MS Mus. 150

MS Mus. 150. CHARLES DIBDIN: miscellaneous movements and fragments; n.d. Arranged alphabetically.

ff. 84. Overall size 310 x 245mm.

1. f. 1. ‘Recito. Accompd.’ , ‘Arise, behold’, for the character of ‘Poetry’ and strings.

2. ff. 2-4. ‘No. 18’, recitative, ‘At length repentant youth’, and the start of an air, ‘The stream that environ’d her Cot’. The music was also used for ‘The Tear of Sensibility’ from ‘Castles in the Air’ (printed by the author, [1793?]).

3. ff. 5-10. Recitative, ‘But ah, how alter’d was its sprightlier tone’ and air, ‘The hunter’s call to dawn and dryad known’. Only the melody and bass line are written for most of the movement.

4. ff. 11-12. Air, ‘Cupid now, thou God of love’.

5. ff. 13-14. ‘No. 8’, ‘Harlequin lying on a couch’, instrumental movement for oboes and strings; and ‘No. 9’, ‘Ranelagh’, instrumental movement for clarinets, horns and bassoons.

6. f. 15. Air, ‘I tremble, I quake, I shiver, I shake’. Lacking the beginning.

7. ff. 16-17. ‘No. 11’, air, ‘In yonder Jesmin Bower’, for voice and strings.

8. ff. 18-23. Chorus, ‘Let every heart and every voice’, for chorus, trumpets, trombones, horns, oboe a traverse and strings. The opening movement of a work. Only the melody and bass line are written.

9. ff. 24-5. Chorus, ‘Let now old Shakespeare yield the meed’.

10. ff. 26-7. ‘Sailor’s Dance’ / ‘Dance of Sailors’. Keyboard part (f. 26) and score for oboes, horns and strings (f. 27), the latter with the start of another dance, ‘Pas seul’.

11. ff. 28-31. ‘11’, air, ‘What time the vesper bell shall ring’, for ‘Aminta’, flutes, horns and strings.

12. ff. 32-7. End of an air, ‘… debt to a generous public I owe’ (melody only); recitative, ‘Says a fat deputy’; air, ‘Shall I then ask for Oria’s woe’ (melody only); recitative, ‘Cries out a squaw’ (incomplete); air, ‘At last I’ve hit upon a plan’, for voice, flutes, oboes, horns, bassoons and strings (partially scored); air, ‘Would you hear in tuneful Strain’ (melody only); recitative, ‘Thus to a counsel’; and the start of an air, ‘If before you leave the Court’, for voice, oboes, bassoons and strings (partially scored). From an unidentified work.

13. ff. 38-40. Part of a chorus, ‘… grotts, explore these cells’, lacking the start and the end.

14. ff. 41-2. End of an air, ‘… bliss one faulting tongue denies’.

15. ff. 43-4. End of a chorus, ‘… from India’s burn[in]g sands we come’.

16. f. 45. End of a ‘Recit. accomp.’, ‘… of her lovely guest’.

17. f. 46. End of a duet, ‘… he and laurel garlands bring’.

18. ff. 47-51. End of an air, ‘… the dire command had doomed you’. An earlier text, ‘… Beauty Breaks the Magic spell’, has been erased.

19. ff. 52-3. End of a chorus, ‘… Venus is by Bacchus crowned’. The order of the pages is 52v, 53r-v, 52r.

20. ff. 54-5. End of an air, ‘… Balmy comfort send, And smiling peace restore’, for voice, flutes, bassoons and strings.

21. ff. 56-9. End of an air, ‘… bands who are never shabby’, and start of an accompanied recitative, ‘J’ait qu’il soit l’éte’, for ‘Punch’, ‘Larron’ and 1st and 2nd Women.

22. ff. 60-3. End of a duet, ‘… what a damned fool it is’.

23. ff. 64-7. End of an air, ‘… pop, pop, and down you tumble’. Parts of two scores, one autogr. and one a copy.

24. ff. 68-70. Sketches, none of them identified.

25. f. 71. A leaf from the libretto to ‘The Cottage’, comic opera. For the remainder of the libretto, see Add. 30964, ff. 93-180, and for musical numbers see Adds. 30952, f. 62; 30953, ff. 108, 134; 30954, f. 145; 30955, f. 151.

26. f. 72. ‘Directions for proceeding with the following subject’. Instructions for composing a sixteen-bar melody.

27. f. 73. ‘Of Time’. An explanation of note-values, time and key signatures.

28. ff. 74-5. Diagrams explaining note-values. Dated ‘Friday July 17th 1807’.

29. ff. 76-83. Mrs Lovat Ashe: ‘England’s Shield’, song for voice, chorus and piano. Two copies, one printed. Cecilia Dacre Ashe was Dibdin’s granddaughter. Another printed edition of this song was published by R. Cocks & Co., [1886].

30. f. 84. Hymn, ‘Supplication’ (‘Just as I am’), for four-part choir and keyboard. Not in Dibdin’s hand; possibly also by Mrs Lovat Ashe.

includes:

• ff. 76-83 Cecilia Dacre Ashe, Mrs Lovat Ashe; composer: Song, 'England's Shield': circa 1880: Partly autogr., partly printed.
• f. 84 Lady Catherine Hannah Charlotte Jackson, née Elliott; author: Cecilia Dacre Ashe, Mrs Lovat Ashe; composer: Hymn, 'Supplication', music possibly by Mrs C. D. Ashe, to words by Lady Catherine Hannah Charlotte Jackson: n.d.: ?Autogr.