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Cendrillon
Libretto of the 1759 pastiche-style comic opera "Cendrillon," by Louis Anseaume. The songs were contributed by the singer-composer Jean-Louis Laruette and Egidio Duni, which they likely adapted from fashionable tunes. "Cendrillon" (Cinderella in English) premiered in Paris at Foire St-Germain on February 21, 1759. The opera underwent two revisions before the definitive version of 1764. Anseaume adapted the plot the fairy tale by Charles Perrault. This copy includes (from pp.54-63) notated melodies of airs and recitatives.
Date:
1759
Creator:
Anseaume, M. (Louis), 1721-1784
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Le tonnelier
Libretto of the comic opera "Le tonnelier" (The cooper) by Nicolas-Médard Audinot in collaboration with Antoine-François Quétant. The music of this one-act opera is a pasticcio of works by Gossec and other contemporaneous composers. Typical of the genre, the opera contains a variety of musical forms (airs, romance, vaudeville, and recitatives) and the dialogues are interspersed with additional airs, possibly using popular tunes. This copy includes (on pp. 52 and 54-56) notated melodies of airs.
Date:
1765
Creator:
Audinot, Nicolas Médard, 1732-1801. & Quétant, Antoine-François, 1733-1823.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Nouvelles parodies bachiques, mélées de vaudevilles ou ronde de table
This a copy of vol. 2 of an anthology of French songs compiled by Christophe Ballad, music publisher of King Louis XIV. The work consists mainly of unaccompanied melodies with underlaid text for selected acts of the following tragedies: Proserpine (pp. 1-19); Le triomphe de l'amour (pp. 20-60); Persée (pp. 61-81); Phaeton (pp. 62-94); Amadis (pp. 95-125); Roland (pp. 126-155); Armide (pp. 169-176); Acis et Galatée (pp. 177-192). It contains also melodies for "Ballet du temple de la Paix" (pp. 156-168), and Vaudevilles on rondes de table (pp. 193-264). Two previous editions, compiled by Monsieur Ribon, published under title: Parodies bachiques. Cf. RISM, v. B I, 1 1695(4) and 1696(1), present ed. listed as 1700(3).
Date:
1700
Creator:
Ballard, Christophe, 1641-1715.
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Grand septuor, op. 20
An arrangement for 2 pianos, 4 hands, of Beethoven's Grand Septuor, op. 20, which was originally for clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello and double-bass. Parts are on facing pages; UNT's copy lacks the title page and page 2 (the first page of the lower piano part).
Date:
188X
Creator:
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Sonate pour le pianoforte à quatre mains, oeuv. 6
Sonate pour le pianoforte à quatre mains, op. 6, in D major, published during Beethoven's lifetime. The name of Ludwig Dreyer is written inside the front cover, dated 1936.
Date:
1816~
Creator:
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Trois sonates pour le pianoforte avec accompagnemt, de violon obligé, oeuvre 12
Piano part for Beethoven's violin sonatas in Op. 12, numbers 1 through 3. The imprint date comes from page 28 of the Kinsky catalog, showing this edition was printed during Beethoven's lifetime.
Date:
1816
Creator:
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Variations à quatre mains pour le piano-forte sur une theme de Monsieur le Comte de Waldstein
An edition of Beethoven's Variations on a theme by Count Waldstein, for piano, 4 hands in C major, WoO 67. This copy is from the Allen and Madeleine Forte Memorial Collection of the UNT Music Library, Box 1, Folder 2.
Date:
1807~
Creator:
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Variations à quatre mains pour le piano-forte sur une theme de Monsieur le Comte de Waldstein
Music score for Variations à quatre mains pour le piano-forte sur une theme de Monsieur le Comte de Waldstein.
Date:
180X
Creator:
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Six quintetti pour piano, avec accompagnement de deux violons, alto et violoncel - cello
Cello part for Boccherini's quintets for piano, 2 violins, viola, and cello, G. 407-412. This set contains parts for the two violins, viola, and cello. Parts for Daniel Steibelt's Op. 28 No. 1 and 2 -- two of the Trois quintetti pour piano-forte, deux violons, alto et bass -- were bound with this set of Six Quintetti subsequent to publication.
