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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 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

3. 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

4. Add MS 24286

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Add MS 24286
Title:
'La Madre de' Maccabei ', Oratorio in two acts, in full score, by Pasquale Anfossi.
Scope & Content:
ff. 182. 'La Madre de' Maccabei ': Oratorio in two acts, for solo voices, with symphonies and accompaniments for trumpets, horns, flutes, oboes and strings, in score, by [Pasquale] Anfossi. The characters are Anna, Giacobbe, Antioco, Apollino, and Consigliero.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Spanish
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (182 folios)

5. Add MS 25073-25078

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Add MS 25073-25078
Title:
A collection of various British dance tunes, songs, airs, and other pieces
Scope & Content:
Collections of English, Irish and Scottish, songs, numbers from operas, dance tunes, airs, and other pieces from various composers, compiled around 1790.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
6 volumes

6. Add MS 28613

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Add MS 28613
Title:
A collection of songs by Francis Joseph Haydn
Scope & Content:
A collection of songs by Francis Joseph Haydn. Autograph. Prefixed is a lithograph copy of a letter from Haydn to Anton Polzelli; Vienna, 20 Mar. 1808. Sketches, in the hand of Joseph Haydn, of the choruses, 'Awake the harp,' and 'The heav'ns are telling,' in his Oratorio, 'The Creation.'; bef...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 29382-29385

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Add MS 29382-29385
Title:
Part-songs and other compositions, for two, three, and four voices, by William Byrd, John Farmer, Thomas Morley, and other composers
Scope & Content:
Copied by John Immyns. In separate parts. Add MS 29382 contains the canto part. Add MS 29383 contains the alto part. Add MS 29384 contains the tenor part. Add MS 29385 contains the bass part.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
4 volumes

8. Add MS 29386

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Add MS 29386
Title:
A collection of catches, canons, songs, vocal trios, excerpts from oratorios, excerpts from operas, and a duet
Scope & Content:
passim. Catches, Rounds, etc., for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score. Most of them are in the hand of Edmund T. Warren Home; some of them, beginning with no. 4, were 'corrected [in] 1756.' 1. 'Tobacco is but a vapor' (à 4). 'Ed. Nelham.' f. 5. 2. 'Hey ho, what shall I say' (à 9)...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1762?
Extent:
1 volume

9. Add MS 29997

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Add MS 29997
Title:
Sketches of musical compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven, including C sharp minor quartet, Op. 131, composed in 1826.
Scope & Content:
Sketches of musical compositions in the hand of Beethoven. The volume may be divided into two portions, of which the former (ff. 2-5) contains what appear to be sketches of the C-sharp minor quartet, op. 131; and the latter, miscellaneous sketches, most of them apparently dating from the end of ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:

1 volume (42 folios)

10. Add MS 30925

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Add MS 30925
Title:
John Lodge Ellerton: Paradise lost. Oratorio.
Scope & Content:
'Paradise Lost': Oratorio in four parts, for solo voices and chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes (ottavino, etc.), oboes, clarinets, horns (English, etc.), bassoons, trumpets, trombones, ophicleides, cymbals, drums, harp, strings, and harmonium, in full score, by J[ohn] L[odge]...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Dec 1856
Extent:

1 volume (158 folios)