Mozarts Studien / [Franz Jacob Freystädtler]: MU.MS.608

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Mozarts Studien / [Franz Jacob Freystädtler]
Freystädtler-Studien. Selections
Caption from f. 2r: Contrapunctum floridum

Maker(s)

Composer: Freystädtler, Franz Jacob
Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Binder (person): Cockerell Bindery

Categories

• Manuscript (music)

Description

1 ms. score (3 leaves) ; 27 x 35 cm.

A sequence of exercises in species counterpoint in 3 and 4 voices, forming pages [87]-[92] of the collection of studies by Franz Jakob Freystädtler when studying with Mozart. The arabic numbers define the cantus firmus (melody), the Roman numbers identify the version. There are six cantus firmus melodies ("N. 1"-"N. 6"), each with three exercises in 3 parts, and four exercises in 4 parts. In each version has the cantus firmus melody is in a different voice (1st, 2nd, 3rd (4th)). There are additional 3-part exercises for "N. 3"; the first two 4-part exercises for "N.1" and the last two for "N. 4" are missing, as are the 4-part exercises for "N. 5" & "N. 6".
The content suggests that Leaf 2 should precede Leaf 1, and that the sequence has the title "Contrapunctum floridum".
Manuscript probably in the hand of Franz Jacob Freystädtler, not holograph Mozart.
Paper: 12 staves (190x255mm); watermark: three crescent moons ; countermark "VA" below crown. (Tyson WM Nr. 95).
Former shelf mark: Music Box I (19)
Received unbound. Bound in quarter green morocco with marbled paper sides and vellum tips [by S. Cockerell.]
1.1.1 V N. 1 C C-3 1D/F/E/D/G/F/A/G/F/E/0D//
2.1.1 V N. 2 C F-4 c 1'E/C/D/C/,A/'A/G/E/F/0E//
3.1.1 V N. 3 F F-4 c 1,F/G/A/F/D/E/F/'C/,A/F/G/0F//
4.1.1 V N. 4 C F-4 c 1,G/'C/,B/G/'C/E/D/G/E/C/D/,B/A/0G//
5.1.1 V N. 5 a F-4 c 1,A/'C/,B/'D/C/E/F/E/C/,B/0A//
6.1.1 V N. 6 C F-4 c 1'C/E/F/G/E/A/G/E/F/E/D/0C//

Contents
Leaf 2 recto, numbered in top right corner "150": caption: "Contrapunctum floridum" : eight exercises in 3 parts in two columns of four, the columns numbered "N.1" and "N. 2", the versions numbered in the margin: "I", "II", "III", and "N. 3 I" [followed by 3 II] -- 2 verso: Four examples in 3 parts, numbered "[N. 3] III", "N. 4 [I, II & III], the last crossed out.
Leaf 1recto: "Zu N 13⁰ ..." : four exercises in 3 part, numbered "N. 3" [version V], "N. 5", "N. 6 I" & "II" -- 1 verso: "Zu N. 14⁰ ..." : four exercises in 3 parts, all on cantus firmus "N. 3", and the third unfinished and crossed out.
Leaf 3 recto, numbered in top right corner "180" : Six exercises in 4 parts in two columns, the first system has [N. 1 III & IV], the second system is numbered "N. 2" and is followed by versions [I- IV] -- 3 verso: six exercises in 4 parts in two columns, Numbered "N. 3 I", "II", "III", "IV", "N. 4 I", "II".

Notes

History note: With slip of paper: "Exercises in Harmony. Autograph of W.A. Mozart. Property of the late F.X. Jelinek, Curator of the Mozarteum at Salzburg"