Tyson MS 2

Trio Sonatas and Suites; circa 1697-1704. Parts, in ink. ff. 1-18 is an incomplete set of parts, all in the same hand, for a set of twelve trio sonatas by Matthew Novell (published as Sonate da Camera or Chamber Musick. Being a Sett of Twelve Sonata’s, London, Excud: et Sculp: Tho Cross. Junr. Printed for the Author, [1704]). ff. 19-35 is a separate fascicle of bass parts to sonatas and suites for strings, in a different hand, and f. 36 is a leaf from a keyboard manuscript in a third hand. All folios are ruled with twelve staves; ff. 19-35 are ruled in two groups of six staves. ff. 1-35 have watermark no. 3140 (undated) in E. Heawood, Watermarks (Hilversum, 1950). f. i is a flyleaf offset with the printed title page of Purcell’s Orpheus Britannicus in the edition printed by John Walsh in 1745, and it would appear that the empty binding was used to store the loose parts after the printed collection had been removed from it. The imprint is not visible on the offset page. Catalogue numbers for Purcell’s works in the description below refer to F. B. Zimmerman, Henry Purcell 1659-1695: an Analytical Catalogue of his Music (1963).

ff. ii + 36. 330 x 208 mm (ff. 1-18); 316 x 203mm (ff. 19-35); 287 x 211mm (f. 36). Detached half-leather marbled boards from another volume used as covers.

Violin parts to sonatas by Matthew Novell:—

1. ff. 1-4. ‘Sonata Terza’ in F major. The first and second violin parts.

2. ff. 5-8. ‘Sonata Quarta’ in D minor. The first and second violin parts.

3. ff. 9-10. ‘Sonata 8tva’ in E minor. The second violin part.

4. ff. 11-14. ‘Sonata Decima’ in A major. The first and second violin parts.

5. ff. 15-18. ‘Sonata 11ma’ in B minor. The first and second violin parts. Most of the second violin part of the ‘Sonata Duodma’, also in B minor, is on ff. 18v and 17.

Bass parts:—

6. f. 19. [William Croft]: ‘Sonata’ in G minor, in three movements, the first not written out. The second and third movements are the fourth (‘Round O’) and second (‘Aire’) respectively of Croft’s incidental music to David Crauford’s ‘Courtship A-la-mode’, produced at Drury Lane in 1700 and published in Harmonia Anglicana, i (Walsh, 1700).

7. f. 19. ‘Sonata’ in B flat major, in two movements.

8. ff. 19v-20. ‘Mr Eccles’: suite in B flat major, in eight movements.

9. ff. 20v-1. ‘Mr Dyer’: suite in G minor, in six movements.

10. f. 21. ‘Overture’ in F major, in five movements. The second movement is initialled ‘R: O:’, possibly referring to the composer Robert Orme.

11. f. 22. Untitled movement in C minor.

12. f. 22v. Gottfried Finger: ‘Mr Finger in the Mourning Bride’. Suite in F major and minor, in six movements, from the incidental music for William Congreve’s ‘The Mourning Bride’ (1697). Not the same as the suite found in two versions in MS Q784.21 in Leeds Central Library and the Finney part-books, on deposit in the Library of the University of California at Los Angeles. A suite in four movements is also found in Case VM 3.1 P985 in the Newberry Library in Chicago: see the description in R. Charteris, ‘Some Manuscript Discoveries of Henry Purcell’, Notes, xxxvii (1980), pp. 8-10.

13. f. 23. Arcangelo Corelli: ‘Sonata’ in E flat major, op.2, no.11. Published in Sonate da camera ... opera seconda (Rome: Muti, 1685).

f. 23v has the title ‘Mr Finger’, without any music.

14. ff. 24v-5. John Eccles: ‘Mr Eccles in the Way of the World’. Suite in D major, in eight movements, from the incidental music to Congreve’s ‘The Way of the World’, produced at Lincoln’s Inn Fields in 1700. A suite of seven movements is in the Newberry Library book referred to above (no.12). The melody of the final movement is published in G major as ‘The Way of the World’ in The Dancing-Master, volume the second (Printed by W. Pearson, [1710]).

15. ff. 25v-6. Finger: ‘Overture Mr Finger in the Deceiver Deceived’. Suite in B flat major, in eight movements, from the incidental music to Mary Pix’s ‘The Deceiver Deceived’, produced at Lincoln’s Inn Fields in 1697. In the play text two songs are attributed to Eccles.

16. ff. 26v-7. Suite in C major in six movements. The title has been cut away.

17. ff. 28v-9. [Gottfried Finger?]: ‘Sonata’ in B flat major, in two movements.

18. f. 29. Finger: ‘Mr Finger in the Innocent Mistress’. Suite in D major, in four movements, from the incidental music to Mary Pix’s ‘The Innocent Mistress’, produced in Lincoln’s Inn Fields in 1697. A suite for the same play by Francis Forcer is known in Yale University Music Library, Filmer MS 9, and in the play text a song is also attributed to Eccles.

