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1. Add MS 4910

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Add MS 4910
Title:
Hawkins Collection. Vol. II. Miscellaneous works relating to music.
Scope & Content:
Includes extracts from (a) Dethlevus Cluverus. ff. 1-10;- (b) John Birchensha (collected, as well as artt. c-e, by Silas Domville al. Taylor, apparently for Viscount Brouncker). ff. 39-40;- (c) — Allison of Covent Garden. f. 42;- (d) Matthew Lock. ff. 43-44, 60;- (e) Christopher Simpson. f. 52;-...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (87 folios)

2. Add MS 27579

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Title:
"Cato: sive, speculum morale; privatum vitæ genus concernens," etc. Printed. Frankfurt, 1585. Interleaved for an Album Amicorum of Johannes. Cellarius, of Nuremberg, 1599-1606
Scope & Content:
Containing paintings, coats of arms, verses, mottoes, and autographs. Among the names are those of Johannes Fabricius, f. 75;-John Doland [Dowland], with the subject of a fugue, f. 88;-Thomas Sackevila, "Engelender," f. 100 b;-Nicolaus Taurellus, f. 118. Johannes Cellarius, of Nuremburg: Album: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
1585-1606
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 29801

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Add MS 29801
Title:
Two sketch-books of musical compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven, containing the first ideas and rough notes of many of his completed works. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-37. 'Beethoven. Skizzenbuch. B': consisting almost exclusively of 'Skizzen zu den 'Ruinen von Athen,' with a few (ff. 11, 11b) 'zu 'König Stephan.' Both these works were produced at Pesth, 9 February, 1812. Three leaves have been lost. About 1811].{c.f. letter of Dr. F. Kaiser (18/6/1962; ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
c 1781-1811
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 29997

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Title:
Sketches of musical compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven, including C sharp minor quartet, Op. 131, composed in 1826.
Scope & Content:
Sketches of musical compositions in the hand of Beethoven. The volume may be divided into two portions, of which the former (ff. 2-5) contains what appear to be sketches of the C-sharp minor quartet, op. 131; and the latter, miscellaneous sketches, most of them apparently dating from the end of ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:

1 volume (42 folios)

5. Add MS 31995

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Add MS 31995
Title:
A collection of studies in musical composition, consisting chiefly of examples of the fugue and the canon
Scope & Content:
passim. Examples of harmony, etc., in a German hand. 1. Consonances and Dissonances in cluding one by 'J. P.' (possibly John Playford). ff. 1-7b passim. 2. Fugues. ff. 8, 10b, etc. 3. Canons (?), written in a musical shorthand. ff. 21b-23. 4. 'Scala Mystica. Wie man von einer Catenz (sc. Cadence...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (24 folios)

6. Add MS 32181

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Add MS 32181
Title:
A collection of music by Franz Xaver Süssmayr and part of a requiem by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-19 passim. Songs, with pianoforte or harpsichord accompaniment, in score or compressed score, by Franz Xaver Süssmayr; late 18th cent. Autograph. 1. 'Je t'aime autant'; sung by [P. J.] Garat. f. 1. 2. 'Te bien aimer': reply to the above, f. 2. 3. 'Le petit ménage,' begins 'La fortune at se...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:

1 volume (252 folios)

7. Add MS 32181-32182

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Add MS 32181-32182
Title:
A collection of vocal and instrumental compositions of Franz Xavier Süssmayer, and part of a requiem by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Scope & Content:
Autograph.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
2 volumes

8. Add MS 32184-32237

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Add MS 32184-32237
Title:
Original compositions, for the most part unpublished, by Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Scope & Content:
In the case of works in full scores, the music for wind instruments will generally be found at the end of the volume.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
54 volumes

9. Add MS 32190

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Add MS 32190
Title:
A collection of compositions, including choruses, canons, songs, numbers from operas, and cantatas by, or in the hand of, Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-36, 93-114. Compositions by, or in the hand of, Johann Nepomuk Hummel; early 19th cent. 1. Numbers and sketches of numbers, apparently from one or more Italian operas, in the hand, and probably the composition, of Hummel. They are in vocal score, with an occasional bass for pianoforte, and...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 volume (152 folios)

10. Add MS 34803-34804

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Add MS 34803-34804
Title:
A collection of vocal compositions by John Lodge- Ellerton and in his own hand
Scope & Content:
A few pieces, mostly autograph and some of them incomplete, are added, viz.: by Charles Henry Nottingham (vol. i. f. 75), E. Silas (i. f. 79), Karl Friedrich Zelter (i. f. 86), J. B. Cramer (ii. f. 20), Cipriani Hambly Potter (ii. f. 30), and James Coward (ii. f. 32).
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
2 volumes