Description
Provenance: Monastery of Montserrat.
Description: manuscript 31.4x22cm; 53 pages, sewn binding, no cover. Pages 1-2 and 51-53 have eighteen staves; pages 3-50 have fourteen staves. Modern numbered pagination in the bottom corner, starting at 1 and ending at 53. The manuscript is a miscellany of pieces for keyboard by Domenico Scarlatti, Antoni Mestres (†1786), Josep Martí (1719-1763), Diego Mirosa (active 1790) and Pietro Generali (1773-1832), along with an anonymous collection of short dance pieces for violin, oboe and flute, including both solos and duos.
Rastrum: pages 1-2: SS (Staff Span): 0.9cm; DS (Distance between Staves): 0.9cm; TS (Total Span): 29.5cm. LS (Length of Staff): 20.5cm. Pages 3-50: SS: 0.9 cm; DS: 0.9 cm; TS: 28 cm. LS: 20 cm.
Watermarks: there are two different watermarks. First, on pages 8 and 22, there is a watermark featuring a Latin cross atop a shield with individual grapes inside. In the middle, there are two letters, possibly P R (?). The other watermark appears on pages 1 and 42 and consists of an ornamental shield with bunches of grapes. We have been unable to identify them.
Titles: (p. 3) Minuetes: Pasepies: Contradansas del Año 1791. Barna. (P. 14) Boleros.
Copyist: Non-professional copyist. Some inscriptions in Catalan, e.g. la mateixa (the same) on p. 28.
Comments: K33b was first published by Thomas Roseingrave in 1738-9. Other witnesses containing K33b are Milan 3, Montecassino 5-F, Münster 5, Vienna G, Vienna Q15117, Boivin 1 and Boivin 3, and Pitman. A fragment of K33b is also included in Montserrat 1770 (bars 62-100). Sonata KS35 is attributed to Domenico Scarlatti by Bengt Johnsson (1985) due to its proximity to K33b.
Compass: K33b: the compass a,, – b’’ in Roseingrave has been narrowed to d, – b’’ in Montserrat 2786 and Montserrat 1770. KS35: c, – c’’’
Date: There appear to be at least two distinct copy dates: 1790 for pages 3-50, and post-1808 for pages 1-2 and 51-53, referring to the date of composition of Generali’s opera Le Lagrime d’una vedova.
Contents:
| Title |
Pages |
K |
| Toccata Allo De Escarlati |
42–43 |
33b |
| Toccata Allo |
44–45 |
KS35 |
