Text set / [Dances by Henry Purcell and others for harpsichord].

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Title: [Dances by Henry Purcell and others for harpsichord].
Creator: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695.
Draghi, Giovanni Battista, approximately 1640-1708.
Contributor: Finney, Theodore M. (Theodore Mitchell), 1902-1978, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1690]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Music manuscript.
Scope/Content: Music manuscript of primarily composed of Henry Purcell harpsichord music, sometimes referred to as the Wild Court volume and signficant because of its status as an early source of Purcell's music for the harpsichord. Several pieces by Giovanni Battista Draghi are also included.
Citation/Reference: Klakowich, R. Harpsichord music by Purcell and Clarke in Los Angeles. (Journal of musicology, v. 4, 2 (1985-86) :171-190.
Condition: Bound in brown leather with gold tooling; front cover and preliminary pages detached from text block; housed in modern brown cloth case.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Music
Extent: [116] p., bound ;26 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n18320
MS.1970.003
Language: English
eng
Subject: Harpsichord music--England--17th century.
Music--England--Early works to 1800.
Place: England
Provenance: On back paste-down endpaper: "Att Mr Shaw's At ye Crowne, ye Second House in Wild Court in Wild Street."|Book plate of Theodore M. Finney's private music library on front paste-down endpaper, inscribed in pencil with Finney's identification number of Fi17 and the notation "Oxford 1967."
Location: CLUW

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