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11. Add MS 37765

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 37765
Title:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 'Three Quartets dedicated to the King of Prussia'
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript of three of Mozart's string quartets. f. 1. String quartet in D major, K. 575 (June 1789). f. 15. String quartet in F major, K. 590 (June 1790). f. 29. String quartet in B flat major, K. 589 (May 1790).
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1789-1790
Extent:
1 volume (40 folios)

12. Egerton MS 2046

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2046
Title:
A collection of dances and other tunes arranged for lute
Scope & Content:
ff. 4-15, 52b. Collection of dances and other tunes for 2 Lutes, the part for the 2nd lute consisting, in nos. 8-14, of a mere ground bass. 1. 'The pauecheo.' First part wanting. '[Robert ?] Johnsone.' f. 4. 2. 'Lauecheogallyerde.' 'Johnsone.' ff. 4, 4b. 3. 'The flatt pauion' (sc. pavan). 4. Gal...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

13. MS Mus. 1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1
Title:
Henry Purcell and Giovanni Battista Draghi: Keyboard music
Scope & Content:
The 'Purcell/Draghi keyboard manuscript' contains, on folios 1v-12, music by or arranged by Henry Purcell and in his autograph. Reversing the volume, folios 42-12v are by, and almost certainly in the hand of, Giovanni Battista Draghi. Folio 1r contains a musical setting of Draghi’s address in th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1690-1700
Extent:
1 volume (folios ii + 43)

14. MS Mus. 1, ff 1r-12r

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1, ff 1r-12r
Title:
Henry Purcell: Keyboard music. Autograph score.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1690-1695
Extent:
12 folios

15. MS Mus. 1, ff 12v-43v

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1, ff 12v-43v
Title:
Giovanni Battista Draghi: Keyboard music. Autograph score.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1690-1695
Extent:
31 folios

16. MS Mus. 1745/1/10

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/10
Title:
Frederick Delius: Piano Concerto in C minor
Scope & Content:
Threlfall, VII/4. 'The compositional history of this work is probably the most tortuous of any in the Delius canon' (Threlfall 1990, p. 189). Publication: 1907 [dated 1897], lithographed full score, Harmonie-Verlag; 1951, full score ed. Beecham, Boosey & Hawkes (8864); 1990, rev. ed., ed Bee...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1897
Extent:
1 volume (ff. 37)

17. MS Mus. 1745/1/11

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/11
Title:
Frederick Delius: Fantasy for Orchestra and Pianoforte
Scope & Content:
Threlfall, VII/4. Lowe comments (Catalogue, p. 55): 'Both in its material and in the cyclic repetition of the first section, this one movement fantasy form can be considered the true parent of the piano concerto as we know it in its final version'. Autograph full score (ink and pencil) with muc...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1897
Extent:
1 volume (39 folios)

18. MS Mus. 1745/1/39

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/39
Title:
Frederick Delius: A Volume of Sketches
Scope & Content:
f. 1-1v. Headed in the hand of Eric Fenby (green ink): 'Early attempt at piano piece'. 71 bars in 3/4 time, in G minor/B major in a mazurka style, scored in ink. f. 1v. (Upside-down), a 21-bar pencil sketch for voice and pianoforte. f. 2-2v. Headed (in pencil): 'Rhapsody good'. Harmonic plan on t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1888-[1911]
Extent:
1 volume (122 folios)

19. MS Mus. 1745/2/5

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/5
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Instrumental Music
Scope & Content:
(1). ff. 1-14. Piano solo ff. 1-2. 'Pensées Mélodieuses (No. 2)'. Signed and dated 'June 10/85'. F major, C Allegro Moderato. Ink, fair copy. 2 leaves, 12 stave 336 x 263 mm. (Threlfall, IX/2.) f. 3. A single page composition, probably incomplete, with only the number 'I' as a heading. Without d...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1885-1930
Extent:
1 file (225 folios)

20. Zweig MS 26

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 26
Title:
Frédèric Chopin: Mazurka in F sharp minor for piano, op. 59, no. 3
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink on systems of two staves. Tempo direction ‘Vivace’. Headed ‘Nro 3.’ in upper margin of f. 1r; ‘fine’ written at the end (f. 2r). With many autograph corrections and alterations in ink. Engraver’s markings have been added in pencil beneath the systems. The line and pag...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[1845]
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)