Mus. 363
Manuscript. Commonplace book compiled mainly by Musgrave Heighington;
English, after 1703. The volume includes songs, instrumental
music, rudiments of music theory, and sketches and drafts of
Heighington's own compositions, principally his settings of Latin
Odes by Horace. In the inventory below, items 1-22 are copied
from the front of the volume, items 23-50 from the rear with
the volume inverted.
Heighington's sketches for his settings of Horace's Odes vary
in completeness. Three of the pieces drafted here (items 19,
20 and 45) can be compared with the finished versions published
by Heighington in 1744 (extant copies of which are at Oxford,
Bodleian Library, Mus. 20. c.20 and Tenbury Mus. c.542 (2)).
Other pieces may never have been developed beyond the rudimentary
sketches found in Mus. 363. Boundaries between sets of sketches
for individual works are sometimes blurred, and the folio references
given below are approximate.
- Item 19: Heighington subsequently made a fuller autograph draft
of this Ode; the copy is now at Mus. 1142a (ff. 38-9). A final
revision of the piece was published in 1744.
- Item 37: the treble part is written on the first double-page
spread (ff. 98r-97v), the bass on the second opening (ff. 97r-96v).
- Item 45: a more advanced state of this Ode, copied by Richard
Goodson, is in Mus. 23 item 34. Goodson also copied an extract
from it in Mus. 622, item 10. Heighington published a final
revision of the work in 1744.
- Item 50: clearly a later addition (by Heighington?); unrelated
to item 1, with which it shares two pages.
Table of titles and composers in modern form. Display form found in manuscript.
| 1 |
|
When my cause to Florinda I boldly declare (voice-part only; see also no. 50 below) |
ff. 1r-3r |
| 2 |
|
I heard a voice, but know not where (voice-part only) |
ff. 3v-5r |
| 3 |
Jeremiah Clarke |
Corant from Suite in c minor |
ff. 5v-6r |
| 4 |
|
Unidentified sketch in C major |
f. 6v |
| 5 |
Henry Purcell |
Seek not to know (from 'The Indian Queen', Z.630(15)) |
ff. 7r-11v |
| 6 |
|
Unidentified tune in d minor |
f. 12r |
| 7 |
|
Whilst gazing Strephon |
ff. 12v-16r |
| 8 |
|
Unidentified melodic line in G major |
f. 14v |
| 9 |
Musgrave Heighington? |
Phyllis, when your ogling eyes |
ff. 17r-19r |
| 10 |
|
Unidentified figured bass in A major |
f. 20r |
| 11 |
Henry Purcell |
Sound a parley, ye fair (from 'King Arthur', Z.628(26b)) |
ff. 20v-22r |
| 12 |
Henry Purcell |
O let me weep (from 'The Fairy Queen', Z629(40ab)) |
ff. 22v-26r |
| 13 |
John Weldon? |
The young Mirtillo, brisk and gay (voice-part only) |
ff. 26v-28r |
| 14 |
|
No longer, Damon, I'll repine |
ff. 28v-29r |
| 15 |
|
Unidentified sketches |
ff. 29v-30r |
| 16 |
|
See, mortal, see, the goddess view |
ff. 30v-33r |
| 17 |
Musgrave Heighington? |
Miscellaneous drafts of instrumental movements, notated on two staves as if for keyboard |
ff. 33v-37r |
| 18 |
Musgrave Heighington? |
Miscellaneous drafts of instrumental movements, notated in open score |
ff. 37v-44r |
| 19 |
Musgrave Heighington |
Donec gratus eram tibi (sketches and drafts; words: Horace, Odes 3/IX) |
ff. 44v-54r |
| 20 |
Musgrave Heighington |
Vides ut alta stet nive candidum (sketches; words: Horace, Odes 1/IX) |
ff. 54v-59r |
| 21 |
Musgrave Heighington |
O saepe mecum tempus in ultimum (sketch; words: Horace, Odes 2/VII) |
f. 59v |
| 22 |
Musgrave Heighington |
Mercuri, facunde nepos Atlantis (sketches for section 'te canam'; words: Horace, Odes 1/X; based on the music of no. 21 above) |
ff. 60r-61r |
| 23 |
Musgrave Heighington? |
Keyboard piece in C major |
f. 112v |
| 24 |
Henry Purcell |
Country dance (from 'Dioclesian', Z.627(25); two treble and bass parts on facing pages) |
ff. 112r-111v |
| 25 |
|
Unidentified figured bass in C major |
