Research Catalog

Title

Sonatae XII pro diversis instrumentis : quarum tres priores pro violino & viola di gamba, proximae tres pro II violinis & viola di basso, tres sequentes pro III violinis, reliquae pro II violinis & viola omnes ad basin continuam pro organo seu clavicymbalo formantur, opus primum / authore Godefrido Finger Olmutio Moravo ; capellae serenissimi Regis Magnae Britaniae musico.

Author

Finger, Godfrey, approximately 1660-1730

Publication

[London] : [no publisher indicated], Anno MDCLXXXVIII [1688]

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Details

Additional Authors

• James II, King of England, 1633-1701
• Gribelin, Simon, 1661 or 1662-1733
• Costling, William, 1836-1901
• Drexel Collection.

Description

4 parts; 28 cm.

Uniform Title

Sonatas, op. 1

Alternative Title

Sonatas, op. 1

Subjects

• Quartets (Violins (2), viola, continuo) > Parts
• Quartets (Violins (3), continuo) > Parts

Note

• Contains parts for violin, violin 2, violin 3 or viola da gamba or viola di braccio, and continuo with figures.
• Each part with identical title pages.
• "In 1688 [Finger] published his op.1, which he dedicated to James II, stating that the music was intended for use in the Catholic chapel" Cf. Oxford [Grove] Music Online.
• Frontispiece (on first violin part) engraved by Simon Gribelin shows angels crowning a bust of King James II of England mounted on a pedestal to which two humans gaze, one holding a document with the words "Puras non plenas aspice manus"; in the the four corners are musical instruments and other items associated with the quadrivium.
• "Serenissimo principi Jacobo IIdo, Dei gratia magnae Britanniae Franciae & Hiberniae regi fidei defensori &c." -- dedicatory page (after frontispiece and before title page).

Indexed In (note)

• RISM A / I

Additional Formats (note)

• Available on microfilm: Master negative

Provenance (note)

• Contains bookplate of former owner: Wm. Costling.

Contents

Sonata 1 [2 violins, viola da gamba, continuo, F major] -- Sonata 2 [2 violins, viola da gamba, continuo, F major] -- Sonata 3 [2 violins, viola da gamba, A major] -- Sonata 4 [2 violins, viola di basso, continuo, B♭ major] -- Sonata 5 [2 violins, viola di bass, continuo, F major] -- Sonata 6 [2 violins, viola di bass, continuo, A major] -- Sonata 7 [3 violins, continuo, E minor] -- Sonata 8 [3 violins, continuo, G minor] -- Sonata 9 [3 violins, continuo, D major] -- Sonata 10 [2 violins, viola da brazzo, continuo, G major] -- Sonata 11 [2 violins, viola da brazza, continuo, E♭ major] -- Sonata 12 [2 violins, viola da brazzo, continuo, C major].

Call Number

Drexel 5079

OCLC

828190759

Author

Finger, Godfrey, approximately 1660-1730, composer.

Title

Sonatae XII pro diversis instrumentis : quarum tres priores pro violino & viola di gamba, proximae tres pro II violinis & viola di basso, tres sequentes pro III violinis, reliquae pro II violinis & viola omnes ad basin continuam pro organo seu clavicymbalo formantur, opus primum / authore Godefrido Finger Olmutio Moravo ; capellae serenissimi Regis Magnae Britaniae musico.

Imprint

[London] : [no publisher indicated], Anno MDCLXXXVIII [1688]

Type of Content

notated music

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

RISM A / I, F 845.

Additional Formats

Available on microfilm: Master negative: *ZZ-968.

Language

Staff notation.

Provenance

Contains bookplate of former owner: Wm. Costling.

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Added Author

James II, King of England, 1633-1701, dedicatee.

Gribelin, Simon, 1661 or 1662-1733, engraver.

Costling, William, 1836-1901, former owner.

Drexel Collection.

Research Call Number

Drexel 5079