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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 30491
Title:: Canzons, caprices, etc., composed by Giovanni de Macque, Francesco Lambardo and other Italian composers. On the fly leaf (f. 2) are three stanzas of Italian poetry in terza rima.
Scope & Content:: Passim. Compositions, {in keyboard 'partitura'} {deleted: apparently for 4 strings, in score}, entitled in the cryptograph on f. 1 'Libro di canzone francese del Signor Gioanni De Macque' [fl. 1574-1601], but containing also pieces differently named and by other composers as well. They are mostl...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume (52 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 30493
Title:: CATALOGUE of the instruments and books belonging to the Music School at Oxford. Paper; ff. 9. xviiith cent. Small .Quarto.
Scope & Content:: University of Oxford: Catalogue of instruments and books of the Music School: 18th cent. Catalogues of Libraries, etc: Instruments and books of the Music school at Oxford: 18th cent.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 30513
Title:: The Mulliner Book: a collection of music for the virginals
Scope & Content:: A collection of music for virginals, with one short piece for four voices, and nine pieces for cittern, probably all in the hand of Thomas Mullliner, master of St Paul's choir. On ff. 2, 8, 51, 110, 116 are memoranda by John Stafford Smith, organist of the Chapel Royal, about 1800. f. 1b. 'The...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: [between 1545-1570]
Extent:: 1 volume (129 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 30521
Title:: Poems of Robert Bloomfield set to music by Matthew Cooke, Organist of St. George's, Bloomsbury; 1824. Preceded by two elegies on the poet; and followed by 'Love in a shower' set as a three-part glee by R. A. Firth.
Scope & Content:: f. 1. 'Wine, beauty, smiles and social Mirth'; for 3 voices, in score, by Matthew Cooke, 1824. Autograph. The words are from The Remains of Robert Bloomfield (1824). ff. 3-16b passim. Elegies, etc., in score, by Matthew Cooke. Autograph. Words of nos. 1-3 by Robert Bloomfield. 1. 'Beneath this...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1824
Extent:: 1 volume (20 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 30790-30791
Title:: Saverio Mercadante: Il bravo: opera in 3 acts
Scope & Content:: 'Il Bravo': Opera in 3 Acts, with preludio, symphonies, and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, trumpets, trombones, serpent, ophicleide, drums, harp, and strings, in score, by Mercadante [1839]. Characters: Foscari, Luigi, Violetta, il Bravo, Pisani, Michelina, Cappello...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1st half of 19th century
Extent:: 2 volumes (226, 335 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 30792-30794
Title:: Niccolò Piccinni: Catone in Utica: opera in 3 acts
Scope & Content:: 'Catone in Utica': Opera in 3 Acts, with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, horns, trumpets, bassoons, and strings, and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score, by Niccolò Piccinni [1770].
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 2nd half of 18th century
Extent:: 3 volumes (129, 138, 103 folios)

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