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1. Add MS 30930, ff 30-72v

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Add MS 30930, ff 30-72v
Title:
Henry Purcell: Fantasias, In Nomines and sonatas.
Scope & Content:
Fantasias, In Nomines and other works for viol consort, together with sonatas for violins and continuo. f. 43 (reversed). Sonatas for pianoforte and strings, by Henry Purcell. f. 46 (reversed). 'In nomine ': fantasia for 7 instruments, in score, by Henry Purcell. Autograph. f. 48 (reversed)....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1678-1690
Extent:
43 folios

2. Add MS 35021, ff 16r-16v

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Add MS 35021, ff 16r-16v
Title:
J. S. Bach: ‘Praeludium 19’ and ‘Fuga 19’ (Prelude and fugue in A major, BWV 888). Autograph.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1739-1742]
Extent:
1 folio

3. Add MS 52528

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Add MS 52528
Title:
Edward Elgar: 'Polonia', op. 76, symphonic prelude on Polish airs
Scope & Content:
Full score. First performed at the Queen's Hall, London, for a Polish Victims' Relief Fund Concert, 6 July 1915.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1 Jun 1915
Extent:
1 volume (ii + 74 folios)

4. Add MS 58003

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Add MS 58003
Title:
Edward Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme ('Enigma'), op.36. Sketches
Scope & Content:
Sketches in ink and pencil. Annotated in blue and green crayon and red ink.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1898-1899]
Extent:
1 volume (i + 32 folios)

5. Add MS 58004

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Add MS 58004
Title:
Edward Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme ('Enigma'), op. 36. Full score
Scope & Content:
'commenced Feb. 5th 1899 ended Feb. 19th 1899 Malvern'. Annotated in red ink, blue and purple crayon, and with printer's pencil markings. Dedicated 'To my friends pictured within'. Note (f. 1) of first performance at St James's Hall, London, 19 June 1899, conducted by Hans Richter.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1899
Extent:
1 volume (94 folios)

6. Add MS 58006

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Add MS 58006
Title:
Edward Elgar: 'Pomp and circumstance No. 1 in D, Quick March', op. 39 no. 1
Scope & Content:
Full score. Signed 'Birchwood Jul. 1901' (f. 17v). Annotated in red ink, pencil and crayon and with engraver's pencil markings. Dedicated to Alfred E. Rodewald and the Members of the Liverpool Orchestral Society.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jul 1901
Extent:
1 volume (i + 17 folios)

7. Add MS 58007

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Add MS 58007
Title:
Edward Elgar: 'Pomp and circumstance No. 4 (in G major)', op. 39 no. 4; Hereford [1907]
Scope & Content:
Full score. Annotated in red ink and crayon and with engraver's pencil markings. Dedicated to D. G. Robertson Sinclair, Organist of Hereford Cathedral.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1907]
Extent:
1 volume (i + 14 folios)

8. Egerton MS 2335

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2335
Title:
Two symphonies by Franz Joseph Haydn
Scope & Content:
Symphonies (nos. 47 and 48 in Spitta's list), for bassoon, flute, 2 horns, 2 oboes, 2 violins, viola, violoncello, and bass, in parts, by Haydn; being the copies made by his amanuensis, J. Radnitzky, and sent to William Forster, the London music-printer, for publication, on 25 October, 1784 (see...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1784
Extent:
1 volume (35 folios)

9. MS Mus. 1040

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MS Mus. 1040
Title:
Part of a manuscript leaf in the hand of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Scope & Content:
The upper half of a divided leaf of manuscript paper containing music in Mozart's hand. On one side is a cadenza to a piano concerto by Ignaz von Beecke, on the other a minuet for string quartet (K.168a). The lower half of the leaf is now at British Library Add MS 47861 A, f. 10. The leaf is bel...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:

1 item

10. MS Mus. 1745/2/11/5

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/11/5
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebook 5
Scope & Content:
Most of the notebook is unused. f. 140. Heading: 'Zarathustra' above 5 bars in ink. f. 140v. Heading: 'Har du sikt Pan'. f. 143. Heading: 'Prelude 3rd Act R & J' (although the draft beneath is for the Interlude in Act 3). 'Chorus' (ink) in the right margin. ff. 144, 144v and 145 each bear th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1904]-[1907]
Extent:
1 notebook (folios 140-153)