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1. Add MS 10337

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Title:
The virginal book of Elizabeth Rogers, 1656, containing many almaines, marches, corrantes, airs, etc., in score, with the names of the composers
Scope & Content:
passim. 'Elizabeth Rogers hir Virginall booke: February the 27, 1656;' with an index to the contents in the same hand; before 1656. Consists of arrangements of songs, dances, etc., for that instrument, mostly anonymous, the music being written on two staves of 6 lines each. A leaf (v. Index) is ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 14396

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A collection of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Xaver Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn and Sigismond Neukomm.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-13v. Franz Xaver Mozart: "Ich bin der erste Buffo", op. 13. Aria, with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, horns, clarinets, drums, and strings, in score, composed in 1808 for a private performance of his father's "Der Schauspieldirektor." Autograph. It was written for the com...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:

1 volume

3. Add MS 17799

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Title:
Masque of "Cupid and Death," written by James Shirley, with music by Matthew Locke and Dr. Christopher Gibbons, and played before the Portuguese Ambassador, in 1653, and a transcript of this volume, enables a subsequent presentation at the Military Ground in Leicester Fields, in 1659.
Scope & Content:
Music: Masque of Cupid and Death by M. Locke. Matthew Locke, composer: "Masque of Cupid and Death, " etc. 'Cupid and Death: a Masque by J[ame]s Shirley, 1653.' Presented before the Portuguese Ambassador, on the 26th of March of that year. The music by Matthew Lock and [Christopher] Gibbons. Th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1659
Extent:
1 of two volumes (36 folios)

4. Add MS 17801

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Collection of compositions for various instruments, predominantly by Matthew Locke.
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Collection of compositions for various instruments, predominantly by Matthew Lock. ff. 3-6 'Duos' for Bass-Viols, in score, by M[atthew] L[ock], 1652. Autograph. There are twelve divided into four sets, each set containing two 'Fantazies' and either a Courante (nos. 1 and 3), or a Saraband (nos...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and English, Old
Date Range:
c 1651-1654
Extent:
1 volume (65 folios)

5. Add MS 19569

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Songs written and set to music by Thomas Moore; arranged by Henry Rowley Bishop and others; 1819-1826, viz.-i. Seven of the "National Melodies:" "The Crystal Hunter;" with accompaniment. Two copies, as single and part song; words and music in Bishop's autograph; with his signature, and the date of 1821, f. 1; "Then fare thee well, my own dear love;" words and music in Bishop's autograph; with signature, and date, 30th Oct. 1819, f. 6; The same; words and music in Moore's autograph, with corr...
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-21b passim. Songs by Thomas Moore, the poet, sent by him to James Power, the music-publisher, for insertion in his Popular National Airs (1818-about 1826). The poet's original MSS of the words and melodies as sent by Power to Sir John Stevenson and Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, together with th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1819-1826
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 28613

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Title:
A collection of songs by Francis Joseph Haydn
Scope & Content:
A collection of songs by Francis Joseph Haydn. Autograph. Prefixed is a lithograph copy of a letter from Haydn to Anton Polzelli; Vienna, 20 Mar. 1808. Sketches, in the hand of Joseph Haydn, of the choruses, 'Awake the harp,' and 'The heav'ns are telling,' in his Oratorio, 'The Creation.'; bef...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 28966

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Title:
Fugue in C minor, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (K. 546)
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Fugue in C minor, by Mozart, written originally (1783) for 2 harpsichords; arranged by the composer, in score, for 2 violins, viola, and violoncello. At the top of the page Mozart has had the fugue copied in its original form, himself adding the arrangement below. According to Köchel's thematic ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1788
Extent:

1 volume (11 folios)

8. Add MS 29248

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Title:
Marcantonio Cesti: 'La Dori', opera
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'La Dori': Opera, consisting of prologue and three acts, by Marcantonio Cesti, 1663. The instruments employed in the introductory sinfonia, the ritornellos, and the accompaniment to the concluding sextet are evidently strings, the recitatives, airs, etc., being accompanied by a figured bass for h...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
after 1663
Extent:
1 volume (82 folios)

9. Add MS 29370

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Title:
A collection of songs, excerpts from operas, and an anthem, by by Dr. Thomas Augustine Arne
Scope & Content:
ff. 8, 20, 113b. Songs, by Dr. Thomas Augustine Arne, with instrumental accompaniments, in score; mid 18th cent. 1. 'The kind appointment Cœlia made': cantata, with flutes, oboes, and violins, f. 8. 2. 'A wretch, long tortured with disdain': cantata, with horns, flutes, oboes, and violins, and a...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Add MS 29801

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Title:
Two sketch-books of musical compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven, containing the first ideas and rough notes of many of his completed works. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-37. 'Beethoven. Skizzenbuch. B': consisting almost exclusively of 'Skizzen zu den 'Ruinen von Athen,' with a few (ff. 11, 11b) 'zu 'König Stephan.' Both these works were produced at Pesth, 9 February, 1812. Three leaves have been lost. About 1811].{c.f. letter of Dr. F. Kaiser (18/6/1962; ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
c 1781-1811
Extent:
1 volume