Search

Project / Collection Tyson Collection Language Italian Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Tyson MS

Reference (shelfmark):
Tyson MS
Title:
Tyson Collection
Scope & Content:
Music manuscripts of the musicologist and collector Alan Walker Tyson (b.1926, d.2000): 1732 – circa 1970, n.d. The collection also includes printed music and books, which are catalogued separately. For a description of the collection, see O. W. Neighbour, ‘The Tyson Collection’, The British Lib...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1732-c 1970
Extent:
25 items

2. Tyson MS 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Tyson MS 1
Title:
Scope & Content:
‘MISS ALICE MAUD HER MUSICK BOOK’: arias and keyboard music; 1732-4. English, written in ink on paper ruled with six staves, in one principal hand, with additions in other hands on ff. 6, 13v and 14 and some small additions of ornaments in pencil on ff. 9v-10. The songs and arias are all for sop...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1732-1734
Extent:
1 item

3. Tyson MS 5

Reference (shelfmark):
Tyson MS 5
Title:
Scope & Content:
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN: ‘Oratorio, Le sette ultime Parole del Redentore al croce’ (words, Josef Friebert and Gottfried van Swieten, freely translated by Guiseppe Carpani); early 19th cent. Score of the version for soprano, alto, tenor and bass soloists, four-part chorus and orchestra of ‘Die sieben ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Tyson MS 10

Reference (shelfmark):
Tyson MS 10
Title:
Scope & Content:
ITALIAN ARIAS; 1780s. Copies. Score of the vocal and keyboard parts only. Though the keyboard part usually includes a reduction of some of the upper parts, the chief melodic line is often missing, suggesting that the manuscript was originally accompanied by instrumental parts. Written in several...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1780s
Extent:
1 item

5. Tyson MS 11 A-H

Reference (shelfmark):
Tyson MS 11 A-H
Title:
Scope & Content:
Tyson MS 11. MISCELLANEOUS MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS; late 18th – early 19th cent., circa 1970. ff. 63. Overall size 337 x 251mm.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1760-1975
Extent:
1 item

6. Tyson MS 11 F

Reference (shelfmark):
Tyson MS 11 F
Title:
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI: ‘Cavatina, Tu che accendi questo core, Composed by Gioacchino Rossini, Arrangée pour Piano par Gpe Anelli’ (from ‘Tancredi’); circa 1820. Score, for soprano and piano. Copy, written in ink on paper ruled with twelve staves to the page. Whatman watermarks dated 1811 and 1813. Signed ‘M. E. M. Clary’ (f. 47). ff. 47-51. 301 x 233mm.
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 47-51 Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, composer: Giuseppe Anelli, pianist and composer: 'Tu che accendi' from 'Tancredi' by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, arranged for voice and piano by Giuseppe Anelli: circa 1820: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 item

7. Tyson MS 12-13

Reference (shelfmark):
Tyson MS 12-13
Title:
GIOVANNI PAISIELLO: ‘La Pazza per Amore’, opera in two acts (to a libretto by Giambattista Lorenzi after Guiseppe Carpani’s translation of Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières’ ‘Nina’); after 1790. Copy of the score, in ink, written on paper ruled with ten or twelve staves, in the same hand throughout, with a few annotations in pencil. For soloists, chorus, clarinets, bassoons, horns and strings. The opera was first performed in a one-act version with spoken dialogue at the Royal Palace a...
Scope & Content:
Giambattista Lorenzi, librettist: Giuseppe Carpani, writer of plays: Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières, writer of plays: Giovanni Paisiello, composer: 'Nina', ossia 'La Pazza per Amore' by Giovanni Paisiello, to words by Giambattista Lorenzi after the translation by Giuseppe Carpani of 'Ni...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
after 1790
Extent:
2 items

8. Tyson MS 14

Reference (shelfmark):
Tyson MS 14
Title:
Scope & Content:
DOMENICO CIMAROSA: ‘Aria Seria, Non sò donde viene, con Recitativo, nell’ Olimpiade’, for soprano, horns, oboes and strings (words, Pietro Metastasio); late 18th cent. Recitative, beginning ‘Giovane sventurato’, and aria, beginning ‘Non sò donde viene’. Score. Copy. Cimarosa’s dramma per musica ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Tyson MS 16-17

Reference (shelfmark):
Tyson MS 16-17
Title:
MOZART: ‘Cosi fan tutte osia La Scuola degli amanti: Drama giocoso in due Atti Rappresentato nel Teatro di Corte a Vienna L’Anno 1790’ (libretto, Lorenzo da Ponte), K588; circa 1790-5. Copy, in Italian. Score, written in ink on paper ruled with ten or twelve staves to the page, with some pencil annotations in Tyson’s hand. The title page of Act 1 is inscribed ‘Si vende in Vienna presso Wencislao Sukowaty Editore di Musica, e Copista dell’ Imperial Teatro nella Piazza di St. Pietro Nro 554. i...
Scope & Content:
Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart, alias Wolfgang Amadeus; composer: Lorenzo Da Ponte, librettist and poet: Jakob Klein, music copyist: 'Cosi fan tutte' by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, to words by Lorenzo Da Ponte, partly in the hand of Jakob Klein: circa 1790-5: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
[1760-1840]
Extent:
2 items

10. Tyson MS 18

Reference (shelfmark):
Tyson MS 18
Title:
Scope & Content:
MISCELLANEOUS MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS; late 18th – first half of 19th cent. ff. 64. Overall size 232 x 302mm.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, German, and Italian
Date Range:
Late 18th century-1st half of 19th century
Extent:
1 item