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
Kerckhoven, Abraham van den, ca. 1618-1701 Liberti, Henricus, ca. 1600-1669 Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon, 1562-1621
Published / Created:
[circa 1650s]
Call Number:
Osborn Music MS 533
Image Count:
166
Resource Type:
Music (Printed & Manuscript)
Description:
Anglo-Flemish organ music, written in manuscript on paper, in several unidentified hands, known as the Novello Organ Book. The manuscript contains over one hundred works, including organ masses and other Roman Catholic liturgical music, possibly used by English recusants in the Low Countries. Also present are preludes and fugues, variations, fantasias, and other secular music. Composers include Abraham van den Kerckhoven, Henricus Liberti, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, and Jacobus de Cherf. A few works are dated 1651., Annotations in English, French, Latin, and Flemish., Binding: vellum boards, rebacked., Cover: Presented to the library of the Musical Antiquarian Society by Vincent Novello, April 1844., Formerly owned by John Watts, Vincent Novello, the Musical Antiquarian Society, Camille Saint-Saens, Eugene Gigout, and Leon Boellmann., Inside front cover: Vincent Novello...kindly presented to me by my old friend John Watts, Feby 19, 1841., p. 105 tipped in., Pages [330-364] blank, unscanned., Pages 90-99 omitted from pagination, numerous errors., Preliminary page: signatures of Camille Saint-Saens and Eugene Gigout., and Title from cover.
Subject (Name):
Kerckhoven, Abraham van den, ca. 1618-1701, Liberti, Henricus, ca. 1600-1669, Saint-Saens, Camille, 1835-1921, provenance, and Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon, 1562-1621
Subject (Topic):
Catholics -- England -- 17th century, Organ music -- 17th century, and Organ music -- Netherlands -- 17th century
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
Advertisement for "Gem dance folio for 1919": p. [4]., Advertisement for another song at foot of p. [3]., Cover illustration: people in formal attire and a policeman / E.E. Walton., First line of chorus: Look out, here comes Stonewall Grant., First line of text: A line's been formin' since half past three., For medium voice and piano., and Pages 1-2 are unnumbered.
Publisher:
Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.,
Subject (Name):
Macdonald, Ballard. and Walton, E. E., ill.
Subject (Topic):
African American soldiers--Songs and music., Popular music--United States--1911-1920., Songs (Medium voice) with piano., and World War, 1914-1918--Songs and music.
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