The volume contains bass or continuo parts to Sonatas, Airs, Overtures, Dances, and other pieces by Henry Purcell ((1659-1695), Daniel Purcell ([1660]-1717), John Jenkins (1592-1678), William Lawes (1602-1645), Nicola Matteis, Diedrich Becker, Robert Wren, A. Poole, Matthew Locke (1630-1677), and Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680). The volume is written in several hands, and William H. Cummings, a biographer of Purcell, has written on l.11: ""This curious book contains several pages undeniably in the handwriting of Henry Purcell..."" The other hands are attributed by Cummings to Pelham Humfrey (1647-1674), John Blow (1648-1708), and William Croft (1678-1727).
Subject (Name):
Becker, Dietrich, 1623-1679, Cummings, William Hayman, 1831-1915, provenance, Jenkins, John, 1592-1678, Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680, Lawes, William, 1602-1645, Locke, Matthew, 1621 or 2-1677, Matteis, Nicola, fl. 1672-1699, and Purcell, Daniel, 1660?-1717
Bach, Johann Christian, 1735-1782 Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759 Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695
Published / Created:
[circa 1829-1839]
Call Number:
OSB MSS 146
Collection Title:
Hanover royal music archive
Container / Volume:
Box 830
Image Count:
170
Abstract:
Contains: song transcriptions, in various unidentified hands; Johann Christian Bach, (autograph manuscript setting of Pope’s ode “The dying [expiring] Christian to his soul); music possibly in the hand of a member of the royal family; O salutaris hostia, titled Motet à trios voix sans accompagnement par gossec; other music copied in unidentified hands, including Handel, George Frideric, Coronation anthems, Zadok the priest; Purcell, Henry, Sound the trumpet, beat the drum, Let Caesar and Urania live
and Cover title: Englische Gesänge.
Alternative Title:
Coronation anthems. Zadok the priest, Englische Gesänge, and Sound the trumpet, beat the drum
Description:
Blanks not digitized., Index (to p. 1-88) bound in between p. 36-37., and Original pagination (some irregularities) employed to p. 89, cataloger supplied pagination thereafter. Page 3-4 wanting.
Subject (Name):
Bach, Johann Christian, 1735-1782, Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Coronation anthems. Zadok the priest, and Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Sound the trumpet, beat the drum