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1. Add MS 5036-5062

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Add MS 5036-5062
Title:
A collection of pieces, including motets, madrigals, masses, anthems, duets and other works
Scope & Content:
A collection of pieces, including motets, madrigals, masses, anthems, duets and other works. Prefixed to Add MS 5036 is a letter from Gabriel Mathias to the trustees of the British Museum, containing an extract from the will of James Mathias esq, from which it appears that these volumes are all...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1760
Extent:
27 volumes

2. Add MS 5319-5337

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Add MS 5319-5337
Title:
Manuscript music presented by Sir John Hawkins
Scope & Content:
A collection of manuscript music formerly owned by Sir John Hawkins, chiefly copied by Mr. John Stanley
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
19 volumes

3. Add MS 10338

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Add MS 10338
Title:
A collection of anthems, songs, duets, trios, services, cantatas, motets, and other pieces, in the hand of George Jeffreys
Scope & Content:
ff. 4-13. 'Fantazies,' or Fancies, for strings and organ, in score, by George Jeffreys. 1-6. Six 'of 3 Parts for the Violls and the Virginall.' Autograph. In the 5th Fantasia, a few notes have been added to the virginal part to make it suitable for playing on the organ. f. 4. 7. Another 'of 2 pa...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
after 1669
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 11581-11591

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Add MS 11581-11591
Title:
Extracts from various early musical writers, by Charles Burney, Mus. Doct., with remarks and criticisms by him
Scope & Content:
Also includes extracts and examples of various compositions.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
11 volumes

5. Add MS 11608

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Add MS 11608
Title:
A collection of songs, motets, duets, canons, anthems and part-songs
Scope & Content:
passim. Duets and dialogues, the latter with a bass, in score. 1. Dialogue (Strephon and Daphne), begins 'Come, my Daphne.' 'William Lawes.' f. 2. 2. Another (treble and bass), begins 'What if I dye.' By the same, f. 7b. 3. 'Come, Cloris; hye wee to ye Bower.' 'Henry Lawes.' f. 8b. 4. Dialogue (...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1656-1659
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 14396

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Add MS 14396
Title:
A collection of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Xaver Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn and Sigismond Neukomm.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-13v. Franz Xaver Mozart: "Ich bin der erste Buffo", op. 13. Aria, with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, horns, clarinets, drums, and strings, in score, composed in 1808 for a private performance of his father's "Der Schauspieldirektor." Autograph. It was written for the com...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:

1 volume

7. Add MS 21467

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Add MS 21467
Title:
Collection of 18th-century operatic music for piano, strings, and bass, composed by various authors.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-66b, 107-118. Concerted numbers from three Italian Operas, with symphonies and accompaniments for oboes, horns, trumpets (in no. 3), and strings, in score. 1, 2. Trio, 'Che vipar, Dorina bella'; and quartet (Dorina, Masotto, Mingone, Titta), begins 'Dorina mia.' [From 'Le Nozze di Dorina,'...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (133 folios)

8. Add MS 22101

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Add MS 22101
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)

9. Add MS 22102

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Add MS 22102
Title:
Operatic music, for various instruments, by Giovanni Battista Buononcini.
Scope & Content:
ff. 181. 'Il Xerse': Opera in 3 Acts, with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes, strings (lute, archlute, etc.), and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score, by Giovanni Battista Buononcini [1694]. Characters: Xerse, Artamene, Elviro, Romilda, Adelanta, Eumene, Amastre, Clito, Aristone and ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
late 17th century-early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (181 folios)

10. Add MS 22103

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Add MS 22103
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)