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Summary information.

Title
Aires for the harpsichord.
Alternative Title
Pieces for the harpsichord
Creator
Corelli, Arcangelo, 1653-1713.
Contributor
Finney, Theodore M. (Theodore Mitchell), 1902-1978, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1725]
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: Manuscript. Title written in fading ink on front cover.
Scope/Content: Music manuscript containing pieces for the harpsichord. No composers are identified except for Archangelo Corelli and his Op. 5, no. 7.
Condition: Bound in old calf; front cover and initial pages detached from rest of volume; housed in modern cloth case.
Type
text
Form/Genre
Musical works
Bookplates (Provenance)
Extent
22, [68] p., bound15.5 x 20 cm.
Identifier
ark:/21198/n1wk6x
MS.1970.007
Language
English
eng
Subject
Harpsichord music--Early works to 1800.
Place
England
Provenance
Bookplate of Theodore M. Finney's "Private Music Library" on front paste-down endpaper (Finney manuscript 16); 18th century pen trials and the names Elizabeth and Howard on front free endpaper; 18th century notes about tuning "ye spinnet" on front free endpaper; "begun F ---- S 28th 1725" in a different hand on back paste-down endpaper.
Location
CLUW

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