Il pirata: opera complet pour piano et chant, paroles italiennes

Piano-vocal score of Bellini's opera Il Pirata.
Date: 1844
Creator: Bellini, Vincenzo, 1801-1835
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Binder's Collection: Minnie Greene, Book 1]

Bound compilation of sheet music. The dates of publication range between 1840 and 1880, and most of the publishers' imprints were located in New York or Philadelphia, along with several other locations. Discard stamps from the Columbus, Ohio public library, and a stamp for R.B. McAdow, Music Dealer in the same city suggest the compiler's residence was also there; the name Minnie S. Greene is written in pencil on the first page of music. Page 127 of the scan, or 114 of the music, is also inscribed "Presented to Minnie Greene."
Date: 1840/1880
Creator: Greene, Minnie S.
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Binder's Collection: Columbus Public Library, Parts]

Bound compilation of parts to accompany the volume M218.C67. This collection's contents do not overlap entirely with those of main volume. The library catalog record follows the handwritten numbering in the main volume, which generally assigns numbers to titles held in common between the two volumes. Therefore, some works are described by their position relative to numbered items. The set of parts also has several short manuscript pieces added at the end; some parts are for both violin or flute, or for flute but playable on violin. The volume itself heavily emphasizes "potpourris" and other arrangements of larger works, such as those by Gaetano Donizetti and Vincenzo Bellini. Charles Auguste de Bériot is prominent in this volume as both a composer and arranger. About half of the works were published in Mayence (present-day Mainz) or Offenbach (surmised from other evidence in some cases), with Fils de B. Schott as the most prominent publisher.
Date: unknown
Creator: Columbus Metropolitan Library (Franklin County, Ohio)
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Binder's Collection: Columbus Public Library, Scores]

Bound compilation of sheet music for violin and piano, assembled by the Columbus Public Library (now the Columbus Metropolitan Library). This volume consists of scores and piano parts, although its contents do not overlap entirely with those of the accompanying set of violin parts. The library catalog record follows the handwritten numbering in the volume, which generally assigns numbers to titles held in common between the two volumes. Therefore, some works are described by their position relative to numbered items, such as a set of three between numbered selections 23 and 24. The volume itself heavily emphasizes "potpourris" and other arrangements of larger works, such as those by Gaetano Donizetti and Vincenzo Bellini. Charles Auguste de Bériot is prominent in this volume as both a composer and arranger. About half of the works were published in Mayence (present-day Mainz) or Offenbach (surmised from other evidence in some cases), with Fils de B. Schott as the most prominent publisher.
Date: 1834/1879
Creator: Columbus Metropolitan Library (Franklin County, Ohio)
System: The UNT Digital Library

Idomeneo : dramma eroico in tre atti, volume 1

This score is special edition of Mozart's opera "Idomeneo" issued by subscription by J. Frey in ca. 1822. The cursive signature J. Frey appears in ink at the bottom of the t.p. This edition is in two volumes. Volume 1 lists the names of subscribers and has a table of contents for each of the three acts with the incipit of first lines of texts of arias, recitatives and choruses. Volume 1 also contains the overture of the opera and the first act. Volume 2 contains the second and third acts. According to New Grove, in 1780 Mozart received a commission to composed a serious opera on a libretto by the Salzburg cleric Giambattista Varesco, which the latter based on Antoine Danchet's Idoménée.
Date: 1821
Creator: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.; Varesco, Giambattista. & Danchet, Antoine, 1671-1748.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Partitione della Nina, osia, La pazza per amore

Score for Giovanni Paisiello's opera Partitione della Nina, osia, La pazza per amore. A handwritten page in French is pasted onto one of the front end pages; there is no title page or other such identifying information. Listed as 1.78 in the Robinson thematic catalog, it premiered on June 25, 1789 at the Belvedere, S. Leucio (Caserta).
Date: 1790~
Creator: Paisiello, Giovanni, 1740-1816
System: The UNT Digital Library

Le nozze di Figaro: dramma giocoso in quattro atti, volume 2

Volume 2 of a score for Mozart's Nozze di Figaro, published between 1806 and 1809. Most recitatives are in Italian only; arias and ensembles include interlinear French translation.
Date: 1806/1809
Creator: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 & Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838
System: The UNT Digital Library

Le nozze di Figaro: dramma giocoso in quattro atti, volume 1

Volume 1 of a score for Mozart's Nozze di Figaro, published between 1806 and 1809. Most recitatives are in Italian only; arias and ensembles include interlinear French translation.
Date: 1806/1809
Creator: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 & Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oeuvres de J. Haydn, Cahier IX contenant XXXIII Airs et Chansons

