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1. 11738.cc.40.(4.)

Reference (shelfmark):
11738.cc.40.(4.)
Title:
RONDE: ‘Pour un peuple aimable et sensible"; circa 1775. The melody only, inserted in MS. on p. 45 of a printed copy of [Barnabé Farmain] de Rosoi’s Henri IV (Paris: Vente, 1774). The music is by Johann Paul Ægidius Schwartzendorf, detto Martini. Paper. 192 x 117mm.
Scope & Content:
Johann Paul Aegidius Martini, il Tedesco; composer: Ronde, 'Pour un peuple aimable et sensible': circa 1775: Fr: Copy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1775
Extent:
1 item

2. A.233.

Reference (shelfmark):
A.233.
Title:
‘ADIEU NOUS VOUS VERRIONS UN JOUR’; 17th cent. The words only of a ‘chanson francois’ added to the final page (f. 36v) of the bass part of the printed madrigal collection De Floridi Virtuosi d’Italia (In Anversa: Appresso Pietro Phalesio, 1600). The title page of the bass part is inscribed ‘Giovanni Vuatchin’. Purchased, 22 May 1873. Two parts; ff. 36 + 36. 158 x 208mm.
Scope & Content:
includes: Bass part, f. 36v Poetry FRENCH: Chanson, 'Adieu nous vous verrions un jour': 17th cent.: Fr.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

3. B.362.

Reference (shelfmark):
B.362.
Title:
FRENCH SONGS; circa 1790. The words to eighteen songs, without music, added in manuscript to certain blank pages in a collection of 250 printed French songs (each issued separately), all published in the second half of the eighteenth century. Written in ink in the same hand throughout, with illustrations added at the foot of several pages. Purchased, 19 July 1859. 192 x 122mm.
Scope & Content:
Poetry FRENCH: 18 songs, added to a collection of printed songs: circa 1790: Fr: Copies.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1790
Extent:
1 item

4. B.362.t.

Reference (shelfmark):
B.362.t.
Title:
CHORUSES AND DANCES: added in manuscript to a printed score of Les amours de Protée, ballet by Charles-Hubert Gervais (Paris: J.-B.-Christophe Ballard, 1720); after 1720. With the bookplate of Henry Prunières. Purchased from Richard Macnutt, 3 June 1993. pp. [viii]+288 + ff. 11. 190 x 255mm. Full calf binding with label to spine. 1. ff. 1-4 (between pp. 46 and 47). ‘Duo’, ‘Pour regner sur les Coeurs’, for two sopranos (‘L’amour Constant’ and ‘L’amour Volage’) and violins; – recitative, ‘Pl...
Scope & Content:
Bookplates and Book-stamps: Bookplate of Henry Prunières: circa 1920: Printed. Charles-Hubert Gervais, composer: Choruses and dances added to 'Les amours de Protée': after 1720: Fr: Copies.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
after 1720
Extent:
1 item

5. G.390.

Reference (shelfmark):
G.390.
Title:
FRENCH SONGS; circa 1830. 3 songs for soprano and piano, bound between tracts 18 and 19 of an album of French songs printed between 1810 and 1832. Contents:– ‘Colin que vous ai je fait: chansonette Parisian’ (ff. 1v-2); – ‘La Demoiselle au Bal: Amédée de Beauplan’ (ff. 2v-3); – ‘Le bonheur de se revoir: Tyrolienne’ (also by Beauplan) (ff. 3v-4). On ff. 5 and 6v are sketches in pencil for two simple melodies. Front flyleaf inscribed ‘A Melle Eugénie Mayer’. Purchased, 12 Feb. 1866. ff. 6. 32...
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 2v-4 Amédée Rousseau, alias de Beauplan; composer: Two songs: circa 1830: Fr: Copy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1830
Extent:
1 item

6. h.3979.b.

Reference (shelfmark):
h.3979.b.
Title:
GABRIEL PIERNÉ: ‘Quintette en trois parties’; 1919. The opening bars of the ‘Quintette en trois parties pour piano, 2 violons, alto et violoncelle’, op.41, written in the composer’s autograph on the verso of the title page of the published score (Paris: J. Hamelle, ©1919), beneath a dedication to the performers at the work’s première (Gaston Poulet, Victor Gentil, S. Jarecki and Louis Ruyssen), dated 22 Feb. 1919. The score and first violin part are both heavily annotated. Purchased, June 19...
Scope & Content:
includes: verso of title page Henry Constant Gabriel Pierné, composer and conductor: Gaston Poulet, conductor and violinist: S. Jarecki, musician: Louis Ruyssen, musician: Victor Gentil, musician: Dedication, with musical quotation, of the 'Quintette en trois parties' by Henry Constant Gabrie...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1919
Extent:
1 item

7. 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

8. K.7.f.16.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.7.f.16.
Title:
FRENCH SONGS; first half of 19th cent. With pianoforte accompaniment (except to no. 13), in score. Bound before and after a collection of printed editions of duets for musettes and vielles by Tolou, Boismortier, Chedeville and Naudot: nos. 1-13 are inserted at the beginning of the volume, nos. 14-24 at the end. Ownership inscription of ‘E. Vernier, Elève du Conservatoire de Paris’ (f. 1). The binding, which predates the MS. additions, is stamped ‘Mr du Moustier de Ste Marie, Capitaine des Cu...
Scope & Content:
Auguste Panseron, composer: Étienne Nicolas Méhul, French composer: Amédée Rousseau, alias de Beauplan; composer: Loïsa Puget, composer: Antonin Louis Clapisson, composer: Edouard Bruguière, composer: J[oseph?] Meifred, composer: Auguste Nourrit, musician: H. Romagnesi, composer: Hippolyte Monpo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1st half of 19th century
Extent:
1 item