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)
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
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.
Burrows, John, fl. 1791-1805, creator Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759
Published / Created:
[circa 1791-1805]
Call Number:
Osborn Music MS 27
Image Count:
24
Resource Type:
Music (Printed & Manuscript)
Abstract:
Music book containing manuscript psalm and hymn tunes, songs, and excerpts from oratorios. Contents include excerpts from George Frideric Handel's Messiah and Samson; and Happy Isle of Britain, A Sacred Song of National Thanksgiving and Annual Commemoration of the Great Victory Obtained by Ad. L. Nelson, by W. Mathews, with words by Dr. Hawes.
Description:
Binding: original cardboard wrapper., Fragment of music laid in., Label on inside front cover: John Burrows, his book October 18, 1791., On cover: John Burrows, his book, [March?] 5, 1792., and Words in English.
Subject (Name):
Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805 --Songs and music
Subject (Topic):
Hymns, English --Great Britain, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 --Songs and music, Oratorios --Excerpts, Psalms (Music), and Songs, English --Great Britain
Consisting of the full score of a collection of excerpts including: 1) Quartet V from Op.XVI by Joseph Haydn (1732-1809); 2) Minuet from Quartet I, Op.XVI by Haydn; 3) Affetuoso from Quartet I, Op. XVI by Haydn; 4) Quartet II from Op.XVI by Haydn; 5) Two choruses from Alceste by Christoph Willibald, Ritter von Gluck (1714-1787); Also, four choruses by Latrobe, annotated by him on the title pages.
Description:
Some blank leaves not scanned. and Some individual works paginated, overall MS employs cataloger's foliation.
Subject (Name):
Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787 and Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809
Subject (Topic):
Chorales, Operas--18th century--Excerpts, and String quartets--18th century--Excerpts
Consisting of full scores of original liturgical works for chorus and orchestra, including: 1) Char-Freytag und Grossen-Sabbath, Drey Chore... 2) Cantata zum Gedaechtnis. Des in Barby am 2.ten April 1786. Selig entschlafenen Bruders Johann Christian Friederich von Watteville.
Description:
Binders blanks and several blank leaves unscanned. and Holograph.
Subject (Topic):
Cantatas, Sacred--18th century, Choruses, Sacred--18th century, Memorial music--Europe--18th century, and Sacred vocal music--18th century--Manuscripts
Consisting of words and music of pieces by Georg Friedrich Handel (1685-1759), Maurice Green (1695-1755), Johann Adolph Hasse (1699-1783), etc. Many pieces untitled, identifiable selections are: 1) Song in the Oratorio of Joshua 2) Minuet in the Chaplet 3) March in Ptolemy 4) Minuet in the overture of Alexander's Feast 5) Jack Latten with Variations 6) Tis Liberty dear Liberty 7) Pow'rful guardians of all Nature 8) Let me wander not unseen 9) Haste thee Hymph 10) Sarabande 11) Gavot. 12) Concerto by Sig. Hasse 13) Minuet 14) Song in Judas Maccabeus 15) Song by Dr. Green 16) Sonata 17) In the overture of Sosarmes.
Description:
Autograph MS. and Binding: Contemporary mottled calf, rubbed, with broken spine.
Subject (Name):
Greene, Maurice, 1696-1755, Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759, and Hasse, Johann Adolf, 1699-1783