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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37960
Title:: Volume V: 'Nitocris', Act III
Scope & Content:: Full score of 'Nitocris' by Edouard Silas, Act III only. For Act I see Add MS 37958, and for Act II see Add MS 37959.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1859
Extent:: 1 item (90 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37963
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. VIII. (ff. 65). "Mr. Punch's Musical Recollections: burlesque symphony, "composed Nov. 1856, arranged in 1866."
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1856-1866
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37964
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. IX. (ff. 37). "Elegie" (op. 34), for pianoforte and orchestra, 1856 (f. 1); and "March of Vagabonds" (op. 90), for pianoforte, 1873 (f. 32).
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1856-1873
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37968
Title:: "LA DONNA di Genio volubile": libretto of the 2-act operabuffa with that title by Marco Portogallo [Marcos Antonio da Fonseca], originally produced at Parma in 1791, the names of the performers being given on f. 2. The present copy appears to have been used again for a performance at Corfu in 1822. Paper; i. + 22. Small quarto. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books.
Scope & Content:: Marcos Antonioda Fonseca: Libretto of his opera " La Donna di Genio volubile": [1791]. Drama: Libretto of "La donna di genio volubile": [1791].
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37976
Title:: L' OLIMPIA VENDICANTE (sc. vendicata) opera, in score, by Alessandro Scarlatti [1686]. See E. J. Dent, A. Scarlatti: his life and works, 1905, p. 39. Paper; ff. v. + 135. Oblong folio. 17th-18th cent. Belonged successively to a Duchess of Manchester, to Ann S. Mounsey (marr. William Bartholomew in 1853), and to Freclerick George Edwards. Two letters to the last-named from Edward J. Dent, 1904, are prefixed (ff. ii., iv.).
Scope & Content:: Alessandro Scarlatti, composer: Opera ,L'Olimpia vendicante: 17th-18th cent. includes: ff. ii, iv Edward Joseph Dent, musicologist and translator: Letter to F. G. Edwards: 1904.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37995
Title:: "'AMORE VINCE TUTTO' ossia 'La donna di più caratteri'...... Drammia faceto....musica di Pietro Carlo Guglielmi." The libretto only [by Antonio Palomba], dated at the end "9 Giugno, 1810, Padova." The opera, however, appears to have been originally produceded at Naples, in 1807, as "Amor tutto vince." Paper; ff. 27. Small octavo. A.D. 1810.
Scope & Content:: Attonio Palomba: "Amor vince tutto," a drama: 1810. Pietro Carlo Guglielmi, composer: Libretto of "Amor vince tutto": 1810. Drama: Libretto of " Amor vince tutto," by A. Palomba: 1810.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1810
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38002
Title:: "ADMETO": Opera in 3 Acts, in score, by George Frederick Handel [1726], in the hand of his amanuensis, John Christopher Smith. Paper; ff. i. + 94. Mid. xviii. cent. Oblong folio. Richly tooled red morocco binding, with the device, within a Garter, of the Prince of Wales.
Scope & Content:: John Christopher Smith, formerly Schmidt (Johann Christoph): Transcribed: 18th cent. George Frideric Handel, composer: Admeto: 18th cent. Bindings ENGLISH: Red morocco, gilt tooling with arms of Prince of Wales: post 1762.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Mid 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38036
Title:: "CANTATE de diversi gran Maestri," dated 1706. With a figured bass for harpsichord and (in no. 1) an oboe obbligato part, in score. The composers named are:-[Luigi] Legnani, [Pietro Paolo] Bencini, Domenico Sarri, Antonio Lotti, [Antonio?] Caldara, Giovanni [Battista] Buononcini, Franceseo [Bartolomeo] Conti, Pietro Torri, Clemente Monarij, Attilio Ariosti, [Nicolò ?] Fago, [Francesco?] Mancini, [Pietro Francesco?] Tosi, -- Martini, Alessandro Searlatti, and Tommaso Albinoni, by most of whom...
Scope & Content:: includes: f. 3 Luigi Legnani: Cantata,: 1706.f. 8b Pietro Paolo Bencini: Italian cantata: 1706.ff. 12 b, 107 b Domenico Sarri, composer: Cantata: 1706.: Ital.ff. 16, 49 b Antonio Lotti, composer: Cantatas: 1706.: Ital.ff. 20 b, 53 b Antonio Caldara, composer: Italian cantatas: 1706.f....
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1706
Extent:: 1 item

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