Though the cover of this volume is in French, the title page gives the same information in German. This latter language also receives pride of place in the text underlay: Most songs are solely in German but, when lyrics are given in two languages, German is immediately below the musical staves with either Italian or French in italics below the German. Songs use one to three voices with the voice part sometimes integrated into the top staff of the piano part with text underlay indicating when to sing. Several songs are set for three-part Männerchor or four-part chorus with piano accompaniment. In strophic settings, only the first stanza of poetry appears in the score; the rest are included as addenda at the end of the piece. The volume concludes with a table of contents given the name and first line of each song in all languages used for each entry.
Date: 1799
Creator: Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oeuvres de J. Haydn, Cahier VIII

This volume contains fifteen sacred and secular songs for one to four voices with piano accompaniment. Contrary to the title page, the titles of each song are given either in German or German and Italian. When both languages are present in the text underlay, the Italian text sits directly below the staves with German below the Italian. Most songs either give "Singstimme" or a voice part for the vocal staves; some give names of characters, possibly indicating a theatrical or semi-dramatic performance context. Songs for one voice tend to be strophic while part songs are through-composed. Authors such as Gellert, Metastasio, and Shakespeare figure among the authors (most anonymous) of the texts. As with the other binlingual pieces in this volume, the scene "Arianna a Naxos" is set in Italian and German. The interaction of the soprano voice and piano accompaniment as well as the structural alternation between arioso/aria and recitative reveals this piece to be a solo cantata. The volume concludes with a four-page catalog of all of Breitkopf und Härtel's publications in Leipzig complete with price in thalers for each piece and a table of contents. The positioning of the Inhalt at the end of the volume reflects …
Date: 1799
Creator: Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809
System: The UNT Digital Library

Nouvelles Poesies Morales sur Les Plus Beaux Airs de la Musique Francoise et Italienne avec la Basse.: Fables Choisies Dans le gout de M. De La Fontaine, Sur des Vaudevilles & petits Airs aisés à chanter, avec leur Basse & une Basse en Musette. Recueil I. 6 liv. broché.

This score is a collection of poetry and set to music including moral fables (marked on the table of contents with an asterisk). Each piece has words written with musical lines in treble, bass, or a combination of both. Includes a preface ('Avis.') and table of contents for the movements prior to page 1 for each of the seven collections ('recueil'). The pagination restarts for each collection and for the fables which fall at the end of each section.
Date: 1737
Creator: La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695
System: The UNT Digital Library

Recueil d'airs serieux et a boire de differents auteurs : pour l'année 1701.

Contains songs by various composers with figured bass. French or Italian words. Issued in 12 monthly installments.
Date: 1701
Creator: Lully, Jean Baptiste, 1632-1687
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Binder's Collection: Minnie Greene, Book 2]

Bound compilation of sheet music. The dates of publication range between 1852 and 1879, and most of the publishers' imprints were located in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston, with others from Cleveland and New Orleans. Several items have the name of Minnie S. Greene on the first page, and some have the location of the Southern Home School in Baltimore, or Patapsco [Ins. or Tns.]. A wide variety of composers and lyricists appear in the volume, with multiple entries from Virginia Gabriel, Luigi Arditi, Fabio Campana, Charles Gounod, John Hullah, and Harrison Millard.
Date: 1852/1879
Creator: Greene, Minnie S.
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Binder's Collection: Mary Waddington]

Bound compilation of sheet music from the collection of Thurman Morrison, compiled by Mary Alsop King Waddington, an author who was born in New York, but lived in France beginning in 1871, and was married to French statesman William Henry Waddington. This volume consists largely of excerpts from operatic works, particularly by Gaetano Donizetti, Saverio Mercadante, Gioacchino Rossini, and Giuseppe Verdi. Most works were published in Paris, with a few published in Mayence (present-day Mainz), Vienna, and Boston.
Date: 1820/1859
Creator: Waddington, Mary King, 1833-1923
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Binder's Collection - Eva Eve - Duke M1507-C655-1841]

Bound compilation of sheet music from a variety of composers, with multiple works from Giuseppe Verdi, M.W. Balfe, and Gaetano Donizetti. This volume is held by Duke University, and is posted here in conjunction with the Binders Volumes Research Initiative, a project funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities - Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (PW-290538-23).
Date: 1841/1858
Creator: Eve, Eva, 1841-1890
System: The UNT Digital Library