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Reference (shelfmark):: R.M.23.f.3
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Scope & Content:: ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Anon. L’Eroe Cinese; 18th century. A short opera, obviously a version of the story of Metastasio’s ‘L’Eroe Cinese’ but set to different words. Preceded by a short Introduzione scored for oboes, horns and strings, and a minuet scored for the same. The arias are mainly scor...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: R.M.23.f.6
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Scope & Content:: (1-8.). ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Cantatas; 18th century. In score. Paper. 1. 3 ff. Anon: M’offende e non m’onora. Cantata consisting of recitative and aria; with figured bass. 2. 6 ff. Anon: Son ferito e granda [sic]. Cantata consisting of recitative and aria; with partly figured bass. 3. 3 f...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: R.M.23.f.9
Title:
Scope & Content:: (1-12.). ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Duets; 18th century. In score, with a bass. For no. 12 the volume is reversed. Paper. 1. 3 ff. Torri (Pietro): Se potessi al seno stringere. [This piece is ascribed to Steffani in Add MS 5331 and entitled ‘Se potessi almeno’]. [For another contemporary copy see...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: R.M.23.f.12
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Scope & Content:: ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Act I. With two extra arias appended, apparently from scene XV. ff. 48.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: R.M.23.f.12-R.M.23.f.14
Title:: R.M.23.f.12-14. ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Steffani (Agostino). La Superbia d’Alessandro; after 1691. Autograph, excepting pp.40-48 of Vol. I. (according to Kroll). Opera in 3 acts, the characters the same as in Handel’s ‘Alessandro’. It is dated ‘Hannovera 1691’ obviously the date of performance. It is scored mainly for strings, or with bass only, and occasionally oboes, flutes and bassoon. There are frequent indications in the score in French. [For a contemporary copy see R.M.23.f.13.]. Pape...
Scope & Content:: Agostino Steffani, composer: Vocal music: 18th cent: Ital: Autogr. Agostino Steffani, composer: Vocal music: 17-18th cent: Ital: Copies.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: after 1691
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: R.M.23.f.15
Title:
Scope & Content:: ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Steffani (Agostino). Arminio; 18th century. ‘Tragedia per Musica Rappresentata alla Corte Elettorale Palatina Il Carnovale dell’anno 1707’. Opera in 5 acts; scored for strings, occasional woodwind, or with bass only. Paper. ff. 123. Agostino Steffani, composer: Vocal mu...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: R.M.23.f.16
Title:
Scope & Content:: ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Steffani (Agostino). Bacchanali; 18th century. A continuous pastoral opera in 24 scenes ‘Celebrati nel Picciolo Theatro Elettorale D’Hannover L’Anno 1695’, with recitative, dialogue, songs, dances and ritornelli; with strings and occasional woodwind, or with bass only, in...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: R.M.23.f.17
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Scope & Content:: ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Anon. Chansons à boire; 18th century. A collection of 69 French drinking and love songs, voice part and words only, numbered 1-68; one (f. 40) has been missed in numbering. There are also 6 unnumbered duets (ff. 54b-66) inserted between nos. 63 and 64, and another duet an...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

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