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2311. Add MS 33933

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Title:
The Wode Psalter or St Andrews Psalter: contra-tenor part-book containing musical settings of metrical psalms from the 1564 Scottish Psalm Book and other music
Scope & Content:
Most of the music was collected and copied by Thomas Wode (or Wood). Wode was a former monk who worked at St Andrews after the Reformation in Scotland, eventually becoming vicar there. At the core of the collection are harmonisations of the psalms by Scottish composer David Peebles. Over a perio...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
c 1564-c 1625
Extent:
1 volume (94 folios)

2312. Add MS 33951

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Title:
Giuseppe Verdi: Attila. Opera in four acts.
Scope & Content:
'Attila': Opera, in 4 Acts, by Giuseppe Verdi; with very slight variations from the original (Add MS 35156), which was probably completed early in 1846, the Opera having been produced at the Fenice theatre in March of that year. In score, the bassoon, trombone and drum parts being generally writ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

1 volume (253 folios)

2313. Add MS 33955

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Title:
LIBRO DE' SORTI: a tract on Sortilegy, to be consulted by the cast of three dice. Italian. Paper; ff. 39. xviith cont. With rather coarsely executed coloured drawings. A leaf is missing after f. 15. Quarto.
Scope & Content:
Sortilegy: Book of Fate: 17th cent.: Ital. Fate: Book of: 17th cent.: Ital. Divination: Book of Fate: 17th cent.: Ital. Dice: Book of Fate, to be consulted with three dice: 17th cent.: Ital. Art. Illuminations and Drawings ITALIAN: Book of Fate : coloured drawings: 17th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

2314. Add MS 33964

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Title:
ORIGINAL LETTERS of sovereigns and noblemen, actors, artists, and authors; arranged in each class, according to the nationalities of the writers, under the beads of England, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States of America; 16th-19th centt. The names of writers are given in the Index. Among them are:- Qu. Elizabeth. William III. John, Duke of Marlborough. Francis I. of France. Catharine de'Medici. Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia. Mary...
Scope & Content:
George Colman, senior: Letters to, conc. C. Macklin's acting at Covent Garden: 1774. John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough: Letter, when Envoy at the Hague, conc. treaty with Sweden: 1701. includes: f. 1 Elizabeth I of England: Letter to Lord North: 1593. f. 1 Roger North, 2nd Baron North: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Swedish
Date Range:
16th century-19th century
Extent:

2 files

2315. Add MS 33965

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Title:
Original letters of musicians, arranged as in the preceding volume. Among them are letters of:- Dr. Thomas Augustus Arne, Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, Dr. William Boyce, Orlando Gibbons, Henry Lawes, Matthew Locke, André Ernest Modeste Grétry, Hector Berlioz, François Adrien Boieldieu, François Gounod, Étienne Henri Méhul, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, George Frederic Handel, Joseph Haydn, Franz Liszt, Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Robert Alexander Schumann, Louis Spoh...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1 E- T- Allan, husband of Mad. Caradori-Allan: Letter to P. F. Laporte: 1834. ff. 1, 372 Pierre François Laporte, actor and impresario: Letters to him: 1832-1841.: Fr. f. 3 Thomas Augustine Arne, composer: Letter to G. Woodfall: n.d. f. 3 George Woodfall, Printer: Letter to, from D...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Polish, and Swedish
Date Range:
16th century-19th century
Extent:

1 volume (418 folios)

2316. Add MS 34003

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Title:
Fantasias and other compositions for organ, violin, spinettina, or lute, in 2, 3, 4, and 5 parts, in score, by Girolamo Frescobaldi
Scope & Content:
Fantasias and other compositions. The only pieces to which a name has been given are a 2-part 'fuga per l'organo', beginning with a 'canzona' (f. 3), and a 'Toccata per spinettina sola over Luto' (f. 36) in 3 parts. Contents: Fantasias, etc., for Organ, written on from two to five staves of 5...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:

1 volume (68 folios)

2317. Add MS 34005

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Title:
Three sacred choral pieces: Psalm by Benedetto Marcello, anonymous Mass, and Requiem by Francesco Durante
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-17b. 'Non ti contristi’: psalm XXXVI. No. 36 from the 'Parafrasi sopra i primi 50 Salmi'; for 4 voices, in score, by Benedetto Marcello. After 1726 (date of publication). One short passage has been omitted (see f. 6b). The MS. is in two hands, of which the second, commencing at f. 9b, may ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

1 volume (121 folios)

2318. Add MS 34050

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Title:
Tenor part of a collection of Italian madrigals and motets by anonymous composers. At the end are some English madrigals, two of which are by William Byrd.
Scope & Content:
Passim. Madrigals, apparently all written for 5 voices, in England. Tenor part. The words are omitted in most cases. Nos. 2-10 are by B. Pallavicino, nos. 2-4 being published in 1588, and nos. 5-7 in 1593. Nos. 16 and 23 may be taken from an earlier edition.1. 'Bascia e ribascia By L. Marenzio(?...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (41 folios)

2319. Add MS 34052

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Title:
A collection of canons, etc., for 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices, in score, by Floriano Arressi, - Bassetti, Giovanni Battista Borri, Quirino Colombani, - Gampani, Francesco Gasparini, Padre Giovanni Battista Martini da Bologna, Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, and other anonymous Italian composers of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Scope & Content:
passim. 'Raccolta di Cantici e Canoni di varii Autori': a collection of Canons in the unison, or catches, in score. Nos. 3-10, 12-20, are for 4 voices; no. 11 for 6 voices; nos. 21 and 28 for 5 voices; the rest are for 3 voices. Except where the contrary is stated, they are anonymous. 1. 'Il Vin...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

1 volume (69 folios)

2320. Add MS 34053

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Title:
A collection of cantatas for a soprano voice
Scope & Content:
Cantatas for a soprano voice, with a figured bass for harpsichord, in score. Each song is preceded by a pencil drawing more or less suggested by the text. 1. 'Lontananza, sei crudele.' This and nos. 2-8 are by '[Carlo Antonio] Benati ' or 'Benatti.' f. 3. 2. 'Come l'Ape.' f. 9. 3. 'Selue care...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1st half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (131 folios)

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