- Creator:
- Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
- Call Number:
- Quarto 532 MS
- Container / Volume:
- v.8
- Image Count:
- 347
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscripts, in Thomas Gray's hand and others', of musical transcriptions in score, primarily selections from operas heard in Italy and London. On the outside of each volume is written the names of the composers whose works it contains. Inside each front cover is an index of the volume's contents, in Gray's hand, including names of characters and performers. Some of the volumes contain music and words also copied in his hand; he also makes annotations throughout the volumes, noting the schools of the composers and the names of the operas and other compositions from which these selections have been made, Vol. 1 contains 25 arias by Johann Adolf Hasse, from the operas Allessandro nell'Indie; La clemenza di Tito; Demetrio; Issipile; Artaserse; and Siroe re di Persia. On the cover is written: "Arie del Sig: r / G: Adolfo Hasse / detto / Il Sasone. / Firenze. / 1740"., Vol. 2 contains 24 pieces for voice and strings by Hasse, including arias, duets, and a trio, excerpted from the operas Catone; Issipile; Siroe; Tito; and Artaserse. Written on spine: Hasse, Vol. 3 contains 35 pieces. These include 28 arias; 1 duet, and 3 minuets from operas by Leonardo Vinci, including Artaserse; Alessandro; Andromaca; Catone; Demofounte; and Semiramide. The volume also contains a Cantata per una voce by Vinci; Cantata per una voce by Giovanni Pergolesi; Toccata per il cembalo, Aria, and Minuet by Hasse; an aria, minuet, and arietta by Gaetano Latilla's Siroe; an aria by Giovanni Giai; a minuet by Giacomelli; and an arietta by David Perez. On the cover is written: "Arie del Sigr / Lionardo Vinci. / Napoletano / Firenze. / 1740." Written on spine: Vinci, Vol. 4 contains 30 pieces comprising Leonardo Vinci's cantata titled La Contessa de numi. Inside the front cover is an index of sinfonias and arias in Gray's hand, and a note, signed by H[enry] E[dward] K[rehbiel], which reads: "this is plainly the cantata "La Contessa de'Numi" / composed by V. 1729 to / words of Metastasio to / celebrate the birth of the dauphin". A further notation in Krehbiel's hand reads: "(autograph of Vincj)". On f.126v is an autograph in pencil: "R Bright August 27.th of the month 1819". Written on spine: Vinci, Vol. 5 contains 18 songs by Leonardo Leo, including motets; arias from the operas Achille; Artaserse; Ciro Riconosciuto; Olimpiade; and 2 duets from Olimpiade. Written on spine: "Leo.", Vol. 6 contains 24 pieces by Michele Fini, including arias and duets from Issipile; Siroe; Didone; Alessandro; Tito Manlio; Rodelinda; Farnace; and Temistocle. At the beginning of the manuscript is a treatise on musical accompaniment titled "Regole per l'accompagnamento" in Gray's hand, which includes musical examples. The collection also includes 8 anonymous keyboard pieces. Written on spine: Fini, Vol. 7 contains 11 vocal pieces. Ten are by Pergolesi, consisting of 5 arias, 3 duets from Catone and Olimpiade; and Stabat Mater. The remaining piece is by Leonardo Vinci. Written on spine: Pergolesi, Vol. 8 contains 25 arias by various composers. These include 3 arias from Giovanni Orlandini's Olimpiade; and a Trio from his Temistocle; 3 arias by Francesco Araia; an aria and duet by Giai; an aria from Domenico Sarro's Achille; 9 arias by Pergolesi; and 4 arias and 2 duets by Hasse. An autograph appears on the verso of front flyleaf: "E Bright May 22.nd / 1819"; another autograph appears inside the back cover, in pencil: "Rev.d John Bright / Grafton / Northamptonshire". Written on spine: "Hasse / Pergolesi / Sarro / Giaii / Orlandini Orlandini". Written on front cover: "Arie di G: pe Orlandini, Fiorentino. / Franco: co Araja. / Dom: Sarri. Napoletani / G: B: Pergolesi. / Ant: Giaii. Turinese. / & / Giov: Ad: fo Hasse, Sa ssone. / Firenze 1740". Written on spine: Hasse. Pergolesi. Sarro. Giaii. Araia. Orlandini, Vol. 9 contains 35 songs by Carlo Arrigoni, Andrea Bernasconi, Riccardo Broschi, Rinaldo di Capua, Michele Fini, Baldassare Galuppi, G. Baptista Lampagnani, Gaetano Latilla, Celestino Ligi, Antonio Mazzoni, Giovanni Orlandini, Gaetano Schiassi, Seletti, and Dionigi Zamperelli. Written on cover: "Arie di / G B: ta Lampognani / Andrea Bernascone / Rinaldo di Capua / Gaetano Latilla Napoletane / Michel Fini / Gaetano Schiassi Bolognese / & altri Autori". Written on spine: Bernasconi. Lampagnani. Fini. Rinaldo di Capua. Latilla. Schiassi, Vol. 10 contains 18 pieces of music by Handel, Pergolesi, Hasse, Giai, Domenico Sarro, Nicola Porpora, and others. These works are preceded by two pages explaining a system of musical notation using Arabic numbers, written in Italian in Gray's hand. The volume contains both Italian and English paper, and many of the works are incomplete. The arias from Ifigenia in Tauri conjectural attribution to composer Domenico Scarlatti, and Vol. 11 is a collection of 36 pages of musical scores. They include a liturgical text set to medieval notation, underneath which the music is notated in modern musical notation; and a score taken from the 4-part book of Claude le Jeune, 1641. Accompanying these papers is a note which declares, "These miscellaneous papers are all 19th century."
