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Collection Area Music Collections Subject Oratorios

1. Add MS 5036-5062

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Add MS 5036-5062
Title:
A collection of pieces, including motets, madrigals, masses, anthems, duets and other works
Scope & Content:
A collection of pieces, including motets, madrigals, masses, anthems, duets and other works. Prefixed to Add MS 5036 is a letter from Gabriel Mathias to the trustees of the British Museum, containing an extract from the will of James Mathias esq, from which it appears that these volumes are all...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1760
Extent:
27 volumes

2. Add MS 5062

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Add MS 5062
Title:
George Frederick Handel: 'Messiah', oratorio
Scope & Content:
'Messiah'; in score, by Handel, transcribed by Henry Needier, evidently from a very early copy taken before the alterations in the modern editions (dating from 1744?). The present MS. corresponds closely with Arnold's edition, omitting the alterations referred to above. The appearance of the word...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1760
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 5319

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Add MS 5319
Title:
George Frideric Handel: 'Saul', an oratorio
Scope & Content:
Saul: Oratorio,' in three parts, for solo voices and chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments for trumpets, flutes, bassoons, trombones, carillon, drums, strings (including 'teorba,' sc. theorbo), harp, harpsichord, and organ, in score, by Handel. The trombone parts are written out separately a...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1738
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 5319-5337

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Add MS 5319-5337
Title:
Manuscript music presented by Sir John Hawkins
Scope & Content:
A collection of manuscript music formerly owned by Sir John Hawkins, chiefly copied by Mr. John Stanley
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
19 volumes

5. Add MS 5320

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Add MS 5320
Title:
George Frideric Handel: 'Israel in Egypt', an oratorio
Scope & Content:
'Israel in Egypt': Oratorio in two parts, for solo voices and double choir, with symphonies and accompaniments for oboes, trumpets, bassoons, drums, strings, harpsichord, and organ, in score, by Handel [1738]. Apparently transcribed for Dr. [Samuel] Howard (d. 1782) with a view to engraving, and ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1769
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 5337

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Add MS 5337
Title:
A collection of incidental music from operas, madrigals, sonatas, catches, glees, a duet from an oratorio and a canon
Scope & Content:
The contents of this MS. are in different hands. ff. 1-42. Incidental music, by Henry Purcell, in score; early 18th cent. The symphonies are written for flutes, oboes, strings, etc., and, in the case of no. 2, for trumpets also. 1. [The Masque in] 'Timon of Athens' [1694]. f. 1. 2. 'The Musick ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 11515

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Add MS 11515
Title:
Thomas Augustine Arne: 'Judith', oratorio. Volume I.
Scope & Content:
'Judith': Oratorio in three acts, for solo voices and chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments for trumpets, horns, flutes, oboes, bassoons, strings, harpsichord and organ, in score, composed by Dr. [Thomas Augustine] Arne. In three volumes. The greater part of it is autograph. One or two numbe...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1764
Extent:
1 volume (91 folios)

8. Add MS 11515-11517

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Add MS 11515-11517
Title:
Thomas Augustine Arne: 'Judith', oratorio
Scope & Content:
'Judith': Oratorio in three acts, for solo voices and chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments for trumpets, horns, flutes, oboes, bassoons, strings, harpsichord and organ, in score, composed by Dr. [Thomas Augustine] Arne. In three volumes. The greater part of it is autograph. A few leaves (ff...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1764
Extent:
3 volumes

9. Add MS 11516

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Add MS 11516
Title:
Thomas Augustine Arne: 'Judith', oratorio. Volume II.
Scope & Content:
'Judith': Oratorio in three acts, for solo voices and chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments for trumpets, horns, flutes, oboes, bassoons, strings, harpsichord and organ, in score, composed by Dr. [Thomas Augustine] Arne. In three volumes. The greater part of it is autograph. A few leaves (ff...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1764
Extent:
1 volume (70 folios)

10. Add MS 11517

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Add MS 11517
Title:
Thomas Augustine Arne: 'Judith', oratorio. Volume III.
Scope & Content:
'Judith': Oratorio in three acts, for solo voices and chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments for trumpets, horns, flutes, oboes, bassoons, strings, harpsichord and organ, in score, composed by Dr. [Thomas Augustine] Arne. In three volumes. The greater part of it is autograph. One or two numbe...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1764
Extent:
1 volume (73 folios)