Box 3
Container
Contains 6 Results:
"Chichester Concert," ripieno primo parts for compilation of works from multiple composers, bound music manuscript, 66 pages, England, circa 1795-1800
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Paper bears the watermarks of Porter & Bridges and J. Whatman, the latter dated 1794 (possibly 1791).
Composers include Cambini, Handel, Pleyel, Kammel, Martini, Abel, Haydn, Porpora, Geminiani, Hooke, Gyrovetz, Kozeluch, Stamitz
Contents:
Dates:
circa 1795-1800
Johani Öberg's "Sånger mid accompaniment af Piano-Forte," bound manuscript songbook, 34 pages, Sweden(?), 1836 December 14
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Songbook written in Swedish by Johani Öberg. Inscription on the final rear endleaf verso translates to "A small memory of December 14th, 1836." Pagination skips pages 31-32 with apparent loss of leaf; the songs on pages 30 and 33 do not match.
Dates:
1836 December 14
"Airs à boire," bound music manuscript, a collection of vocal duets, 36 pages, France, mid- to late-18th century
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
17 duets and one solo song, voice parts only. Stationer's ticket on inside of front cover (likely the father of royal organist Jean-Jacques Lebourgeois).
13 songs scored for female voices, 4 for soprano and bass. Composers include Rameau, Colin de Blamont, and Cochereau. The manuscript contains a number of markings--"doux," "fort," "tendrement"--indicating its purpose as a performance copy.
French Baroque airs à boire were light-hearted, occasionally...
Dates:
mid- to late-18th century
William Cleland bagpipe songbook and manual, bound music manuscript, 217 pages, United States and/or Scotland, mid- to late-19th century
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Contains approximately 275 tunes as well as diagrams of thumb placement and scales for playing the pipes. Also bound in is a transcription of the title and preliminary matter to "A Complete Tutor for the Great Highland Bagpipe…." by Angus MacKay.
An apparently New York-based piper named William Cleland is mentioned in a December 6, 1890, New York Times article as having been the piper at the annual St. Andrew's Society dinner at Delmonico's for the previous 36 years; this...
Dates:
mid- to late-19th century
A. E. Tuthill's copy of "Girton College Songs" by C. L. Maynard, bound music manuscript, 58 pages, England, 1876-1884
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
An early manuscript songbook for Girton College, founded in 1869. Constance Louisa Maynard, compiler or presenter of the songbook and later founder of Westfield College (a constituent of the University of London), attended Girton 1872-1876. Anne Tuthill, owner and presumed creator of this particular copy, studied law at Cambridge (with which Girton was affiliated) 1876-1879. It appears this copy contains seven additional pages of verse added 1877-1884 by Tuthill, making this copy...
Dates:
1876-1884
Anonymous songbook, bound music manuscript, 94 pages, probably England, undated but 19th century
Item — Box: 3, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Front cover separated but present. Index of songs with page numbers on front pastedown endpaper. No identifying names or dates were found in the volume.
Dates:
undated but 19th century