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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 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

4. Add MS 28172

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Add MS 28172
Title:
'Il Pianto e il Riso delle Quattro Stagioni dell'Anno per la Morte, Esaltazione, e Coronazione di Maria sempre Vergine Assunta in Cielo': An oratorio
Scope & Content:
'Il Pianto e il Riso delle Quattro Stagioni dell'Anno per la Morte, Esaltazione, e Coronazione di Maria sempre Vergine Assunta in Cielo': Oratorio in two parts, for solo voices and chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings and harpsichord, in score, by Benedetto Marcello, 1731. Autog...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1731
Extent:
1 volume (90 folios)

5. Add MS 28743

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Add MS 28743
Title:
Recitatives with arias from 'II Trionfo della chiesa', by Ferdinando Paer
Scope & Content:
Four Recitatives with arias from 'II Trionfo della chiesa'; for solo voices and chorus, with accompaniments for flutes, oboes, clarinets, horns, trumpets, bassoons, drums, harp and strings, in score, by Ferdinando Paer. The only characters named are Abraham and an Angel.1. 'Tremeranno i venti ir...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1804?
Extent:
1 volume (58 folios)

6. Add MS 29382-29385

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Add MS 29382-29385
Title:
Part-songs and other compositions, for two, three, and four voices, by William Byrd, John Farmer, Thomas Morley, and other composers
Scope & Content:
Copied by John Immyns. In separate parts. Add MS 29382 contains the canto part. Add MS 29383 contains the alto part. Add MS 29384 contains the tenor part. Add MS 29385 contains the bass part.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
4 volumes

7. Add MS 29386

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Add MS 29386
Title:
A collection of catches, canons, songs, vocal trios, excerpts from oratorios, excerpts from operas, and a duet
Scope & Content:
passim. Catches, Rounds, etc., for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score. Most of them are in the hand of Edmund T. Warren Home; some of them, beginning with no. 4, were 'corrected [in] 1756.' 1. 'Tobacco is but a vapor' (à 4). 'Ed. Nelham.' f. 5. 2. 'Hey ho, what shall I say' (à 9)...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1762?
Extent:
1 volume

8. Add MS 30798-30800

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Add MS 30798-30800
Title:
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. Olimpiade: opera in 3 acts.
Scope & Content:
'Olimpiade': Opera in 3 Acts, with overture, symphonies, and accompaniments for oboes, horns, trumpets and strings, in score, by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi [1735]. An English owner of the MS has noted in pencil two or three numbers borrowed from earlier works by the same composer. Characters as...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1st half of 18th century
Extent:
3 volumes (75, 72, 79 folios)

9. Add MS 32024-32031

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Add MS 32024-32031
Title:
A collection of oratorios and operas of Johann Adolph Hasse
Scope & Content:
Add MS 32026 and 32031 contain excerpts from operas, rather than a complete work.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
8 volumes

10. Add MS 32401

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Add MS 32401
Title:
Johann Gottlieb Naumann: Isacco, Oratorio. - Anton Cajetan Aldgasser: Litanies.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-117b. 'Isacco': Oratorio in two parts, with an introduction, symphonies, and accompaniments for horns (occasionally flutes), oboes, bassoons, and strings, in score, and a figured bass in the recitatives, by [Johann Gottlieb] Naumann. The characters are Abramo, Isacco, L'Angelo, Sara, Gamar...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

1 volume (167 folios)