- Creator:
- Rainstorp, Walter., creator
- Published / Created:
- [late 18th century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn Music MS 12
- Image Count:
- 52
- Abstract:
- A collection of 80 dances, with a description of steps and tunes.
- Description:
- 34 blank leaves at end unscanned., Contents organized by numbered openings, not paginated or foliated., and Holograph MS.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dance music--England--18th century, Dance--England--Early works to 1800, Dance--History--18th century--Handbooks, manuals, etc., Dance--Study and teaching--Great Britain--Early works to 1800, and Fiddle tunes--England--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book]
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- Creator:
- Kusser, Johann Sigmund, 1660-1727
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1690-1720]
- Call Number:
- Osborn Music MS 16
- Image Count:
- 229
- Resource Type:
- Music (Printed & Manuscript)
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Subject (Topic):
- Musicians
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book]
- Creator:
- Jones, Elizabeth., creator
- Published / Created:
- 1765
- Call Number:
- Osborn Music MS 6
- Image Count:
- 99
- Resource Type:
- Music (Printed & Manuscript)
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Musical commonplace book]
- Creator:
- Segar, Elizabeth., creator
- Published / Created:
- 1692
- Call Number:
- Osborn Music MS 9
- Image Count:
- 23
- Resource Type:
- Music (Printed & Manuscript)
- Abstract:
- Musical commonplace book consisting of
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Her booke [Musical commonplace book]