Collection
Concertos and songs
Other title: Mary Orlebar's Music Book
GB-BEcr , OR2183
Scoring summary: keyb
Scoring: keyb
Original Title: Miss Orlebars Musick Book
Material:
  • Source type:
    Source type: Manuscript copy
    Content type: Notated music
    Date:
    ca. 1740-1749
    Material:
    Format, extent: 1 score, 26 f.
    Other physical details: Oblong folio with 8 staves per page pre-ruled with rastrum
    Dimensions: 25 X 31 cm
Former owner:
Copyist:
Notes: Arrangements of sonatas, concertos, dances, and popular songs from the pleasure gardens of London, all for keyboard (likely harpsichord). In the hand of Philip Hart who taught Mary Orlebar in the mid-1740s. While most of the manuscript is in Hart's hand, folios 12r-15v feature engraved didactic material presumably produced by him for his pupils (the imprint on f. 15v reads ‘Engrav’d by Tho[mas] Atkins for Mr. Phil[lip] Hart.’). Folio 16r is copied by hand, and features didactic material concerning sharp and flat keys. Many fingerings are added to the repertory copied, as well as many different ornamentation symbols. Thanks to Andrew Woolley for confirming the identification of Philip Hart as scribe.
Library (siglum) shelfmark: OR2183
RISM ID no.: 1001284358
Last update: May 14, 2024