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1. Add MS 23623

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Add MS 23623
Title:
Collection of 17th-century compositions by Dr. John Bull, and possibly others
Scope & Content:
ff. 181. Compositions, apparently for Organ (see no. 26), by Jan Bull, sc. Dr. John Bull, with the possible exceptions of nos. 2, 9-12, 47, and 50-52. Transcribed on two staves of 6 lines shortly before and after his death, 18 January-16 November, 1628, etc., and probably composed while he was o...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Dutch, English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1628
Extent:
1 volume (181 folios)

2. Add MS 33933

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Add MS 33933
Title:
The Wode Psalter or St Andrews Psalter: contra-tenor part-book containing musical settings of metrical psalms from the 1564 Scottish Psalm Book and other music
Scope & Content:
Most of the music was collected and copied by Thomas Wode (or Wood). Wode was a former monk who worked at St Andrews after the Reformation in Scotland, eventually becoming vicar there. At the core of the collection are harmonisations of the psalms by Scottish composer David Peebles. Over a perio...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
c 1564-c 1625
Extent:
1 volume (94 folios)

3. Add MS 58853

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Add MS 58853
Title:
ITALIAN CANTATAS: 'Parole di Gio. Patritio Carey messe in musica da Diuersi Autori', settings for soprano solo accompanied by a figured bass; mid-17th cent. The signature of 'Guglmo Reymes' (i.e. William Reymes) is on ff. 1 and 83v (for comparison see Sloane 514). Folio i is the bookplate of 'Maurice Burrus', 1937. For a discussion on the identification of the author of the texts as the minor English poet, Patrick Cary see Pamela J. Willetts, 'Patrick Cary and his Italian poems', B.L.J. 2, n...
Scope & Content:
Poetry ITALIAN: Music: Patrick Cary, English poet: 'Parole di Gio. Patritio Carey messe in musica da Diuersi Autori', settings for soprano solo accompanied by a figured bass: mid-17th cent.: Ital. includes: ff. 2-35b, 78-83b Carlo Rainaldi, Italian architect, composer and instrumentalist: Five...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. MS Mus. 1707

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MS Mus. 1707
Title:
Claudio Monteverdi: letter to the Marchese Enzo Bentivoglio
Scope & Content:
Autograph. The letter, written from Venice, concerns aspects of the music for the festivities at the marriage of the Duke Odoardo Farnese to Margherita, second daughter of Cosimo II de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, in Parma the following year. Bentivoglio had commissioned Monteverdi to write t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
18 September 1627
Extent:

2 folios

5. R.M.20.a.3

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.a.3
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Agrippina (dramma per musica by Vincenzo Grimani), HWV 6. Autograph
Scope & Content:
f. i. is an inserted leaf with a note (‘The 1st scena of this Opera is missing’) by F. Nicolai, originally before f. 1, now bound at the end of the volume, after f. 121. Points of note: 1. f. 1. All is wanting before the words ‘a poveri dispensa l’or’ in Act I, sc. 1. 2. f. 1v. Agrippina’s r...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
[1709]
Extent:
1 volume (i + 121 folios)

6. R.M.20.a.5

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.a.5
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Alessandro (dramma per musica by Paolo Antonio Rolli after a libretto by Ortensio Mauro), HWV 21. Autograph
Scope & Content:
The numbering of the scenes differs in the MS. from H-G., which follows the printed libretto. ff. 29v, 38v, 51v, 84v, 96v, 99v, 107v and 119v are blank. Points of note: 1. f. 5. Act I, sc. 1. At the end of the opening recitative: ‘Il nemico fugge dal muro all’arrivo di Alessandro’. H-G. print...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1726
Extent:
1 volume (122 folios)

7. R.M.20.a.6

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.a.6
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Arianna (dramma per musica after a libretto by Pietro Pariati), HWV 32. Autograph
Scope & Content:
ff. 24v, 82v and 84v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 3v. Act I. The stage directions for scene 1 precede the Minuet (marked Andante). 2. f. 22v. Sc. 11. The last words of Arianna’s recitative (‘mi compiaci…tu taci’) are on f. 57. 3. f. 29. Sc. 12. The ‘Balli...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1733
Extent:
1 volume (84 folios)

8. R.M.20.a.7

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.a.7
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Ariodante (dramma per musica after a libretto by Antonio Salvi), HWV 33. Autograph
Scope & Content:
The recitative ‘Ah che questo’ and air ‘Il primo ardor’ (Act I, sc. 11; H-G., pp. 48-50) and the King’s air ‘Più contento’ (Act II, sc. 6, H-G., p. 82) are not present in this MS. ff. 7v, 24, 62v, 72v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 1. Overture. At the foot of...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1734
Extent:
1 volume (96 folios)

9. R.M.20.a.8

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.a.8
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Arminio (dramma per musica after a libretto by Antonio Salvi), HWV 36. Autograph
Scope & Content:
ff. 39r, 80v, 81r are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 5. On foot of the page ‘Mitt[woch?] angefangen Sept 15 1736’. 2. f. 26. ‘Fine dell’Atto Primo Sept 19. 1736’. 3. f. 48. ‘Fine dell’Atto 2do Sept 26. 1736’. 4. ff. 71v-78. Act III, sc. 8. The recitative (‘Per...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1736
Extent:
1 volume (81 folios)

10. R.M.20.a.9

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.a.9
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Atalanta (dramma per musica after a libretto by Belisario Valeriani, HWV 36. Autograph
Scope & Content:
f. 68v is ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 23. ‘Fine dell’Atto 1. April 9. 1736’. 2. f. 44. ‘Fine dell’Atto 2do April 14. 1736’. 3. ff. 51v-61. Act III, sc. 6 (H-G., p. 68). The arrangement of the MS. is as follows: f.51v: Recitatives down to ‘vostro core’. f. 52...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1736
Extent:
1 volume (68 folios)