Nineteenth-Century Autograph Music Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library: A Check List (II)

1980 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-183
Author(s):  
J. Rigbie Turner
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Check List ◽  
Music Manuscripts ◽  
Morgan Library

Nineteenth-Century Autograph Music Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library: A Check List

Notes ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 851
Author(s):  
Robert Winter ◽  
J. Rigbie Turner
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Check List ◽  
Music Manuscripts ◽  
Morgan Library

Gurdjieffian Overtones in Leon MacLaren’s School of Economic Science

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna J.M. Petsche
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
Substantial Influence ◽  
Henry George ◽  
Musical Compositions ◽  
Personal Physician ◽  
Music Manuscripts ◽  
Residential Living

After the death of G. I. Gurdjieff in 1949, Gurdjieff-based groups began to emerge, including a colourful assortment of fringe groups. Fringe groups are established by individuals who never met Gurdjieff but who, in some or other way, assimilate elements of his teaching into new religio-spiritual systems. One noteworthy yet little understood Gurdjieff fringe group is the School of Economic Science (SES), founded by Leon MacLaren (1910-1994) in London in 1937. The SES was initially inspired by the work of nineteenth century American economist Henry George. However, in the early 1950s when MacLaren studied with Dr Francis Roles, who was P. D. Ouspensky’s personal physician and one of his earliest pupils, he gradually integrated into SES teachings concepts and practices of Ouspensky and Gurdjieff. This paper will examine the substantial influence of the work of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky on the SES, particularly in regards to MacLaren’s emphasis on residential living and working, the significance of the Laws of Three and Seven in his cosmology, and his use of the ‘natural octave’ in his large-scale musical compositions. This paper draws on firsthand accounts, original materials and unpublished music manuscripts.

The New Morgan Manuscript of Titus and Vespasian

PMLA ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-24
Author(s):  
Curt F. Bühler
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Morgan Library

Under their number 1881, Carleton Brown and Rossell Hope Robbins listed ten manuscripts which contain the romance of Titus and Vespasian written in couplet form. Since the publication of the Index, however, at least two more manuscripts of this work have come to light, the Earl of Derby (Knowsley Hall) codex and another recently acquired by the Pierpont Morgan Library. The present investigation concerns the latter manuscript, for which the following description may be supplied:M 898, collection: The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Manuscript on vellum (5 5/8 ⋉ 3 7/8 inches). Collation: a-m8 n5, wanting al = 100 leaves. 20 lines. Written (black ink with chapter headings or résumés in red, and rubrication in blue) in England in the fifteenth century. Bound in nineteenth-century brown morocco by F. Bedford. With the book-plate of Sir Henry Hope Edwardes (his library was sold at Christie's, 20 May 1901).

scholarly journals An Account of the Works of Nektarios Protopsaltis and Nektarios Frimu in Manuscript no. 7 from the “Dumitru Staniloae” Ecumenical Library of the Metropolitan Church of Moldavia and Bukovina

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-174
Author(s):  
Irina Zamfira Dănilă
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Music School ◽  
Fallen Woman ◽  
Entire Collection ◽  
Music Manuscripts ◽  
Rare Books

Abstract The “Dumitru Staniloae” Ecumenical Library of the Metropolitan Church of Moldavia and Bukovina (reffered to below as LMCMB) from Iasi has an invaluable collection of theological books and documents, consisting of more than 100,000 items. The library also has an important number of rare books – 35 of which are psaltic music manuscripts. Manuscript no. 7 from LMCMB is a psaltic Antologhion with Chrysantine notation, written in Romanian using the Cyrillic alphabet. The copyist and the place where it was copied are unknown, but it is possible that it was written at Mount Athos, between 1877 and 1882 (Apud Bucescu, 2009, p. 108). Manuscript no. 7 mainly contains chants for various services, translated and adapted by Nektarios Protopsaltes (1804-1899). Nektarios was one of the best known psalm singers and Romanian composers, founder of a psaltic music school, who was active at the Holy Mountain in the second half of the nineteenth century. Manuscript no. 7 also contains a rarer variant of the Doxastikon Lord, the fallen woman, attributed to another Moldavian composer – Nektarios Frimu (†1856). Like Nektarios Protopsaltis, he was also born in Husi (Moldavia, Romania) – but lived and worked in Iasi. For his achievements, he is honoured with the title of “hierarch of Tripoleos”. He authored the Anthology – Collection of psaltic chants for the Liturgy, (1840) and Collection of Psaltic Chants for Vespers and Matins (1846), one of the first works of its kind in Chrysantine notation in the Romanian language; these volumes were greatly valued during the second half of the nineteenth century. The present paper, which is part of the ampler project of cataloguing the entire collection of psaltic music manuscripts from LMCMB, focuses on the codicological presentation of the manuscript and its musical and liturgical content. The work will also present the authors, the Greek sources the chants were based on, also emphasizing the importance of this codex in the context of the LMCMB collection.

NATURAL HISTORY ILLUSTRATION

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 314-318
Author(s):  
Barbara Gates
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
North America ◽  
Natural History ◽  
American Philosophical Society ◽  
Eastern United States ◽  
British Science ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Morgan Library

INTEREST IN VICTORIAN natural history illustration has burgeoned in recent years. Along with handsome, informative shows at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York (“Picturing Natural History”), at the American Philosophical Society (“Natural History in North America, 1730–1860”), and at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Melbourne (“Nature's Art Revealed”), the year 2003 saw an entire conference devoted to the subject in Florence, Italy. In 2004, the eastern United States was treated to two more fauna- and flora-inspired shows, both dealing specifically with nineteenth-century British science and illustration.

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