New Acquisitions at the Newberry
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Howard Mayer Brown Jacqueline Morreau / Newberry Library |
The Brown/Weiss fund, together with the Newberry’s Society of Collectors fund, supported the acquisition of two sets of sixteenth-century partbooks printed in Venice by Antonio Gardano: three out of five voices for a collection of twenty-seven motets by the Franco-Flemish composer Dominique Phinot, and two out of four voices for a collection of songs by the Flemish composer MatthiasWerrecore. Neither composer was yet represented in the Newberry collection in an edition issued during his lifetime.
- Two opera scores from the seventeenth century: the first edition of Il Nino, performed in Bologna in 1673; and the first edition of the score for Zéphire et Flore, performed at the Palais-Royal in Paris on March 22, 1688, on the first anniversary of the death of Jean-Baptiste Lully. The opera was largely written by the music master Pierre Vignon, although two of Lully’s sons shared the profits.
- A volume of Bousset’s Airs serieux et a boire from 1702.
- A copy of the C. Ballard score (1706) for Cassandre: tragedie [mise] en musique, François Bouvard and Bertin de La Doué.
- Mattaeus Schenckenberg, German manuscript partbooks from 1599. Some of the music included is known, some unknown: