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Collection Area Music Collections Name Handel, George Frideric, composer, 1685-1759

1. a.30.a.

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a.30.a.
Title:
DANCES FOR THE VIOLIN OR FLUTE: with instructions for the flute; 1732-42. Bound after the printed volume The Compleat Tutor to the Violin, the Fifth book (Ino. Young, 1727). Ink, in various different hands. Inscribed ‘Robert Needham 1732’ (f. v). Purchased, 20 Nov. 1950. ff. xvi + 37. 110 x 215mm. Comtemporary mottled calf boards with simple blind-stamped design. 1. f. i. ‘Prince Eugene’s March’. Printed in John Playford, The Dancing Master, ... Volume the Second (Printed by W. Pearson, [1...
Scope & Content:
Music: Dances, with instructions for the flute: 1732-42. includes: f. 24 Maurice Greene, organist and composer: Henry Carey, composer: Tune of the song, 'The busy fly', sometimes attributed to: 1732: Copy.f. 26 George Frideric Handel, composer: 'A Minuet by Mr Handell': 1732: Copy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1732-1742
Extent:
1 item

2. A.909.

Reference (shelfmark):
A.909.
Title:
VOCAL MUSIC; end of 18th cent. A collection of sacred and secular tunes bound after a printed copy of A Select Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes…By…Henry Boyd [1793]. Nos. 1-6 are of a sacred character, and, with the exception of the last, unaccompanied and anonymous. The names given in brackets to the first five, after the manner of hymn-tunes, are misleading, as they bear no resemblance to that class of composition. Purchased, 5 June 1891. Paper; pp. 154. 130 x 210mm. 1. pp. 105-6. ‘O T...
Scope & Content:
William Boyce, composer and organist: Thomas Augustine Arne, composer: Henry Purcell, composer and organist: Music: John Worgan, Mus. Doc.; composer: Fenick, alias Fenwick; composer: George Frideric Handel, composer: A collection of sacred and secular vocal music by (amongst others) John Worgan,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 14207

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Add MS 14207
Title:
A collection of duets, songs, excerpts from operas, and a canon
Scope & Content:
Vocal compositions, apparently all of them taken from operas, with accompaniments, mostly in score; 18th cent. Unless the contrary is stated, they are for a single voice, with accompaniments for strings. 1. 'Tergi quegl' occhi belli': chorus, with oboes, horns, bassoons, etc., from 'La Zelinda, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and Italian
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 14212

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 14212
Title:
Cantatas, with a bass for harpsichord
Scope & Content:
Cantatas, with a bass (frequently figured) for harpsichord, in score. Nos. 9, 12, 17, 21, 26, and 27 are for a contralto voice, the others for a soprano. 1. 'Se pari alia tua fè.' This and nos. 2-6 are by 'Giorgio Federigo Hendel' and published by the Händel-Gesellschaft. The present cantata cor...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1st half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (176 folios)

5. Add MS 14215

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Add MS 14215
Title:
Cantatas, with a bass for harpsichord
Scope & Content:
Cantatas, with a bass (usually figured) for harpsichord, in score. Nos. 16, 18, 19, and 24 are for a contralto voice; the others are for a soprano. 1. 'Sfortunati miei sospiri' 'Benedetto Marcelli.' f. 3. 2. 'Ingiustissimo Amor.' 'Caualiere Alessandro Scarlatti.' f. 7. 3. 'Farfalletta semplicett...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
after 1717
Extent:
1 volume (129 folios)

6. Add MS 14229

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Add MS 14229
Title:
A collection of cantatas, songs, pieces from operas, vocal trios, and a duet
Scope & Content:
Cantatas for a single voice (soprano, unless the contrary is stated), with a bass (frequently figured) for harpsichord, in score; about 1723-1732. 1. 'E fia pur uero, ò Dio.' This and nos. 2-5 are by 'Caualiere Alessandro Scarlatti.' f. 69. 2. 'O uoi, di queste selue abitatrici.' Belonged to — B...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 14335

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 14335
Title:
Collection of compositions for the organ, in the hand of Samuel Webbe
Scope & Content:
Collection of compositions — original and otherwise — for Organ, made by, and for the most part in the hand of, Samuel Webbe, sen., who is probably the author of most of the anonymous ones. 1. All[egr]o [from concerto in F, op. 4, no. 4]. This and nos. 2-4 are by Handel. f. 2b. 2. Piece withou...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1768?-1799?
Extent:
1 volume (119 folios)

8. Add MS 16023

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Add MS 16023
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Scope & Content:
AGRIPPINA, an Opera, by George Frederic Hendel [Handel]. xviiith cent. Oblong Quarto. [16,023.] George Frideric Handel, composer: Agrippina an Opera.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 16024

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Add MS 16024
Title:
Scope & Content:
IL PAST0R FIDO, an Opera, by George Frederic Hendel [Handel]; dated 1713. Oblong Quarto. [16,024.] George Frideric Handel, composer: Il Pastor Fido, an Opera: 1713.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1713
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 16108

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Add MS 16108
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Scope & Content:
MUZIO SCÆVOLA, an Opera, the first Act by Signr. Pipo [or rather, Attilio Ariosti], the second by Giovanni Bononcini, and the third by G. F. Handel. xviiith cent. Oblong Quarto. [16,108.] George Frideric Handel, composer: Muzio Scævola, an Opera the third act by him. Giovanni Bononcini, compos...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item