British Library Journal (volume 21, number 2, autumn 1995)

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Music Library: notable acquisitions 1985-1994
(1995-11)
Turner, M.
THE previous report of notable acquisitions of printed music, published in 1985, covered some twenty-two years, from 1964 to early 1985. The present survey covers a period of less than half this extent. Nevertheless it demonstrates that the Music Library, far from resting on its laurels, has continued to maintain the pre-eminence of its existing collections by a vigorous programme of acquisitions ranging widely both geographically and temporally, a programme that has been made possible by continuing support for the Music Library's purchase budget from the Directorate of Special Collections. The principal criterion for inclusion in this, necessarily highly selective, list is the intrinsic interest or importance of a given item, but a secondary consideration has been a desire to reflect the diversity encompassed by the Library's collecting policy.
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John Field: the 'hidden manuscripts' and other sources in the British Library
(1995-11)
Langley, Robin
JOHN Field's manuscripts, both epistolary and musical, are rare, a dozen letters, of which two are in the British Library, and twenty-two autograph manuscripts, of which only the Pastorale in A H.14, Nocturnes nos. 5, 6, and 14, and Concerto no. 7, are complete.
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A book of cantatas and arias bought in Florence, 1723
(1995-11)
Strohm, Reinhard
THE music manuscript recently acquired by the British Library and now held as Add. S . 71535 is a most valuable specimen of the Italian Baroque tradition so well represented in collections of this country. It could almost be considered an 'English music book'. On the front flyleaf (f. i), there is what appears to be an acquisition record of probably its earliest owner, 'Willoughby Bertie Florence May 16: 1723', written in ink presumably by Bertie himself. A later entry by a different hand, immediately underneath, identifies him as 'afterwards 3rd Earl of Abingdon'. Born in 1692 as the son of James Bertie of Middlesex (d. 1735), Willoughby inherited the title of Earl of Abingdon from his uncle Montague Bertie, the second Earl, in 1743. While in Florence in August 1727, he married Anna Maria Collins; their son Willoughby, born 1740, became the fourth Earl at his father's death in 1760. Later owners of the manuscript are at present not traceable between Bertie and Raymond Leppard, who in 1994 donated the volume to the Musicians Benevolent Fund. It was sold on their behalf and for their charitable purposes by Phillips auctioneers on 25 May 1994 (lot 125), and bought for the British Library.
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Alec Hyatt King (1911-1995)
(1995-11)
Harris, P. R.
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Neighbour, O. W.
Alec Hyatt King (1911-1995).
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An early eighteenth-century manuscript of harpsichord music: William Babell and Handel's 'Vo' far guerra'
(1995-11)
Pont, Graham
ON 29 and 31 January 1717, the London music publishers John Walsh and John Hare advertised the Suits of the most Celebrated Lessons Collected and Fitted to the Harpsicord or Spinnet by Mr. Wm. Babell. As far as is known, the appearance of this imposing volume attracted no published comment and history has not recorded the multi-lingual expletives no doubt uttered by George Frideric Handel when he found that the collection consisted mostly of his music - keyboard arrangements of arias from Rinaldo, Il Pastor Fido and Teseo. This volume, the third in a series of operatic transcriptions published by Babell, was by far his most successful. The collection was reissued the following year in a pirated edition by Richard Meares, with a new title which pointedly omits any mention of William Babell, and again by Walsh, from the original plates, circa 1730. The collection came out circa 1745 in a French edition under the title of Pieces de Clavecin de Mr. Handel - which, it now appears, was perhaps not altogether misleading.
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A new English keyboard manuscript of the seventeenth century: autograph music by Draghi and Purcell
(1995-11)
Hogwood, Christopher
MILLENNIAL fever seems to have infected even the sober arena of musicology and music manuscripts. We have heard the cry of 'Musicological Event of the Century' too frequently in recent years, trumpeting everything from the discovery of the autograph of Mozart's Fantasy and Sonata in C minor (K. 457 and K. 475) in a seminary in Pennsylvania, to the recent sale of the Haydn score of four of his op. 50 string quartets found in Australia, the reappearance of a Schumann symphony autograph, or (at the opposite extreme) last year's scandal of the six 'lost' Haydn keyboard sonatas, which were quickly revealed to be open forgeries.
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Mà¡tyà¡s Seiber's collaboration in Adorno's jazz project, 1936
(1995-11)
Chadwick, Nick
IN 1982 the British Library acquired the papers of the Hungarian-born composer Matyas Seiber (1905-60) through the generosity of his widow, Mrs Lilla Seiber. This large collection contains not only sketches and scores of Seiber's musical works but also scripts for lectures and broadcast talks on a variety of musical topics, including jazz. Among the jazz papers is a typescript of a paper, with covering letter, by the German social philosopher and music critic Theodor W. Adorno (1903-69) together with the draft of two letters from Seiber to Adorno. Mrs Seiber has very kindly put five further letters from Adorno to Seiber on permanent loan in the British Library. Adorno's paper, which has hitherto been presumed lost, is a carbon copy, with autograph annotations, of a typescript entitled 'Jazz: Expose einer gesellschaftlicher Untersuchung. Januar 1936' ('Jazz: Formulation of a Sociological Investigation. January 1936'); in it he sets out the thinking behind his proposed investigation into the social phenomenon of jazz.
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'The art of dancing, demonstrated by characters and figures': French and English sources for court and theatre dance, 1700-1750
(1995-11)
Goff, Moira
IN 1700 Raoul Auger Feuillet published in Paris Choregraphie ou Part de de'crire la dance, and revolutionized the art of dancing. His treatise made available, for the first time, a system of notation whereby dances could be recorded in symbols - allowing them to be recreated at other times and in other places by reference to a written page alone. Dance, the most ephemeral of the arts, had at last achieved a permanence equivalent to that of its sister art music.
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From Purcell to Wardour Street: a brief account of music manuscripts from the Library of Vincent Novello now in the British Library
(1995-11)
Banks, Chris
In 1986 and 1987 Novello and Company presented to the British Library a substantial collection of scores written or collected by Novello, which had remained in the possession of the company, perhaps since its foundation. These scores joined an already large collection of Novello's material which had found its way by a variety of means into the Library. Some of the material acquired earlier is difficult to trace through the catalogues. The intention here is to attempt to provide a list of all identifiable music manuscripts which were written or owned by Vincent Novello which are now in the British Library, together with some details of how they came into the collections.
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British Library Journal (volume 21, number 2, autumn 1995)

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