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10. Manuscript music collected by Thomas Gray, ca. 1740
- 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):
- Keyboard instrument music, Musical accompaniment, Operas, Opera, and Vocal music
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Manuscript music collected by Thomas Gray, ca. 1740
11. Manuscript music collected by Thomas Gray, ca. 1740
- 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):
- Keyboard instrument music, Musical accompaniment, Operas, Opera, and Vocal music
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Manuscript music collected by Thomas Gray, ca. 1740
12. Suiten und Fugen
- Creator:
- Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
- Published / Created:
- [between 1770 and 1788?]
- Call Number:
- Music Deposit 88
- Image Count:
- 74
- Alternative Title:
- Keyboard music. Selections
- Description:
- Manuscript, in brown ink, in copyists' hands., For keyboard instrument., Contains French suites (BWV 812-815 and 817), the Chromatic fantasy and fugue (BWV 903), and other pieces., Many additional passages (including alternative movements) added in brown ink on the free staves and on 6 inserted p., in another early hand; also annotated with various musiological and bibliographical information throughout., and Description based on cataloging of Dr. Peter Wollny.
- Subject (Topic):
- Keyboard instrument music and Harspichord music
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Suiten und Fugen
13. [Bound collection]
- Creator:
- Bach, Johann Christian, 1735-1782
- Published / Created:
- [1700s]
- Call Number:
- OSB MSS 146
- Collection Title:
- Hanover royal music archive
- Container / Volume:
- Box 861
- Image Count:
- 140
- Abstract:
- Contains keyboard and vocal music, including: Tenducci, one item signed by him; Giordani; and others. Bound with Johann Christian Bach, [Gioas, rè di Giuda], T’adoro te solo eterno mio Dio, holograph, circa 1770. and Inscribed "Cheveley," possibly Louisa Cheveley.
- Alternative Title:
- Gioas, rè di Giuda. T’adoro te solo eterno mio Dio
- Description:
- Blanks not digitized.
- Subject (Name):
- Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778. Artaxerxes, Bach, Johann Christian, 1735-1782. Gioas, rè di Giuda. T’adoro te solo eterno mio Dio, Carter, Thomas, ca. 1740-1804, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814, East, Michael, ca. 1580-1648, Giordani, Tommaso, ca. 1733-1806 , Hook, Mr. (James), 1746-1827, Linley, Thomas, 1733-1795. Duenna, Shield, William, 1748-1829, and Tenducci, Giusto Ferdinando, ca. 1735-1790
- Subject (Topic):
- Keyboard instrument music and Vocal music
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Bound collection]
14. [Music book]
- Creator:
- Horn, Charles Frederick, 1762-1830
Parsons, William, Sir, 1746-1817
Vento, Mattia, 1735-1776 - Published / Created:
- [circa 1787-1789]
- Call Number:
- OSB MSS 146
- Collection Title:
- Hanover royal music archive
- Container / Volume:
- Box 183 | Folder 944
- Image Count:
- 54
- Abstract:
- Contents: songs, arias, and keyboard and other instrumental music in various hands, including music in the hand of Princess Augusta (initialled, Windsor December 1st 1787); an early version of Yankee Doodle; music by Weidemann and Vinci; two sets of six minuets, possibly by Sir William Parsons, possibly in the hand of Frederick Nicolay (For Her Majesty’s Birth Day, 1788); music by Mattia Vento, performed by Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci; military music for the Coldstream Guards; and sketch possibly in the hand of Charles Frederick Horn
- Alternative Title:
- Yankee Doodle
- Description:
- Blanks not digitized.
- Subject (Name):
- Augusta Sophia, Princess, daughter of George III, King of Great Britain, 1768-1840, Band of the Coldstream Guards (Great Britain), Horn, Charles Frederick, 1762-1830, Parsons, William, Sir, 1746-1817 , Tenducci, Giusto Ferdinando, ca. 1735-1790, and Vento, Mattia, 1735-1776
- Subject (Topic):
- Keyboard instrument music, Minuets, Vocal music, and Yankee Doodle (Song)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Music book]
15. [Music book]
- Creator:
- Horn, Charles Frederick, 1762-1830=
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1789-1791]
- Call Number:
- OSB MSS 146
- Collection Title:
- Hanover royal music archive
- Container / Volume:
- Box 817
- Image Count:
- 92
- Abstract:
- Contents: keyboard music and songs, including in the hands of Charles Frederick Horn (signed, 1790; fingering guide for scales; and an unfinished keyboard draft); Princess Augusta (inscribed The Trip to Weymouth, 1790, AS; and composition drafts); Princess Elizabeth (German Air Ohne Liebe); and Lady Mary Howe (1791) and Inscribed: Augusta Sophia, Queens House, London, 1789.
- Description:
- Blanks not digitized. and Volume written in both directions.
- Subject (Name):
- Augusta Sophia, Princess, daughter of George III, King of Great Britain, 1768-1840 and Horn, Charles Frederick, 1762-1830
- Subject (Topic):
- Keyboard instrument music and Vocal music
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Music book]
16. [Music book]
- Creator:
- Horn, Charles Frederick, 1762-1830
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1830]
- Call Number:
- OSB MSS 146
- Collection Title:
- Hanover royal music archive
- Container / Volume:
- Box 822
- Image Count:
- 43
- Abstract:
- Contains: vocal and keyboard music, including in the hands of Charles Frederick Horn, (Pleasure submits to pain, with parts assigned to Elizabeth [?], Sophia or Augusta, Mary and Edward); and Princess Augusta (Variations by AS; and sketches and drafts). and Inscribed: Augusta.
- Description:
- Original pagination through p. 44. Cataloger supplied pagination p. 45-71 omits blanks. Blanks not digitized. and Volume written from both directions.
- Subject (Name):
- Augusta Sophia, Princess, daughter of George III, King of Great Britain, 1768-1840 and Horn, Charles Frederick, 1762-1830
- Subject (Topic):
- Keyboard instrument music and Vocal music
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Music book]
17. [The Hintze manuscript : französische Art Instrument-Stücklein : a collection of compositions for keyboard instrument, from the second half of the seventeenth century].
- Published / Created:
- [16--]
- Call Number:
- Music Deposit 3
- Image Count:
- 23
- Description:
- Ms. in paper cover and enclosed in a decorative leather case. Numerous variant readings in manuscript notated in German organ tabulature, preceeded either by "Pohl: " or "Pohlm: " [at tail of f.1v:] Georg Böhm., Twenty-eight keyboard pieces by J. Tresure, J.C. Kerll, Froberger, Erben, and anonymous composers., and MUS: Also known by alternative call number: Ma21 H59
- Subject (Topic):
- Keyboard instrument music
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [The Hintze manuscript : französische Art Instrument-Stücklein : a collection of compositions for keyboard instrument, from the second half of the seventeenth century].
