[Musical copybook]

Format:

Manuscript

Musical score

Language:

English

French

German

Subjects (All):

Operas--Excerpts--Vocal scores with piano.

Operas.

Songs with piano.

Vocal duets with piano.

Vocal duets, Unaccompanied.

Piano music.

Piano music, Arranged.

Piano music (4 hands)--Scores.

Piano music (4 hands).

Genre:

Songs.

Excerpts.

Manuscripts.

Arrangements (Music)

Scores.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by William Hutchison (Mendenhall, Pennsylvania), 2016.

Physical Description:

1 manuscript score (178 unnumbered pages) ; 34 cm

Production:

[approximately 1795-1813]

Other Title:

Title of first work: Hush ev'ry breeze

Language Note:

English words; German words in Duett by Winter, French and English lyrics provided in Pauvre Jaque. In most songs words are placed between the two staves of the piano part, with additional verses provided as text following the score.

Staff notation, ink on paper; staves drawn by hand.

Summary:

This music manuscript consists of 77 pieces, three of which appear to be incomplete. The great majority are songs for voice and piano, many of which are drawn from popular operas and other musical entertainments of the day. Also included are several vocal duets and works for solo piano, as well as one work for piano, 4 hands. It is a musical copybook; the repertoire in this collection appears in printed publications from approximately 1790-1810. The first 39 pieces are notated in a precise, neat hand and embellished with decorative elements. They appear to closely duplicate the original printed editions, including the placement of added verses and the inclusion of accompanying parts for guitar or flute. The remaining pieces in the volume are in a more relaxed format and hand.

Contents:

Hush ev'ry breeze / [James Hook]

Rise Cynthia rise / [James Hook]

Poor Tom Bowling or The sailor's epitaph / [Charles Dibdin]

The indigent peasant / [James Hook]

Soldiers adieu / [Charles Dibdin]

The flowing can / [Charles Dibdin]

Ah! can I cease to love her / [Stephen Storace]

The Scotch air in the comic opera of the Pirates [As wrapt in sleep I lay] / Stephen Storace]

The match girl

When William at eve / [William Shield]

How happy was my morn of love

The favorite duett [Ah tell me softly] / [Stephen Storace, from The Prize]

Poor Jack / [Charles Dibdin]

The capture in The pirates / [Stephen Storace]

The jealous Don : a favorite dialogue and duett in the opera of The Pirates / [Stephen Storace]

The desponding negro / [William Reeve]

Grant me ye pow'rs : in the song The devil to pay / [Charles Coffey]

Primroses deck : a favorite rondo / [Thomas Linley]

Pauvre Jaque

Waving willow / [William Shield]

An easy and familiar lesson for two performers [on one piano forte] / [R. Taylor]

The cottagers daughter / [James Hook]

The little sailor boy : a ballad / [Benjamin Carr]

Sonata / composed by Valentino Niccolai

Owen : a favorite Welch air

How sweet in the woodland / [Henry Harington]

Chica cho in Blue Beard / [Michael Kelly]

Pit a pat in Blue Beard / [Michael Kelly]

When pensive in Blue Beard / [Michael Kelly]

Rondo

The invitation

Still the lark finds repose [Thomas Linely]

The much admired song in The stranger / [Alexander Reinagle]

The knitting girl / [Haydn]

Rosa / [Reinagle]

Courteous stranger

The death and burial of Cock Robin / [Samuel Arnold]

Crazy Jane / [Harriett Abrams]

Blue bell of Scotland

The love letter / composed and sung by Brah[am] / [John Braham]

The polacca / by Steibelt

The soldiers dream / words by T. Campbell, music by B. Carr

Duetto [How sweet in the woodlands / Henry Harington]

The Egyptian love song / [Henry Harington]

In airy dreams : a favorite duett

Damon and Clora : a song for two voices / by Mr. Harrington

Overture to Panurge / [André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry]

Canzonet

O, Nanny wilt thou gang with me : English air, in Scots stile / music by T. Carter

Whilst with village maids I stray : from Rosina / music by Shield

Farewell to Lochaber : Scots song / collated by Pleyel, poetry by Allan Ramsay

Here's a health to Ane I lo'e dear : Scots song / music collated by Kozeluch, poetry by Burns

The gleaners : from the opera Rosina / [William Shield]

The mouth which a smile : English air : from Rosina / music by Shield

Light as thistle down moving : from Rosina / Shield

Eliza / composed and sung by Mr. Braham

The rose : sung by Mr. Webster / written and composed by John Bray, comedian

The ewe bughts : a Scots pastoral / by Ramsay

Ah cruel maid : 1810 / [Michael Kelly, from The forty thieves]

The willow / comp. by John Braham

See from ocean rising / [Joseph Mazzinghi]

The bewildered maid / composed and sung by Mr. Braham

Why does azure deck the sky? / by T. Moore, Esqr., composed by R. Humfrey

Polacca / composed by Mr. Shield

On this cold flinty rock / sung and composed by Mr. Braham

Soft as yon silver ray / poetry by Mrs. Radcliff, musick by Mr. Bray

Softly waft ye southern breezes : sung by Mr. Webster / composed by Hook

Say little foolish flutt'ring thing : from The padlock / Dibdin

He was fam'd for deeds of arms : sung in The travelers / written by Mr. Cherry, composed by D. Corri

I will not have you Harry : a favourite comic ballad / composed by William P. Parke

Fitz-Eustace from Marmion, a tale of Flodden Field : as sung by Mr. Webster / [Dr. John Clarke]

The garland of love : the favourite song in the grand melodrame of Tekeli / composed by Mr. J. Hook

Duett / von Herrn Winter aus dem Unterbrochenen Opferfest

Ah forgive this thoughtless error : a favourite duett in the opera La clemenza di Tito / composed by Mozart

Oh! Climb the rocks : sung by Mr. Webster / composed by Mr. Wm. Russell.

Notes:

Watermark date on opening page: 1795. Two dates appear in the collection: 1810, in caption of Ah cruel maid; 1813 at bottom of page in The garland of love.

Title supplied by cataloger.

On the opening page of the collection, two songs texts are written in ink: the last verse of O nanny, wilt thou gang with me, continued from the song within; and a second text which begins "Too late to redress." On the rear endpaper are written in pencil selected verses from the song, Home, sweet home.

Cited as:

Musical Copybook (Oversize Ms. Codex 2184). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.