ff. 110v-111r |
| 26 |
Henry Purcell |
Hornpipe (from 'The Fairy Queen', Z.629(1b); two treble and bass parts on facing pages |
ff. 110r-109v |
| 27 |
Henry Purcell |
Hornpipe (from 'The Double Dealer', Z.592(1b); two treble and bass parts on facing pages |
ff. 109r-108v |
| 28 |
Henry Purcell |
Air (from 'Abdelazer', Z.570(6); two treble and bass parts on facing pages) |
ff. 108r-107v |
| 29 |
|
Unidentified sketches |
ff. 107r-106v |
| 30 |
Henry Purcell |
To arms, your ensigns straight display (from 'Bonduca', Z.574(15b); untexted treble part only) |
f. 106r |
| 31 |
Henry Purcell |
Britons strike home (from 'Bonduca', Z.574(16b); untexted treble part only) |
f. 105v |
| 32 |
|
Dance tune, with instructions for dance movements |
f. 105v |
| 33 |
John Barrett |
Ianthe the lovely by Iphis was loved (treble part only) |
ff. 105r-104v |
| 34 |
|
Rudiments of music theory and figured bass |
ff. 104r-99r |
| 35 |
|
'The method of Tuning a Spinett or Harpsichord' |
f. 101r |
| 36 |
|
Keyboard piece in C major |
f. 98v |
| 37 |
|
Two movements in B flat major for treble instrument and figured bass |
ff. 98r-96v |
| 38 |
|
Movement in A major for treble instrument and figured bass |
ff. 96r-95v |
| 39 |
|
Movement in e minor probably for treble instrument and figured bass; treble part only |
f. 95r |
| 40 |
|
Rudiments of music theory and figured bass |
ff. 94v-93v |
| 41 |
Musgrave Heighington? |
Miscellaneous sketches, including (at f. 90r) 'Love Alarming' |
ff. 93r-89v |
| 42 |
|
Duet in C major for two trumpets |
ff. 88r-87v |
| 43 |
Musgrave Heighington? |
Sketches in keyboard score |
ff. 87r-86r |
| 44 |
Musgrave Heighington |
Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume (draft; words: Horace, Odes 2/XIV; see also no. 46 below) |
ff. 85v-79v |
| 45 |
Musgrave Heighington |
Integer vitae scelerisque purus (draft; words: Horace, Odes 1/XXII) |
ff. 79r-71r |
| 46 |
Musgrave Heighington |
Draft of 'Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume', continued from no. 44 above |
ff. 70v-69v |
| 47 |
Musgrave Heighington? |
Miscellaneous sketches |
ff. 69r-67v |
| 48 |
Musgrave Heighington |
Poscimus, si quid vacui sub umbra (sketches; words: Horace, Odes 1/XXXII) |
ff. 67r-65v |
| 49 |
Musgrave Heighington |
Iam satis terris nivis atque dirae (sketches; words: Horace, Odes 1/II) |
ff. 65r-64v |
| 50 |
|
Unidentified melody, copied on blank staves beneath no. 1 above, with the volume inverted |
ff. 2r-1v |
Oblong format, 200 x 110 mm. 112 folios of music notation, preceded
and followed by flyleaves with non-musical annotations (described
below). Foliation is in modern pencil. Collation not researched.
Unused ruled staves on ff. 16v, 61v-64r and 88v-89r. Front flyleaf:
on the recto, an owner's name (deleted) is followed by the date
'1703'; also the annotation 'musg[?rave]'; on the verso, a verbal
text (for or from a musical setting?) beginning 'A Cruel fair
why will ye ungratefully torment me'. Rear flyleaf i (= f. [115]),
recto: poem beginning 'Ingratitude, the worst of human guilt';
verso: various calendar dates. Rear flyleaf (ii) recto, and (iii)
recto (= ff. [114-113]: long poem titled 'Reform[atio]n of Manners',
beginning 'How long may heaven be banter'd by a nation'. Early
18th-century binding of brown leather over boards, gold-tooled
with fillets and ornaments; inside upper and lower covers lined
with marbled paper. No early bookplate. 19th-century shelfmark:
I.4.75.
Provenance unknown, but most likely from the Goodson bequest
(on the grounds that Richard Goodson Jr clearly had access to
Heighington's unpublished works: see his copy of item 45 ('Integer
vitae') in Mus. 23, item 34, and his extract from it in Mus. 622, item 10).
Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 11.
|
