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Musical Courier, vol xxxii, no. 32, 25 June 1896, ‘Philharmonic Double Number’. Included are complete Philharmonic Society concert programmes, 1813-1896, and biographical notices of Sir Alexander Mackenzie (conductor), W. H. Cummings (Hon. Treasurer), Francesco Berger (Hon. Secretary) and the ot...
The Strand Musical Magazine, vol. iii; Jan.–June 1896 (London, George Newnes), the [March] issue, containing an article by W. H. Cummings on the Philharmonic Society. With a flyleaf inscription of purchase from Louis Wolff, Sept. 1961. pp. 428. 278 x 197mm. Bound in full cloth with an embossed ...
History of the Society by H. C. Colles, prepared in 1937 to supplement the published history by Myles Birket Foster, but not published. Typescript (ff. 2-79); author’s MS (ff. 80-147). ff. 147. 254 x 205mm. Henry Cope Colles, music historian: Arthur Searle, of the British Library: History of t...
Typescript and two variant printed copies of Robert Elkin, A Short Account of the Royal Philharmonic Society (London, 1948); 1948, circa 1960. ff. 35. 1. ff. 1-16. Author’s annotated and amended typescript, with the title ‘The Royal Philharmonic Society. Founded January 1813.’; 1948. 254 x 205...
Collection of untitled 17th-century musical compositions for two viols
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Collection of 16 short pieces, without titles, in score. Written on 2 staves of 5 and 6 lines respectively, evidently intended for 2 viols. The treble part on folio 9 is a duplicate of that on the preceding page, with a slight variation in the 2nd bar.
Music manuscripts of the musicologist and collector Alan Walker Tyson (b.1926, d.2000): 1732 – circa 1970, n.d. The collection also includes printed music and books, which are catalogued separately. For a description of the collection, see O. W. Neighbour, ‘The Tyson Collection’, The British Lib...
‘MISS ALICE MAUD HER MUSICK BOOK’: arias and keyboard music; 1732-4. English, written in ink on paper ruled with six staves, in one principal hand, with additions in other hands on ff. 6, 13v and 14 and some small additions of ornaments in pencil on ff. 9v-10. The songs and arias are all for sop...
Trio Sonatas and Suites; circa 1697-1704. Parts, in ink. ff. 1-18 is an incomplete set of parts, all in the same hand, for a set of twelve trio sonatas by Matthew Novell (published as Sonate da Camera or Chamber Musick. Being a Sett of Twelve Sonata’s, London, Excud: et Sculp: Tho Cross. Junr. P...
HENRY PURCELL: ‘King Arthur’; mid 18th cent. Score. Copy, in ink, written on paper ruled with twelve staves to the page (a thirteenth stave added to f. 3 is now cropped). A note on f. ii in the hand of W. H. Cummings reads ‘In the hand-writing of James Kent (born 1700, died 1776)’. Kent copied t...