Sheetmusic: Allegro Assai

This collection consists of sheet music composed by two twentieth-century Houstonians, Frantz H. Brogniez and John R. Cardone. Accompanying the scores of eleven pieces by Brogniez is a biographical note written by Alice G. Brogniez, his third wife. His items also include the certificate of his appointment to the Academie Artistique Scientifique et Litteraire de Hainaut which he was awarded in 1893 for composing the oratorio “Jair.”

The material by Cardone consists of photocopies of an essay titled “The Harmonic structure of Western Music” and a letter to Mr. Stanley Wolf of the Juilliard School. Making up the majority of the content are manuscript scores for three independent pieces as well as five compositions written to accompany John Milton’s Comus, a masque (versified drama meant to be acted out) written in the seventeenth century.