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114 Songs
A collection of 114 songs set by Charles Ives, with lyrics by Ives and others. The back of the book contains a philosophical essay by Ives.
Date:
1922
Creator:
Ives, Charles, 1874-1954
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Achilles. An opera.
John Gay is credited with inventing the ballad opera, a genre that blends spoken plays and previously composed songs to new texts. Although The Beggar’s Opera (1728) was his most successful endeavor, he continued to compose English musical dramas. Achilles was finally performed in 1733, one year after Gay died. In this story, Achilles appears as a girl named Pyrrha, unknown to most of the inhabitants of the island of Scyros, in order to circumvent a prediction that he will die in battle. Deidamia (the king’s daughter) knows the secret, however, because she is carrying the disguised man’s child. After Achilles’s identity is revealed, he and Deidamia are able to wed. Then, in a fateful twist of irony, Achilles plans to join the Greeks in the Trojan War.
Date:
1733
Creator:
Gay, John, 1685-1732
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Acis and Galatea
This is a ca. 1743 score of Acis and Galatea, a musical masque (also considered an English pastoral opera) by Handel to a libretto by John Gay. The performance forces include: oboes (2), flauto [recorder], violins, basso continuo, and chorus of mixed voices (mostly soprano, three tenors and bass) and vocal soloists. On the front cover the name Morgan appears imprinted on a red stamp with golden ornaments and letters. The names Anna Maria [Lawes] and Mary Anne Morgan were written at the top of the title page and the inscription, "the gift [of] her uncle T. Morgan, 1808." Underneath the dedication: WH London, 1890.
Date:
1743
Creator:
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Airs russes: fantaisie for the piano forte, op.43
Music score for Airs russes: fantaisie, written for the piano forte, part of opus 43 by Leopold von Meyer.
Date:
184X
Creator:
Meyer, Leopold von, 1816-1883
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick.
A secular choral work in two parts for four soloists (SSTB) and mixed chorus (SATB) with orchestra acc. (2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets, 3 violins, viola, violoncello, and continuo). The names of the vocal soloists (Mr. [John] Beard, Signora [Anna Maria] Strada, Miss. [Cecilia] Young, and Mr. Erard) are printed at the top of their designated songs.
Date:
1743
Creator:
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759 & Dryden, John, 1631-1700
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Andante for the piano forte, op. 42
Musical score of "Andante for the piano forte", part of opus 42 by Leopold von Meyer.
Date:
184X
Creator:
Meyer, Leopold von, 1816-1883
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Artaxerxes. An English opera.
1763 English libretto for Thomas Arne's opera Artaxerxes. Thomas Arne most likely wrote his own libretto for Artaxerxes, which enjoyed a successful run at Covent Garden beginning on 2 February 1762. Artaxerxes follows the structure of Metastasio’s Italian libretto on the same subject; no other English-language opera has been recognized as following the principles of Metastasian opera seria.
Date:
1763
Creator:
Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Aurora che Sorgereai with Brilliant Variations for the PIano Forte
This is a digital copy of the ca. 1830 edition of Henri Herz's Brilliant variations for the piano forte on the cavatina "Aurora che sorcerai" from Rossini's two-act melodrama "La donna del lago," (i.e., The lady of the lake). The library's copy is part of a bound collection of piano music by variopus nineteenth-century composers. The pianist, and Herz's friend, Franz Hünten adapted several passages of the music to suit the range of the contemporaneous piano fortes. A note on the t.p. indicates that "Mrs. [Lucy] Anderson had the distinguished honor of performing this piece before their Majesties at Brighton." Plate no. 476.
Date:
1830?
Creator:
Herz, Henri, 1803-1888.
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Beggar's opera
This is a 1735 fourth ed. of the three-act ballad opera "The beggar's opera" by John Christopher Pepusch and John Gay. It includes the score for the overture (for violins (2), viola, and bass ensemble) and the melodies of each song. The inscription, "Nos haec novimus esse nihil" (transl. as, We know these to be nothing) that appears on the t.p. is an epigram by Marcus Valerius Martialis from his Books of Epigrams. On the back of the t.p. appears the advertisement of these works printed by John Watts: Fifty one new fables in verse; The tunes to the songs in the Beggar's Opera, transposed for the flute; and Gay's opera "Achilles." A table of songs shows the first lines of text for each act. The item includes a list of characters.
Date:
1735
Creator:
Pepusch, John Christopher, 1667-1752 & Gay, John, 1685-1732
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Belshazzar : a sacred Oratorio in Score
A sacred oratorio in three acts for soloists and mixed chorus (SATB) with orchestra acc. (2 oboes, 2 violins, viola, and basso continuo). A contents index is given on p. 219. According to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Handel composed this oratorio from 23 August - 23 October 1744. Charles Jennens wrote the libretto on the Biblical story of the downfall of the King of Babylon with details taken from "Cyropaedia" (a political romance about the education of an ideal ruler) by Herodotus and Xenophon's.
Date:
{1744-08-23,1744-10-23}
Creator:
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759 & Jennens, Charles, 1700-1773
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Booke of Common Prayer
1611 edition of the Book of Common Prayer, with psalms. The psalms include incipits in Latin, and occasional notated settings, along with the traditional canticles (Benedictus, Magnificat, Nunc Dimmitis) for morning, evening, and night prayer, Te Deum, the Athanasian Creed, and other hymns and prayers.
Date:
1611
Creator:
Church of England
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Booke of Common Prayer and The Whole book of Psalmes
A 1611 Booke of Common Prayer, bound with a 1609 book of Psalms with notated settings, "collected into English meeter by Thomas Sternhold."
