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a.30.a.
- Record Id:
- 032-001947758
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001947758
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000035.0x0002dd
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- a.30.a.
- Title:
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DANCES FOR THE VIOLIN OR FLUTE: with instructions for the flute; 1732-42. Bound after the printed volume The Compleat Tutor to the Violin, the Fifth book (Ino. Young, 1727). Ink, in various different hands. Inscribed ‘Robert Needham 1732’ (f. v). Purchased, 20 Nov. 1950.
ff. xvi + 37. 110 x 215mm. Comtemporary mottled calf boards with simple blind-stamped design.
1. f. i. ‘Prince Eugene’s March’. Printed in John Playford, The Dancing Master, ... Volume the Second (Printed by W. Pearson, [1710]).
2. f. i. ‘La Bourbonnoise’.
3. f. i v. ‘Joan’s Placket’. (‘Joan’s placket is torn’). Printed in The Dancing Master ... the 7th Edition (Printed by John Playford, 1686).
4. f. 20. ‘A Trumpet tune’.
5. f. 20. Two minuets, in D major and D minor.
6. f. 21. Minuet in D [major] and gavotte in D major.
7. f. 21v. ‘Honest Buskin’.
8. f. 22. ‘Blackwell Hall’. Printed in The Dancing Master, ... Volume the Second (1710).
9. f. 22. ‘Buskin’, also titled ‘Oh Polly’. Printed (as ‘Buskin’) in The Dancing Master ... the Eleventh Edition (Printed for H. Playford, 1701).
10. f. 23. ‘The Bishop of bangor’s Jigg’. Printed in The Dancing Master ... the Eleventh Edition (1701).
11. f. 23. ‘Christmas cheer’. Printed in The Dancing Master ... the Twelfth Edition (Printed for H. Playford, 1703).
12. f. 24. ‘Tweed side’. (The song ‘What beauties does Flora disclose’, to the tune ‘Tweedside’.)
13. f. 24. ‘The Busie Fly’. (The song ‘Busy curious thirsty fly’, sometimes attributed to Maurice Greene or to Henry Carey.)
14. f. 25. ‘A French Minuet’.
15. f. 26. ‘A Minuet by Mr Handell’.
16. f. 26. ‘The Queen of the Mead’.
17. f. 27. Jig in G major.
18. f. 27. The Vicar of Bray.
19. f. 28. ‘The Running Footman’.
20. f. 28. ‘The Highland Laddie’.
21. f. 29. ‘Woe’s my heart’.
22. f. 29. ‘Muirland Willie’.
23. ff. 30-1. Sonata in G major, in four movements.
24. f. 31. Minuet in G major.
25. f. 31v-7. ‘Here follow the Clearest, Briefest, and purest Rules for learning the German flute that ever have been given out, till this present year 1742’. With explanations of fingerings, note values and ornaments.
- Scope & Content:
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Music: Dances, with instructions for the flute: 1732-42.
includes:
- f. 24 Maurice Greene, organist and composer: Henry Carey, composer: Tune of the song, 'The busy fly', sometimes attributed to: 1732: Copy.
- f. 26 George Frideric Handel, composer: 'A Minuet by Mr Handell': 1732: Copy.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Music Miscellaneous
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001947758
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001947758
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1732
- End Date:
- 1742
- Date Range:
- 1732-1742
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Custodial History:
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Robert Needham, musician: Owned, in 1732.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Carey, Henry, composer
Greene, Maurice, organist and composer, 1696-1755
Handel, George Frideric, composer, 1685-1759
Needham, Robert, musician