- Description:
- In Italian., Microfilm available, All volumes are bound in full parchment., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Italy
- Subject (Name):
- Araja, Francesco, 1709-, Arrigoni, Carlo, 1697-1744., Bernasconi, Andrea, 1706-1784., Broschi, Riccardo, approximately 1698-1756., Capece, Carlo Sigismondo, 1652-1728., Celestino, Eligio, 1739-1812., Fini, Michele, 1708-1752., Galuppi, Baldassare, 1706-1785., Giai, Giovanni Antonio, 1690-1764., Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771., Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759., Hasse, Johann Adolf, 1699-1783., Lampugnani, Giovanni Battista, 1706-approximately 1786., Latilla, Gaetano, 1711-1788., Leo, Leonardo, 1694-1744., Marcello, Benedetto, 1686-1739., Mazzoni, Antonio, 1717-1785., Milton, John, 1608-1674., Orlandini, Giuseppe Maria, 1676-1760., Ottoboni, Pietro, 1667-1740., Pasquini, Bernardo, 1637-1710., Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista, 1710-1736., Rinaldo, da Capua, approximately 1710-approximately 1780., Sarro, Domenico, 1679-1744., Scarlatti, Domenico, 1685-1757., Schiassi, Gaetano Maria, 1698-1754., Sellitto, Giuseppe, 1700-1777., Vinci, Leonardo, -1730., and Zamparelli, Dionisio.
- Subject (Topic):
- Vocal music
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Manuscript music collected by Thomas Gray, ca. 1740
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- Creator:
- Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
- Call Number:
- Quarto 532 MS
- Container / Volume:
- v.10
- Image Count:
- 121
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscripts, in Thomas Gray's hand and others', of musical transcriptions in score, primarily selections from operas heard in Italy and London. On the outside of each volume is written the names of the composers whose works it contains. Inside each front cover is an index of the volume's contents, in Gray's hand, including names of characters and performers. Some of the volumes contain music and words also copied in his hand; he also makes annotations throughout the volumes, noting the schools of the composers and the names of the operas and other compositions from which these selections have been made, Vol. 1 contains 25 arias by Johann Adolf Hasse, from the operas Allessandro nell'Indie; La clemenza di Tito; Demetrio; Issipile; Artaserse; and Siroe re di Persia. On the cover is written: "Arie del Sig: r / G: Adolfo Hasse / detto / Il Sasone. / Firenze. / 1740"., Vol. 2 contains 24 pieces for voice and strings by Hasse, including arias, duets, and a trio, excerpted from the operas Catone; Issipile; Siroe; Tito; and Artaserse. Written on spine: Hasse, Vol. 3 contains 35 pieces. These include 28 arias; 1 duet, and 3 minuets from operas by Leonardo Vinci, including Artaserse; Alessandro; Andromaca; Catone; Demofounte; and Semiramide. The volume also contains a Cantata per una voce by Vinci; Cantata per una voce by Giovanni Pergolesi; Toccata per il cembalo, Aria, and Minuet by Hasse; an aria, minuet, and arietta by Gaetano Latilla's Siroe; an aria by Giovanni Giai; a minuet by Giacomelli; and an arietta by David Perez. On the cover is written: "Arie del Sigr / Lionardo Vinci. / Napoletano / Firenze. / 1740." Written on spine: Vinci, Vol. 4 contains 30 pieces comprising Leonardo Vinci's cantata titled La Contessa de numi. Inside the front cover is an index of sinfonias and arias in Gray's hand, and a note, signed by H[enry] E[dward] K[rehbiel], which reads: "this is plainly the cantata "La Contessa de'Numi" / composed by V. 1729 to / words of Metastasio to / celebrate the birth of the dauphin". A further notation in Krehbiel's hand reads: "(autograph of Vincj)". On f.126v is an autograph in pencil: "R Bright August 27.th of the month 1819". Written on spine: Vinci, Vol. 5 contains 18 songs by Leonardo Leo, including motets; arias from the operas Achille; Artaserse; Ciro Riconosciuto; Olimpiade; and 2 duets from Olimpiade. Written on