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
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