Mus. 1134

Manuscript. Composing drafts and scores of nine movements in F major, apparently intended to form two single-key suites or 'sets'; English, probably early 18th century. Probably part of the repertory of the Oxford city/university waits or 'musick'. The composer/copyist, who has not been identified, is here designated as 'Copyist Z'; he was also responsible for many other autograph scores and/or sets of performing parts within the Christ Church collection. For further details, see the entry for Mus. 34-6. No sets of performing parts are known to exist for these movements.

Upright format, 333 x 210 mm. 6 sheets, numbered in modern pencil, and mounted on guards within an early 20th-century folder of stiff card and vellum. Formerly Mus. 1052 (see the printed label pasted to sheet 4v).

In the descriptions of contents below, sets 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.

The copyist has assigned arabic numbers '1-4' to four of the movements; these constitute the set now designated as F major/I (1-4). The remaining five movements have been assigned roman numbers 'I-V' by the copyist; these constitute the set now designated as F major/II (1-5). The movements are copied as follows:

• Sheet 1: recto: fair copy of the movement numbered '4'; verso: deleted draft of the same movement.
• Sheet 2: recto: fair copy of the movement numbered '3'; verso: fair copy of the movement numbered 'V'.
• Sheet 3, recto: fair copy of the movement numbered 'IV'; verso: fair copy of the movement numbered 'II'.
• Sheet 4, recto: fair copy of the movement numbered 'III'; verso: deleted draft of the movement copied elsewhere as 'II'.
• Sheet 5, recto: fair copy of the movement numbered arabic '1'; verso: fair copy of the movement numbered '2'.
• Sheet 6, recto: fair copy of the movement numbered roman 'I'; unused ruled staves on the verso.

• Set in F major/I (1-4): movement 1 = sheet 5r; movement 2 = sheet 5v; movement 3 = sheet 2r; movement 4: draft on sheet 1v, fair copy on sheet 1r.
• Set in F major/II (1-5): movement I = sheet 6r; movement II: draft on sheet 4v, fair copy on sheet 3v; movement III = sheet 4r; movement IV = sheet 3r; movement V = sheet 2v.

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 37.