spine: "Leo.", Vol. 6 contains 24 pieces by Michele Fini, including arias and duets from Issipile; Siroe; Didone; Alessandro; Tito Manlio; Rodelinda; Farnace; and Temistocle. At the beginning of the manuscript is a treatise on musical accompaniment titled "Regole per l'accompagnamento" in Gray's hand, which includes musical examples. The collection also includes 8 anonymous keyboard pieces. Written on spine: Fini, Vol. 7 contains 11 vocal pieces. Ten are by Pergolesi, consisting of 5 arias, 3 duets from Catone and Olimpiade; and Stabat Mater. The remaining piece is by Leonardo Vinci. Written on spine: Pergolesi, Vol. 8 contains 25 arias by various composers. These include 3 arias from Giovanni Orlandini's Olimpiade; and a Trio from his Temistocle; 3 arias by Francesco Araia; an aria and duet by Giai; an aria from Domenico Sarro's Achille; 9 arias by Pergolesi; and 4 arias and 2 duets by Hasse. An autograph appears on the verso of front flyleaf: "E Bright May 22.nd / 1819"; another autograph appears inside the back cover, in pencil: "Rev.d John Bright / Grafton / Northamptonshire". Written on spine: "Hasse / Pergolesi / Sarro / Giaii / Orlandini Orlandini". Written on front cover: "Arie di G: pe Orlandini, Fiorentino. / Franco: co Araja. / Dom: Sarri. Napoletani / G: B: Pergolesi. / Ant: Giaii. Turinese. / & / Giov: Ad: fo Hasse, Sa ssone. / Firenze 1740". Written on spine: Hasse. Pergolesi. Sarro. Giaii. Araia. Orlandini, Vol. 9 contains 35 songs by Carlo Arrigoni, Andrea Bernasconi, Riccardo Broschi, Rinaldo di Capua, Michele Fini, Baldassare Galuppi, G. Baptista Lampagnani, Gaetano Latilla, Celestino Ligi, Antonio Mazzoni, Giovanni Orlandini, Gaetano Schiassi, Seletti, and Dionigi Zamperelli. Written on cover: "Arie di / G B: ta Lampognani / Andrea Bernascone / Rinaldo di Capua / Gaetano Latilla Napoletane / Michel Fini / Gaetano Schiassi Bolognese / & altri Autori". Written on spine: Bernasconi. Lampagnani. Fini. Rinaldo di Capua. Latilla. Schiassi, Vol. 10 contains 18 pieces of music by Handel, Pergolesi, Hasse, Giai, Domenico Sarro, Nicola Porpora, and others. These works are preceded by two pages explaining a system of musical notation using Arabic numbers, written in Italian in Gray's hand. The volume contains both Italian and English paper, and many of the works are incomplete. The arias from Ifigenia in Tauri conjectural attribution to composer Domenico Scarlatti, and Vol. 11 is a collection of 36 pages of musical scores. They include a liturgical text set to medieval notation, underneath which the music is notated in modern musical notation; and a score taken from the 4-part book of Claude le Jeune, 1641. Accompanying these papers is a note which declares, "These miscellaneous papers are all 19th century."
- Description:
- In Italian., Microfilm available, All volumes are bound in full parchment., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Italy
- Subject (Name):
- Araja, Francesco, 1709-, Arrigoni, Carlo, 1697-1744., Bernasconi, Andrea, 1706-1784., Broschi, Riccardo, approximately 1698-1756., Capece, Carlo Sigismondo, 1652-1728., Celestino, Eligio, 1739-1812., Fini, Michele, 1708-1752., Galuppi, Baldassare, 1706-1785., Giai, Giovanni Antonio, 1690-1764., Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771., Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759., Hasse, Johann Adolf, 1699-1783., Lampugnani, Giovanni Battista, 1706-approximately 1786., Latilla, Gaetano, 1711-1788., Leo, Leonardo, 1694-1744., Marcello, Benedetto, 1686-1739., Mazzoni, Antonio, 1717-1785., Milton, John, 1608-1674., Orlandini, Giuseppe Maria, 1676-1760., Ottoboni, Pietro, 1667-1740., Pasquini, Bernardo, 1637-1710., Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista, 1710-1736., Rinaldo, da Capua, approximately 1710-approximately 1780., Sarro, Domenico, 1679-1744., Scarlatti, Domenico, 1685-1757., Schiassi, Gaetano Maria, 1698-1754., Sellitto, Giuseppe, 1700-1777., Vinci, Leonardo, -1730., and Zamparelli, Dionisio.
