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Add MS 71107

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SAMUEL WESLEY: ‘Harmony 1800’, vocal and instrumental music mainly by Samuel Wesley; 1800-1807. Autograph of Wesley. Other composers represented are Charles Burney, Henry Purcell, Thomas Ravenscroft and Agostino Steffani. In the list below pieces are by Samuel Wesley except where stated otherwise, and references are given where further (often variant) autograph versions of the pieces are to be found in other manuscripts in the British Library or the Royal College of Music (Lcm). Volume containing paper with a watermark date of 1798, with a plate-printed passepartout titlepage by William Hodsoll of Holborn (1798-1831). Original pagination indicates that some leaves have been lost, e.g. between ff. 79 and 80 (2 leaves), and ff. 114 and 115 (35 leaves). Purchased from Travis & Emery, 1 Apr. 1992.

Paper. ff. i+120. 240 x 290mm. British Library binding. Formerly bound in half leather, with the name Samuel Wesley blocked in gold in the centre of the upper cover. Instructions to the binder are at f. 120 and paper used in the binding has a watermark date of 1815. The old covers (and folio i) are now kept separately.

1. f. 2. Sketch of a keyboard piece (4 bars) in E major; n.d.

2. ff. 2v-3v. ‘Carmen Bacchanale: Dum vivimus vivamus’, glee, (begins ‘Mihi sit propositum’); n.d. Score. Cf. Add. 14343, ff. 2v-3 and 35003, f. 32 (dated 1 Nov. 1794).

3. ff. 4-5v. ‘While others Delia use their pen’, glee; 14 Sept. 1800. Score. Cf. Add. 14343, ff. 4v-6 and Add. 35003, ff. 75-78.

4. ff. 6-13v. A. Steffani: ‘Qui diligit Mariam’, motet for 6 voices; n.d. Score. For other copies see Add. 14395, ff. 77-79v, 31409, f. 12, 31477, f. 3 (for 5 voices), 31493, f. 95 (for 5 voices), 31499, ff. 1v-11 and 5054, f. 8v.

5. ff. 14-14v. ‘The Macedon Youth’, three part song; n.d. Score. Cf. Add. 33240, f. 24v (incomplete).

6. ff. 15-21. ‘Fuga’, four voices; 31 Aug. 1800. Score. The subject is from Haydn’s Creation. Cf. Add. 35007, ff. 187-194.

7. ff. 21v-24. ‘Hilaroi piomen oinon’, glee for male voices; n.d. Score. Cf. Add. 14343, ff. 11v-14 (dated 3 Nov. 1800), and Add. 65454, ff. 8-11v.

8. ff. 24v-25v. ‘A minuet in Haydn’s manner’, for string quartet; n.d. Also found in Royal College of Music MS 5251 (dated 1800), in the hand of Vincent Novello.

9. f. 26. ‘Fuga, organo’, in C major; n.d. Cf. Add. 35007, f. 63.

10. ff. 26v-27v. ‘Fuga’, for organ, in D major; 16 Feb. 1800. Differs from the fugues in D in Add. 34998, f. 68 and 35007, f. 57v.

11. f. 27v. ‘Fantasia’, for 3 voices (soprano, alto, bass); n.d.

12. ff. 28-31. ‘Psalmus 130’, for male voices, De profundis clamavi; n.d. Cf. Add. 14341, ff. 5v-8.

13. ff. 31v-33. ‘Fuga’, for organ, in D major; 4 Jan. 1801. Differs from the fugues in D in Add. 34998, f. 68 and 35007 f. 57v.

14. ff. 35v-50. ‘Antiphona duobis choris cantanda’, ‘Dixit Dominus’, for mixed double choir; 13 Jan. 1800. Score. Signed. Figured bass has been added in a different ink with various corrections to the voice parts. Cf. Lcm 639 (with organ accompaniment).

15. ff. 50v-58. ‘Antiphona in Festo SS. Corporis Christi’, ‘Exsultate Deo’, for mixed choir with organ accompaniment; 28 June 1800. Score. Cf. Add. 17731, ff. 27-35 and Add. 35001, ff. 49-52.

16. f. 59. ‘Verse from the burial service of the Church of England’, ‘O Lord most holy’, for mixed choir; n.d.

17. ff. 59v-60. ‘Part of Dr Johnson’s Ode to Summer’, ‘Come Stella Queen of all my Heart’, for tenor voice with keyboard accompaniment; 29 July 1801. Cf. Add. 14343, ff. 6v-7.

18. ff. 60v-61. Song ‘Parting to death we may compare’, for soprano voice with keyboard accompaniment; ‘written in the year 1783 or 4’. Cf. Add. 35005, ff. 68-70v and Add. 14343, ff. 7v-8. A copy in Eliza Wesley’s hand is at Add. 35028, ff. 53-54.

