O ole Zip Coon he is a larned skoler, O zip a duden duden duden zip a duden day, and Turkey in the straw.
Description:
"Also known as Turkey in the straw"--Early Amer. sheet music / Dichter, p. 53., Caption title., For voice and piano., From the collection of Paul Mellon., Title p. illustration: lithograph of well-dressed Afro-American man twirling his spectacles; copyright 1834 by Endicott & Swett., and Verses 2-7 printed on p. [3]
Publisher:
Atwill's Music Saloon,
Subject (Name):
Mellon, Paul--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans--Songs and music., Minstrel music., and Songs with piano.
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
Paer, Ferdinando, 1771-1839, creator Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista, 1710-1736
Published / Created:
n.d
Call Number:
Osborn Music MS 518
Image Count:
15
Resource Type:
Music (Printed & Manuscript)
Alternative Title:
[Fragment: Stabat mater]
Description:
Accompanied by a 4-page fragment of a copyists MS of two 4-voice and one 5-voice chorus from the Stabat Mater by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736). and Copyists MS.
Subject (Topic):
Choruses, Sacred vocal music --Scores, Songs (High voice) with guitar, and Stabat Mater dolorosa (Music)
119 pieces copied by the Duchess of Gloucester, the daughter of George III. Composers include: Thomas Moore (1779-1852), Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari (1763-1842), William Shield (1748-1829), Samuel Arnold (1740-1802), William Lawes (1602-1645), Charles King
Description:
Blank pages not scanned., Holograph MS., and With indexes.
Subject (Name):
Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778, Arnold, Samuel, 1740-1802, Bianchi, F. (Francesco), ca. 1752-1810, Cocchi, Gioacchino, b. ca. 1720, Ferrari, G. G. (Giacomo Gotifredo), 1763-1842, and Handel, George Fri
Subject (Topic):
Glees, catches, rounds, etc.--19th century, Songs--England, Songs--Italy, Vocal duets--19th century, and Vocal trios
119 pieces copied by the Duchess of Gloucester, the daughter of George III. Composers include: Thomas Moore (1779-1852), Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari (1763-1842), William Shield (1748-1829), Samuel Arnold (1740-1802), William Lawes (1602-1645), Charles King (1687-1748), William Hayes (1705-1777), Henry Harington (1727-1816), George Friedric Handel (1685-1759), Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816), Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778), Francesco Bianchi (1752-1810), Giocchino Cocchi ([1715]-1804), Pietro Antonio Domenico Buonaventura Metastasio (1698-1782).
Description:
Holograph MS. and With indexes.
Subject (Name):
Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778, Arnold, Samuel, 1740-1802, Bianchi, F. (Francesco), ca. 1752-1810, Cocchi, Gioacchino, b. ca. 1720, Ferrari, G. G. (Giacomo Gotifredo), 1763-1842, Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759, Harrington, Henry, 1727-1816, Hayes, William, 1708-1777, King, Charles, 1687-1748, Lawes, William, 1602-1645, Metastasio, Pietro, 1698-1782, Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Paisiello, Giovanni, 1740-1816, and Shield, William, 1748-1829
Subject (Topic):
Glees, catches, rounds, etc.--19th century, Songs--England, Songs--Italy, Vocal duets--19th century, and Vocal trios
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
Norfolk, Lady Charlotte Sophia (Leveson-Gower) Howard, duchess of, 1788-1870, creator
Published / Created:
[?1811-1823]
Call Number:
Osborn Music MS 20
Image Count:
271
Resource Type:
Music (Printed & Manuscript)
Abstract:
166 pieces copied by the Duchess of Norfolk (formerly Countess of Surrey), in five languages. Pages 73 and 75 are the index and title page of an earlier copybook, dated 1811, bound together with the rest. Writers and composers copied include: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), John Gay (1685-1732), Giuseppe Marco Maria Blangini (1781-1841), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), David Perez (1711-[1779]), Giuseppe Millico (1739-1802), Samuel Arnold (1740-1802), Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778), Martin Pierre D'Alvimare (1772-1839), Chas. Henri Plantade (1764-1839), George Friedrich Handel (1685-1759), and Anselm Faidit.
Description:
Holograph.
Subject (Name):
Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778, Arnold, Samuel, 1740-1802, Blangini, Felice, 1781-1841, Dalvimare, Martin Pierre, 1772-1839, Gaucelm Faidit, fl. 1156-1209, Gay, John, 1685-1732, Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759, Millico, Giuseppe, 1739-1802, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791, Perez, David, 1711-1778, Plantade, Charles Henri, 1764-1839, and Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
Subject (Topic):
Piano music--19th century and Songs --19th century
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.