Luigi Silva Musical Score and Personal Papers Collection, 1920-1961

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Who's responsible?: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG Unibersity Libraries (Repository)
How much has been digitized?: Only a part of this collection has been digitized.
Where can I find more information?: https://uncg.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/400
Topics: Performing Arts
People
Subject headings: Cellists
Cello -- Instruction and study
Cello music
Music -- Manuscripts
Silva, Luigi (1903-1961)
Contributing Institution: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries

Pages

: [Vademecum] Terze e Decime / Arpeggi / Ottave [Luigi Silva Personal Papers]

: [Vademecum] Scale diatoniche maggiore e minori [Luigi Silva Personal Papers]

: [Vademecum] Indice / Prefazione / Bibliografia [Luigi Silva Personal Papers]

: [Vademecum] Independenza nel raggruppamento delle dita in posizione di capotasto [Luigi Silva Personal Papers]

: [Vademecum] Escercizi ginnastici di flessibilita delle dita [Luigi Silva Personal Papers]

: [Sonata] II, in do maggiore; Transcribed and realized for violoncello and piano by Luigi Silva from unfigured bass. Caption title. Ms. in the hand of Luigi Silva with corrections pasted in. Sonata no. 6 in Ge?rard thematic catalog (G. 6); no. 12 in Silva's projected edition. Score only; part lacking. Includes [1] p. of unrelated sketches on verso of caption page. 1 ms. score (14 pages) ; 32 cm

: [Sonata] I in la maggiore; Transcribed for violoncello and continuo or piano by Luigi Silva from unrealized figured bass. Caption title. Ms. score in the hand of Luigi Silva in ink; additions and corrections in pencil. Score only; part lacking. Sonata no. 13 in Ge?rard thematic catalog (G. 13); no. 21 in Silva's projected edition. 1 ms. score (15 pages) ; 32 cm

: [Six suites for violoncello solo; For violoncello alone. Title supplied by cataloger. Ms. in the hand of Luigi Silva. Preliminary draft of a projected edition. Fifth suite incorporates three early editions on parallel staves from the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz: Anna Magdalena Bach (Mus. ms. Bach P 269), Johann Peter Kellner (P 804), and Wolfgang Westphal (P 289). Each suite also paginated separately. First and last pages encapsulated. Two copies of Suite 5. Suite 6 lacking. Includes [2] p. of annotations by Luigi Silva laid in (encapsulated) and a sketch for a two-part version of Suite 4 inserted on p. 16. Performance notes in the hand of Luigi Silva. 60 pages of ms. music ; 32 cm

: [Cadenza for the first movement of the concerto in D major (G. 479) by Boccherini; Sketch for the cadenza by Luigi Silva for the first movement of the concerto in D major for violoncello by Luigi Boccherini. Title supplied by cataloger. Manuscript in the hand of Luigi Silva in ink. Corrections and performance notes in pencil and colored pencil. Enclosed in mylar sleeve. [1] leaf of ms. music ; 32 cm

: [Adagios] dalle 6 sonate per violino e basso [di Corelli]; For violin and bass or continuo (bass line only, with figured bass symbols, unrealized). Caption title. Consists of adagio movements alledgedly written as introductions for Corelli's sonatas op. 5, 1-6. Two different sonatas are captioned no. 5. Introductions do not match sonatas in either key or meter and appear to be by Silva, not Corelli. May be intended for second set of sonatas in op. 5, nos. 7-11; however relationship is still in question. Manuscript in the hand of Luigi Silva. Score has two lines: upper line for violin, lower line is bass line of continuo part. Part for violin is for Sonata 3, Adagio only. Included on same page is melody line of Handel's Largo from Xerxes. Sonata III. Adagio --- Sonata V (?). Adagio -- Sonata I. Adagio -- Sonata II. Adagio -- Sonata V. Adagio -- Sonata VI. Adagio. 1 ms. score ([5] pages) + 1 part ([1] pages) ; 29 cm