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Hirsch III.472.(2.)
- Record Id:
- 040-001945726
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945670
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000195
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- Reference (shelfmark):
- Hirsch III.472.(2.)
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HENRY PURCELL (b.1659, d.1695): keyboard music; late 17th cent. In ink. Copy, in a single hand, on pages ruled with four 6-line staves. Bound after a copy of Purcell’s A Choice Collection of Lessons for the Harpsichord or Spinnet (Printed for Mrs Frances Purcell, 1696, with her signature on the dedication page). Catalogue numbers are taken from F. B. Zimmerman, Henry Purcell: an analytical catalogue of his music (1963). From the collection of Thomas William Taphouse, whose name is found on the flyleaf. Exhibited at the International Inventions Exhibition, London, 1885, according to a stamp inside the front cover (f. i). The chaconne on f. 1r was used as an example of the ground bass at a lecture given by Sir John Stainer in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, 12 Feb. 1891; a printed sheet for the lecture, entitled Specimens of Ground-Basses, is pasted inside the front cover (f. ii). Sold to F. S. Ellis at Sotheby’s, 4 July 1905, and subsequently owned by Jules Ecorcheville. Sold as item 310 from Ecorcheville’s library in May 1920. Purchased by Paul Hirsch from G. Legouix, June 1920. Pencil annotations in the hand of Hirsch are found on the flyleaves. Purchased as part of the Paul Hirsch Music Library, 1946.
ff. vi + 9. 114 x 227mm. Full leather binding, blind stamped, with ‘purcells lessons’ on spine.
1. ff. 1r-3r. ‘A Cannon in two parts’ [in A minor], Z.T679. Arrangement of the chaconne, Z.627/16, from Dioclesian (1690).
2. ff. 3v-4r. [Ground in E minor], Z.T682. Arrangement of the ground from ‘Hence the Deities approve’, Z.339/3, in Welcome to all the pleasures (1683).
3. ff. 4v-7r. ‘Overture in Camilla’ [in D], Z.T691. Arrangement of the first two sections of the overture, Z.632/1, from Timon of Athens (1695), also used as the overture, Z.342/1, to Who can from joy refrain? (1695).
4. ff. 8r-9r. [Trumpet tune, the Cibell, in C], Z.T678.
5. f. 9v. [Trumpet tune in C], Z.T697. Arrangement of the trumpet tune, Z.627/21, from Dioclesian.
Henry Purcell, composer and organist: Keyboard music by Henry Purcell: late 17th cent.: Copy.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Hirsch Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945670
040-001945726 - Is part of:
- Hirsch 199.-M.1356a : The Hirsch Collecton
Hirsch III.472.(2.) : HENRY PURCELL (b.1659, d.1695): keyboard music; late 17th cent. In ink. Copy, in a single hand, on pages ruled with four… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945670[0025]/040-001945726
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Hirsch 199.-M.1356a
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1660
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- Late 17th century
- Era:
- CE
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Gustave Legouix; bookseller, Paris: Sold, in 1920.
Jules Armand Joseph Ecorcheville, musicologist: Owned, before 1915.
Frederick Startridge Ellis, bookseller and author: Purchased, in 1905.
Thomas William Taphouse, Mayor of Oxford; music and instrument collector and dealer: Owned, before 1905.
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- Archives and Manuscripts
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- Names:
- Ellis, Frederick Startridge, bookseller and author, 1830-1901
Gustave Legouix, bookseller, of Paris
Purcell, Henry, composer and organist, 1658 or 1659-1695
Taphouse, Thomas William, Mayor of Oxford, music and instrument collector and dealer
Écorcheville, Jules Armand Joseph, French musicologist and collector, 1872-1915