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MS Mus. 1
- Record Id:
- 032-001945974
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945974
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000035.0x00021b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100156353241.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1
- Title:
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Henry Purcell and Giovanni Battista Draghi: Keyboard music
- Scope & Content:
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The 'Purcell/Draghi keyboard manuscript' contains, on folios 1v-12, music by or arranged by Henry Purcell and in his autograph. Reversing the volume, folios 42-12v are by, and almost certainly in the hand of, Giovanni Battista Draghi. Folio 1r contains a musical setting of Draghi’s address in the same hand as folios 42-12v, together with further text in a third hand. Folios ii and 43v-43 contain musical jottings in a (juvenile?) fourth hand.
Catalogue numbers for the Purcell works are taken from F. B. Zimmerman, Henry Purcell: an analytical catalogue of his music (1963) and for the Draghi from R. Klakowich, ed., Giovanni Battista Draghi: Harpsichord Music, Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, 56 (Madison, 1986).
Music by Henry Purcell (unless otherwise indicated):
1. f. 1v. ‘Prelude’ [in C].
2. f. 2. [Minuet in C].
3. f. 2. [Air in C].
4. f. 2v. ‘Minuet’, Z.592/7, from The Double Dealer (1693).
5. f. 2v. [‘Thus happy and free’], Z.629/44a, from The Fairy-Queen (1692).
6. f. 3. [Hornpipe], Z.607/4, from The Old Bachelor (1693).
7. f. 3v. [Air in C], Z.592/9, from The Double Dealer.
8. ff. 4-5. [Orlando Gibbons]: ‘Prelude’ [in G], no. 21 from Parthenia (1612/13).
9. f. 5v. [Hornpipe], Z.629/1b, from The Fairy Queen.
10. f. 6. [Hornpipe or Scotch Tune]. This work is attributed to John Eccles in Bodleian Library Tenbury MS. 1508, f. 68v, and in Apollo’s Banquet (1701).
11. f. 6v. [Trumpet Minuet], Z.611/8, from The Virtuous Wife (1693).
12. f. 7. [Air, ‘La Furstenburg’], Z.611/9, from The Virtuous Wife.
13. f. 7v. [Minuet], Z.611/7, from The Virtuous Wife.
14. f. 8. ‘Prelude’, Z.663/1, from the Suite in A minor from A Choice Collection (1696).
15. ff. 8v-9. [Almand], Z.663/2, from the Suite in A minor from A Choice Collection.
16. f. 9v. Corant, Z.663/3, from the Suite in A minor from A Choice Collection.
17. f. 10. [Jig]. Unattributed in Bodleian Library MS. Mus. Sch. E 399.
18. f. 10v. ‘Prelude’ [in C].
19. f. 11-10v. [Almand], Z.666/2, from the Suite in C from A Choice Collection. The last five bars of this movement are written on f. 10v.
20. f. 11v. [Corant], Z.666/3, from the Suite in C from The Second Part of Musick’s Hand-maid (1689) and A Choice Collection.
21. f. 12. ‘Sarraband’, Z.666/4, from the Suite in C from The Second Part of Musick’s Hand-maid and A Choice Collection.
Reversing the volume, music by Giovanni Battista Draghi:
22. ff. 42-41v. [Prelude], Kl.13.
23. ff. 41-39v. [Allmand], Kl.14.
24. ff. 39-38. [Corrant], Kl.15.
25. ff. 37v-36. [Air].
26. ff. 35v-34v. [Jigg], Kl.18.
27. ff. 34-33v. [Prelude].
28. ff. 33-31v. [Allmand], Kl.20.
29. ff. 31-30. [Corrant], Kl.21.
30. ff. 30-29. ‘Slow’ [Saraband], Kl.22.
31. ff. 29-28. [Minuet/passpied].
32. ff. 28-26v. [Jigg], Kl.23.
33. ff. (i), 26-25v. [Prelude], Kl.45.
34. ff. (ii), 25-24. ‘ye double of ye Prelude’, Kl.45.
35. ff. 24-22. [Alemande], Kl.46.
36. ff. 21v-20v. [Aire], Kl.49.
37. ff. 20-17. [Prelude].
38. ff. 16v-14v. [Allmand], Kl.8.
39. ff. 14-12v. [The Hunting Tune], Kl.12.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Music Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945974
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- MS Mus. 1, ff 1r-12r : Henry Purcell: Keyboard music. Autograph score.
MS Mus. 1, ff 12v-43v : Giovanni Battista Draghi: Keyboard music. Autograph score.
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- 032-001945974
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume (folios ii + 43)
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100156353241.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1685
- End Date:
- 1700
- Date Range:
- c 1690-1700
- Era:
- CE
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Paper. 208 x 278mm. In ink throughout. Two earlier modern pencil foliations survive; one (with the volume reversed) is in the hand of Robert Spencer. One folio has been removed from between ff. 7 and 8; two from between ff. 40 and 39; one from between ff. 38 and 37; one from between ff. 27 and 26. f. 42v is ruled with staves but is otherwise blank. Six 6-line staves, drawn with a two-stave rastrum. Contemporary full leather blind-stamped binding.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from Sotheby’s with the aid of grants from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Thorn EMI plc and the Classical Division of EMI Records UK, The Foundation for Sport & the Arts, The Leopold Muller Estate, The Britten-Pears Foundation, The Friends of the National Libraries, Lord Palumbo and the Rayne Foundation, as well as by a number of private individuals, 2 Feb. 1995.
- Information About Copies:
- Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Ms_mus._1
- Publications:
- Publications of the music in Purcell’s hand using the present manuscript as the source are H. Purcell, Twenty keyboard pieces and one by Orlando Gibbons, ed. D. Moroney (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, 1999), and H. Purcell, Complete piano works: individual pieces, suites, ed. I. Máriássy (Budapest: Könemann Music, 1999). For discussions of the manuscript see C. Price, ‘Newly discovered autograph keyboard music of Purcell and Draghi’, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 120/1 (1995), pp. 77-111, including, pp. 103-111, transcriptions of the previously unknown Draghi works; C. Hogwood, ‘A new English keyboard manuscript of the seventeenth century: autograph music by Draghi and Purcell’, The British Library Journal, 21/2 (1995), pp. 161-175; C. Banks, ‘British Library MS.Mus.1.: A recently discovered manuscript of keyboard music by Henry Purcell and Giovanni Battista Draghi’, Brio, 32/2 (1995), pp. 87-93.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)