19. ff. 29v-31. [Henry Purcell]: suite in D minor, in thirteen movements. The movements, all of which are printed in A Collection of Ayres, compos’d for the Theatre (J. Heptinstall, for Frances Purcell, 1697), are as follows:

i. f. 29v. ‘Overture’ from ‘King Arthur’, Z628/2.

ii. f. 29v. ‘Aire’ from ‘King Arthur’, Z628/11.

iii. f. 30. ‘Song Tune’ from the incidental music to ‘Bonduca’, Z574/2.

iv. f. 30. [Song-tune] from ‘Bonduca’, Z574/3.

v. f. 30. ‘Aire’ from ‘King Arthur’, Z628/17b.

vi. f. 30. ‘Jigg’ from the incidental music to Aphra Behn’s ‘Abdelazer’, Z570/7.

vii. f. 30. ‘Saraband’ from the incidental music to John Dryden’s ‘Amphitryon’, Z572/2.

viii. f. 30v. ‘Hornpipe’ from ‘The Indian Queen’, Z630/2b.

ix. f. 30v. ‘Aire’ from ‘The Indian Queen’, Z630/1b.

x. f. 30v. ‘Aire’ from ‘The Indian Queen’, Z630/1a.

xi. f. 30v. [Hornpipe] from the incidental music to John Crowne’s ‘The Married Beau’, Z603/3.

xii. f. 31. ‘Slow Aire’ from ‘The Married Beau’, Z603/2.

xiii. f. 31. ‘Aire’ from ‘The Indian Queen’, Z630/22.

20. f. 32. [Finger?]: chaconne in G major.

21. f. 32v. [Finger?]: sonata in B flat major, in three movements.

22. f. 33. [Eccles]: the first five movements of ‘A Sett of Aires Made for The Queen’s Coronation’ (here untitled), in D major and minor. Published in Harmonia Anglicana, iv (Walsh, 1702).

23. f. 35 (reversed). Movement in F major and a ground in G major.

24. f. 35v (reversed). [Finger?]: ‘A Ground Bass in D sol re common yt is to say flatt in B fa b mi’.

25. ff. 34v, 35v (reversed). Second violin parts to four movements with chorus, written in a different hand from the bass parts.

26. f. 36. Henry Purcell: the first violin and bass parts of various movements of incidental music, written in score. On the recto, the ‘Slow Aire’ and ‘Hornpipe’ from the music to William Congreve’s play ‘The Old Bachelor’ (Z607/3-4), the first bars of the Air from the music to Aphra Behn’s ‘Abdelazer’ (Z570/3) and the ‘Hornpipe’ from the music to John Dryden’s ‘Amphitryon’ (Z572/7). On the verso, which is inverted, the Rondeau from ‘The Old Bachelor’ (Z607/5, with the annotation ‘Mr H: Purcel’s Tinker’) and the ‘Rondeau’ from the music to Elkanah Settle’s ‘Distressed Innocence’ (Z577/6). After the last piece is a cue reading ‘&c if Love’s a sweet Pas[sion]’ (from ‘The Fairy Queen’, Z629/17b).

includes:

• ff. 1-18 Matthew Novell, composer: Trio sonatas by Matthew Novell: circa 1704: Copy.
• ff. 1-18, 32-5 Music: String parts for a set of trio sonatas and other pieces: circa 1700.
• f. 19 William Croft, composer and organist; d.1727: David Crauford, writer of plays: Bass part to a 'Sonata', from the incidental music to D. Crauford's 'Courtship A-la-mode' by William Croft: circa 1700: Copy.
• ff. 19v-20, 24v-5, 33 John Eccles, Master of the Queen's Musick: Bass parts to suites of incidental music to plays: circa 1700: Copies.
• ff. 20v-1 Mr Dyer, composer: Bass part to a suite: circa 1700: Copy.
• f. 21 R[obert?] O[rme?], composer: Bass part to an 'Overture': circa 1700: Copy.
• ff. 22v, 24v-5 William Congreve, dramatist: Bass parts to incidental music by G. Finger and J. Eccles for his plays: circa 1700: Copies.
• ff. 22v, 25v-6, 28v-9, 29, 32, 35v Gottfried Finger, composer: Bass parts to incidental music for plays, and other music: circa 1700: Copies.
• f. 23 Arcangelo Corelli, composer: Bass part to the sonata op.2, no.11: circa 1700: Copy.
• ff. 25v-6, 29 Mary Pix, writer of plays: Bass parts to incidental music by G. Finger to two of her plays: circa 1700: Copies.
• ff. 29v-31, 36 Henry Purcell, composer and organist: Bass and treble parts to two suites from incidental music: circa 1700: Copies.