Music | 18th century
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Bound manuscript entitled "A Collection of choice Songs English and Scots In Two Parts", compiled by John Robinson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2081
Scope and Contents
This is a bound collection of Scottish and English popular songs and ballads assembled and transcribed by John Robinson, an alumnus of Appleby Grammar School, who later served as Member of Parliament for Westmoreland.The volume is divided in two parts: part one, "Chiefly English", starts on p. 1, and ends on p. 74. The very first poem, entitled "Dedication", is taken from Scottish bookseller-poet Allan Ramsay's Tea-table miscellany:...
Dates:
1765
George Baillie Collection of Music Manuscripts
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1061
Scope and Contents
This collection contains music manuscripts dating mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries, which belonged to George Baillie. It mostly consists of arias and cantatas by composers such as Giovanni Bononcini, Alessandro Scarlatti, Giovanni Pergolese, George Handel, and many more. Most of the manuscripts are in Italian.
A few later manuscripts from the 20th century have obviously been subsequently added to the collection, although there is no information on their provenance.
Dates:
1700-1830; 20th century
Manuscript entitled "Recueil de Chansons Choisies en Vaudeville"
Item — Box CLX-A-1605
Identifier: Coll-2117
Content Description
Manuscript volume entitled "Recueil de Chansons Choisies en Vaudeville Pour servir a l'histoire Anecdote depuis [blank] jusqu'a present" ("Collection of Selected Vaudeville Songs, to Serve History Anecdote [sic] from [blank] until today") containing 101 French vaudeville songs with 58 scores, dated and annotated with notes explaining the figures and events referred to in the songs. At the end, there is also an index of people named in the songs, "Tables despersonnnes denommées et Matiere...
Dates:
1690-1700
Manuscript song book of "Miss Stow", with enclosures by Carolyn Coxon, late 18th-century [?] (song book); 2nd half of the 20th century (enclosures)
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/19-0126
Scope and Contents
This is a song book partly manuscript, partly printed which had belonged to a "Miss Stow". It contains many interspersed paper notes added subsequently by Carolyn Coxon, commenting and identifying the music pieces.The printed section is entitled "The Celebrated Russian Dance call'd Rafatchek as Danc'd at the London & French Theatres by M. Vestris & Madn Guimer, set for the Harpsichord or Piano Forte with Variations. By Domenico Corri",...
Dates:
late 18th-century [?] (song book); 2nd half of the 20th century (enclosures)
Song collection book entitled "Recueil de chansons choisies depuis 1656 jusques à present 1736"
Fonds — Box CLX-A-385
Identifier: Coll-2052
Content Description
This is a song book entitled "Recueil de chansons choisies depuis 1656 jusques à present 1736", France, 1736. It contains a collection of selected popular songs covering 80 years of French satire and current affairs. The book features some 135 songs, and there are 73 tunes written with musical notation. The songs are helpfully annotated with names and explanations to margins, and indexed by the names mentioned. When a tune is to be used in another song, the compiler puts in a cross-reference...
Dates:
1736