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121. K.3.m.23.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.3.m.23.
Title:
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL: Keyboard parts for certain movements of the organ concertos, op.4; mid-eighteenth century. Copies, in ink. Bound with an annotated copy of the printed organ score of Six Concertos For the Harpsichord or Organ (Walsh, circa 1740). The copies incorporate substantial written-out ornamentations, and comprise the first and third movements of nos.1, 3 and 5, and the second movement of no.6. All of the remaining movements are annotated with ornaments in the printed score, in...
Scope & Content:
George Frideric Handel, composer: Ornamented versions of certain movements of the organ concertos, op.4: mid-18th cent.: Copies.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1740
Extent:
1 item

122. K.4.a.8.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.4.a.8.
Title:
MUSIC FOR FLAGEOLET; circa 1690. Added in a contemporary hand to Youth's Delight on the Flagelet the second part [...] Being the 9th edition (Iohn Clarke, [1690?]), using the ‘dot-way’ notation, or flageolet tablature, also found in the printed portions of the volume. ‘Love’s a sweet passion’ (i.e. ‘If love’s a sweet passion’, from Act III of Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen) is added to the blank tablature lines printed on f. 10. On f. 14v are jottings for a tune with the title ‘my young nan...
Scope & Content:
Music: Flageolet music: circa 1690. includes: f. 10 Henry Purcell, composer and organist: 'If love's a sweet passion' from 'The fairy queen', arranged for flageolet: circa 1690: Copy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1690?]
Extent:
1 item

123. K.4.f.5.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.4.f.5.
Title:
SEBASTIANO FESTA AND PHILIPPE VERDELOT: two madrigals; after 1542. Written on the blank final leaves of the four printed part-books of Benedictus Appenzeller, Superius (Contratenor) (Tenor) (Bassus) Des chansons a quattre parties (Anuers: Henry Loys & Iehan de Buys, 1542) in a contemporary hand. The first piece, ‘O passi sparsi’ by Sebastian Festa, is written on ff. 27v-28 of each volume, which have been printed with blank staves. It is written with lozenge-shaped notes, in imitation of ...
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 27v-28 Francesco Petrarca, poet: Sebastiano Festa, composer: 'O passi sparsi' by Sebastiano Festa , to words by Francesco Petrarca: after 1542: Ital: Copy.f. 28v Philippe Verdelot, composer: 'Fedele et bel cagnuolo': after 1542: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
after 1542
Extent:
1 item

124. K.4.g.2.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.4.g.2.
Title:
THOMAS CREQUILLON: ‘Dont vient cela belle je vous supply’; after 1541. The solution to the canon printed in the Superius book of Tylman Susato’s collection Vingt et Six Chansons musicales (Anuers: Par Thilman Susato, [1541?]), written in a contemporary italic hand and pasted into the printed book (f. 1*). This set of part-books was previously the first item in a set of bound volumes comprising K.4.g.2., K.4.f.5., K.4.g.1., a fourth item not in the British Library, K.4.g.3. and K.4.d.16. Each...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1* Thomas Crequillon, composer: Solution to the canon 'Dont vient cela': after 1541: Fr: Copy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
after 1541
Extent:
1 item

125. K.4.g.3.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.4.g.3.
Title:
SEBASTIANO FESTA: ‘Perch’al viso d’amor portava’ (words, Petrarch); after 1542. Written on the versos of the title pages of the four printed part-books of Quatuor vocum musicæ modulationes numero xxvi. (Antuerpiae: Apud Guilielmum Vissenacum, 1542) in a contemporary hand, and not attributed here to the composer. The piece is also found in Moteti e canzone libro primo (Rome, 1520 or 1521) and as item 24 in Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, MSS. Magl. XIX, 164-167. For a modern edition after the...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1v Francesco Petrarca, poet: Sebastiano Festa, composer: 'Perch'al viso d'amor' by Sebastiano Festa, to words by Francesco Petrarca: after 1542: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
after 1542
Extent:
1 item

126. K.5.b.8.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.5.b.8.
Title:
LETTERS FROM VINCENT NOVELLO; 22 May 1824. Two letters from Vincent Novello concerning the provision for a Music Library in the British Museum, one addressed to George Canning, enclosing a copy of another addressed to Mr Henry Banks, M.P. for Corfe Castle and a Trustee of the British Museum. Autograph. Canning’s draft of a reply is written onto the back of the first letter, and a copy of a reply from Canning’s secretary to Novello is attached. Purchased. ff. 6. 230 x 187mm.
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-2 Vincent Novello, organist, composer and publisher: George Canning, Prime Minister: Letter to George Canning from Vincent Novello: 1824: Autogr.f. 2v Vincent Novello, organist, composer and publisher: George Canning, Prime Minister: Draft of a letter to Vincent Novello from...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 May 1824
Extent:
1 item

127. K.6.e.1

Reference (shelfmark):
K.6.e.1
Title:
The Wandering Minstrels Archive: Album I.
Scope & Content:
Folio album containing photographs, concert programmes and other memorabilia from the Wandering Minstrels' concerts staged between 1860 and 1867. Contents:- f. i. Reproduction of a 17th-century illustration of a viol player, taken from Christopher Simpson’s The division-violist (1659). f. 1. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860-1867
Extent:

1 volume

128. K.6.e.1-7

Reference (shelfmark):
K.6.e.1-7
Title:
The Wandering Minstrels Archive.
Scope & Content:
Archive of the Wandering Minstrels, an amateur orchestra which gave charity concerts across England and private 'smoking concerts' in London between 1860 and 1898. The orchestra members were drawn largely from the ranks of the aristocracy and military, and the orchestra was conducted by, success...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860-1899
Extent:
7 items

129. K.6.e.2

Reference (shelfmark):
K.6.e.2
Title:
The Wandering Minstrels Archive: Album II.
Scope & Content:
Folio album containing photographs, concert programmes and other memorabilia from the Wandering Minstrels' concerts staged between 1868 and 1881. Contents:- f. 1. Dedicatory page bearing the words ‘Presented to the Wandering Minstrels by H.B. Heath.’ f. 1v. Page inscribed with the following n...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1868-1881
Extent:

1 volume

130. K.6.e.3

Reference (shelfmark):
K.6.e.3
Title:
The Wandering Minstrels Archive: Album III.
Scope & Content:
Folio album containing photographs, concert programmes and other memorabilia from the Wandering Minstrels’ concerts staged between 1882 and 1898. Contents:- [inside flyleaf]: A cutting, from Truth, noting that the Wandering Minstrels are not disbanding. f. 1. Decorative title-page, reading: ‘...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1882-1899
Extent:

1 volume