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‘MISS ALICE MAUD HER MUSICK BOOK’: arias and keyboard music; 1732-4. English, written in ink on paper ruled with six staves, in one principal hand, with additions in other hands on ff. 6, 13v and 14 and some small additions of ornaments in pencil on ff. 9v-10. The songs and arias are all for sop...
Trio Sonatas and Suites; circa 1697-1704. Parts, in ink. ff. 1-18 is an incomplete set of parts, all in the same hand, for a set of twelve trio sonatas by Matthew Novell (published as Sonate da Camera or Chamber Musick. Being a Sett of Twelve Sonata’s, London, Excud: et Sculp: Tho Cross. Junr. P...
HENRY PURCELL: ‘King Arthur’; mid 18th cent. Score. Copy, in ink, written on paper ruled with twelve staves to the page (a thirteenth stave added to f. 3 is now cropped). A note on f. ii in the hand of W. H. Cummings reads ‘In the hand-writing of James Kent (born 1700, died 1776)’. Kent copied t...
DOMENICO SCARLATTI AND SAMUEL WESLEY: keyboard sonatas; 2nd half of 18th cent. Copies, written in ink, in various different hands, on paper ruled with ten staves to the page. None of the works is attributed in the volume, beyond a title label reading ‘Scarlatti, S: Wesley’. With a list of conten...
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN: ‘Oratorio, Le sette ultime Parole del Redentore al croce’ (words, Josef Friebert and Gottfried van Swieten, freely translated by Guiseppe Carpani); early 19th cent. Score of the version for soprano, alto, tenor and bass soloists, four-part chorus and orchestra of ‘Die sieben ...
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN: ‘Sinfonia in D’ (symphony no. 31, ‘mit dem Hornsignal’), for violin and ’cello obbligati, flute, 2 oboes, 4 horns, bassoon and strings; late 18th – early 19th cent. Parts. Copies, written in ink in the same hand throughout on paper ruled with ten staves to the page, with some...
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN: ‘Serenada à 2. Violini, 2. Flauti, 2. Corni, Viola e Basso, del Sgr. Hayden’ in D major, Hob.II/D3: Parts; late 18th or early 19th cent. Each part is written on a bifolium ruled with fifteen staves to the page. Inscribed ‘No. 84’ on the title page (f. 1), and with a bookselle...
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN: ‘Serenada à 2. Violini, 2. Flauti, 2. Corni, Viola e Basso, del Sgr. Hayden’ in D major, Hob.II/D3; late 18th or early 19th cent, circa 1970. Copies, in ink. The title is written on the second horn part (f. 1). This serenade is listed as by Haydn in Breitkopf & Härtel’s catalogue of 1768, but apparently no other manuscript sources of it are known. Two volumes.
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Franz Joseph Haydn, composer: Alan Walker Tyson, musicologist: Parts for Serenada, Hob.II/D3 by Franz Joseph Haydn, with score in the hand of Alan Walker Tyson: late 18th or early 19th cent.; circa 1970: Copies.
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN: ‘Serenada à 2. Violini, 2. Flauti, 2. Corni, Viola e Basso, del Sgr. Hayden’ in D major, Hob.II/D3: Score; circa 1970. In the hand of Alan Tyson. With drafts, partly in pencil. ff. 13. 261 x 355mm.
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN: ‘Lied’, ‘Als einst mit Weibes Schönheit’, for voice and piano, Hob.XXVIa/44 (words anonymous); n.d. Copy, apparently in the hand of Otto Jahn. Written in ink on paper ruled with twenty staves. A note on f. 1 reads ‘Autograf im Besitz des Herrn Th. Petter’; the autograph is no...