Mus. 1135

Manuscript. Principally a miscellany of scores and drafts of instrumental chamber music scored for two trebles and figured bass; English, probably early 18th century. Probably part of the repertory of the Oxford city/university waits or 'musick'. The copyists/composers, who have not been identified, are here designated as 'Copyist Z' and 'Copyist Y'; they were 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. Sheet 11 also includes the basso continuo part of a song from Francesco Bartolomeo Conti's opera Clotilda of 1709.

Mus. 1135 comprises 12 separate sheets, bound in largely random order within an early 20th-century guardbook of stiff card and vellum (upright format, 690 x 563 mm). The sheets are numbered in modern pencil.

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.

• Sheet 1: oblong format, 540 x 325 mm. Recto: draft (with minor revisions) of a movement in A major, copied by Copyist Z; this is the fourth movement of the set now designated as A major/I (1-6), performers' parts for which are in Mus. 34-6/5. Verso: unused ruled staves. Sheet 1 is probably a partner to sheet 3 below.
• Sheet 2: oblong format, 475 x 300 mm. Recto: fair copy of a movement in c minor, copied by Copyist Z; this is the first movement of the set now designated as c minor/V (1-3), performers' parts for which are in Mus. 34-6/13. Verso: fair copy of a movement in d minor for treble and bass, copied by Copyist Z with the sheet inverted.
• Sheet 3: oblong format, 543 x 325 mm. Drafts and fair copies by Copyist Z of movements in A major; probably a partner to sheet 1 above. Recto: incomplete draft (with revisions) of a movement in A major; this is the sixth movement of the set now designated as A major/I (1-6), performers' parts for which are in Mus. 34-6/5. Followed by a draft of an unrelated movement also in A major. Verso: fair copy of another movement in A major, copied with the sheet inverted. This is the only known source of the two latter movements, neither of which appear to have been subsequently incorporated into a single-key set.
• Sheet 4: originally a bifolium, folded horizontally; now presented as a single sheet in upright format, 675 x 557 mm. Drafts and copies by Copyist Z of six movements in various keys; unless otherwise stated, this is the only known source of these movements, which appear not to have been subsequently incorporated into single-key sets. Recto: (1) Draft with extensive revisions of a movement in b minor, annotated 'transcribd into papers'; presumably this refers to the fair copy of the same movement in Mus. 1141c, f. 123. This is the ninth movement of the set now designated as b minor/III (1-9), performers' parts for which are in Mus. 34-6/26. / (2) Fair copy of a movement in G major for treble and bass. / (3) Draft with revisions of a drone-based movement in G major, headed (in the gutter) 'For the Long Lancashire Bag-pipe'. (4) Draft with revisions of a movement in G major in 2-voice score (clefs: G2, C3). Verso: (5) Draft with extensive revisions of a movement in D major; this is the third movement of the set now designated as D major/IV (1-4), performers' parts for which are in Mus. 34-6/28; there is also a fair copy of this movement in Mus. 1139, sheet 2v. (6) Draft with extensive revisions of a movement in D major; this is the third movement of the set now designated as D major/III (1-5), performers' parts for which are in Mus. 34-6/27 (movement 3); there is a fair copy of this movement in Mus. 1139, sheet 2r, and an alternative set of performing parts in Mus. 1140/3. The two movements copied on the verso of sheet 4 have both been deleted by hatching, as if to signify their transfer to fair copies.
• Sheet 5: oblong format, 345 x 320 mm; this has been cut down from a larger sheet. Drafts and copies by Copyist Z of three movements in various keys. Recto: (1) draft of a movement in d minor for two trebles and bass, copied unconventionally with the two treble parts in score, followed by the incomplete bass part written independently. (2) Fragment of another movement in d minor, again with the two treble parts in score, this time without bass; copied with the sheet inverted. Verso: (3) draft of a movement in B flat major. This is the only known source of these movements, which appear not to have been subsequently incorporated into single-key sets.
• Sheet 6: oblong format, 377 x 245 mm. Recto: draft by Copyist Y of a movement in F major. This is the only known source of this movement, which appears not to have been subsequently incorporated into a single-key set. Verso: blank.
• Sheet 7: oblong format, 475 x 87 mm; this has been cut down from a larger sheet. Recto: the ending of the movement in c minor copied by Copyist Y on sheet 11 recto below. Verso: part of an unidentified movement possibly in b minor, copied by Copyist Y with the sheet inverted.
• Sheet 8: oblong format, 420 x 280 mm. Scores of three movements apparently from a seven-movement set in B flat major, copied by Copyist Y. Recto: movement headed '7th' and 'Rondeau'; then (with the sheet inverted) a movement headed '4th' and 'Two Trumpets'. Verso: a movement without number or heading. No further movements from this set have been located, and this is their only known source.
• Sheet 9: an irregularly shaped scrap, cut down from a larger sheet. Maximum dimensions: 390 x 145 mm. Recto and verso: sketches and/or partial drafts for two unidentified movements in A major, copied by Copyist Z.
• Sheet 10: originally a bifolium, folded horizontally; now presented as a single sheet in upright format, 640 x 540 mm. Recto and verso: fair copy of the set now designated as b minor/II (1-6), copied by Copyist Z. There are drafts of these movements in Mus. 1136, sheets 7-9. Performing parts for this set are in Mus. 34-6/25. There is also a copy of the second treble part in Mus. 1141c, f. 121r.
• Sheet 11: oblong format, 470 x 300 mm. Recto: opening of a movement in c minor, copied by Copyist Y; the conclusion of this movement is on sheet 7 recto above. This is the only known source of this movement, which appears not to have been subsequently incorporated into a single-key set. Verso: basso continuo part (with text cues) of [Francesco Bartolomeo Conti], 'Cease ô Cupid [thus to obraid me]', copied by Copyist Y; the song derives from Conti's Clotilda (1709), and was published in Songs in the new opera, call'd Clotilda[,], the songs done in Italian and English as they are perform'd at the Queens Theatre (London: J. Walsh, [1709] and later editions); there is a copy of the 1709 edition at Christ Church at shelfmark Mus. 869a-c.
• Sheet 12: oblong format, 540 x 325 mm. Recto: fair copy of the set now designated as F major/III (1-3), copied by Copyist Y; figuring for the bass has been supplied in pencil. This is the set's only known source. Verso: unused ruled staves.

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 37.