Toccate per cembalo : per bene principiare a sonare, et al nobile partamento delle mani : si averte al discepolo studioso di ponere le dita in quelle segni, che li vengono accennate dalle mani / del Sig. Cavaliere Alessandro Scarlatti, primo maestro della Real Cappella di Napoli.

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Title: Toccate per cembalo : per bene principiare a sonare, et al nobile partamento delle mani : si averte al discepolo studioso di ponere le dita in quelle segni, che li vengono accennate dalle mani / del Sig. Cavaliere Alessandro Scarlatti, primo maestro della Real Cappella di Napoli.
Alternative Title: Higgs manuscript.
Toccatas, keyboard instrument. Selections
Creator: Scarlatti, Alessandro, 1660-1725
Contributor: Yale University Associates Gift, 1953
Published / Created: 1723
Description: Copyist's ms., in ink; on leaf 139: Napoli 1723.
For fuller description, list of contents, and thematic catalog, see P.T. Lee's The keyboard style of Alessandro Scarlatti. (Thesis (M.A.) Yale, 1959).
Gift of the Library Associates, 1953.
Known as "The Higgs Manuscript", this volume was formerly owned by H.M. Higgs, Esq.
The 4 unnumbered leaves at end contain no music.
The whole of the ms. was published by J.S. Shedlock (London : Bach & Co.) in 1908-1910.
Extent: 164, [4] ms. leaves of music ; 22 x 28 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: No linguistic content; Not applicable

Collection Information

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Music Deposit 77

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format: notated music
Genre: Musical notation
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Yale University Associates Gift, 1953
Subject (Topic): Harpsichord music
Organ music

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 9721327
Object ID (OID): 17301919