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Toccate per cembalo : per bene principiare a sonare, et al nobile partamento delle mani : si averte al discepolo studioso di ponere le dita in quelle segni, che li vengono accennate dalle mani
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Title
Toccate per cembalo : per bene principiare a sonare, et al nobile partamento delle mani : si averte al discepolo studioso di ponere le dita in quelle segni, che li vengono accennate dalle mani / del Sig. Cavaliere Alessandro Scarlatti, primo maestro della Real Cappella di Napoli.
Created
1723.
Physical Description
164, [4] ms. leaves of music ; 22 x 28 cm.
Notes
The 4 unnumbered leaves at end contain no music.
Copyist's ms., in ink; on leaf 139: Napoli 1723.
Known as "The Higgs Manuscript", this volume was formerly owned by H.M. Higgs, Esq.
The whole of the ms. was published by J.S. Shedlock (London : Bach & Co.) in 1908-1910.
For fuller description, list of contents, and thematic catalog, see P.T. Lee's The keyboard style of Alessandro Scarlatti. (Thesis (M.A.) Yale, 1959).
Provenance
Gift of the Library Associates, 1953.
Variant and related titles
Higgs manuscript.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts / Music Scores
Added to Catalog
April 07, 2011
Subjects
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