Musical commonplace book consisting of words and music to songs, the only identifiable is A Dialogue between Corridon & Mopsa in ye Fairy Queen, by Henry Purcell.
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
Armorial bookplate of Augustus Russell Street. Bookplate: Ex libris Francisci Dominici Bertram, pharmacopolae nemausnesis. Imperfect: Vol. 20 wanting., By A. F. Prévost, continued by A. G. Meusnier de Querlon, A. Deleyre and J. P. Rousselot de Surgy., and Title in red and black.
Publisher:
Didot, [etc., etc.],
Subject (Name):
Astley, Thomas., Bertram, Francis Dominick--Bookplate., Deleyre, Alexandre, b. 1726., Green, John, -1757., Meusnier de Querlon, A.-G. (Anne-Gabriel), 1702-1780., Rousselot de Surgy, Jacques-Philibert, b. 1737., Street, Augustus Russell--Bookplate., Tachard, Guy, 1651-1712 Second voyage de Tachard aux Indes Orientales., and Tachard, Guy, 1651-1712 Voyage de Gui Tachard a Siam.
One of only two surviving texts., Scored for trumpet, strings, and lute continuo, with five soloists and a 3-part women's chorus. 39 numbers in all. Unpublished., and Scribal MS.
Apparently transcribed from the printed work which was published in Benevento in 1696 (one copy recorded by Eitner, who records also a MS copy). The work is a theoretical and practical introduction to Gregorian Chant. The first part uses for demonstration the hymns of the Church,and the second gives examples of chant in choral notation.
Description:
Binder's blanks at end unscanned. and Contemporary copy MS.
Subject (Topic):
Gregorian chants--Instruction and study--Early works to 1800
Compositions in 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 parts. Composers include: Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778), John Bennet, Thomas Bateson ([1570]-1630), Giovanni Croce ([1557]-1609), John Dowland (1563-1626), Michael East ([1580]-1648), Thomas Ford ([1580]-1648), John Farmer, Alfonso Ferrabosco (1543-1588), Andrea Feliciane, Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625), Henry Harington (1727-1816), Simon Ives (1600-1662), George Kirbye (d. 1634), Roland de Lassus (1532-1594), Luca Marenzio (1553-1599), Thomas Morley (1557-[1603]), Beniamino Palavincino, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594), Henry Purcell ([1658]-1695), Ludovico Grossi Viadana ([1564]-1645), Tomas Luis de Victoria ([1548]-1611), Stefano Venturi del Nibbio, Thomas Weelkes (d. 1623), and John Wilbye (1574-1638).
Description:
3 blank leaves at end unscanned., Binder's title: Madrigals and canons, &c., Miscellaneo[us], Bookplate of Warren-Horne., Musical MS copied and signed by Warren-Horne., Pagination skips p. 65-66., and With index.
Subject (Name):
Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778, Bateson, Thomas, Bennet, John, fl. 1599-1614, Croce, Giovanni, ca. 1557-1609, Dowland, John, 1563?-1626, East, Michael, ca. 1580-1648, Farmer, John, fl. 1591-1601, Feliciani, Andrea, d. 1596, Ferrabosco, Alfonso, 1543-1588, Ford, Thomas, d. 1648, Gibbons, Orlando, 1583-1625, Harington, Henry, 1727-1816, Ives, Simon, 1600-1662, Kirbye, George, ca. 1565-1634, Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594, Marenzio, Luca, 1553-1599, Morley, Thomas, 1557-1603?, Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da, 1525?-1594, Pallavicino, Benedetto, ca. 1551-1601, Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695, Venturi del Nibbio, Stefano (fl. 1592 - 1600), Viadana, Lodovico da, ca. 1560-1627, Victoria, Toma´s Luis de, ca. 1548-1611, Weelkes, Thomas, ca. 1575-1623, and Wilbye, John, 1574-1638
Subject (Topic):
Canons, fugues, etc. (Voices (4)), Madrigals--Early works to 1800, and Songs