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Zweig MS 76
- Record Id:
- 040-001945826
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000230
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161697787.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 76
- Title:
- Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantata, ‘Ombre tacite e sole’, for soprano solo, two violins, viola and basso continuo
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph full score. Written in ink, on systems of four and five staves. The bass is figured throughout. Signed ‘Cav[alier]e Aless[andr]o Scarlatti’ at top left, and headed ‘Cantata p[er] / Camera / Sopr[an]o Solo / con Strom[en]ti d’Arco. / 31 8bre 1716’ at left of first system (f. 1r). The work is in the following sections: ff. 1r-2v. Accompanied recitative ‘Ombre tacite, e sole’; tempo marking ‘adagio’. ff. 3r-4v. Aria ‘Con piede errante’; ‘lento’. ff. 5r-6r. Accompanied recit. ‘Qui, fra tenebre oscure’; no tempo marking. Though figuring occurs all through the bass line, alternate passages are marked ‘Senza Cembalo’ and ‘Con Cembalo’. ff. 6r-8v. ‘Aria’ ‘Allor d’intorno a te’; ‘and[ant]e lento’. In the lower system on f. 7v the vocal line and text only have been entered and then the whole struck through; the continuation on f. 8r is a variant setting of the same text. The no. ‘25’ is in ink at top left of f. 1r; at bottom right of the same folio, in pencil, ‘IV 137’, the no. of the manuscript in Kinsky, Heyer. Katalog.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945747
040-001945826 - Is part of:
- Zweig MS 1-218 : Stefan Zweig Collection: Music, literary and historical manuscripts
Zweig MS 1-131 : Stefan Zweig Collection: Music manuscripts
Zweig MS 76 : Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantata, ‘Ombre tacite e sole’, for soprano solo, two violins, viola and basso continuo - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0001]/036-001945747[0071]/040-001945826
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (8 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100161697787.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Italian
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1716
- End Date:
- 1716
- Date Range:
- 31 Oct 1716
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
- 213 x 275mm. Late pagination in pencil on rectos only. Structure: 4, 4. 10-stave paper, ruled in fives, span 88mm.; total span 185-7mm. Watermark: device [indistinct - animal?] in a circle. Sewn.
- Custodial History:
- Wilhelm Heyer, Cologne; acquired by Zweig after first auction of Heyer collection, Henrici, Berlin, 11 May 1927 (Zweig’s record card, Add. MS 73176, f. 40); British Library, Loan 77.59 from 1981 to 1986.
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 77.59
- Administrative Context:
- Exhibited: British Library, 1986 (75 Musical and Literary Autographs).
- Information About Copies:
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Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Zweig_MS_76
- Publications:
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Reproduced: f. 1r in Kinsky, Heyer. Katalog, pl. x; f. 1r, 5v-6r, Arthur Searle, The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: catalogue of the music manuscripts (London: The British Library, 1999), plates LXXIX-LXXX.
Bibliography: Georg Kinsky, Musikhistorisches Museum von Wilhelm Heyer in Cöln. Katalog, vol. iv (Cologne, 1916), p. 79; Roberto Pagano, Lino Bianchi, Giancarlo Rostirolla, Alessandro Scarlatti (Turin, 1972), p. 388; Oliver Matuschek, Ich kenne den Zauber der Schrift (Vienna: Inlibris, 2005), p. 384. Although not listed in E.J. Dent’s pioneering Alessandro Scarlatti (London, 1905), this cantata appears in the work lists in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (vol. xi), G.M. Gatti and A.Basso (eds.), La Musica (vol. iv), and The New Grove, as well as Pagano, Bianchi, Rostirolla, Scarlatti, but in each case the information appears to originate from Kinsky’s Heyer. Katalog without direct knowledge of the manuscript or its location.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)