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1. Add MS 5324

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Title:
Maurice Greene: 'Phoebe', a pastoral drama
Scope & Content:
'Phœbe: a Pastoral Drama' in 3 Acts, with overture, symphonies, and accompaniments for flutes, horns, oboes, and strings, and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score, by Dr. [Maurice] Greene [1748]. The words are by Dr. John Hoadly. Characters: Phœbe, Sylvio, Amyntas, Celia, Linco; with Choruses...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 5325

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Title:
Maurice Greene: 'Florimel' or 'Love's revenge', a pastoral drama
Scope & Content:
'Florimel,' or 'Love's Revenge': a Pastoral Drama in two parts, with symphonies and accompaniments for horns, oboes, bassoons, and strings, and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score, by Dr. [Maurice] Greene [1737]. The words are by Dr. John Hoadly. Characters: Cupid, Florimel, Myrtillo, and a ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 5333

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Title:
Dramatic compositions by Henry Purcell
Scope & Content:
Dramatic compositions, with instrumental accompaniments, and a song, in score, by Henry Purcell: transcripts {partly} by Dr. William Croft. 1. 'King Arthur' [1691]. Wanting some of the numbers given in Rimbault's and Arkwight's editions, viz., Overture, Military symphony in Act i, Introduction...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 5337

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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

5. Add MS 22099

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Title:
Collection of sacred and secular compositions, including hymns and catches for voice, and incidental music, and an arrangement by Henry Purcell for Queen Mary’s birthday in 1693; predominantly by English and Italian composers.
Scope & Content:
Short pieces on two staves, apparently written, or arranged, for Harpsichord. Several of them are in A Choice Collection of Ayres for the Harpsichord, 1700. [about 1704-1707.]. 1. Movement from 'Sonata 12' (the last of the set published in 1683). 'H. Purcel.' f. 2. 2. Prelude in A minor. 'Lock.'...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
late 17th century-early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (90 folios)

6. Add MS 22100

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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)

7. Add MS 22268

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Title:
'L' Olimpiade', Opera, in two Acts, with symphonies and accompaniments for wind, brass, strings and percussion, in score, by Giuseppe Sarti.
Scope & Content:
Vol. I. xviiith cent. Giuseppe Sarti, composer: L'Olimpiade: an opera: circ.1755.: Imperf. ff. 170, 166. 'L' Olimpiade'; with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, clarinets, trumpets, horns, timballi (?kettledrums), strings, and figured bass for harpsichord, in score. By Giuseppe S...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1755
Extent:
1 of two volumes (170 folios)

8. Add MS 22269

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Title:
'L' Olimpiade'; Opera in two Acts, with symphonies and accompaniments for wind, brass, strings, and percussion, in score, by Giuseppe Sarti.
Scope & Content:
ff. 170, 166. 'L' Olimpiade'; with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, clarinets, trumpets, horns, timballi (?kettledrums), strings, and figured bass for harpsichord, in score. By Giuseppe Sarti [about 1755]. Acts i and ii only. In two volumes.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1755
Extent:
1 of two volumes (166 folios)

9. Add MS 22597

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Title:
Tenor and treble parts and incidental music for a collection of compositions, by various composers.
Scope & Content:
(String Quintets, Motets and a Carol, in the same hand, Song in 'Don Quixote,' by R. Courteville, in a later hand.) ff. 3-15, 18-21b, 53 Tenor part of the following Anthems: — [late 16th cent.]. 1. 'The Lorde blesse vs.' 'R. White.' Attributed by Tudway, in Harley MS 7339, f. 34b, to Matthew Wh...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume (53 folios)

10. Add MS 25073

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Title:
A collection of dance music, songs, and numbers from operas
Scope & Content:
ff. 3-45b. Dances, etc., for Pianoforte, mostly anonymous, begun in England in 1790; late 18th cent. Nos. 1-23 are 'Country dances of the year 1790,' followed by instructions for their rendering. Nos. 24-39, 40-46, 53-58, and 63 have also similar instructions. 1. 'The Waltz.' f. 3. 2. 'The Rival...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume