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91. Add MS 29334

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Title:
Michael William Balfe: 'Falstaff', opera
Scope & Content:
'Falstaff': Italian Opera in 2 Acts, with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, clarinets, cornets, horns, bassoons, trombones, serpentone, drums, and strings, in score, by M. W. Balfe, 1848 (? 1838). Characters: Page and Ford and their wives, Falstaff, Carlo, Rosa, Annetta, Maria, Urs...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1838?
Extent:
1 volume (449 folios)

92. Add MS 29386

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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

93. Add MS 29396

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A collection, mostly of English songs
Scope & Content:
passim. Songs, with a bass (unless the contrary is stated), for harpsichord, in score. Those marked with an asterisk appear for the first time in Playford's , 1652. Almost the whole of the MS is in the hand of Edward Lowe, organist of the Chapel Royal (1661-1682), who added the bass to some of t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1678?-1682?
Extent:
1 volume

94. Add MS 29397

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Title:
A collection, largely of songs, duets and catches
Scope & Content:
passim. Songs for the most part unaccompanied, but occasionally with a bass for harpsichord, in score. Many are taken from John Playford's , 1673-1683, the , 1685, and other collections of that period. See indices by Thomas Oliphant at the beginning and end of the volume. 1. 'The bright Clarinda...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1682?-1690?
Extent:
1 volume

95. Add MS 29962

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Title:
Six sonatas da Cembalo by Benedetto Marcello; with cantatas and arias by the same, and by Antonio Biffi, Nicola Porpora, Giovanni Porta and Tomaso Albinoni.
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-33b. Six solos for Harpsichord, in score, by Benedetto Marcello. Nos. 1 and 3-6 are Sonatas, most of them in three movements, of which the only ones named are an Adagio and two Largos. Early 18th century.1. In C minor. f. 2. 2. Minuet, with variations. f. 10. 3. In D minor. f. 18. 4. In D....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

1 volume (70 folios)

96. Add MS 29964

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Title:
'Ciaccona' by Nicolò Jommelli, with instrumental pieces and operatic arias by Gaetano Piazzo and others; followed, at ff. 59-101, by the overture and part of the first act of Mattia Venti's opera " La Conquista del Messico."
Scope & Content:
f. 2. 'Ciaccona' for oboes, horns, drums, and strings, in score, by Jommelli, performed at the Argentina theatre in 1764. f. 17. 'Non dan pace ai miei pensieri,' known in England to the words 'Sweet is the breath of morn'; for 2 treble voices, with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes and ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

1 volume (154 folios)

97. Add MS 29965

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Title:
Arias by Niccolò Jommelli, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, and Johann Adolph Hasse
Scope & Content:
Arias from Operas, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings, in score. 1. 'Al Caro Idolo mio' [from 'Eumene,' 1746]. 'Giacomo Jumelli' (sc. Niccolò Jommelli). f. 3. 2. 'Più non si trouano' [from 'L'Olimpiade,' 1735]. '[G. B.] Pergolesi.' f. 8. 3, 4. 'Conseruati fedele,' and 'Non è ver che ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
Middle of the 18th century
Extent:

1 volume (52 folios)

98. Add MS 29966

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Title:
Arias by Niccolò Piccinni, Carlo Franchi, Leopold Gassmann, Antonio Sacchini and Giuseppe Colla.
Scope & Content:
Arias, etc., with symphonies and accompaniments for horns (except no. 2), strings, and other instruments indicated below, in score. The dates given in the MS are those of performance, nos 1-4 (1770) and no. 5 (1769) at Rome. 1. 'Ah, non sai per questo core'; with oboes, etc. 'Niccolo Piccinni.' ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1763-1770
Extent:

1 volume (97 folios)

99. Add MS 29967

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Title:
Selections from Italian operas by Giuseppe Sarti, Antonio Sacchini, Tomaso Trajetta, Ferdinando Bertoni and Niccolò Jommelli
Scope & Content:
Selections (arias or rondos, unless the contrary is stated) from Italian Operas of the 18th century, with symphonies and accompaniments for oboes (except in nos. 4 and 6), horns (except in no. 3), flutes (in nos. 4 and 6), and strings, in score. 1. 'Deh, m' aspetta'; from 'Ademira,' performed at...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 item (137 folios)

100. Add MS 30166

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Title:
Selections from operas composed, with one exception, by Domenico Cimarosa. Volume 1.
Scope & Content:
Selections from operas by Domenico Cimarosa, with one duet by Giovanni Paisiello. 1. Aria (Don Peruchetto), begins 'Mirate il mio sembiante'; from 'L' Infedeltà fedele, 1779' [1780, according to the Musical Biographies]. f. 1. 2. 'Vanne, ò cara': duet [(?) from 'La Villana riconosciuta,' 178...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
Late 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:

1 volume (318 folios)