Date:
18XX
Creator:
Boccherini, Luigi, 1743-1805
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Six quintetti pour piano, avec accompagnement de deux violons, alto et violoncel - viola
Viola part for Boccherini's quintets for piano, 2 violins, viola, and cello, G. 407-412. This set contains parts for the two violins, viola, and cello. Parts for Daniel Steibelt's Op. 28 No. 1 and 2 -- two of the Trois quintetti pour piano-forte, deux violons, alto et bass -- were bound with this set of Six Quintetti subsequent to publication.
Date:
18XX
Creator:
Boccherini, Luigi, 1743-1805
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Six quintetti pour piano, avec accompagnement de deux violons, alto et violoncel - violin 1
Violin 1 part for Boccherini's quintets for piano, 2 violins, viola, and cello, G. 407-412. This set contains parts for the two violins, viola, and cello. Parts for Daniel Steibelt's Op. 28 No. 1 and 2 -- two of the Trois quintetti pour piano-forte, deux violons, alto et bass -- were bound with this set of Six Quintetti subsequent to publication.
Date:
18XX
Creator:
Boccherini, Luigi, 1743-1805
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Six quintetti pour piano, avec accompagnement de deux violons, alto et violoncel - violin 2
Violin 2 part for Boccherini's quintets for piano, 2 violins, viola, and cello, G. 407-412. This set contains parts for the two violins, viola, and cello. Parts for Daniel Steibelt's Op. 28 No. 1 and 2 -- two of the Trois quintetti pour piano-forte, deux violons, alto et bass -- were bound with this set of Six Quintetti subsequent to publication.
Date:
18XX
Creator:
Boccherini, Luigi, 1743-1805
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Prodromus Musicalis
"Prodromus Musicalis" (published in 1702) is bound, here, with "Motets à une et deux voix, mélez de symphonies, livre premier" (1704); thus, the latter gate is used for this item as a unit. Both sets of motets consist of Latin-texted music preceded by a title page in French. A Table of Contents either at the front or back of each collection describes the motets contained therein. Content is printed on both sides of each leaf. "Prodromus" also has a note from Brossard informing the reader that a Dictionary of Music, published at the same time as "Prodomus," contains French translations of Italian, Greek, and Latin terms, knowledge of which is vital to the understanding and performance of the present music. The contents of "Prodromus" are as follows: "Ave vivens hostia," "O Jesu quam dulce," "Congratulamini filiae Sion," "O vos aetherei," "Festivi martyres" "Angele sancte" "Sonitus armorum," "Quemadmodum desiderat," and "O plenus irarum dies." "Motets à une et deux voix" contains the following pieces: "Venite exultemus," "Gaudete Mortales," "Ad mensam caelitus paratam," "Ave Regina coelorum," "Animae Amantes ad Deum esurientes," "Ite gemmae, Ite flores," "Anxiatus est super me spiritus meus," "Festivi Martyres, festivae Virgines," "Nisi Dominus aedificaverit domum."
Date:
1704
Creator:
Brossard, Sebastian, 1655-1730
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Tancrède: tragédie
André Campra’s Tancrède, which premiered on 7 November 1702, is his best-known tragédie en musique, with a run of performances until 1764, and high praise by noteworthy music personalities such as Rameau. While the music critic La Cerf de la Viéville wrote positive comments about Tancrède, he was bothered by the opera’s use of low voices, which defied the tradition of employing castrati parts. Additionally, the role of Clorinda was written for a well-known contralto named Mademoiselle Maupin; although the range is that of a mezzo-soprano, the powerful quality of Maupin’s voice seemed to be a prime consideration for Campra.
Date:
1702
Creator:
Campra, André, 1660-1744; Danchet, Antoine, 1671-1748. & Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Mélomanie : opera comique en un acte en vers mêlé d'ariettes mis en musique
During his early career, Champein was known for church music composed while he worked as music master at the collegiate church in Pignon (in the southern Provence region of France). He moved to Paris and established himself as an operatic composer; La mélomanie (1781) is one of his most famous operas, and it remained in the repertoire at the Opéra-Comique until 1829. La mélomanie actually mocks the debate between French and Italian styles of music, with Fugantini as an Italian who is rejected by the French Elise. References to harmony (a French feature) and melody (emphasized by advocates of Italian music) abound in the opera.
