Additional p. 15-16 tipped in between p. 20-21., Additional p. 17 tipped in after p. 23., Blanks unscanned, excluded from pagination., Folder 2 of 2 for Handel choruses., P. blank, unscanned., and Wanting p. 11-14.
Subject (Topic):
Choruses, Dramatic music -- England -- 18th century, Incidental music -- England -- 18th century, and Theater -- Great Britain -- 18th century
Anonymous musical MS., Consisting of a 4 part canon for 2 tenors and 2 bassi, set to the text To Father Son & Holy Ghost All Glory be therefore., and Written in the shape of a square to be read from four sides of the paper.
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
Copyist's MS., Modern binder's blanks unscanned., Modern binding, in case with original boards., and Original boards scanned rather than current binding.
Subject (Name):
Bever, Thomas, 1725-1791, provenance and Boyce, William, 1711-1779, provenance
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