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Manuscript music book, circa 1829.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 1718
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Latin
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Songs with keyboard instrument.
- Folk songs.
- Hymns.
- Music--Manuscripts.
- Music.
- Operas--Excerpts, Arranged.
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Songs.
- Scores.
- Arrangements (Music)
- Excerpts.
- Codices.
- Ballads.
- Folk songs.
- Hymns.
- Operas.
- Songbooks.
- Vocal scores with keyboard instrument.
- Manuscripts, English.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Tomas G. Cummings, 2015.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1829.
- Language Note:
- Staff notation.
- In English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Portuguese.
- Summary:
- Collection of 165 copies of scores for voice and keyboard accompaniment consisting of songs such as ballads, pastorales, and modinhas; excerpts from operas such as those by Rossini and Mozart; and instrumental works for keyboard such as popular waltzes, glees, quadrilles, and hymns. Also includes works for 2-3 voices. Several songs include instructions for dance steps (for example, p. 65).The text is written in a single cursive hand and the notation is written upon a 5-line staff. Most of the manuscript has contemporary pagination (through p. 358); the last 19 leaves have occasional erratic pagination. There is an inscription on one of the final leaves that reads "John Hale Murray, Oct[obe]r 1829".
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 1718.
- OCLC:
- 927106231
- Access Restriction:
- Access to this item is subject to staff review.
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