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
24 leaves excised between p. 40-41., Holograph MS signed., MS continues from back after p. 40., Pages 84-87 blank, unscanned., and Pagination is contiguous from the front.
Consisting of a collection of canons, catches, canzonets, and glees for 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices. 75 pieces, of which approximately 50 are signed and dated by Hayes. Some are poems set to music (by Hayes?) -- writers include: Samuel Westley [sic], Mr. Shenstone, Robert Herrick, Edmund Spenser, Philip Griffin, John Gay, Alexander Pope, and Robert Dodsley.
Description:
Although noted in contents on pastedown, p. 5-8 wanting., Bookplate of Sir Walter Parratt (1841-1924)., Holograph MS., and There is an index of titles on the front endpaper.
Accompanied by original folder., Arranged for band by John Collier.
, Manuscript parts in the hand of an unidentified copyist, on paper watermarked 1807-1812.
, and Parts: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 6 clarinets, 3 bassoons, serpent, 3 horns, 3 trumpets, trombone, timpani.
Subject (Name):
Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851 and Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791. Le nozze di Figaro. Ouverture; arr
Score, manuscript, with dedication signed and dated at Brest, 1805 22 frimaire (December 13).
Alternative Title:
Sonate pour le piano avec accompagnement de violon / composee et dediee a Mademoiselle Roullet par J. F. St. Amans
Description:
Also listed in finding aid for General Collection Manuscript Music Miscellany., Louis Saint-Amans, French composer., and Pages numbered 67-76 (rectos) and 1-13 (versos).
Subject (Name):
Saint-Amans, Louis, 1749-1820
Subject (Topic):
Music --19th century and Sonatas (Violin and piano)--Scores
Anonymous MS., Musical commonplace book: MS in two or three hands, Includes exercises, melodies without words, and unidentified songs, as well as two songs by Henry Purcell (1659-1695), an air by George Friedric Handel (1685-1759), and a song by W. Senhouse., and Several binder's blanks unscanned.
Subject (Name):
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759 and Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695
Subject (Topic):
Hymns, English -- Great Britain, Music--Instruction and study--England--Early works to 1800, Oratorios -- Excerpts, and Songs, English -- Great Britain
Collection includes songs, with simple piano accompaniments, by Samuel Arnold (1740-1802); William Reeve (1757-1815); Thomas Simpson Cooke (1782-1848); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791); Thomas Moore (1779-1852); Samuel Chapple (1775-1853); John Davy (1763-1824); John Andrew Stevenson (1761-1833); John Braham (1774-1856); John Percy (1749-1797); Joseph Mazhinghi (1765-1844); Michael Kelly (1762-1826); William Thomas Parke (1762-1847); William Shield (1748-1829); James Hook (1746-1827); Georg Joseph Vogler (1749-1814); and Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)., Holograph., and With index.
Subject (Name):
Arnold, Samuel, 1740-1802, Braham, John, 1774-1856, Chapple, Samuel, 1775-1833, Cooke, T. (Thomas), 1782-1848, Davy, John, 1763-1824, Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809, Hook, Mr. (James), 1746-1827, Kelly, Michael, 1762-1826, Mazzinghi, Joseph, 1765-1844, Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791, Parke, William Thomas, 1762-1847, Percy, John, 1749-1797, Reeve, William, 1757-1815, Shield, William, 1748-1829, Stevenson, John, 1761-1833, and Vogler, Georg Joseph, 1749-1814