Mus. 358
*** This is an INTERIM entry ***
Manuscript. Pocket-book containing jottings by Richard Goodson
Jr; English, early-mid 18th century. The inside lower cover
has the following annotation in Goodson Jr's hand: 'Jhon Harris
/ at Mr Purcell / the upper end of kings / Street Over against
/ Bloomsberry Square'; this may refer to the organ builder John
Harris.
Music has been copied both from the front and the rear of the
volume. The following list of contents is provisional:
FROM FRONT:
- f. 1r: opening of an unidentified fugue in D major (subject and
start of answer only); treble clef.
- f. 1v: 2 bars only of a piece in d minor, treble clef.
- f. 2r: complete treble part of a movement in d minor.
- ff. 2v-5r: draft in short score of a fugue-like movement in D
major, incomplete at end.
- f. 5v: draft of a single chant in D major.
- f. 6r: canon '8 in one on one plain song', 'by Jhon Manyard',
with text 'Oh follow me Tom John & Wilcock'.
- f. 6v: opening of an unidentified fugue in D major (subject and
1st note of answer only); treble clef.
- f. 12r: 'An exterordinary sharp 2d', plus music example.
FROM REAR:
- f. 25v: opening of an unidentified fugue in G major (subject
and 1st note of answer only); treble clef.
- ff. 25r-24v: draft in short score of a movement in C major.
- ff. 24r-22v: draft in short score of a movement in D major.
- ff. 22r-21r: draft violin part of music in C major for a work
including a 'Sym[phony]' and a 'Song'.
- ff. 20r-17v: draft in short score of a movement in C major.
- ff. 15r-14r: words and music incipit apparently for a catch beginning
'Bring of florence a flask'.
- f.13v: part of bass to [Henry Purcell], 'Sum up all the delights'
[= Z.275].
Oblong format, c. 137 x 113 mm. Originally a single gathering
of 14 nested bifolios (= 28 folios); three folios have been
excised; foliation of the remaining 25 is modern. Contemporary
wrappers of white vellum, apparently cut from a legal document,
with further annotations by Goodson Jr (discussed below). No
early bookplate. 19th-century shelfmark: I.4.70.
Provenance: presumably from the Goodson bequest.
Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 11.
The outside upper cover has been annotated by Goodson Jr with
what appears to be a partial list of other music owned by him;
it is now rubbed, faded, and partly illegible. The following
transcription preserves the original lineation (10 lines), and
adds references to identified items:
- Albian and [ ] [= Mus. 610]
- When / Moru
- [illegible]
- Esurientes [= Mus. 1204]
- Bassani ? Sonata [?= Mus. 3 (ff. 39-70)]
- In Caligine [c.f. Mus. 1154(F) etc.]
- sung in
- Oedipus [= Mus. 32]
- [illegible]
- Bassani
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