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Grundsätze des Generalbasses als erste Linien zur Composition; Allgemeinfasslicher Unterricht im Generalbass: mit Rücksicht auf den jetzt herrschenden Geschmack in der Komposition, durch treffende Beispiele erläutert

Description: Two separate works bound together. The Kirnberger work includes 3 Abtheilungen, paged separately, containing musical examples. The 2nd and 3rd Abtheilungen are bound in reverse order.
Date: {178X,1805}
Creator: Kirnberger, Johann Philipp, 1721-1783 & Vierling, Johann Gottfried, 1750-1813
Partner: UNT Music Library

Spinner-Lied von Wagner

Description: Franz Liszt's arrangement for piano of Richard Wagner's Summ' und brumm' du gutes Rädchen, from Der Fliegende Holländer.
Date: 18XX
Creator: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
Partner: UNT Music Library

Dreimal sieben Gedichte aus Albert Girauds Pierrot lunaire: für eine Sprechstimme, Klavier, Flöte (auch Piccolo), Klarinette (auch Bass-Klarinette), Geige (auch Bratsche) und Violoncell: Op. 21

Description: A first deluxe issue of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, signed by the composer, and numbered 24 out of a limited release of 50 copies. The autograph and number appear on the page facing the title page.
Date: 1914
Creator: Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951 & Giraud, Albert, 1860-1929
Partner: UNT Music Library

Evangelisches Gesangbuch

Description: Collection of hymns with notated melodies, and lyrics in German.
Date: 1869
Creator: Evangelical Synod of North America
Partner: UNT Music Library

Manfred, dramatisches Gedicht in drei Abtheilungen, op. 115

Description: Incidental music for chorus and solo voices with orchestra, to the poem by Lord Byron; this volume includes the poem in German translation (12 p.) preceding the score.
Date: 1862
Creator: Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856
Partner: UNT Music Library

Gretchen am Spinnrade: aus Göthe's "Faust"

Description: A first-edition printing of Schubert's Gretchen am Spinnrade, made during his lifetime. The edition is dedicated to Mortiz Reichsgrafen von Fries
Date: 1821
Creator: Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828
Partner: UNT Music Library

Saul : Oratorium

Description: This is ca. 1820 vocal score of Handel's oratorio Saul. The orchestra reduction for piano is credited to J.F. [Johann Friedrich] Naue. The hand-written date 1738 that appears at the top of the t.p. underneath Saul corresponds to the year when Handel composed the oratorio. The music parts for the soloists (soprano alto tenor, bass) and the chorus appear at the top of the piano reduction staff.
Date: 1820?
Creator: Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759
Partner: UNT Music Library

Don Juan, oder, Der Steinerne Gast : komische Oper in zwey Aufzügen, volume 1

Description: By the time of Mozart and Da Ponte’s collaboration on Don Giovanni, the Don Juan legend had been represented in musical entertainments and on the popular stage a number of times. Although it was an unusual topic for Viennese court opera, the retelling of the Don Juan story was immensely appealing for the Italian troupe in Prague. Don Giovanni did eventually make its way to Vienna, but the opera did not meet the same success it had received in Prague.
Date: 1801
Creator: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. & Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838
Partner: UNT Music Library

Don Juan, oder, Der Steinerne Gast : komische Oper in zwey Aufzügen, volume 2

Description: By the time of Mozart and Da Ponte’s collaboration on Don Giovanni, the Don Juan legend had been represented in musical entertainments and on the popular stage a number of times. Although it was an unusual topic for Viennese court opera, the retelling of the Don Juan story was immensely appealing for the Italian troupe in Prague. Don Giovanni did eventually make its way to Vienna, but the opera did not meet the same success it had received in Prague.
Date: 1801
Creator: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. & Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838
Partner: UNT Music Library

Rigoletto: Oper

Description: Piano-vocal score for Verdi's Rigoletto. The libretto, by Francesco Maria Piave, is based on Victor Hugo's Le roi s'amuse.
Date: 1800
Creator: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901 & Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876
Partner: UNT Music Library

Oeuvres de J. Haydn, Cahier IX contenant XXXIII Airs et Chansons

Description: Though the cover of this volume is in French, the title page gives the same information in German. This latter language also receives pride of place in the text underlay: Most songs are solely in German but, when lyrics are given in two languages, German is immediately below the musical staves with either Italian or French in italics below the German. Songs use one to three voices with the voice part sometimes integrated into the top staff of the piano part with text underlay indicating when to… more
Date: 1799
Creator: Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Partner: UNT Music Library

Oeuvres de J. Haydn, Cahier VIII

Description: This volume contains fifteen sacred and secular songs for one to four voices with piano accompaniment. Contrary to the title page, the titles of each song are given either in German or German and Italian. When both languages are present in the text underlay, the Italian text sits directly below the staves with German below the Italian. Most songs either give "Singstimme" or a voice part for the vocal staves; some give names of characters, possibly indicating a theatrical or semi-dramatic perfor… more
Date: 1799
Creator: Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809
Partner: UNT Music Library

Alceste

Description: This is a ca. 1774 score of the opera "Alceste" by Anton Schweitzer based on a libretto by Christoph Wieland. The work premiered in Weimar in 1773. The plot was based on the Greek legend of Alcestis, on the subject of female virtue and conjugal love. The library's copy contains an engraved illustration that portrays a domestic scene. The score does not indicate the musical instruments and the music, which is notated in two, three or four staves, contains the German text underlaid with indicat… more
Date: 1774
Creator: Schweitzer, Anton, 1735-1787.
Partner: UNT Music Library

Oden und Lieder mit ihren eigenen Melodien

Description: This collection opens with a brief letter of dedication from Leyding to his friend Johann Jakob Dusch followed by a preface. The table of contents lists the songs in the order in which they appear in this volume. All of the songs are written in two staves - the top with soprano clef; the bottom, with bass clef. The first stanza of each poem is manually underlaid below the top staff. The full text of the poem is printed either below the music or on the following page. The vocal line use either s… more
Date: 1757
Creator: Leyding, Johann Dietrich, 1721-1781.
Partner: UNT Music Library

Historische Beschreibung der edelen Sing- und Klingkunst, in welcher deroselben Ursprung und Erfindung, Fortgang, Verbesserung, unterschiedlicher Gebrauch, wunderbare Würckungen, mancherley Feinde

Description: Und zugleich berühmteste ausüber von Anfang der Welt biss auff unsere Zeit in möglichster Kürtze erzehlet und vorgestellet werden, aus denen vornehmsten Autorobus abgefasset und in Ordnung gebracht von Wolfgang Caspar Printzen, von Waldthurn.
Date: 1690
Creator: Printz, Wolfgang Caspar, 1641-1717
Partner: UNT Music Library
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