MADRIGALS, glees, catches, rounds, and part-songs, by English composers, principally of the 18th cent. In score; many in duplicate, a few in parts. Three volumes. Included are..- An Italian catch, by F. Giardini. Vol. i., f. 24 b;-Two songs and a minuet and gavot. Printed. Vol. i., f. 41 ;-Two autograph glees by Samuel Webbe. Vol. iii., ff. 68, 69. Vol. ii. consists exclusively of glees, etc., by R. J. S. Stevens. Paper; ff. 43, 214, 171. xviiith, xixth centt. Oblong Folio.
A MISCELLANEOUS collection of music, chiefly in the handwriting of the Rev. Richard James Samuel Stevens, organist of the Charterhouse. In fourteen volumes, containing:-
Scope & Content:
Richard John Samuel Stevens, composer: Collections of music transcribed by: 18th, 19th centt.
1. " Ode on Purcell's death," followed, at f. 32, by " part of an ode on Queen Anne's birthday," by Jeremiah Clark; transcribed in full score by R. J. S. Stevens. f. 1. includes: f. 1, 32 Jeremiah Clarke, composer: Odes on Purcell's death and Qu. Anne's birthday: 18th-19th cent.
includes: f. 44 William Boyce, composer and organist: Catches and glees, etc.: circ. 1800. f. 51 Jonathan Battishill, composer and organist: "The rites of Hecate": a melodrama: 18th-19th cent. ff. 78-118 James Saville: Glees: 18th-19th cent. ff. 78-118 John Cobb: Catches and glees: 18th-19th ce...
4. Madrigals, glees, etc., by Thomas Bateson, James Saville, John Cobb, Elliot, and others; in score, or parts. Included, at f. 90, is an autograph glee of T. A. Walmisley. f. 78.