Mus. 1133

Manuscript. A miscellany of instrumental movements (including sketches and drafts) copied in score; English, early 18th century. Mus. 1133 comprises 14 separate sheets, bound together in largely random order within an early 20th-century guardbook of stiff card and vellum (upright format, 615 x 487 mm); the sheets are numbered in modern pencil.

Sheets 1-3 and 5-11 contain instrumental movements scored for two trebles and figured bass; these probably formed part of the repertory of the Oxford city/university waits or 'musick'. The copyist/composer, who has not been identified, is here designated as 'Copyist Z'; he was also responsible for other autograph scores and/or sets of performing parts within the Christ Church collection. For further details, see the entry for Mus. 34-6.

Sheets 4 and 12-14 were copied by different scribes. Sheets 12-14 are in the hand of unidentified Copyist X, who appears to have worked in close proximity to Copyist Z. The hand of the copyist responsible for Sheet 4 has not been located elsewhere in the Christ Church music collections.

In the descriptions of contents below, suites or 'sets' of movements in the same key are distinguished from one another by means of roman numerals (I, II, etc), using and extending the numbering sequence of Mus. 34-6. Within each set, the number of movements is shown in round brackets: '(1-5)', etc.

• Sheet 1: originally a bifolium, folded horizontally; now presented as a single sheet in upright format, 585 x 470 mm. Recto: draft composing scores of two movements in A major, with extensive emendations and deletions, copied by Copyist Z. Verso: a neat fair copy of the second movement drafted on the recto. Neither of these movements appears to have been subsequently incorporated into a single-key set, and this is their only known source.
• Sheet 2: oblong format, 473 x 215 mm. Recto and verso: drafts and sketches by Copyist Z for two movements from the 5-movement set in C major copied in full on sheet 5 below.
• Sheet 3: oblong format, 475 x 293 mm; this has been cut down from a larger sheet. Recto: draft of a movement in A major, preceded by a deleted draft of part of the same movement, and followed by a brief sketch of unrelated material also in A major. Verso: draft of a movement in A major, followed by two deleted drafts of an unrelated movement also in A major. All copied by Copyist Z. None of these movements appears to have been subsequently incorporated into a single-key set, and this is their only known source.
• Sheet 4: oblong format, 470 x 95 mm. Recto: a short 3-voice setting of the words 'Glory to God on high, on Earth Peace, and Good Will toward Men'; copyist unidentified. Verso: unused ruled staves.
• Sheet 5: originally a bifolium, folded horizontally; now presented as a single sheet in upright format, 585 x 475 mm. Recto and verso: fair copy of a 5-movement set in C major, copied by Copyist Z. There are drafts and sketches of the first and fifth movements of this set on sheet 2 above. These are the only known sources of the set now designated as C major/VII (1-5).
• Sheet 6: oblong format, 455 x 170 mm. Recto: fair copy of a movement in C major headed 'Two Trompets', copied by Copyist Z. Verso (copied with the sheet inverted): fair copy of another movement in C major, copied by Copyist Z. This is the only known source of these two movements, which were possibly intended to form a set with the movements on sheets 7-8 below.
• Sheet 7: oblong format, 465 x 297 mm. Recto: draft (with minor revisions) of a movement in C major, copied by Copyist Z. Verso: unused ruled staves. This is the only known source of this movement, which was possibly intended to form a set with the movements on sheets 6 above and 8 below.
• Sheet 8: oblong format, 470 x 297 mm. Recto: fair copy of a movement in C major, copied by Copyist Z. Verso: unused ruled staves. This is the only known source of this movement, which was possibly intended to form a set with the movements on sheets 6-7 above.
• Sheet 9: oblong format, 247 x 95 mm, cut down from a larger sheet, and formerly pinned to the recto of sheet 11 below. Recto: the ending of the movement in C major for trumpet, violin and bass copied on sheet 11 recto below. Verso: trimmed instructions referring to a 'strain' of an unidentified movement; otherwise unused ruled staves. All copied by Copyist Z.
• Sheet 10: originally a bifolium, folded horizontally; now presented as a single sheet in upright format, 597 x 473 mm. Recto and verso: incomplete draft of a 4-movement set in C major, copied by Copyist Z. The two movement on the recto are both unfinished; the two shorter movements on the verso (copied with the sheet inverted) are complete. This is the only known source of the set now designated as C major/VIII (1-4).
• Sheet 11: originally a bifolium, folded horizontally; now presented as a single sheet in upright format, 600 x 477 mm. Recto: fair copy of a movement in F major, followed by an unrelated movement in C major scored for 'Trumpet', 'Violin' and bass; the ending of the latter is copied on sheet 9 above, which was formerly pinned to the end of sheet 11 recto. Verso: fair copies of two movements in f minor; the first is a set of variations on a ground. All copied by Copyist Z. None of these movements appears to have been subsequently incorporated into a single-key set, and this is their only known source.
• Sheets 12-14: each c. 470 x 300 mm. Fair copy by Copyist X of a ritornello movement in A major, copied in 5-stave score. Possibly related to the similar movement copied by Copyist X in Mus. 1125, pp. 19-25, which is also in 5-stave score, and is headed 'Curtain Tune' and 'Calo'. The verso of sheet 14 is blank.

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 37.