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21. 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)

22. Add MS 22101

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Title:
Early 18th-century operatic music
Scope & Content:
ff. 94. 'Arie con Stromenti Dell' Opera intitolata 'La Pastorella.' Rappresentata da' Pupazzi Nel Palazzo del Sig. Ambasciator di Venezia, 1705—Atto P[ri]mo del Sig. [Carlo] Cesarini, Atto 2o Del Sig. Giannino (sc. Giovanni detto del Violone), Atto 3o del Sig. [?Giovanni Battista] Bononcini con I...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1705
Extent:
1 volume (94 folios)

23. Add MS 22103

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Title:
Operatic music for various instruments, by Alessandro Scarlatti; the words by Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni.
Scope & Content:
ff. 276. 'La Statira': Opera in 3 Acts, with symphonies and accompaniments for trumpets, strings and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score, by Alessandro Scarlatti; the words by Cardinal [Pietro] Ottoboni. Characters: Oronte, Alessandro, Statira, Demetrio, Perinto, Campaspe, and Apelle.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1st half 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (276 folios)

24. Add MS 22104

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Title:
Italian compositions by Giovanni Bononcini and Alessandro Scarlatti.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-84. Cantatas, etc., with accompaniments for strings (unless the contrary is stated), and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score. No. 1 was written at Rome in 1700. 1. 'La Luccioletta,' begins 'Mentre il suo caro gregge' 'Priore Pacieri' f. 1. 2. 'Mentre Clori'; with flutes. Anonymous. f....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1700
Extent:
1 volume (133 folios)

25. 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)

26. Add MS 22269

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'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)

27. Add MS 22270

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Title:
Music and words of 'Palmira', Opera.
Scope & Content:
ff. 196. 'Palmira, Regina di Persia...Del Signore Antonio Salieri [1795]...Accommodata per il Clavicembalo Dal Signore Taddeo Weigl. Coll' aprobazione del sopradetto Maestro, Vienna.' In 2 Acts. Characters: Dario, Gran Sacerdote, Rosmino, Alderanno, Oronte, Alcidoro, Palmira and two Attendants, A...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1795
Extent:
1 volume (196 folios)

28. Add MS 22272

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Title:
Operatic music by Francesco Ciampi, performed at the San Giovanni Grisostomo theatre, Venice, 1729.
Scope & Content:
ff. 38. Introductory symphony and solos in 'Onorio,' Opera in 3 Acts, by Francesco Ciampi, performed at the San Giovanni Grisostomo theatre [Venice, 1729]. The instruments employed in the accompaniments, etc., are oboes and strings, with a bass occasionally figured for harpsichord. In score. Cha...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1729
Extent:
1 volume (38 folios)

29. 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)

30. Add MS 24215

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Title:
Original letters of Italian litterati and artists, 1474-1845
Scope & Content:
The writers are: Luigi Pulci; Florence, 7 June, 1474, f. 1. Jouianus Crassus; n.d. Lat. Partly verse. f. 2. Agnolo Politiano; 6 Apr. 1485, f. 3. Hermolaus Barbarus [afterwards Patriarch of Aquileia]; Milan, 9 kal. Nov. [24 Oct.] 1488. Lat. Copy. f. 4. Joannes Sabadinus de Arientis; Bologna, 10,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1474-1845
Extent:
1 volume