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1. Add MS 27636

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Title:
A collection of overtures, odes, an anthem, and part of a service, by John Wall Callcott
Scope & Content:
ff. 3, 130. Overtures for horns, oboes (or flutes), 2 violins, viola, and bass, in full score, by John Wall Callcott, from a volume of early works composed by him at Kensington Gravel Pits, in 1784-5 (see note at beginning); 1784, 1785. 1. Overture in C, dated Jany 7, 1784; 'perform'd for the fi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1784-1785
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 30393

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Title:
Orchestral overtures and sinfonia by William Crotch, followed by the overture from Henri IV, opera by Johann Paul Egidius Martini, arranged for piano by William Crotch. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-30. Overture for trumpets, drums, flutes, oboes, and strings, in A, in score, by William Crotch. Autograph. ff. 31-63b. 'Sinfonia' in F, for trumpets, drums, trombones, flutes, oboes, clarinets, horns, bassoons, and strings, in score, by William Crotch, 1814. ff. 64-94. Overture in G, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1795-1815
Extent:

1 volume (100 folios)

3. Add MS 30950

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Eighteen operatic overtures, in full score; four sonatas adapted for the harpsichord or piano; and other miscellaneous pieces, by Charles Dibdin. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1, 6, 136b, 139. Portions of dramatic pieces. Unless the contrary is stated they are for an orchestra consisting of oboes, horns, and strings, in score. 1. Overture to 'The Miniature'; with bassoons, etc. f. 1. 2. Overture to 'Robin Hood'; followed by several orchestral numbers from the same...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:

1 volume (140 folios)

4. Add MS 31708

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Title:
Symphonies, in score, by Haydn.
Scope & Content:
Vol. I. ff. 1-152b Symphonies, for horns, oboes, flutes, bassoons, clarinets, and drums (in no. 1), and strings, in score, by Haydn. 'All revised by the Composer, and performed at Salomon's Concerts [started in 1786?], under Haydn's direction.' 1. 'Sinfonia in C' ['L'ours ']. f. 2. 2. 'Sinfonia...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4th quarter 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (165 folios)

5. Add MS 31709

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Title:
Compositions, in full score, by Haydn.
Scope & Content:
Vol. II. ff. 85. Compositions, in full score, by Haydn. [Published about 1785, as Sei Sinfonie a grand orchestra, opera xxxv.] For a further description see Add MS 32174, where they are given in somewhat different order, above (p. 24). 1. In G minor. f. 2. 2. In D. f. 13. 3. In G. f. 26. 4. In...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
4th quarter 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (85 folios)

6. Add MS 34542

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Title:
A concert-overture, a te deum, and a septet by Sir William George Cusins
Scope & Content:
f. 1. 'Love's labour lost': concert-overture for flutes, oboes, clarinet, bassoons, horns, trumpets, drums, triangle, and strings, in full score, by Cusins; 1875. Autograph. ff. 31-59b. Te Deum, for solo voices and 8-part chorus, with accompaniments for flutes, oboes, clarinet, bassoons, horns,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1875-1891
Extent:
1 volume (92 folios)

7. Add MS 35026

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Title:
Musical autograph album of Eliza Wesley, containing short pieces, inscriptions and signatures of numerous composers, musicians, singers and others
Scope & Content:
passim. Album begun by Eliza Wesley in 1836, containing the autographs of the principal composers, vocalists, and instrumentalists, and a few others, then in London; 1836-1895. Besides the compositions described below, there are also signatures, and in a few cases transcripts of fragments of mus...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 volume (73 folios)

8. Add MS 36572

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One of three volumes of Operas, or portions of Operas, chiefly in parts, from a collection of Operas written for the English Opera House, here including works by Michael William Balfe, Edward James Loder, and Heinrich August Marschner.
Scope & Content:
Parent level date range: 1829-1841 Vol I Date range: c1834-1841 Vols I, II, III: ff. 220, 73, 371: Operas, or portions of Operas, chiefly in parts, from a collection of Operas written for the English Opera House. In three volumes. Vol I:- 1. God save our Gracious King. William the fourth we...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1834-1841
Extent:
1 volume (of three vols), 220 folios.

9. Add MS 36573

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Title:
One of three volumes of Operas, or portions of Operas, chiefly in parts, from a collection of Operas written for the English Opera House, here including compositions from dramatic works: 'Dice of Death', 'Der Vampyr', and 'Clari'.
Scope & Content:
Vols I, II, III: ff. 220, 73, 371 Operas, or portions of Operas, chiefly in parts, from a collection of Operas written for the English Opera House. In three volumes. [1834-1841] Vol. II. 1. A few vocal parts from " The Dice of Death (f. 1) and " Der Vampyr " (f. 29), some of the instrumental pa...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1823
Extent:
1 volume (of three vols), 73 folios.

10. Add MS 36574

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Add MS 36574
Title:
One of three volumes of Operas, or portions of Operas, chiefly in parts, from a collection of Operas written for the English Opera House, here including the instrumental parts of dramatic work: 'Clari', composed by Sir Henry Rowley Bishop.
Scope & Content:
Vols I, II, III: ff. 220, 73, 371 Operas, or portions of Operas, chiefly in parts, from a collection of Operas written for the English Opera House. In three volumes. [1834-1841] Vol. III. The instrumental parts (flutes, oboes, clarinets, horns, trumpets, trombones, bassoons, drums, and strings)...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1836
Extent:
1 volume (of three vols, 371 folios)