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1. Add MS 14233

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Add MS 14233
Title:
Portions of two operas
Scope & Content:
Portions of two operas, with symphonies and accompaniments for oboes, strings, and other instruments mentioned below, in score. 1. Acts i and ii of an opera [?'Andromacca e Pirro'], apparently by T. G. or G. T. [possibly Giacomo Tritto, who wrote an opera of that name]. The bass is occasionally...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (155 folios)

2. Add MS 14235

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Add MS 14235
Title:
Portions of two operas, in score
Scope & Content:
Portions of two anonymous dramatic works, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings and a bass (occasionally figured) for harpsichord, in score. 1. Act i of a piece in the Neapolitan dialect in which the characters are Don Pompeo Squinsaglio, Don Claudio, l' Abbate, Ernellina, Leandro, Co...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1st half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (83 folios)

3. Add MS 14123-14124

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Add MS 14123-14124
Title:
Oratorios in full score, not quite complete, by Nicola Porpora
Scope & Content:
Autograph
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1721-1748
Extent:
2 volumes

4. Add MS 14156

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Add MS 14156
Title:
Pasquale Cafaro: 'Surge, amica', motet
Scope & Content:
'Surge, amica‘: ‘mottetto a due cori obligati,’ with symphonies and accompaniments, for oboes, horns, trumpets and strings, and a figured bass for organ, in score, by [Pasquale] Cafaro.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1756
Extent:
1 volume (32 folios)

5. Add MS 14232

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Add MS 14232
Title:
'Partenope', an opera. Probably by Leonardo Vinci
Scope & Content:
'Partenope': opera in 3 acts, with symphonies and accompaniments for oboes and strings, and occasionally trumpets and drums, in score, by Leonardo Vinci(?). The signature on f. 2 is not easily legible, but the date of this composer's 'Partenope' (1723) appears to suit the present MS, and no one ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1723
Extent:
1 volume (150 folios)

6. Add MS 14168-14173

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Add MS 14168-14173
Title:
Operas by Alessandro Scarlatti, the first of which is autograph
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
6 volumes

7. Add MS 14204

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Add MS 14204
Title:
Giacomo Melani: 'Il Girello', opera
Scope & Content:
'Il Girello': opera in 3 acts, the words by Cavaliere Filippa Acciaioli, the music by Giacomo Melani; with an introductory sinfonia, ritornellos, and accompaniments for strings and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score. Characters: Plutone, Proserpina, Vendetta, and Inganno (in the Prologue);...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (268 folios)

8. Add MS 14182

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Add MS 14182
Title:
A collection of twenty-two Italian cantatas
Scope & Content:
Collection of twenty-two Italian Cantatas, with a figured bass for harpsichord, in score. Here attributed to Steffani, but really (as indicated by a note at the beginning, in the hand of M. Rophino Lacy 1856), by Handel; with the exception of the last, which is by Domenico Scarlatti, and possibly...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (89 folios)

9. Add MS 14167

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Add MS 14167
Title:
Alessandro Scarlatti: 'La Rosaura', opera
Scope & Content:
'La Rosaura: melodrama' in 3 Acts, with instrumental symphonies and accompaniments, in score, by Alessandro Scarlatti [1690]. {The same work as that in Add MS 31513 but} The present MS wants the introductory symphony and prologue as well as the scene with which Add MS 31513 ends; on the other han...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1st half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (104 folios)

10. Add MS 14147

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Add MS 14147
Title:
Two oratorios by Giovanni Battista de Orchis
Scope & Content:
Two Oratorios in two parts, written for solo voices with instrumental accompaniment, in score, by Giovanni Battista de Orchis. Autograph. 1. 'Oratorio sacro del Glorioso S. Gaetano'; with trumpets, oboes, etc. The characters are:— Genio Celeste, Speranza, Roma, S. Gaetano, and Genio Maligno. f....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1755
Extent:
1 volume (279 folios)