[Miscellaneous collection of music for harpsichord by Henry Purcell and others] [ca. 1710]

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[Miscellaneous collection of music for harpsichord by Henry Purcell and others] [ca. 1710]

Manuscript volume of harpsichord music by Henry Purcell, Jeremiah Clarke and others. The volume contains 32 complete pieces and a few fragments. The contents are fully described in the article by Robert Klakowich, cited above.

[80] p, bound ; 20 x 26 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7790681

University of California, Los Angeles

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King, Robert, active 1676-1728

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Purcell, Daniel, 1660?-1717

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Powell, W.T.R.,

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Border, Richard,

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Lully, Jean-Baptiste, 1632-1687

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First performed at the court at St. Germain-en-Laye, 3 February 1680. Cf. New Grove online. From the description of Proserpine : tragedie mis en musique par monsieur de Luly [sic] surintendant de la musique du roy en 1680 : manuscript, [between 1750 and 1800] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 612860198 First performed at the Paris OpeĢra, 15 February 1686; libretto by P. Quinault, after Torquato Tasso's epic poem Gerusalemme liberata. Cf. New Grove opera. From the d...

Clarke, Jeremiah, 1669?-1707

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Epithet: composer and organist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000471.0x000132 Clarke composed a number of marches for harpsichord and named them after contemporary noblemen. They were called "trumpet tunes" because in them the harpsichord imitates trumpet style. This march first published, attributed to "Mr. Clarke", in "A Choice Collection of Ayres for the Harpsichord or Spinett," by John Young, ...

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695

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This version 1943.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Suite from the opera : the Fairy queen / Henry Purcell ; selection and orchestration by Harold Byrns. 1943. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 53445289 From the opera composed ca. 1689. Transcribed 1936.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Passacaglia : from Dido and Aeneas / Henry Purcell ; transcribed by Charles O'Connell. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall Colle...

Monson, John Monson, Baron, 1693-1748

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British commissioner of trade and plantations. From the description of Memorandum of John Monson, Baron Monson, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79453858 ...

Finney, Theodore M. (Theodore Mitchell), 1902-1978

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American musicologist and educator. From the description of Theodore M. Finney Music Manuscript Collection, ca. 1700-1850. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122530516 This is most likely the copy Finney sent to Volkwein Bros. who published the work in 1946. From the description of Exultant spirit, ever new / text: Doris Jack ; music: Theodore M. Finney. [1946] (University of Pittsburgh). WorldCat r...