Tyson MS 10

ITALIAN ARIAS; 1780s. Copies. Score of the vocal and keyboard parts only. Though the keyboard part usually includes a reduction of some of the upper parts, the chief melodic line is often missing, suggesting that the manuscript was originally accompanied by instrumental parts. Written in several different hands, on several different papers, ruled with eight, ten or twelve staves to the page, some of them heavily cropped.

ff. i + 41. 219 x 292mm. Half-leather on marbled boards, with ornate red leather gilt-stamped title label reading ‘Haydn’s Ballads, Gentle Shepherd &c’, which according to a note on f. i suggests that two printed items, Haydn’s A Second Sett of Twelve Ballads (Preston [1787]) and Thomas Linley’s The Overture, Songs & Duetts in the Pastoral Opera of the Gentle Shepherd (Printed for S. A. & P. Thompson, [1781]) had previously been bound before the manuscript items in the volume.

1. ff. 1-4. [Johann Christian Bach]: ‘Rondeau’, for soprano (words anonymous). Recitative, beginning ‘Ebben si vada, Trionfi la ragione’, and aria, beginning ‘Io ti lascio, e questo addio’. No. LG2 in E. Warburton, The Collected Works of Johann Christian Bach, xlviii/1, Thematic Catalogue (New York, 1999). The aria was originally composed by Michele Mortellari with a different recitative, and was reorchestrated by Bach with a new recitative. It was subsequently incorporated into William Shield’s The Flitch of Bacon. For another copy of the score, see Add. 31578. Published as The Favorite Rondeau (Tenducci, [1778]) and Rondeau chanté au Grand concert de Londre par M. Tenducci en 1778 (Paris: Mme Le Marchand, [1778]).

2. ff. 5-6. Aria, beginning ‘Rasserena il vago ciglio’, for soprano.

3. f. 7. Song, beginning ‘In miry dreams soft fancy flies’, for soprano.

4. ff. 8-11v. [Giovanni Francesco de Maja]: Aria, beginning ‘Tornò in [recte la] mia speranza nel seno’ (words, Pietro Metastasio).

5. ff. 12-13. [Antonio Sacchini]: ‘Song in Mithridate’, beginning ‘Adorata mia speranza’ (words, Apostolo Zeno). Score published in The Favourite Songs in the Opera Mitridate (R. Bremner, [1781]).

6. ff. 13v-14v. Sacchini: ‘Song in Mithridate’, beginning ‘Io parto ben mio’ (words, Apostolo Zeno). Score published in The Favourite Songs in the Opera Mitridate (R. Bremner, [1781]).

7. ff. 15-16v. [Sacchini]: ‘Song in Rinaldo’. Recitative beginning ‘Quel suono che m’alletta onde vien’, and aria, beginning ‘Torna pure al caro bene’. Score published in The Favourite Songs in the Opera Rinaldo (R. Bremner, [1780]).

8. ff. 16v-17v. Sacchini: ‘Song in Rinaldo’, beginning ‘Ah non ferir t’arresta’. Score published in The Favourite Songs in the Opera Rinaldo (R. Bremner, [1780]).

9. ff. 18-22v. Luigi Gatti: ‘Rondò, Nel lasciarmi [recte lasciarti] in questo etc: [per] Violino, Canto, e Basso’. Signed ‘Luigi Tolini Copista’ (f. 22v); the same hand is responsible for the remainder of the volume. Published as Nel Lasciarti in Questo Istante: Rondo (Longman and Broderip, [1785?]).

10. ff. 23-8v. Felice Alessandri: ‘Aria Buffa, Ah d’ascoltar già parmi’. ‘Cantata dal Sigr Domenico Madrigali In Nizza nel Carnovale dell’ 1783’.

11. ff. 29-33v. Antonio Salieri: ‘Aria buffa, Fate buona compagnia [per] Violino, Canto, e Basso’. Dated ‘In Nizza 1783’.

12. ff. 34-41v. Salieri: ‘Aria seria, La speranza lusinghiera [per] Violino, Canto, e Basso’. ‘Cantata dalla Sigr Rosa Bossoli Madrigali nella scuola de’ Gelosi, 1783’.

includes:

• ff. 1-4 Johann Christian Bach, composer: Michele Mortellari, composer: Rondeau, 'Ebben si vada' by Johann Christian Bach, based on an aria by Michele Mortellari: 1780s: Ital: Copy.
• ff. 5-7 Music: Arias for soprano and keyboard: 1780s: Eng., Ital: Copies.
• ff. 8-11v Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Metastasio, poet and librettist: Giovanni Francesco de Maja, composer: Aria, 'Tornò la mia speranza nel seno' by Giovanni Francesco de Maja, to words by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Metastasio: 1780s: Ital: Copy.
• ff. 12-17v Antonio Maria Gasparo Gioacchino Sacchini, composer: Arias: 1780s: Ital: Copy.
• ff. 13v-14v Apostolo Zeno, librettist and poet: Aria, 'Adorata mia speranza' by A. Sacchini, to words by A. Zeno: 1780s: Ital: Copy.
• ff. 18-22v Luigi Maria Baldassare Gatti, composer: Rondo, 'Nel lasciarti in questo istante': 1780s: Ital: Copy.
• ff. 23-8v Felice Alessandri, composer: Domenico Madrigali, singer: Aria, 'Ah d'ascoltar già parmi' by Felice Alessandri, sung by Domenico Madrigali: 1780s: Ital: Copy.
• ff. 29-41v Antonio Salieri, composer: Arias: 1780s: Ital: Copy.
• ff. 34-41v Rosa Bossoli Madrigali, singer: Aria, 'La speranza lusinghiera' by A. Salieri, sung by R. Bossoli: 1780s: Ital: Copy.