ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Purcell (Henry). Odes; 18th century. A collection of odes in an 18th century hand; for voices and instruments, in score. Once the property of James Kent. Paper. ff. 112. 1. ff. 1-36. Queen’s Birth Day Song 1691, ‘Welcome glorious morn’. 2. ff. 37-60. Queen’s Birth Day ...
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Purcell (Henry). Hail, bright Cecilia; 18th century. ‘Ode to St Cecilia’; for voices and instruments, in score. In an 18th century hand. Paper. ff. 97. Henry Purcell, composer and organist: Music manuscripts: late 17-18th cent: Copies.
(1-2.). ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Purcell (Henry). Operas; 18th century. For voices and instruments, in score. Both are incomplete in places. Paper. 1. 59 ff. The Indian Queen. 2. 64 ff. The Tempest. Henry Purcell, composer and organist: Music manuscripts: late 17-18th cent: Copies.
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Purcell (Henry). King Arthur; 18th century. Opera for voices and instruments, in score. With ff. 1-3b, 80-92b, 100, and 140b-143b in a different hand. Paper. ff. 147. Henry Purcell, composer and organist: Music manuscripts: late 17-18th cent: Copies.
(1-3.). ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Purcell (Henry). Music from the operas; 18th century. In score. Paper. 1. 72 ff. The Fairy Queen. For voices and instruments. Very incomplete and the last act in a different hand. 2. 35 ff. Bonduca. For voices and instruments. Incomplete in places. 3. 7 ff. So...
(1-7.). ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Purcell (Henry). Music from the operas; 18th century. In score. Paper. 1. 25 ff. The Libertine. For voices and instruments, with a figured bass, incomplete. 2. 29 ff. (Timon of Athens) The Masue in Timon of Athens. For voices and instruments. In the hand of Jer...
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Bach (Johann Sebastian). Chorales; 19th century. A collection of 136 of ‘Johann Sebastian Bachs vierstimmige Choral Gesänge’, without words, compressed into short score for piano. With an index at the end. Paper. ff. 59. Johann Sebastian Bach, composer: Chorales, withou...
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Bonno (Giuseppe). Te Deum; 18th century. Set for solo voices and 4-part chorus; with accompaniment for oboes, clarinets, trumpets, drums and strings, and a figured bass for organ. Paper. ff. 24. Giuseppe Bonno, composer: Te Deum: 18th cent: Lat: Copy.
(1-2.). ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Vocal music; 18th century. Paper. 1. 66 ff. Borgo (Giovanni): Operatic songs. A collection of 7 songs for solo voice; accompanied by oboes, horns and strings, with an unfigured bass. All but the 5th, ‘Minaccia altero’, are possibly from his opera ‘Adriano in Sir...