Date:
1781
Creator:
Champein, Stanislas, 1753-1830 & Grenier
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Coronis
Libretto of the 1691 "Coronis," a French lyrical genre called pastorale-heroïque, representing the love of nobles or gods often disguised as shepherds (or shepherdesses) in Arcadian settings. Daniel-Paul Chappuzeau de Baugé wrote the libretto and Teobaldo de Gatti composed its music.
Date:
1891
Creator:
Chappuzeau de Baugé, Daniel-Paul.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Louise; roman musical en quatre actes et cinq tableaux, Paroles et musique de Gustave Charpentier
Libretto for Gustave Charpentier's Louise.
Date:
1900
Creator:
Charpentier, Gustave, 1860-1956
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Les deux journées
Vocal score of Luigi Cherubini's rescue opera "Les deux journées" (also known by the title, The water carrier) to a libretto by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly. The first performance took place in Paris at Théâtre Feydeau on January 16, 1800 followed by 56 performance during that year. Les deux journées remained in the international repertory of operas for most of the 19th century. The piano reduction contains the text in French and German.
Date:
1800~
Creator:
Cherubini, Luigi, 1760-1842.
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Exultate Deo: petit motet nouveau a voix seule et grande simphonie: chanté pour la premiere fois par Melle, Jet au Concert Spirituel le 4 Avril, 1755; Ch. d'Herbain
Sacred solo cantata for high voice, with orchestra.
Date:
175X
Creator:
Chevalier d'Herbain, ca. 1730-1769
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Matrimonio segreto : dramma giocoso in due atti = ou, Le mariage secret : opera comiLe mariage secret : opera comique en deux actesque en deux actes
Domenico Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 7 February 1792, just two months after Mozart’s death. It received immediate accolades, particularly from Emperor Leopold II, and the opera was performed a second time that day for a private audience that included the Holy Roman ruler. Il matrimonio segreto enjoyed a successful run that lasted almost a hundred years, with revised versions appearing in the second half of the nineteenth century; in 1933, the work was performed at the Library of Congress. Although the harmonic language is largely diatonic, Cimarosa’s beautiful melodies and exciting rhythms complement Bertati’s direct text. The opera presents the predicament of the secretly married couple without resorting to stock plot conventions such as characters in disguise, conveying the dramatic naturalness and simplicity promoted by Rousseau. The inventive orchestration, which includes clarinets, was another aspect of the opera that was praised by some (while Schumann appreciated the orchestration, Berlioz was unimpressed).
Date:
1799
Creator:
Cimarosa, Domenico, 1749-1801 & Bertati, Giovanni, 1735-1815
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Songs in the new opera call'd Arsinoe, queen of Cyprus
Thomas Clayton’s first opera, Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus, premiered at Drury Lane in London on 16 January 1705. The opera initially enjoyed success, but two years later, Clayton’s second opera was not well-received. Part of Arsinoe’s popularity may have been due to Catherine Tofts' portrayal of the title character; Toft would later become a star of the English stage.
Date:
1705
Creator:
Clayton, Thomas, 1673-1725
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Cantates françoises à I. et II. voix: avec simphonie, et sans simphonie, V. 1-2
This item contains volumes 1 and 2 of Clérambault's "Cantates Françoises." The second volume bears the subtitle "Mellées de Simphonies." Volume 1 contains the cantatas "L'amour piqué," "Le jaloux," "Orphée," "Poliphême," "Medée," and "L'amour et Baccus." Volume 2 contains "Alphée et Arethuse," "Leandre et Hero," "La musette," "Pirame et Tisbé," "Pigmalion," and "Le triomphe de la paix." The continuo line is figured.
Date:
1710
Creator:
Clérambault, Louis-Nicolas, 1676-1749
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Thetis et Pelée; tragédie en musique
Pascal Collasse was one of the few opera composers able to secure successful performances in the years following Lully’s death. Collasse then went on to supply the music for the entire opera, Thétis et Pélée, which was premiered at the Paris Opéra on 11 January 1689. Thétis remained popular throughout Collasse’s lifetime, in spite of its rather weak plot. Owing to its success is primarily the music, including a significant storm scene in Act II. This departure from the Lullian tradition is perhaps Collasse’s most significant contribution to the tradition of French opera.
Date:
1716
Creator:
Collasse, Pascal, 1649-1709 & Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier), 1657-1757
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library