- I am grateful to Lisa Cox for giving me access to the manuscript before it was sold. I should also like to thank Andrew Ashbee, Christopher Hogwood, Peter Holman, Simon Maguire, Stephen Roe, Robert Spencer and Robert Thompson for generous help and advice. Following a successful fund- raising campaign, the manuscript is now in the British Library.
- See Richard Morrison, ‘Purcell's Notebook Revealed’, The Times (17 November 1993), 35.
- The Festing manuscript, which dates from about 1732–5, is partly autograph. For a full description, see Lisa Cox's catalogue no. 27 (autumn 1993), item 132.
- See Philip H. Highfill, Jr, Kalman A. Burnim and Edward A. Langhans, A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses… in London, 1660–1800 (Carbondale, 1973–93), v, 235–8.
- See John Caldwell, English Keyboard Music before the Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 1973); and Barry Cooper, English Solo Keyboard Music of the Middle and Late Baroque (New York, 1974).
- See Giovanni Battista Draghi: Harpsichord Music, ed. Robert Klakowich, Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, 61 (Madison, 1986), vii–viii.
- Bartolomeo Albrici was also a respected harpsichordist and teacher in London; see Jack Westrup, Purcell, rev. Nigel Fortune (London, 1980), 94.
- Ibid., 238.
- Barry Cooper, ‘Keyboard Music’, The Blackwell History of Music in Britain, iii: The Seventeenth Century, ed. Ian Spink (Oxford, 1992), 359.
- Henry Purcell: Miscellaneous Keyboard Pieces, ed. Howard Ferguson (London, 1964), 37.
- ‘Harpsichord Music by Purcell and Clarke in Los Angeles’, The Journal of Musicology, 4 (1985–6), 171–90.
- For an account of this aspect of Playford's trade, see Robert Thompson, Manuscript Music in Purcell's London’, Early Music (forthcoming).
- Compare, for example, Purcell's A Choice Collection of Lessons.
- See Robert Thompson, ‘English Music Manuscripts and the Fine Paper Trade, 1648–1688’ (Ph.D. dissertation, King's College London, 1988), 69–70; also private correspondence.
- I am grateful to Robert Thompson for compiling this collation, some of which is necessarily conjectural. Groupings of folios show quires; some of the missing folios have been deduced.
- All the previously unknown pieces by Purcell in the new manuscript will be published in The Works of Henry Purcell, vi: Harpsichord and Organ Music, rev. Christopher Hogwood (forthcoming).
- For recent studies of Purcell's handwriting, see Robert Thompson, ‘Purcell's Great Autographs’, Robert Shay, ‘Purcell as Collector of “Ancient” Music: Fitzwilliam MS 88’, Rebecca Herissone, ‘Purcell's Revisions of his Own Works’, and Peter Holman, ‘Purcell and Roseingrave: A New Autograph’, Purcell Studies, ed. Curtis Price (forthcoming).
- See above, note 17.
- Accounts of Ashtead Manor, printed in Franklin B. Zimmerman, Henry Purcell, 1659–1695: His Life and Times (2nd edn Philadelphia, 1983), 228–9. Zimmerman assumes this to be Katherine Howard. Lady Annabella Howard, Sir Robert's fourth wife and the dedicatee of the first volume of Orpheus Britannicus, was also his pupil and later erected a memorial tablet to the composer in Westminster Abbey. Frances Purcell remarked that Lady Howard honoured her late husband ‘with the Title of Your Master’ and that he contributed ‘to the vast Improvements You have made in this Science’ (dedication of Orpheus Britannicus).
- The Harpsichord Master (1697), ed. Robert Petre (Wellington and London, 1980). The discovery of the unique copy of this book is reported by Petre in ‘A New Piece by Henry Purcell’, Early Music, 6 (1979), 374–9.
- ‘Harpsichord Music by Purcell and Clarke in Los Angeles’, 189.
- See Curtis Price, Instrumental Music for London Theatres 1690–1700, Music for London Entertainment 1660–1800, series A, 3 (Withyham, 1987), ix.
- See Martha Curti, ‘John Playford's Apollo's Banquet 1670’ (Ph.D. dissertation, Rutgers University, 1977), 122–9, for identification of this elusive edition.
- The abbreviation ‘Kl.’ refers to the numbers assigned to Draghi's works in Giovanni Ballista Draghi: Harpsichord Music, ed. Klakowich.
- Ian Spink, ‘Draghi, Giovanni Battista’, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (London, 1980), v. 606.
- Giovanni Battista Draghi: Harpsichord Music, ed. Klakowich, ix.
- See ibid., vii.
- I thank Robert Thompson for this suggestion.
Journal of the Royal Musical Association
Volume 120, 1995 - Issue 1
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