19. ff. 61v-62. ‘Chanson de Henri 4’, ‘La belle Gabrielle’, for two sopranos and keyboard (figured bass); ‘the musick written in the year 1793’. Cf. Add. 35003, f. 35 (signed ‘S. Wesley Feb. 11 1792’).

20. ff. 62v-73v. ‘Antiphona a duplici choro cantanda cum instrumentis’, ‘Deus majestatis intonuit’, for mixed double choir; 26 Sept. 1799. Score. Cf. Add. 35001, ff. 38-41v and Lcm 1040.

21. ff. 74v-75. ‘Hymnus matutinus e Breviario Romano’, ‘Ecce jam noctis tenuatur umbra’, for male voices; 21 Aug. 1801. Score. For a more elaborate 5 part setting with organ accompaniment, see Add. 14340, ff. 17-19. Cf. also Add. 65454, ff. 3-4v and transcription by J. P. Street in Eg. 2571, f. 31v.

22. ff. 75v-76. Two-part song ‘Of all the Joys were e’er possest’, for soprano and bass; 22 Jan. 1801. Cf. Add. 14343, ff. 17-18.

23. ff. 76v-79v. ‘Address to the Deity’, ‘Father of Light and Life’, for mixed choir; 22 March 1801. Cf. Add. 14343, ff. 14-16v.

24. f. 80. C. Burney: ‘Contrapunctus, rectè, retrò & inverso ordine’, ‘Thou shalt have none other Gods but me’, for female voices; n.d. Score. Add. 27645, f. 62 is a different working using the same text.

25. ff. 80v-83v. ‘Anthem from the Te Deum laudamus’, ‘All the Earth doth worship Thee’, for unaccompanied mixed choir; 8 Aug. 1801. Score. Cf. Add. 14341, ff. 8v-11v.

26. ff. 84-87v. ‘Antiphona è Psalmo 127’, ‘Beati omnes qui timent Dominum’, for alto, tenor and organ; 19 Aug. 1801. Score.

27. ff. 88-88v. ‘Hymnus è Breviario Romano’, ‘Nocte surgentes vigilemus’, for male voices and organ (figured bass); 16 Sept. 1801. Score. Cf. Add. 14341, ff. 18v-19 (bass unfigured).

28. ff. 89-89v. H. Purcell: ‘Duet from Dido and Aeneas’; n.d.

29. ff. 90-90v. Motet ‘Sit nomen Domini benedictum’, 3 voices unaccompanied; 12 June 1801. Cf. Add. 14341, ff. 15v-16.

30 ff. 91v-92. ‘Gloria Patri’, for unaccompanied male voices; n.d. Cf. Add. 14341, ff. 13v-14.

31. ff. 92v-93. ‘Verse from a Hymn of Revd Charles Wesley’, ‘Far above their noblest songs’, for mixed choir and organ (figured bass); n.d. Score. Cf. Add. 14340, ff. 38-38v (‘Composed about the year 1792’).

32. ff.93v-94v. ‘Verse for three voices’, ‘In the Multitude of the Sorrows’, for unaccompanied male voices; n.d. Score. Cf. Add. 14341, ff. 14v-15v.

33. f. 95. ‘Waltz’ for piano, in D major; n.d. Cf. Add. 35007, f. 96 (entitled ‘Prelude’) and Add. 65497, f. 16v.

34. f. 95v. ‘Arietta’ for organ, G major; 20 March 1792. A longer version of this piece (‘Aria poco vivace’) is Add. 35007, ff. 49-50v.

35. f. 96. ‘From a Subject of Mozart’, ‘Kyrie eleison’ [K.192], for mixed choir; July 1805. Cf. Add. 14341, f. 18, where it is entitled ‘Canon upon a subject in Mozart’s "Kyrie" (Mass in F No. 3)’.

36. f. 96v. Two hymn tunes: ‘Hertford, Ps. 28’, ‘Bristol, Psalm 32’, melodies with figured bass; 15 Aug. 1806. For ‘Hertford’, ‘O Lord my rock to thee I cry’, cf. Eg. 2512, f. 5v and Add. 14341, f. 19v. For ‘Bristol’, ‘He’s blest whose sins have pardon gain’d’, cf. Add. 14341, ibid. (Add. 14341 transcribed by Vincent Novello "from mss never published".)

37. f. 97. ‘Presto’, for piano, in E flat major; n.d. Cf. Add. 35006, f. 8 (circa 1833) and 35007, 96v.

38. ff. 97v-99. ‘The Responses to the Litany of the Church of England’, for mixed choir with figured bass; 20 Nov. 1806 (beginning), 30 March 1806 (end). Cf. Add. 14341 ff. 2v-3v and Add. 34999, ff. 117-118v.

