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Language Latin Name Handel, George Frideric, composer, 1685-1759

1. Add MS 14229

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Add MS 14229
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A collection of cantatas, songs, pieces from operas, vocal trios, and a duet
Scope & Content:
Cantatas for a single voice (soprano, unless the contrary is stated), with a bass (frequently figured) for harpsichord, in score; about 1723-1732. 1. 'E fia pur uero, ò Dio.' This and nos. 2-5 are by 'Caualiere Alessandro Scarlatti.' f. 69. 2. 'O uoi, di queste selue abitatrici.' Belonged to — B...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 29386

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A collection of catches, canons, songs, vocal trios, excerpts from oratorios, excerpts from operas, and a duet
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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

3. Add MS 29998

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George Frideric Handel: Chandos Te Deum and Anthem 'Let God arise'. Full score for voices and instruments.
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ff. 2-29. Te Deum, for solo voices and chorus of 4 and 5 voices, with accompaniments for 2 violins, viola, oboe, bassoon and double bass, in full score, by Handel. It is published in the Händel-Gesellschaft's edition as Te Deum, No. 3, and is an arrangement for the King's Chapel of the earlier C...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

1 volume (51 folios)

4. Add MS 34609

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A collection of anthems, chants, songs, glees, compositions for organ, and other fragments
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passim. Portions of Anthems, in the hand of John Stafford Smith, mostly in organ score; late 18th cent. 1. Funeral anthem without words. 'Jno James.' f. 7. 2. 'Though ye have lien among the pots.' Unfinished. By J. S. Smith (?). f. 13b. 3. 'Wherewithal shall a young man' (2 voices). 'Arnold.' f....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (86 folios)

5. Add MS 35024

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A collection of chants, anthems and other religious music, as well as compositions for pianoforte, exercises for violin, sting trios, and a concerto
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ff. 1-2b. Chants for 4 voices, in score; late 18th cent. Nos. 1-3 are double, the rest single. 1. In E flat. ‘Dr. Alcock.’ f. 1. 2. In B flat. ‘R. Wainwright.’ f. 1. 3. In C minor. ‘R. W[ainwright ?].' f. 1b. 4. In D minor. ‘Hy Purcell.’ f. 2. 5. In E. ‘Dr. Hayes.’ f. 2. 6. In D. ‘Rev. Mr. Clayt...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (69 folios)

6. Add MS 38069

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Music, etc., viz.:-(a) Italian cantata, by Handel; 18th cent. f. 1;-(b) Signature of Haydn; circ. 1791. f. 5;-(c) "Quatuor énigmatique," by Charles Simon Catel; 1811. Autograph. f. 6 b; -(d) Canon by Beethoven; 1825. Autogr. f. 8;-(e) First violin part of overture "Polonia," by Wagner; [1833]. A...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 45102

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MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS, viz.:- A. Song, 'If 'tis love to wish you near', composed by Ladislas Joseph Philip Paul Zavertal, 28 June 1885, with autograph title-page. The words are by Charles Dibdin (see The Professional Life of Mr Dibdin, 1803, i, pp. 112- 113). Supplementary to Add. MS. 43867. ff. 1-4. Presented by Henry George Farmer, Mus.D. B. Autograph papers of Mandell Creighton, Bishop of Peterborough (1891) and (1897) of London; n.d. As follows:-(1) Draft, with some correcti...
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includes: ff. 1-4 Ladislas Joseph Philip Paul Zavertal, composer; son of Václav Hugo Zavertal: Song, 'If 'tis love to wish you near': 1885.: Partly autogr.f. 5 Reverend Cuthbert Creighton, son of Mandell Creighton: Letter to H. I. Bell: 1937.ff. 6-12 Mandell Creighton, Bishop of Peterboro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1200-1937
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 65459

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NOVELLO COLLECTION. Vol. LXXVIII. Secular and sacred vocal and instrumental music; after 1813 (watermark)-1849, n.d. Full, vocal, chorus or instrumental scores. Partly autograph but mostly copies, in the hand of Vincent Novello except where stated. ff. 84. Overall size 245 x 315mm. 1. ff. 1-...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1813-1849
Extent:
1 item

9. Egerton MS 2454

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Egerton MS 2454
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A collection of sacred works by Italian composers, in the hand of Abbate Fortunato Santini
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ff. 1-29b. 'Il pianto di Maria: Cantata Sacra a Soprano da eseguirsi avanti il Santo Sepolcro. Musica di Giorgio Federico Handel.' Begins 'Giunta 1'ora fatal.' The recitatives have only a figured bass, but in the other portions of the cantata there are symphonies and accompaniments, in score, fo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Egerton MS 2458

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Egerton MS 2458
Title:
A collection of motets, a stabat mater, and a psalm
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-39. 'Seuiat tellus': 'mottetto' for a treble voice, with symphonies and accompaniments for oboes and strings, in score, written by G. F. Hendel (sc. Handel). According to a note on f. 2 in the hand of the Rev. E. Goddard, a later possessor, the MS. formerly belonged to the Colonna family a...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (99 folios)