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1. MS Mus. 131-132

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MS Mus. 131-132
Title:
MSS Mus. 131-132. FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN: ‘Il Ritorno di Tobia’ (Hob.XXI:1): oratorio (words Giovanni Gastone Boccherini); circa 1783. Full score, in Haydn’s original version of 1775, before the revision of 1784. Copy, in ink, in at least two different hands. Each volume of the score is bound with a title page bearing the title in French within an ornate printed border, and the inscription ‘Chez Louis de Rossi Marchand de Musique a Rome au Theatre de la Valle’, suggesting that the copy was produc...
Scope & Content:
Franz Joseph Haydn, composer: Giovanni Gastone Boccherini, librettist: 'Il Ritorno di Tobia' by Franz Joseph Haydn, to words by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini: circa 1783: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1783
Extent:
2 items

2. MS Mus. 133 A-K

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MS Mus. 133 A-K
Title:
Miscellaneous Letters of Musicians, etc.; 19th – 20th cent.
Scope & Content:
MS Mus. 133 A-K. ff. 196. Largest size 350 x 243mm. British Library arrangement.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
19th century-20th century
Extent:

11 items

3. MS Mus. 140

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 140
Title:
MS Mus. 140. GIUSEPPE SARTI: ‘D’Emirena la voce: Scena con strumenti ed Aria del Sig: Giuseppe Haydn’; late 18th cent. Recitative (‘D’Emirena la voce’) and Aria (‘Deh m’aspetta un sol momento’) for soprano and Duet (‘Idol mio ti vivi ancora’) for two sopranos, with two oboes, two horns, two violins, two violas and bass. Copy, in ink. The scena is here attributed to Haydn, but is in fact taken from Sarti’s opera ‘Attalo, Re di Bitinia’ (words, Antonio Salvi), first performed at the Teatro di ...
Scope & Content:
[Giuseppe?] Sarti, composer: Franz Joseph Haydn, composer: Antonio Salvi, librettist: 'D'Emirena la voce', scena for two sopranos and orchestra by [Giuseppe?] Sarti, to words by Antonio Salvi, attributed to Franz Joseph Haydn: late 18th cent.: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 item

4. MS Mus. 143

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 143
Title:
MS Mus. 143. LEONARDO VINCI AND OTHERS: arias and duets; circa 1731. Score, written in ink in the same hand throughout, on ten staves per page, with an index in the same hand on f. 1. Unless otherwise stated, all the pieces are arias by Leonardo Vinci (b. circa 1696, d. 1730) and are scored for soprano, two violins, viola and basso continuo. Nos. 1-6 and 8-16 are from his opera ‘Alessandro nell’Indie’, first performed at the Teatro delle Dame, Rome, in 1730; for a complete score of the opera...
Scope & Content:
Leonardo Vinci, composer: Arias by L. Vinci and others, mainly from Vinci's 'Alessandro nell'Indie': circa 1731: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 28-9 George Frideric Handel, composer: 'Caro vieni al mio seno' from 'Poro': circa 1731: Ital: Copy.ff. 77-80 Giovanni Battista Costanzi, composer: A...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1726-1736
Extent:
1 item

5. MS Mus. 149-152

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MS Mus. 149-152
Title:
MSS Mus. 149-152. CHARLES DIBDIN THE ELDER: music manuscripts; circa 1767-1814. Autograph scores, in ink, including some copies of other composers’ works. Unless otherwise stated, the words are by Dibdin, only the first verse of airs is written, and the scoring of airs and choruses is for voices, horns, oboes and strings, and of recitatives for voice and bass. Supplements the Dibdin collection at Add. 30950-30970. Other collections of Dibdin’s manuscripts are at Southampton Public Library, t...
Scope & Content:
Charles Dibdin, composer and dramatist: Music manuscripts: circa 1767-1814: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
c 1767-1814
Extent:
4 items

6. MS Mus. 166 A-D

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 166 A-D
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS
Scope & Content:
MS Mus. 166. 18th cent. – 1933. ff. 40.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, German, and Italian
Date Range:
18th century-1933
Extent:

4 items

7. MS Mus. 168-208

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MS Mus. 168-208
Title:
ALICK MACLEAN COLLECTION MSS Mus. 168-208. Music manuscripts and papers of the composer and conductor and Alexander Morvaren (‘Alick’) Maclean (b.1872, d.1936); 1880-1970, n.d. All music manuscripts are autograph full scores for orchestra, written in ink, except where otherwise stated. See K. Young, Music’s Great Days in the Spas and Watering-Places (1968), pp. 78-107. Presented by Alick Mayhew, Esq., grandson of the composer, 12 Sept. 1988, and incorporated June 2002. Paper. Forty-one vol...
Scope & Content:
'Alick' Morvaren Maclean, or Alexander; composer and conductor: Music manuscripts and papers: 1880-1970, n.d.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1880-1970
Extent:
41 items

8. MS Mus. 235-236

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MS Mus. 235-236
Title:
MSS Mus. 235-236. ISIDORE DE LARA: ‘La Luce dell’Asia’, opera in a prologue and four acts to a libretto by William Beatty-Kingston after Sir Edwin Arnold’s ‘The Light of Asia’, translated by G. Mazzucato; [1892]. Full score. Italian. Copy, in ink, with autograph and other annotations and additions in pencil, red ink and red and blue crayon. Cuts are marked at several points by paper pasted over portions of the score. The second volume bears a label on the cover reading ‘Lumière de l’Asie: 1e...
Scope & Content:
Sir Edwin Arnold, KCIE; poet: Isidore De Lara, composer: William Beatty-Kingston, writer of plays: 'La Luce dell'Asia', opera by Isidore De Lara, to a libretto by William Beatty-Kingston after Sir Edwin Arnold: [1892]: Ital.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
[1892]
Extent:
2 items

9. MS Mus. 243-245

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 243-245
Title:
MSS Mus. 243-245. ELLEN COLEMAN (b. circa 1886, d.1973): music manuscripts; 1921-57, n.d. Autograph scores, in ink. For correspondence of Ellen Coleman, see Add. 59897-59898. Further music manuscripts are housed at City University, London. Presented to the British Institute of Recorded Sound and transferred to Music Collections from the National Sound Archive, 23 April 1996. Three volumes. 310 x 240mm.
Scope & Content:
Ellen Coleman, composer: Music manuscripts: 1921-57, n.d.: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1921-1957
Extent:
3 items

10. MS Mus. 274

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 274
Title:
MS Mus. 274. GIORGIO FEDERICO GHEDINI (b.1892, d.1965): ‘Concerto dell’albatro, per violino, violoncello e Pianoforte e orchestra e recitante’ (words from Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, in the Italian translation by Cesare Pavese); 1945. Autograph full score, in ink, with numerous erasures and corrections throughout. Dedicated to Gianandrea Gavazzeni. Signed and dated Borgosesia, 22 June 1945 (f. 50v). The work is scored for speaker, piano trio, flute (piccolo), two trombones, timpani, percuss...
Scope & Content:
Herman Melville, American author: Giorgio Federico Ghedini, composer and music teacher: Cesare Pavese, translator: 'Concerto dell'albatro' by Giorgio Federico Ghedini, setting words by Herman Melville in a translation by Cesare Pavese: 1945: Ital.: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 item