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785.a.9.
- Record Id:
- 032-001947747
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001947747
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000035.0x0002d2
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 785.a.9.
- Title:
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MUSICAL EXAMPLES, ETC.; 1730. Bound at the end of the printed volume (by J. C. Pepusch) A Short Treatise on Harmony (J. Watts, 1730) and comprising ‘Examples in Notes referring the [MS.] Figures in the Margin & serving to explain every Example (either in Figures, or in Letters, or in Words,) that is mentioned in this Treatise on Harmony. 1730.’ Sir John Hawkins (who bequeathed the volume to the British Museum in 1789) states that these examples are in the hand of [Joshua] Steele, being ‘taken from the edition published [in 1731] by Dr. Pepusch.’ The hand is however not at all like his, but closely resembles that of James Hamilton, Viscount Paisley (afterwards 7th Earl of Abercorn), to whom it was at the time attributed. He was a pupil of Pepusch, which the writer of the treatise must have been, as it is entirely founded on the master’s method, so much so that the 2nd edition appears to have been published (see above) by the Doctor himself, though not in his own name. In it almost all the examples above-mentioned are incorporated, but with considerable alterations and additions (copies are located at 785.a.10, 11). The words ‘Æt. 44’ at the bottom of f. 1 also corroborate this theory, as Lord Paisley was born in 1686. According to Sir John Hawkins, nos. 3 and 5-11 (catches for three voices, in score) were conjectured to be by Steele, but they are more probably by James Hamilton. For a later MS. copy of this treatise, see Add. 50359.
Paper; pp. 84 + ff. 53. 116 x 180mm. Vellum binding with block-printed endpapers.
1. ff. 1-47r. 99 musical examples.
2. f. 47v. William Byrd: ‘Non nobis Domine’. Canon for three voices, in score.
3. f. 48r. ‘The Loyal Catch for 3 Voices in C [actually D] Key’, beg. ‘Long Live our King, and may all Grace’. See also no. 11, below.
4. f. 48v. Johann Christoph Pepusch: ‘Enlivening Musick’. Catch for three voices, in score.
5. f. 49r. ‘A Catch in D key’. Untexted.
6. f. 49v. ‘A Catch in E key’. Untexted.
7. f. 50r. ‘A Catch in F [actually G] key’. Untexted.
8. f. 50v. ‘A Catch in G [actually A] key’. Untexted.
9. f. 51r. ‘A Catch in A [actually B] key’. Untexted.
10. f. 51v. ‘A Merry Catch like the Ringing of Bells’, beg. ‘Hark how the ringers do please’.
11. ff. 52v-53r. ‘Long live our King, and may all Grace’. The same as no. 3 above but with an additional two strains.
- Scope & Content:
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Johann Christoph Pepusch, composer: James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn: Musical examples , probably in the hand of James Hamilton, to accompany and explain A Short Treatise on Harmony by Johann Christoph Pepusch: 1730.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Music Miscellaneous
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001947747
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001947747
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1730
- End Date:
- 1730
- Date Range:
- 1730
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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Sir John Hawkins, writer on musical history: Bequeathed, in 1789.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Hamilton, James, 7th Earl of Abercorn
Hawkins, John, writer on music history, 1719-1789
Pepusch, Johann Christoph, composer