Holograph. and The Cloud Messenger. Ode for Chorus and Orchestra, founded on a Sanscrit poem of Kalidasa. Words and Music by Holst. Op. 30. First performed by Balfour Gardiner in 1913. A piano score has been published; this orchestral score has not been published. See Imogen Holst, Gustav Holst (London, 1938), pp 37, 41, 173.
Alternative Title:
Cloud messenger
Description:
For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Copyist's MS., Mainly for voice and figured bass, works composed by or for Wesley; William Boyce; Selina Hastings, countess of Huntington (1707-1791); John Milton (1608-1664); George Whitefield (1714-1770); Martin Madan (1726-1790)., and Pages 3, 7-8, 11, 13
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
Opera, with libretto by Philippe Quinault, after Tasso. First performed and published in 1686. and Score, copyist's manuscript with revisions, dated 1702 May 10 at end. Annotated with the inital "L," possibly by Lully, on endpaper.
Description:
Also listed in finding aid for General Collection Manuscript Music Miscellany., Binding: contemporary marbled calf., Blanks not digitized., Jean Baptiste Lully, French composer., Pages 139-147 excised., Pages numbered 1-138, 147-366., and Title from caption.
Subject (Name):
Lully, Jean Baptiste,--1632-1687, Quinault, Philippe, 1635-1688, and Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595 --Musical settings
Autograph copy., Copy of the tenor part in Burney's hand, accompanied by a copy of the quintus part in another hand (48 p.)., Last page blank., and Pagination between parts is non-contiguous.
Subject (Name):
Weelkes, Thomas, ca. 1575-1623
Subject (Topic):
Balletti (Part songs), Madrigals, English--Early works to 1800, and Part songs, English
Includes cello part, Song in Barnaby Brittle., Numerous additions and corrections bound over original parts., Page 6 bound to p. 5 as fold-out., and Page 7 is fold-out to p. 8.
Subject (Name):
O’Keeffe, John, 1747-1833. Poor soldier.
Subject (Topic):
Dramatic music -- England -- 18th century, Incidental music -- England -- 18th century, Opera -- England -- 18th century, Operetta--England, and Theater -- Great Britain -- 18th century
Additional p. 15-16 tipped in between p. 20-21., Additional p. 17 tipped in after p. 23., Blanks unscanned, excluded from pagination., Folder 2 of 2 for Handel choruses., P. blank, unscanned., and Wanting p. 11-14.
Subject (Topic):
Choruses, Dramatic music -- England -- 18th century, Incidental music -- England -- 18th century, and Theater -- Great Britain -- 18th century
Anonymous musical MS., Consisting of a 4 part canon for 2 tenors and 2 bassi, set to the text To Father Son & Holy Ghost All Glory be therefore., and Written in the shape of a square to be read from four sides of the paper.
Anonymous MS copy., Full score, with all the first movement, most of the second, and none of the third. The concerto was written ca. 1720, but not published until ca.1850., and Signed presentation copy from Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) to Ferdinand David (1810-1873), dated 19 January 1841. Some marking my be David's.
Subject (Name):
David, Ferdinand, 1810-1873 and Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847
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
