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032-002036520 Language Italian Subject Operas

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 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)

4. 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

5. 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)

6. 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)

7. Add MS 14234

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Add MS 14234
Title:
'Componimento Drammatico che introduce ad un ballo Cinese': an Italian opera, in score
Scope & Content:
With symphonies and accompaniments for flutes, horns, oboes, and strings, and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score. Anonymous. Possibly autograph (see end). Characters: Lisinga (Ercole Paganini produced an opera called 'Lisinga' at Florence, in 1808), Sivene, and Tangia.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (112 folios)

8. Add MS 14205

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Add MS 14205
Title:
Gaetano Latilla: 'Angelica ed Orlando', opera
Scope & Content:
'Angelica ed Orlando': opera in 3 acts, with symphonies and accompaniments for trumpets, oboes, flutes, horns, and strings, in score, by Gaetano Latilla, 1735. Characters: Angelica, Orlando, Macchione, Quaquacchio, Medoro, Silvia, Lidia, Emilia, and Armindo.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
after 1735
Extent:
1 volume (271 folios)

9. Add MS 14185

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Add MS 14185
Title:
Giovanni Bononcini: 'Il Trionfo di Camilla', opera
Scope & Content:
'Il Trionfro (sic) di Camilla: Opera Del Sigr Giou. Bono[ncin]i'; in 3 acts, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings, and a bass (occasionally figured) for a harpsichord and in one number for 2 harpsichords, in score. Apparently the same as the opera described in Riemann's Opern-Handbuch (...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (239 folios)

10. Add MS 14113-14121

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Add MS 14113-14121
Title:
Operas, in full score, more or less complete, by Nicola Porpora
Scope & Content:
Chiefly Autograph.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1711-c 1760
Extent:
9 volumes