- Subject (Topic):
- Vocal music
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Manuscript music collected by Thomas Gray, ca. 1740
- Creator:
- Ashby, Harry, 1744-1818, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1781]
- Call Number:
- 66 800 C69
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Date of publication from annotated newspaper advertisement for the concert, which was scheduled for 23 May 1781; see Digital Bodleian catalogue, Shelfmark: Bodleian Library Concerts 2 (22m)., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Part of a collection of 10 trade cards and tickets housed together in a box., and With contemporary annotations in brown ink on recto: "W. Lee [?]" written in upper left corner, and "N. 89" written in upper right corner.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > For the benefit of Mr. Lee will be perform'd a grand concert of vocal & instrumental music time & place of performance will be advertised in all the papers / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Paer, Ferdinando, 1771-1839, creator
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista, 1710-1736 - Published / Created:
- n.d
- Call Number:
- Osborn Music MS 518
- Image Count:
- 15
- Resource Type:
- Music (Printed & Manuscript)
- Alternative Title:
- [Fragment: Stabat mater]
- Description:
- Accompanied by a 4-page fragment of a copyists MS of two 4-voice and one 5-voice chorus from the Stabat Mater by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736). and Copyists MS.
- Subject (Topic):
- Sacred vocal music --Scores
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Cavatina. guitar and tenor]
35.
- Creator:
- From the Collection: Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851
- Published / Created:
- 1809-1830, undated
- Call Number:
- OSB MSS 146
- Container / Volume:
- Box 864
- Image Count:
- 134
- Description:
- Contains vocal vocal music, including: Dibdin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hanover royal music archive (OSB MSS 146) > Series II: Music Collections > Bound Collections > Bound collection
- Creator:
- Latrobe, Christian Ignatius, 1757-1836, creator
- Published / Created:
- 1783-1786
- Call Number:
- Osborn Music MS 516
- Image Count:
- 66
- Resource Type:
- Music (Printed & Manuscript)
- Abstract:
- Consisting of full scores of original liturgical works for chorus and orchestra, including: 1) Char-Freytag und Grossen-Sabbath, Drey Chore... 2) Cantata zum Gedaechtnis. Des in Barby am 2.ten April 1786. Selig entschlafenen Bruders Johann Christian Friederich von Watteville.
- Description:
- Binders blanks and several blank leaves unscanned. and Holograph.
- Subject (Topic):
- Sacred vocal music--18th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Musical MS book]
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1800?]
- Call Number:
- 66 800 C69
- Image Count:
- 10
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Abstract:
- Collection of 10 engraved trade cards for a variety of business as well as tickets for admissions to a variety of events including concerts and auctions. Some engravings signed by the artist; two cards annotated in manuscript. Engravers include: Hall from Russell Street, Bloomsbury; Strongitharm, No. 127 Pall Mall; Ashby Russel Court, Darling, Lockington Street
- Description:
- Collection title devised by cataloger.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Collection of trade cards and tickets].
- Creator:
- Croft, William, 1678-1727, creator
- Published / Created:
- 1708-1709
- Call Number:
- Osborn Music MS 522
- Image Count:
- 97
- Resource Type:
- Music (Printed & Manuscript)
- Alternative Title:
- Morning service, D major
- Description:
- Binder's blanks unscanned., Binder's title: Te deum & jubilate for voices & instruments by Dr. Croft., Endorsed by Arthur Henry Mann (1850-1929) on the flyleaf., Musical MS., and Te deum and Jubilate individually paginated.
- Subject (Name):
- Mann, A. H. (Arthur Henry), 1850-1929--Autograph
- Subject (Topic):
- Sacred vocal music--18th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Te deum and jubilate
- Creator:
- A.W. Elson & Co
Bell, John, 1745-1831
John Tallis & Company
MacPherson, John, fl. 1889
Schnebbelie, Robert Bremmel, d. ca. 1849
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845 - Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- Uncat MS Vault Prints
- Collection Title:
- General Print collection
- Container / Volume:
- Box 144 Shakespeare and unsorted subjects | Folder Subjects - Shakespeare
- Image Count:
- 22
- Subject (Name):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Prints relating to Shakespeare]
40.
- Creator:
- Addison, John, 1766?-1844
Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778
Caulfield, John, b. 1774 or 5
Kitchiner, William, 1775?-1827
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Selections - Published / Created:
- [1815]
- Call Number:
- Vm27 013
- Image Count:
- 8
- Description:
- Each play has separate title page and pagination. and For voice with pianoforte accompaniment.
- Publisher:
- J. Caulfield,
- Subject (Name):
- Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Knowledge--Music
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A collection of the vocal music in Shakespear's plays : including the whole of the songs, duetts, glees, choruses, &c. : engraved from original ms. & early printed copies, chiefly from the collection of W. Kitchiner, esqr. M.D. / revised & arranged with an accompaniment for the piano forte by Mr. Addison, & most respectfully dedicated to Saml. Jas. Arnold, esqr. by John Caulfield.