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11. Add MS 14207

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Title:
A collection of duets, songs, excerpts from operas, and a canon
Scope & Content:
Vocal compositions, apparently all of them taken from operas, with accompaniments, mostly in score; 18th cent. Unless the contrary is stated, they are for a single voice, with accompaniments for strings. 1. 'Tergi quegl' occhi belli': chorus, with oboes, horns, bassoons, etc., from 'La Zelinda, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and Italian
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume

12. Add MS 14343

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Title:
A collection of music by Samuel Wesley, including glees, songs, duets, pianoforte solos, a vocal trio, and a quartet
Scope & Content:
passim. Glees, for 3 voices (with two exceptions noted below), in score, by Samuel Wesley; about 1839 (see f. 46). In the hand of Vincent Novello, from MSS belonging to Charles Stokes, etc. 1. 'While others, Delia, use their Pen.' '1800.' f. 4b. 2. 'Sol, Do, Re, Mi': a fantasia. f. 6. 3. 'When B...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1798-1839?
Extent:
1 volume

13. Add MS 14399

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Title:
A collection of mostly English songs, as well as some lute music, cantatas and duets
Scope & Content:
passim. Songs for a treble voice, with a bass figured for harpsichord; except in no. 13, which is unaccompanied. Nos. 1-7 are in the hand of Matthew Lock. 1. 'Cupid once, when weary grown.' By Pelham Humfrey. [In , 1679.] f. 4b. 2. 'Cloris, qui domptetout le nionde.' Anonymous. f. 5b. 3. 'Hark, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

14. Add MS 17785

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Title:
A collection of compositions, including: cantatas, and other pieces, for the voice, and single instruments, and from operas, with accompaniments, by named and anonymous French authors
Scope & Content:
Airs (and other numbers indicated below) from French Operas. Except where the contrary is stated, they are by Jean Baptiste Lully, and unaccompanied. The bass, where given, is usually figured. 1. 'Ritournelle' for 2 violins, with a figured bass. f. 21. 2. 'Poursuivons jusqu'au trépas': duet ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1737
Extent:
1 volume (213 folios)

15. Add MS 17991

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Add MS 17991
Title:
Collection of 17th century compositions in English and French.
Scope & Content:
'Chansons à danser, à boire,' etc. Anonymous. Unless the contrary is stated, the melody only is given, without accompaniment. 1. 'C'est trop courir les eaux.' f. 3. 2. 'Entre les roses et les soucis.' f. 5b. 3. 'C'est Anne si belle ': ballet, f. 12b. 4. 'Permettez moy de mourir.' f. 40b. 5. 'Sou...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1620-1621
Extent:
1 volume (65 folios)

16. Add MS 18990

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Add MS 18990
Title:
Album Amicorum of Libertus Opstraet van der Moelen, of Utrecht; containing inscriptions with coloured arms, and paintings of flowers, etc., 1628-1634. Dispersed through the volume are French songs, with music notation, seemingly written by the owner of the volume
Scope & Content:
The musical contents of the volume are described below. Superius and (in nos. 1-4) bassus parts of the following unaccompanied compositions, apparently in the hand of, and composed by, Libertus Opstraet van der Moelen, of Utrecht. 1. 'Ach! ach!...fiere mort.' ff. 8b, 30b. 2. 'De quelle ingrate...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and French
Date Range:
1628-1634
Extent:
1 volume (30 folios)

17. Add MS 25073-25078

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Add MS 25073-25078
Title:
A collection of various British dance tunes, songs, airs, and other pieces
Scope & Content:
Collections of English, Irish and Scottish, songs, numbers from operas, dance tunes, airs, and other pieces from various composers, compiled around 1790.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
6 volumes

18. Add MS 25076

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Add MS 25076
Title:
A collection of dance music, songs, numbers from operas, musical exercises, a number from an oratorio, and a duet
Scope & Content:
ff. 3-26. Numbers from Operas; either arranged for pianoforte, or with pianoforte accompaniment in score; about 1799. Apparently made by Maria Jackson, alias Egerton [? Maria, daughter of Thomas Scott Jackson, afterwards wife of Sir John Grey-Egerton, 8th Bart., whose nephew. Sir Philip de Malpa...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

19. Add MS 28550

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Add MS 28550
Title:
Fragment of a register of the Cistercian abbey of Robertsbridge, Sussex, in Latin. Also included are some musical pieces.
Scope & Content:
1. Part of a chronicle of the abbey; 1308-1333. Imperfect at the beginning. At the end is a reference to a continuation of the work in a later part of the original volume. f. 1. 2. Reports of suits in the courts of Exchequer and the King's Bench, with regard to claims of the abbey at Salherst,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

20. Add MS 30148

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Add MS 30148
Title:
Hortense Eugénie Cécile Bonaparte: Songs and three-part songs with pianoforte accompaniment
Scope & Content:
ff. 2b-17. Songs, with pianoforte accompaniment, in score, by Hortense Bonaparte, wife of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland. Nos. 1-12 are included, in almost exactly the same order, in the 'Romances Mises en Musique par S[a] M[ajesté] L[a] R[eine] H[ortense]', which appears (from the date on som...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:

1 volume (22 folios)