Close score at top, additional words in the middle, with flute part at bottom., Same opening line as ESTC (RLIN) N6808., and Song within range of high, medium, and low voice.
Holograph., Imperfect: Boards loose., and Musical notation for treble, tenor, bass, and psalterer opposite each psalm. Also contains Directions for Tuning and Playing the Psalterer.
Subject (Topic):
Hymn tunes--Great Britain, Musical instruments--Instruction and study--Great Britain --18th century, Psalms (Music)--Early works to 1800, and Tune-books--Early works to 1800
Benserade, Isaac de, 1613-1691 Lully, Jean Baptiste, 1632-1687 Moliere, 1622-1673
Published / Created:
[16--]
Call Number:
GEN MSS MUSIC MISC VOLUME 18
Collection Title:
General Collection manuscript music miscellany
Container / Volume:
Volume 18
Image Count:
312
Resource Type:
Music (Printed & Manuscript)
Abstract:
Autograph manuscript by a contemporary copyist, consisting of music for a treble instrument, possibly a dessus part, from music composed by Lully for various ballets, including ballets and comédies-ballets composed in collaboration with Isaac de Benserade and Molière. A table of contents written by a former owner is laid in.
Alternative Title:
[Ballets. Selections], Alcidiane., Amour malade., Amour médécin., Amours déguisés., Arts., Ballet de Créquy., Bourgeois gentilhomme., Carnaval., Feste de Versailles., Flore., Gardes., George Dadin., Hercule amoureux., Impatience., Jeux pythiens., Mariage forcé., Mascarade de Versailles., Monsieur de Pourceaugnac., Muses., Naissance de Vénus., Noces de village., Princesse d'Elide., Raillerie., Saisons., and Xerxes.
Description:
Also listed in finding aid for General Collection Manuscript Music Miscellany., Binder's title: Anciens ballets dessus., Blanks not digitized., Bound in calf with gilt spine, French ca. 1700; unidentified arms on front and back covers., and Spine title: Anciens ballets dessus.
Subject (Name):
Pforzheimer, Walter L., (Walter Lionel), 1914-2003 --Bookplate
Kerckhoven, Abraham van den, ca. 1618-1701 Liberti, Henricus, ca. 1600-1669 Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon, 1562-1621
Published / Created:
[circa 1650s]
Call Number:
Osborn Music MS 533
Image Count:
166
Resource Type:
Music (Printed & Manuscript)
Description:
Anglo-Flemish organ music, written in manuscript on paper, in several unidentified hands, known as the Novello Organ Book. The manuscript contains over one hundred works, including organ masses and other Roman Catholic liturgical music, possibly used by English recusants in the Low Countries. Also present are preludes and fugues, variations, fantasias, and other secular music. Composers include Abraham van den Kerckhoven, Henricus Liberti, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, and Jacobus de Cherf. A few works are dated 1651., Annotations in English, French, Latin, and Flemish., Binding: vellum boards, rebacked., Cover: Presented to the library of the Musical Antiquarian Society by Vincent Novello, April 1844., Formerly owned by John Watts, Vincent Novello, the Musical Antiquarian Society, Camille Saint-Saens, Eugene Gigout, and Leon Boellmann., Inside front cover: Vincent Novello...kindly presented to me by my old friend John Watts, Feby 19, 1841., p. 105 tipped in., Pages [330-364] blank, unscanned., Pages 90-99 omitted from pagination, numerous errors., Preliminary page: signatures of Camille Saint-Saens and Eugene Gigout., and Title from cover.
Subject (Name):
Kerckhoven, Abraham van den, ca. 1618-1701, Liberti, Henricus, ca. 1600-1669, Saint-Saens, Camille, 1835-1921, provenance, and Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon, 1562-1621
Subject (Topic):
Catholics -- England -- 17th century, Organ music -- 17th century, and Organ music -- Netherlands -- 17th century
MS, mostly holograph. and Note: 35 Cantatas for one voice with continuo, numbers 1-5, 7-10, 14-27, 29,and 32-35 are in the composers hand and are signed and dated by him.
Includes music (for 1-5 voices with accompaniment for various instruments).
Description:
Contents: Von Jacobs doppelter Heyrath -- Von dem neapolitanischen Rebellen Masaniello -- Parodie eines neuen Peter Squenzes von lautern Absurdis comicis [Von Tobias und der Schwalbe].
Publisher:
In Verlegung Johann Christoph Miethens : Druckts Michael Hartmann
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
Manuscript, on paper, of music copied by Gostling, consisting of 26 anthems by John Blow, Pelham Humfrey, Henry Purcell, and William Turner, and one chant by Purcell. Laid in is an additional version of the tune for Turner's O Praise the Lord. Some anthems include corrections, performance instructions, or dates of composition.
Description:
Annotation in an unidentified hand: Lot 16 S. Ja. 26 [corrected to 31] /49., Binding: contemporary full calf, worn., Ex libris William Gostling. Purchased from J. & J. Lubrano on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2006., Index of titles by Gostling on inside front cover; index and other notes of a former owner are laid in., John Gostling, English cathedral bass singer and music copyist., and Pages numbered 1-[186]; page numbers 102 and 107 are repeated.
Subject (Name):
Blow, John, -1708., Blow, John, -1708. I will hearken., Blow, John, -1708. Lord is my shepherd., Blow, John,---1708., Gostling, John,--ca. 1650-1733., Gostling, William,--1696-1777--Bookplate., Humfrey, Pelham, 1647-1674., Humfrey, Pelham, 1647-1674. By the waters of Babylon., Humfrey, Pelham, 1647-1674. I will always give thanks., Humfrey, Pelham,--1647-1674., Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695., Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. My beloved spake., Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Why do the heathen so furiously rage?, Purcell, Henry,--1659-1695., Turner, William, 1651-1740., and Turner, William,--1651-1740.