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1. Add MS 34996-35027

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Add MS 34996-35027
Title:
Wesley Bequest
Scope & Content:
The compositions in Add MS 34997-35011 are almost entirely by Samuel Wesley, and in his handwriting.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
32 items

2. Add MS 34997

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Add MS 34997
Title:
Samuel Wesley: 'Ruth', oratorio
Scope & Content:
'Ruth,' by S[amuel] W[esley]. Autograph. The MS. bears various dates between 8 Sept. and 26 Oct. 1774 (when the composer was only eight years old); and the airs are said to have been composed before he was six. In score, the accompaniments written for trumpets, drums, oboes, violins, violas, vio...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1774
Extent:
1 volume (89 folios)

3. Add MS 35004

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Add MS 35004
Title:
Samuel Wesley: 'An Ode to St. Cecilia'
Scope & Content:
'An Ode to St Cecilia. The Words written By the Revd Samuel Wesley, A.M., Rector of Epwoath (sc. Epworth, co. Line), and set to Music by his Grandson, Samuel Wesley.' Composed for solo voices and 4-part chorus with accompaniments for flutes, oboes, horns, trumpets, drums, and strings, and occasio...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1836
Extent:
1 volume (145 folios)

4. Add MS 35006

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Add MS 35006
Title:
Samuel Wesley: pianoforte pieces, chants and an anthem
Scope & Content:
passim. Pianoforte pieces in the hand of Samuel Wesley, by whom they were given to his daughter Eliza a few months before his death. All the compositions not otherwise described are either original works or arrangements of the transcriber's. 1. Introduction and Fugue in G. f. 2. 2. Others, in D ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1837
Extent:
1 volume (47 folios)

5. Add MS 35012

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Add MS 35012
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Scope & Content:
ORIGINAL PAPERS of Samuel Wesley to his mother (1776- 1812) and his wife (1810-1830), with a few to his children, his sister Sarah and his brother Charles; 1773-1830. At f. 108 is a prayer in his handwriting upon entering the house at Pentonville where he subsequently died. Paper; ff. 122. Quart...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1773-1830
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 35014-35015

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Add MS 35014-35015
Title:
LECTURES on musical subjects by Samuel Wesley. Autograph. The lecturers have been so much altered from their original form that it is impossible to say when or where many of them were first delivered. Two volumes. Paper; ff. 176, 262. Quarto and Folio.
Scope & Content:
Samuel Wesley, composer and organist: Lectures: 1811-1830.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1811-1830
Extent:
2 items

7. Add MS 34996

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Add MS 34996
Title:
Samuel Wesley's "First Music book, from which he learned his notes"
Scope & Content:
ff. 3, 7b, 32, 34b. Compositions, arranged or otherwise, for Harpsichord or Pianoforte. 1. Minuet in 'Ariadne.' 'Handel.' f. 3. 2. Minuet (Allegro moderato). 'Handel.' f. 7b. 3. 'Old clapping cotillon.' f. 32. 4. Another cotillon. f. 34b. f. 13b. March in D for the violin, without accompaniment...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (36 folios)

8. Add MS 35016

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Add MS 35016
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Scope & Content:
A SYNOPSIS by Miss Eliza Wesley of the Lectures by Samuel Wesley her father contained in 35,014, 35,015, above. With a few notes and (f. 86) extracts from letters. Paper; ff. 89. Late XIXth cent. Duodecimo. Samuel Wesley, composer and organist: Lectures: 1811-1830.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 35017

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Add MS 35017
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Scope & Content:
REGISTER of juvenile concerts given by the brothers Charles and Samuel Wesley, 1779-1785, including lists of subscribers and, in the case of the last four series of concerts, also lists of those present, programmes, and accounts of expenses. Copied by Eliza Wesley in 1894 from the original belon...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1894
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 35003

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Add MS 35003
Title:
A collection of antiphons, songs, solfeggi, glees, and other compositions by Samuel Wesley
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-31b passim. Antiphons, etc., by Samuel Wesley, mostly autograph; 1807, etc. Nos. 1-20 are ‘Antiphonæ communes ad Magnificat in utrisque Vesperis,’ for the principal festivals. The melody with figured bass. 1. ‘Tradent enim vos.’ f. 1. 2. ‘Estote fortes in bello.’ f. 1. 3. ‘Lux perpetua luc...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
1 volume (153 folios)