Holograph. and The Cloud Messenger. Ode for Chorus and Orchestra, founded on a Sanscrit poem of Kalidasa. Words and Music by Holst. Op. 30. First performed by Balfour Gardiner in 1913. A piano score has been published; this orchestral score has not been published. See Imogen Holst, Gustav Holst (London, 1938), pp 37, 41, 173.
Alternative Title:
Cloud messenger
Description:
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Copyist's MS., Mainly for voice and figured bass, works composed by or for Wesley; William Boyce; Selina Hastings, countess of Huntington (1707-1791); John Milton (1608-1664); George Whitefield (1714-1770); Martin Madan (1726-1790)., and Pages 3, 7-8, 11, 13
Benserade, Isaac de, 1613-1691 Lully, Jean Baptiste, 1632-1687 Moliere, 1622-1673
Published / Created:
[16--]
Call Number:
GEN MSS MUSIC MISC VOLUME 18
Collection Title:
General Collection manuscript music miscellany
Container / Volume:
Volume 18
Image Count:
312
Resource Type:
Music (Printed & Manuscript)
Abstract:
Autograph manuscript by a contemporary copyist, consisting of music for a treble instrument, possibly a dessus part, from music composed by Lully for various ballets, including ballets and comédies-ballets composed in collaboration with Isaac de Benserade and Molière. A table of contents written by a former owner is laid in.
Alternative Title:
[Ballets. Selections], Alcidiane., Amour malade., Amour médécin., Amours déguisés., Arts., Ballet de Créquy., Bourgeois gentilhomme., Carnaval., Feste de Versailles., Flore., Gardes., George Dadin., Hercule amoureux., Impatience., Jeux pythiens., Mariage forcé., Mascarade de Versailles., Monsieur de Pourceaugnac., Muses., Naissance de Vénus., Noces de village., Princesse d'Elide., Raillerie., Saisons., and Xerxes.
Description:
Also listed in finding aid for General Collection Manuscript Music Miscellany., Binder's title: Anciens ballets dessus., Blanks not digitized., Bound in calf with gilt spine, French ca. 1700; unidentified arms on front and back covers., and Spine title: Anciens ballets dessus.
Subject (Name):
Pforzheimer, Walter L., (Walter Lionel), 1914-2003 --Bookplate
Autograph copy., Copy of the tenor part in Burney's hand, accompanied by a copy of the quintus part in another hand (48 p.)., Last page blank., and Pagination between parts is non-contiguous.
Subject (Name):
Weelkes, Thomas, ca. 1575-1623
Subject (Topic):
Balletti (Part songs), Madrigals, English--Early works to 1800, and Part songs, English
Anonymous MS copy., Full score, with all the first movement, most of the second, and none of the third. The concerto was written ca. 1720, but not published until ca.1850., and Signed presentation copy from Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) to Ferdinand David (1810-1873), dated 19 January 1841. Some marking my be David's.
Subject (Name):
David, Ferdinand, 1810-1873 and Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847
Manuscript music copied by Burney, possibly for use in his General History of Music. Music includes madrigals by Gioseffo Zarlino, Ruggiero Giovannelli, Alfonso Ferrabosco, and Luca Marenzio; motets by Johannes Lupi, and songs by John Dowland and Henry Lawes. An index written in an unidentified hand is laid in.
Description:
Binding: 19th century marbled boards., Blanks not scanned., Label on cover: A collections [sic] of Italian mss in the handwriting of Dr. Burney, many of which he introduced in his history of music., Label on spine: Madrigals, &c., 1567, &c., Page [1]: stamped signature of Charles Hackett., and Words in Italian, Latin, and English.
Subject (Name):
Burney, Charles, 1726-1814, Dowland, John, 1563?-1626, Ferrabosco, Alfonso, 1543-1588, Giovannelli, Ruggiero, ca. 1560-1625, Lawes, Henry, 1596-1662, Lupi, Johannes, d. 1539, Marenzio, Luca, 1553-1599, and Zarlino, Gioseffo, 1517-1590
Subject (Topic):
Music -- History and criticism -- Early works to 1800, Vocal music -- 16th century, and Vocal music -- 17th century
Manuscript, on paper, of music copied by Gostling, consisting of 26 anthems by John Blow, Pelham Humfrey, Henry Purcell, and William Turner, and one chant by Purcell. Laid in is an additional version of the tune for Turner's O Praise the Lord. Some anthems include corrections, performance instructions, or dates of composition.
Description:
Annotation in an unidentified hand: Lot 16 S. Ja. 26 [corrected to 31] /49., Binding: contemporary full calf, worn., Ex libris William Gostling. Purchased from J. & J. Lubrano on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2006., Index of titles by Gostling on inside front cover; index and other notes of a former owner are laid in., John Gostling, English cathedral bass singer and music copyist., and Pages numbered 1-[186]; page numbers 102 and 107 are repeated.
Subject (Name):
Blow, John, -1708., Blow, John, -1708. I will hearken., Blow, John, -1708. Lord is my shepherd., Blow, John,---1708., Gostling, John,--ca. 1650-1733., Gostling, William,--1696-1777--Bookplate., Humfrey, Pelham, 1647-1674., Humfrey, Pelham, 1647-1674. By the waters of Babylon., Humfrey, Pelham, 1647-1674. I will always give thanks., Humfrey, Pelham,--1647-1674., Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695., Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. My beloved spake., Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Why do the heathen so furiously rage?, Purcell, Henry,--1659-1695., Turner, William, 1651-1740., and Turner, William,--1651-1740.
Musical commonplace book consisting of words and music to songs, the only identifiable is A Dialogue between Corridon & Mopsa in ye Fairy Queen, by Henry Purcell.
Description:
Holograph MS.
Subject (Name):
Akeroyde, Samuel, ca. 1650-ca. 1706, Courteville, Raphael, fl. 1687-ca. 1735, Draghi, Giovanni Battista, ca. 1640-1708, Dryden, John, 1631-1700, Gibbons, Orlando, 1583-1625, and Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695
One of only two surviving texts., Scored for trumpet, strings, and lute continuo, with five soloists and a 3-part women's chorus. 39 numbers in all. Unpublished., and Scribal MS.