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Mus. 1141a (ff. 70-77)

Manuscript. Violin parts for orchestral movements extracted from operas by Lully, and for works by Henry Hall (i), copied by James Talbot, in one case collaboratively with Hall; English, late 17th century. Three pieces are provided either with a bass part, or with blank staves on which a bass could be added.

  • Items 1-15 and 17-28: copied wholly by James Talbot.
  • Item 11: copied in two-stave score, the lower stave left blank for the addition of a bass part. Copying begins on ff. 71v-73v, and ends on f. 77r.
  • Item 16: copied in two-stave score, initially by Henry Hall, then (from stave 9 of f. 75r) by Talbot, with the lower stave left blank. The attribution to 'Mr Hall' (f. 75v) is in Talbot's hand.
  • Item 27: two violin parts, written in score.
  • Item 28: for violin and bass in score; emendations to the bass suggest that it was composed by Talbot himself.
Table of titles and composers as shown in the manuscript. Display in modern form.
1 [Jean-Baptiste Lully] [Bourrée pour les Egyptiens; from 'Phaeton'] f. 70r
2   [unidentified] f. 70r
3 Mr [Henry] Hall (i) An overture f. 70r
4 Baptist [= Jean-Baptiste Lully] [Ouverture (from 'Le grand divertissement royal de Versailles' (1668))] f. 70v
5 [Jean-Baptiste Lully] [Air pour les bergers (from 'Le grand divertissement royal de Versailles' (1668))] f. 70v
6 [Jean-Baptiste Lully] [Second acte, Entrée de bateliers (from 'Le grand divertissement royal de Versailles' (1668))] f. 70v
8   [unidentified] f. 71r
9   [unidentified] f. 71r
10 Baptist [= Jean-Baptiste Lully] Overture [from 'Amadis'] f. 71r
11 Baptist [= Jean-Baptiste Lully] Chacon [from 'Amadis'] ff. 71v-77r
12 [Jean-Baptiste Lully] [Air de gavotte (from 'Ballet des Muses')] f. 74r
13   [unidentified] f. 74r
14   [unidentified] f. 74r
15 Baptist [= Jean-Baptiste Lully?] [unidentified] f. 74r
16 Mr [Henry] Hall (i) chacon ff. 74v-75v
17 Baptist [=Jean-Baptiste Lully] [Entrée des songes funestres (from 'Atys')] f. 76r
18   [unidentified] f. 76r
19   [unidentified] f. 76r
20   [unidentified] f. 76v
21   [unidentified] f. 76v
22   Overture f. 76v
23   [unidentified] f. 76v
25 [Jean-Baptiste Lully] [Marche pour le combat de la barrière (from 'Amadis')] f. 77r
26 [Jean-Baptiste Lully] [Second air (from 'Amadis')] f. 77v
27   [unidentified] f. 77v
28   [unidentified] f. 77v

Upright format, 330 x 205 mm. 8 folios. Collation uncertain on account of the tightness of the binding; to judge from the distribution of item 11 over non-adjacent leaves, the order of pages as currently bound does not represent the original order of the leaves. Annotations on f. 77v: 'Mecaenas' (twice) and 'Pindaric Ode'. Bound into Mus. 1141a, an early 20th-century guardbook of stiff card and vellum. No early bookplate.

Provenance: almost certainly from the Aldrich bequest, together with other music copied by James Talbot (see below).

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 38.

For a list of other music manuscripts at Christ Church copied by James Talbot, see the entry for Mus. 1152.

For a list of other music manuscripts at Christ Church copied by Henry Hall, see the entry for Mus. 1212(B).