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1. 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.
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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)

2. 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)

3. Add MS 29803

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Title:
Cadenza by Beethoven, Canzonetta by Rossini, and Nocturne by Johann Nepomuk Kafka
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ff. 1-2b. Cadenza [by Beethoven] to the rondo in Mozart's pianoforte concerto in D minor [No. 466 in Köchel's Catalogue]. Autograph. Followed by Breitkopf und Härtel's printed edition of the same. f. 5. 'Mi lagnerò tacendo della mia sorte': Canzonetta, apparently no. 10 of a series by Rossini,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German and Italian
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

1 volume

4. Add MS 30246

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Title:
Selected vocal pieces, in score, by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini. Autograph.
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ff. 1-6b. 'Dall' Oriente'; for treble, 2 tenors, and a bass, with pianoforte accompaniment, in score, by Rossini. Autograph. 1823. Dedicated to the Countess Sant' Antonio. ff. 7-1 3b. Song ['Il pianto delle Muse in morte di Lord Byron,' 1824], for a tenor voice, with a sextet (? Muses) and 3-pa...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1st half of 19th century
Extent:

1 volume (27 folios)

5. Add MS 34070

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Title:
'Lamentabatur Jacob' by Cristobal Morales of Seville, and a setting of ‘Incipit Lamentatio Hieremiæ’ by Thomas Tallis
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ff. 1-3. 'Lamentabatur Jacob‘; for 5 voices, in score, described as ‘The Lamentations of Jacob. Sung in the Popes Chapel on the 4 Sunday in Lent. D. Cristoforo Moralis, Sivigliano {by Cristobal Morales of Seville}. From an ancient manuscript formerly in Dr Pepusch's Library.’ A compressed score ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1839
Extent:
1 volume (6 folios)

6. Add MS 34182

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Title:
An oratorio, a chorus, and a composition for pianoforte, by Franz Liszt
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ff. 1-105. 'Christus': Oratorio in three parts, for solo voices (Christus, Mary Magdalene, etc.), and choruses of from 4 to 10 voices (Disciples, Women of Jerusalem, etc.), with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes (piccolo, etc.), oboes, clarinets, horns (English, etc.), trumpets, trombones...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1863-1877
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 40080

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Title:
"FIORETTI d[e]l [Girolamo] Frescobaldi," for harpsichord. Paper; ff. i + 40. Oblong octavo. First half of xvii cent. At the beginning is inserted a (later ?) "Orario delli seruizij Feriali della Cappella Pon[ti]fi[ci]a," of which Frescobaldi was organist 1608-1628. In richly tooled Italian black leather binding, with arms, gu., fretty-florey or.
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Music: Harpsichord pieces (Italian), 17th: 18th centt. Girolamo Frescobaldi, composer: Harpsichord solos: 1st half of 17th cent. Bindings ITALIAN: Black leather, richly tooled, with arms: 1st half of 17th cent. includes: f. 1 Court of Rome: Time-table of the ordinary services in the Papal Ch...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1st half of 17th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 42064

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Title:
'FANTASIO': a comic opera in three acts, with overture and orchestral accompaniments, etc., in score, by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880). Mainly autograph. Libretto by Paul de Musset, based on the play by Alfred de Musset, his brother. French. Published in 1872 and first performed in Paris at the Opéra-Comique, 18 Jan. 1872, and then in Vienna, 21 Feb. 1872, in a German translation made by Eduard Mautner and Richard Genée (Loewenberg, Annals of Opera, 2nd ed., 1955, col. 1020). This score is s...
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Jacques Offenbach, composer: Comic opera 'Fantasio' by: 1872. Paul Edmé de Musset, Author: Libretto to comic opera 'Fantasio' by: 19th cent. Louis Charles Alfred de Musset, poet: Comic opera 'Fantasio' based on the play by: 19th cent. Eduard Mautner, Austrian writer and poet: German translati...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 64808

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Title:
GIACOMO PUCCINI: opera 'Madame Butterfly'; [1903]. Preliminary sketches in short score for parts of Act II, towards the end of the opera. Autograph. Two leaves, the verso of the second blank; written in pencil. The passages represented are identified by reference to the cue numbers in the vocal score of the original two-act version, published Milan: G. Ricordi & C., 1904. See Dieter Schickling, Giacomo Puccini: Catalogue of the Works (Kassel, 2003), p. 261. Purchased from Richard Macnutt...
Scope & Content:
Giacomo Puccini, composer: Sketches for parts of Act II of 'Madame Butterfly' by Giacomo Puccini: [1903]: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1903]
Extent:
1 item

10. Egerton MS 2956

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Egerton MS 2956
Title:
" THE YORKSHIRE FEAST SONG," in score, by Henry Purcell. Autogr. Agrees pretty closely with the edition published by the Purcell Society. Paper; ff. iii + 22. Folio. Circ. A.D. 1689. Bookplate of W. H. C[ummings] (sale-cat., lot 1391).
Scope & Content:
Henry Purcell, composer and organist: The Yorkshire Feast Song: circ. 1689.: Autogr. William Hayman Cummings, Mus.D: Bookplates. Bookplates: Cummings (William Hayman), Mus.D. d.1915.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1689
Extent:
1 item