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1. Add MS 5321

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Add MS 5321
Title:
Songs and cantatas, in score, by George Frideric Handel
Scope & Content:
1. 'Acis and Galatea'; serenata for solo voices and 5-part chorus (the 3 middle parts assigned in the 1st chorus to alto and 2 tenors, in the others to 3 tenors), with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, and strings, in score. The aria, 'Consider, fond shepherd' (at f. 67), is here ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 5326

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Add MS 5326
Title:
Maurice Greene: 'The song of Deborah and Barak'
Scope & Content:
‘The Song of Deborah and Barak': a short work, of the nature of an oratorio, for solo voices and 4-part chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments for trumpets, oboes, and strings, in score, by Dr. [Maurice] Greene. Apparently in the hand of Dr. Boyce. It begins ‘Attend, ye princes.’
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1732
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 5328

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Add MS 5328
Title:
Charles John Stanley: 'The Choice of Hercules'
Scope & Content:
'The choice of Hercules'; for solo voices and 4-part chorus, with overture and accompaniments for trumpets, horns, oboes, bassoons, strings, and organ, in score, by [Charles] John Stanley, whose bookplate, with arms, is at the beginning of the MS. A much shorter work than Handel's serenata with t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 22100

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Add MS 22100
Title:
Collection of sacred and secular compositions by authors including Blow, Purcell, Gibbons, and Weldon.
Scope & Content:
ff. 3-73 passim. Songs with chorus, etc., for various occasions, with accompaniments for strings (unless the contrary is stated), in score. Except no. 1, they are by Dr. John Blow. 1. 'A Song to welcome home his Majesty from Windsor, 1680,' begins 'Welcome vicegerent of the Mighty King.' 'Purcel...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1682
Extent:
1 volume (123 folios)

5. Add MS 30392

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Add MS 30392
Title:
Sketch-book of compositions by Dr. William Crotch
Scope & Content:
ff. 3, 3b, 39b, 40b. Fugues for Organ or Pianoforte, by Dr. William Crotch. Autograph. What hand S. H. (whose initials appear on ff. 40 and 41) had in them does not appear. 1, 2. In C, and G minor; composed at Oxford in 1790. ff. 3, 3b. 3, 4. In B flat, composed at Bath in 1791. The second one i...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1790-1795
Extent:

1 volume (96 folios)

6. Add MS 31535

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Add MS 31535
Title:
Madrigals and Cantata for 2 voices, in score, by Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari.
Scope & Content:
Vol. I. ff. 65. xviiith cent. Add MS 31535 'Madrigali a due, Del Sigre Gio. Carlo Ma. Clari,' 1740, 1741, and a cantata for 2 voices by the same composer; with a bass for harpsichord, in score. 1. 'Fuoco...è la chioma bionda.' f. 2. 2. 'Quando col mio.' f. 7b. 8. 'Dov' è...quell' Vsignolo.' f....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
after 1741
Extent:
1 of three volumes (65 folios)

7. Add MS 31555

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Add MS 31555
Title:
Selections from Operas and similar works, by Handel, transcribed roughly, in score, by Michael Rophino Lacy.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-98, 109-125b. Portions of Operas, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings, etc., and (in the recitatives) basses, generally tigured, for harpsichord, in score, by Handel; apparently all of them transcribed by Michael Rophino Lacy from the originals at Buckingham Palace. 1. Arias, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 volume (284 folios)

8. Add MS 31561

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Add MS 31561
Title:
Handel's "Acis and Galatea" : a Serenata. Transcript, in score, by Christopher Smith, the younger; composer:
Scope & Content:
ff. 159. 'Acis and Galatea': serenata, in score, by Handel. Unlike the copy in Add MS 5321 (above), the aria, 'Consider, fond Shepherd,' at f. 99b, is here written in the tenor clef and assigned to Damon; the first chorus is also directed to be sung by a canto, 3 tenors, and a bass. Apparently in...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (159 folios)

9. Add MS 31567

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Add MS 31567
Title:
Handel's "Il Convito d'Alessandro": the Serenata "Alexander's Feast" with an Italian version of the libretto.
Scope & Content:
ff. 161. 'Il Convito d' Alessandro'; sc. an Italian version of 'Alexander's Feast,' for solo voices and choruses of 4 and 6 voices, with overture and accompaniments for trumpets, horns, flutes, oboes, bassoons, and strings, and a figured bass for harpsichord or organ, in score, by Hendel, sc. Han...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (161 folios)

10. Add MS 31572

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Add MS 31572
Title:
Songs from Operas, all (with one exception) by Handel, in score. taken principally from "Ottone and " Flavio", "Alceste", "Admeto", "Semiramide", "Orlando", "Parnasso in Festa".
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-171b. Selections from Operas, all (with one exception) by Handel, in score. Unless the contrary is stated, they are arias, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings. Almost all of them were published by Walsh. Nos. 1-9, 11-22 (some described as 'Add MS Songs'), 46-50 ('Add MS Songs') ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
after 1734
Extent:
1 volume (178 folios)