collection of musical extracts and verse, mostly French, Italian, Scottish, and English ballads, with a very early version of the British national anthem [ca. 1745] beginning: God save Great George our King.
Description:
40 pages of red ruled blanks at end unscanned., Anonymous MS., and Bookplate of Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, (1763-1827) son of George III.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Kings and rulers --Songs and music
Subject (Name):
Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843, provenance
Subject (Topic):
Anthems, National songs --Great Britain, Songs--Early works to 1800, and Songs--Texts--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
Containing a collection of extracts of church music by various composers. 18th century vocal settings of biblical texts, anthems, and hymns, for solo voices and 4 part chorus in different settings. Most are written to be accompanied by continuo, but few are orchestrated. Contains pieces by Henry Aldrich (1647-1710), Henry Purcell ([1658/9]-1695), Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674), Alessandro Stradella (1642-1682), Pelham Humfrey (1647-1674), Matthew Lock (1621-1677), Charles King (1687-1748), Jeremiah Clarke (1669-1707), and John Weldon (1674-1736), whose anthem Let God Arise is apparently unpublished.
Description:
Anonymous musical MS., Binder's blanks omitted from scanning., and With index.