Date:
{1609,1611}
Creator:
Church of England
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Brooklyn Academy of Music: a brief address and ten plates
Architectural drawings for a planned new building for the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It is addressed first to subscribers, but also to the residents of Brooklyn, in an appeal for funding and support. The copy includes a cover letter dated October 12, 1905, addressed to Mr. Hosmer B. Parsons.
Date:
1905
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Cathedral Chants
A collection of Anglican chants, harmonized and with figured bass, without words. This item is numbered as copy 567, and is signed by the editors. Substantial space is given to a list of subscribers, and brief biographical information on the composers.
Date:
1829
Creator:
Bennett, Alfred & William Marshall
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Child of the Regiment
An arrangement the aria Quand le destin with English and Italian lyrics. A color lithograph on the cover depicts Jenny Lind.
Date:
184X
Creator:
Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The choral tribute: a collection of new church music, for choirs, singing schools, conventions, &c.
None
Date:
1869
Creator:
Emerson, L. O. (Luther Orlando), 1820-1915
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A compendium of practical music in five parts, Teaching, by a new and easie method
A compendium of practical music in five parts, Teaching, by a new and easie method, 1. The rudiments of song, 2. The principles of composition, 3. The use of discords, 4. The form of figurate descant, 5. The contrivance of canon, Together with lessons for viols, &c., third edition. First published under the title "The principles of practical musick."
Date:
1678
Creator:
Simpson, Christopher, -1669
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Daisy: Opera in Two Acts
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This is the original conductor's score for the opera "Daisy" including the vocal parts as well as instrumental lines for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horns, trumpets, bass trombone, timpani and percussion, harp and piano, violin, viola, cello, and string bass. The introductory pages at the start of the score include acknowledgements and synopsis by Professor Kenneth L. Ballenger, the cast of characters and scene list (5 scenes). There is an index to the scenes for each act following their title pages (before page 1 for Act I and before page 262 for Act II).
Date:
September 15, 1973
Creator:
Smith, Julia, 1905-1989
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Day-spring, or, Union collection of songs for the sanctuary
"Compiled by Sylvester Main from the already published works of the late I.B. Woodbury as well as from much choice manuscript music found in his portfolio at his death, together with copious contributions from the first living authors." The beginning of the collection includes brief instruction in the fundamentals of music and choral singing.
Date:
1859
Creator:
Main, Sylvester,1817-1873 & Woodbury, I. B. (Isaac Baker), 1819-1858
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Devil to pay: or, The wives metamorphos'd
English libretto to Charles Coffey's ballad opera The devil to pay or, The wives metamorphos'd. The Devil to Pay is an adaptation of Thomas Jevon’s play The Devil of a Wife (1686). Nearly fifty years later, the ballad opera appeared at Drury Lane with Charles Coffey and John Mottley each responsible for half of the three acts. However, a much shorter and more well-received one-act version, edited by Theophilus Cibber, is represented in the printed libretto. Today Coffey is generally the only name widely attached to The Devil to Pay. The opera’s popularity is attested by the frequent performances and a translation into German, which contributed to the development of the Singspiel.
Date:
1732
Creator:
Coffey, Charles, d. 1745; Mottley, John, 1692-1750 & Jevon, Thomas, 1652-1688
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Volume 1
This is a copy of the first volume of "Dictionary of Music and Musicians," edited by Sir George Grove. This volume, published in 1879, is an encyclopedic work that contains the biographies of well-known composers as well as articles contributed by various authors on music topics, concepts and definitions starting alphabetically from: "A" (i.e., the sixth note in the scale of C major) to "I" (impromptu). The names of contributing authors appear in a list on pp.[vii]-viii), signed "Bedford Street, Covent Garden, April 1, 1879." The titles of volumes I and II, indicate that the dictionary was issued in three volumes. However, the titles of the third and fourth volumes changed that statement to indicate that the publication of the dictionary was in four volumes.
Date:
1879
Creator:
Grove, George, Sir, 1820-1900.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Volume 2
This is a copy of the second volume of "Dictionary of Music and Musicians," edited by Sir George Grove. This volume, published in 1880, is an encyclopedic work that contains the biographies of well-known composers as well as articles contributed by various authors on music topics, concepts and definitions starting alphabetically from: "I" (improperia) to "P" (plain song). The names of contributing authors appear in a list on pp.[v]-vii, signed "Bedford Street, Covent Garden, October 1, 1880." The titles of volumes I and II, indicate that the dictionary was issued in three volumes. However, the titles of the third and fourth volumes changed that statement to indicate that the publication of the dictionary was in four volumes.
Date:
1880
Creator:
Grove, George, Sir, 1820-1900.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Volume 3
This is a copy of the third volume of "Dictionary of Music and Musicians," edited by Sir George Grove. This volume, published in 1883, is an encyclopedic work that contains the biographies of well-known composers as well as articles contributed by various authors on music topics, concepts and definitions starting alphabetically from: "P" (Planché, James Robinson) to "S" (the title of the Medieval rota, "Sume is icumen in"). The names of contributing authors appear in a list on pp.[v]-vii, signed "29 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, July, 1883." The titles of volumes I and II, indicate that the dictionary was issued in three volumes. However, the titles of the third and fourth volumes changed that statement to indicate that the publication of the dictionary was in four volumes.
Date:
1883
Creator:
Grove, George, Sir, 1820-1900.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Volume 4
This is a copy of the fourth volume of "Dictionary of Music and Musicians," edited by Sir George Grove. This volume, published in 1890, is an encyclopedic work that contains the biographies of well-known composers as well as articles contributed by various authors on music topics, concepts and definitions starting alphabetically from: "S" (continuation of the article about the Medieval rota, "Sume is icumen in" that appears on vol. 3) to "Z" (starting with the singer, Zur Mühlen, Raimund von).
Date:
1890
Creator:
Grove, George, 1820-1900
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library