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121. Add MS 39550-39554

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Add MS 39550-39554
Title:
SOUTHGATE COLLECTION, Vols. I-V. Fancies, In nomines, and pavans, for 5 and 6 viols, in parts, by composers of the reign of James 1, a collection said to have been made by John Jenkins for the L'Estrange family, of Hunstanton, co. Norf. In five volumes (quintus, medius, contra-tenor, tenor, and bassus), wanting a 6th part (1st or 2nd bass). The MS. was carefully collated at the time of transcription with numerous contemporary part-books and scores, the names of whose owners are given among t...
Scope & Content:
John Jenkins, composer: Said to have compiled: tempp. Jas. I-Chas. I. John Barnard, Minor Canon of St. Paul's: References to scores bel. to.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1603-1649]
Extent:
5 items

122. Add MS 41091-41092

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Add MS 41091-41092
Title:
PERUGINI COLLECTION. Vols I (ff. 55) and II (ff. 48). Secular and sacred vocal solos, duets, trios and quartets, with pianoforte or organ accompaniments, by Leonardo Perugini; 1835, 1837 and n.d. Italian and Latin; mostly holograph. At the end of Vol. II (f. 31) is an arrangement for four voices, by the same, of a composition of F[?rancesco] P[?erugini], followed (f. 43) by a "Tarantella Napoletana" of the latter. The pieces in Vol. I, ff. 4 b, 6, 24 b, and 29 b, were published at various da...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1835-1837
Extent:
2 items

123. Add MS 41093-41094

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Add MS 41093-41094
Title:
PERUGINI COLLECTION. Vols. III (ff. 38) and IV (ff. 53). Vocal music, chiefly by Italian composers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, probably collected, for the greater part at least, by Leonardo Perugini, in whose hand some of the pieces are copied. The principal contents of Vol. III are:-(a) A setting, for soprano voice, with accompaniment for strings, of Torquato Tasso's "La Gerusalemme Liberata," Canto xii, Stanzas 96, 97 and 99, by [Niccolò Antonio] Zingarelli. For other copie...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1835-1837]
Extent:
2 items

124. Add MS 45934-45937

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Add MS 45934-45937
Title:
ETHEL SMYTH COLLECTION. Vols. I-IV. 'Fantasio': comic opera in two acts based on the play by Alfred de Musset; 1892 - 1894, with later resisions. The libretto, in German, was written by the composer in collaboration with Henry Bennet Brewster (C. St John, op. cit., pp. 83, 90). First performed at Weimar, 20 May 1898 (C. St John, op. cit., p. 93; A. Loewenberg, Annals of Opera, Geneva, 1955, i, col. 121O, gives the date as 24 May) and revived at Karlsruhe, 10 Feb. 1901. Published, in vocal sc...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1892-1894
Extent:
4 items

125. Add MS 45939-45941

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Add MS 45939-45941
Title:
ETHEL SMYTH COLLECTION. Vols. VI-VIII. 'Les Naufrageurs': opera in three acts to a libretto, in French, by H. B. Brewster. Full score, dated at the end of Act III 'Dec. 13th. [1905]' (45941, f. 145b). Composed in 1903-1904 (C. St John, op. cit., p. 305) and first performed in Leipzig, 15 Nov. 1906 (What Happened Next, p. 266; A. Loewenberg, op. cit., col. 1274, gives the date as 11 Nov.); a different production followed at Prague, 12 Dec. 1906. Published, in vocal score, by Breitkopf & H...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1905]
Extent:
3 items

126. Add MS 45942-45943

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Add MS 45942-45943
Title:
ETHEL SMYTH COLLECTION. Vols. IX, X (ff. ii + 94, ii + 98). 'The Boatswain's Mate': ballad opera in one act (two parts) to a libretto by the composer, based on a short story by W. W. Jacobs. Reduced full score; circ. 1922. The opera was composed in 1913-1914 (C. St john, op. cit., p. 305) and first produced by Sir Thomas Beecham at the Shaftesbury Theatre, 28 Jan. 1916 (A. Loewenberg, op. cit., col. 1333). The production arranged for February 1915 at Frankfurt-am-Main (cf. the composer's Bee...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1922
Extent:
2 items

127. Add MS 47821-47823

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Add MS 47821-47823
Title:
GUSTAV HOLST COLLECTION. Vols. XVIII-XX (ff. 58, 120, 103). 'Sita', op. 23, opera in three acts 'Founded on the ancient Hindoo Epic "The Ramayana" (47821, f. 1); completed in 1906. Full score. Partly autograph (47821, 47822 are mostly autograph; 47823 is mostly a copy in the hand of Fritz Hart). I. Holst, no. 89.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906
Extent:
3 items

128. Add MS 48304 A-D

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Add MS 48304 A-D
Title:
LOEWENBERG COLLECTION. Vols. I-IV (ff. 146, 169, 200, 212). List of operas performed before 1800, arranged in alphabetical order of titles, with details of composers, librettists, date and place of first performance, publication, revivals, etc. Bound in four volumes containing titles beginning with A-B, C-F, G-O, P-Z.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1800
Extent:

4 items

129. Add MS 48305-48311

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Add MS 48305-48311
Title:
LOEWENBERG COLLECTION. Vols. V-XVIII. Notebooks and miscellaneous notes on opera and related subjects. Now bound as follows:-
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1630-1999]
Extent:
7 items

130. Add MS 48596-48597

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Add MS 48596-48597
Title:
SANTLEY COLLECTIONS. Vols. II, III (ff. 162, 57). Copies and arrangements, made or owned by Santley, of settings by other composers for baritone and orchestra or piano.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1831-1909
Extent:
2 items