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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 27429
Title:: Le Sette Savi di Roma (The Seven Sages of Rome)
Scope & Content:: Le Sette Savi di Roma (The Seven Sages of Rome), consisting of a frame tale, introducing and providing the background to 14 short moral tales told to the 'Emperor of Rome' by the Seven Sages and the Empress, arranged as follows: f. 1r: Blank paper flyleaf with a paste-down containing a descript...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 27932
Title:: A collection of arias, songs, hymns, airs, and other melodies
Scope & Content:: passim. Arias, etc., with a figured bass for harpsichord (except where the contrary is stated), in score; first half of 18th cent., etc. 1. 'A soldier and a sailor' [from 'Love for love,' by John Eccles, 1695]. f. 3b. 2-4. Three arias, the first with an additional violin part, from 'Rinaldo,' by...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 29248
Title:: Marcantonio Cesti: 'La Dori', opera
Scope & Content:: 'La Dori': Opera, consisting of prologue and three acts, by Marcantonio Cesti, 1663. The instruments employed in the introductory sinfonia, the ritornellos, and the accompaniment to the concluding sextet are evidently strings, the recitatives, airs, etc., being accompanied by a figured bass for h...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: after 1663
Extent:: 1 volume (82 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 29803
Title:: Cadenza by Beethoven, Canzonetta by Rossini, and Nocturne by Johann Nepomuk Kafka
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-2b. Cadenza [by Beethoven] to the rondo in Mozart's pianoforte concerto in D minor [No. 466 in Köchel's Catalogue]. Autograph. Followed by Breitkopf und Härtel's printed edition of the same. f. 5. 'Mi lagnerò tacendo della mia sorte': Canzonetta, apparently no. 10 of a series by Rossini,...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German and Italian
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 30246
Title:: Selected vocal pieces, in score, by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini. Autograph.
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-6b. 'Dall' Oriente'; for treble, 2 tenors, and a bass, with pianoforte accompaniment, in score, by Rossini. Autograph. 1823. Dedicated to the Countess Sant' Antonio. ff. 7-1 3b. Song ['Il pianto delle Muse in morte di Lord Byron,' 1824], for a tenor voice, with a sextet (? Muses) and 3-pa...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1st half of 19th century
Extent:: 1 volume (27 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 30310
Title:: Compositions by George Frederic Handel, in full score. Autograph.
Scope & Content:: ff. 2-12b. Cantata, begins 'Lungi dal mio bel Nume'; for a treble voice, with a figured bass for harpsichord, in score. [By Handel.] 'Roma. Il dì 3 di Marzzo, 1708.' Autograph. No. 25 of the Händel-Gesellschaft's edition of the Cantatas. HWV 127a. At f. 8 begins a transcript of the song in a lat...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (62 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 31549
Title:: Two cantatas, and end-chorus of the Opera "Sanzio", by Antonio Caldara.
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-3b. 'Senti, deh, senti, oh Clori': Cantata for a soprano voice, with a bass for harpsichord, in score, by Antonio Caldara. Autograph. At the end is written '20 Maggio, 1715, in Roma; et è una grande ragazzata.' [1715.] ff. 4-10. 'Amor del gran Sancio': concluding chorus (à 4), with accom...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (10 folios)

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