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LevelItem
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)SH/635
Title[Manuscript book]
Extent1 volume
Date18th century
DescriptionScore. Manuscript
Forty five folios of hand ruled, six stave manuscript paper. Watermark J. Whatman.
the last 29 folios are blank.
f.1r Unidentified piece
f. 1v Felton's Gavot Unidentified piece.
f. 2r Blank
ff. 2v-3r Rondo, sung by Mrs Pinto [melody line untexted]
ff. 3v-4r Handel's Water piece [Water music D major suite first movement trumpet part] The heavy hours [dance?]
f. 4v The haymakers' hours [dance?]
f. 5r Mr Felton Minuet
ff. 5v-6r Shepherds I have lost my love [song - two verses]
f. 6r A lesson by Morelli
f. 6v Blank
The following items are in a different hand. They are laid out as three part settings in open score
ff. 7-8 Hymn before Jehovah's awful throne [words by Issac Watts]
f. 9r [Unidentified hymn]
ff. 9v-10r Hymn 50 Lo he cometh [tune by T. Olivers, words by J. Cennick]
ff. 10v-11r Utrecht Praise God from whom all blessings flow [hymn]
Laid out on two slaves
ff. 11r-14v The dying Christian, Largo: Vital spark of heavenly flame, Affetuoso: Hark! they whisper angels say, Andante: The world recedes, it disappears, Vivace: Lend, Lend your wings
The following item is in a third hand, it is laid out in vocal score.
f. 15 Et incarnatus est [for soprano solo with keyboard acc. incomplete]
f. 16r Rough sketches of keyboard exercises
The remaining folios are blank.
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