39. ff. 99v-100. ‘Aria – Andante espressivo’ for piano, in F major; 10 June 1806. Cf. Add. 65497, ff. 15v-16.

40. ff. 100v-102. ‘Part of Anacreon’s Ode – Moore’s translation’, ‘See the young, the rosy Spring’, for two sopranos and piano; n.d. Cf. Add. 14343, ff. 8-9 and Add. 35003, ff. 59-60v.

41. f. 102v. ‘The Oxford Chant to the Liturgy of the Church of England’, for mixed choir; n.d.

42. f. 103v. ‘Trio’, 3 instruments, D major; n.d.

43. ff. 104v-108v. ‘Aria con variazione’, variations for piano on ‘Happy were the Days’ from the opera Ramah Droog by Joseph Mazzinghi and William Reeve; n.d.

44. ff. 109-111. ‘Anacreon Ode’, ‘When Bacchus Jove’s immortal boy’, glee for two sopranos and bass, in B flat major; 6 Sept. 1806. Score. Cf. Add. 14343, ff. 9v-11.

45. ff. 111v-113. ‘Mottetto a tre voci’, ‘Dixit Dominus’, for male voices, in G major; presented and performed at the Society of Concentores 27 Dec. 1806. Score.

46. ff. 113v-114v. ‘Glee 4 voices. Translated from the Greek Epigram. C[harles] W[esley] Junr.’, ‘Life is a Jest’, for male voices; 17 Jan. 1807. Score. Cf. Add. 14340, ff. 51-52 and Eg. 2571, f. 36v.

47. ff. 115v-116v. ‘Mottetto’, ‘Deus noster refugium’, for two sopranos and bass; 7 Sept. 1807. Cf. Add. 14341, ff. 4-5.

48. ff. 117v-118. Hymn ‘Might I in thy Sight appear’, for soprano or tenor and organ, the words by Charles Wesley; 1807. Score. Cf. Add. 14340, f. 39. Published in S. S. Wesley (ed.) The European Psalmist (1872), no. 726, p. 535, and in Musica Britannica, 43 (1979), no. 5, p. 16.

49. f. 118v. Thomas Ravenscroft: Piece for keyboard in F minor; n.d.

Scope & Content:

Samuel Wesley, composer and organist: Vocal and instrumental music by and in the hand of Samuel Wesley: 1800-1807: Mostly Lat., partly Gr.

includes:

f. 6 Agostino Steffani, composer: Motet, `Qui diligit Mariam' by Agostino Steffani: [1800]: Lat: Copy by S. Wesley.
f. 15 Franz Joseph Haydn, composer: Fugue by S. Wesley , on subject by Franz Joseph Haydn: 1800.
f. 59v Samuel Johnson, LLD; lexicographer: Song by S. Wesley , to words by Samuel Johnson: 1801.
f. 80 Charles Burney, Mus.D: Contrapunctus by Charles Burney: [1801]: Copy by S. Wesley.
f. 89 Henry Purcell, composer and organist: Duet from `Dido and Aeneas' composed by Henry Purcell: [1801]: Copy by S. Wesley.
f. 96 Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart, alias Wolfgang Amadeus; composer: Canon for 5 voices by S. Wesley , based on a subject by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 1805: Gr.
f. 100v Anacreon, poet: Thomas Moore, poet: Part-song by S. Wesley , to words by Anacreon translated by Thomas Moore: [1806].
f. 104v William Reeve, theatre composer: Joseph Mazzinghi, composer: Aria con variazione by S. Wesley , based on an aria by Joseph Mazzinghi and William Reeve: [1806].
f. 113v Charles Wesley, musician; d.1834: Glee by S. Wesley , to words translated by Charles Wesley: 1807.
f. 117v Charles Wesley, musician; d.1834: Hymn by S. Wesley , to words by Charles Wesley: 1807.
f. 118v Thomas Ravenscroft, composer and editor: Keyboard piece by Thomas Ravenscroft: [1807?]: Copy by S. Wesley.

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Greek, Modern
Latin

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Start Date:

1792

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1807

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1792-1807

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Names:

Anacreon, poet, 582 BC-485 BC
Burney, Charles, MusD
Haydn, Franz Joseph, composer, 1732-1809
Johnson, Samuel, author and lexicographer, 1709-1784
Mazzinghi, Joseph, composer
Moore, Thomas, poet, 1779-1852
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, composer, 1756-1791
Purcell, Henry, composer and organist, 1658 or 1659-1695
Ravenscroft, Thomas, composer and editor
Reeve, William, theatre composer
Steffani, Agostino, composer
Wesley, Charles, composer, 1757-1834,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083850326,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/56878816
Wesley, Samuel, composer and organist, 1766-1837,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083575977,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12493252