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Reference (shelfmark):: MUS RP 7108
Title:
Scope & Content:: George Frideric Handel. Contemporary manuscript of opera arias and keyboard pieces including from 'Giulio Cesare' ("Venere bella"), 'Tamerlano' ("Non è più tempo"), 'Alcina' ("Lascia ch'io parta"), 'Esther', 'Scipione' ("Lamentandomi"), 'A Sett of Lessons by Mr Handell', together with a 'Song of...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Undetermined
Date Range:: 23 Jun 2010
Extent:: 45 colour prints

Reference (shelfmark):: MUS RP 7109
Title:
Scope & Content:: George Frideric Handel. King George III. Autograph transcript by George III of passages titled 'Christmas Day' and 'Good Friday', the latter annotated by the King '1st Chorus 2d Act of the Mesiah', from the libretto of 'Messiah', unsigned. Written evidently for the use of William Boyce. Sotheby'...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Undetermined
Date Range:: 7 Jul 2010
Extent:: 4 colour prints

Reference (shelfmark):: MUS RP 7111
Title:
Scope & Content:: Song and dance. A manuscript pocket book of songs and dances, containing 25 popular examples, including melodies by Philidor and Couperin, and others titled in French and English, most giving the melodies only, probably designed for flute and fiddle, no place given but probably England. Creati...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Undetermined
Date Range:: 27 Jul 2010
Extent:: 52 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: MUS RP 7112
Title:
Scope & Content:: Charles Dibdin. Michael Arne. Thomas Arne and others. Charles Dibdin's 'The Padlock', a comic opera as performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, circa 1770; 'Cymon', a dramatic romance performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, circa 1767; and other selections from contemporary operas, in...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Undetermined
Date Range:: 23 Jul 2010
Extent:: 74 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: MUS RP 7113
Title:
Scope & Content:: Edward Elgar. Autograph sketch leaf from 'The Dream of Gerontius'. Creation dates: [May 1900]
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Undetermined
Date Range:: 24 Nov 2010
Extent:: 2 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: MUS RP 7114
Title:
Scope & Content:: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph working manuscript of part of the full score of 'Opferlied', op.121B, for soprano solo, obbligato cello, chorus and orchestra, containing substantial differences from the final published version. Sotheby's, L10406, 01 Dec 2010, Lot 7. Creation dates: [1824]
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Undetermined
Date Range:: 10 Dec 2010
Extent:: 4 colour prints

Reference (shelfmark):: MUS RP 7115
Title:
Scope & Content:: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph manuscript of part of a cadenza for an unidentified concerto in F, K.624 (626A), [Salzburg, 1771-1772], together with a mount profusely annotated by the concert manager, conductor and critic John Ella, containing a laid-down and cropped 19th-century engraving o...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Undetermined
Date Range:: 13 Dec 2010
Extent:: 5 colour prints

Reference (shelfmark):: MUS RP 7116
Title:
Scope & Content:: John Drinkell. Manuscript entitled 'Divine Musick ...', containing 697 pages of manuscript music with hand-written libretti, being a collection of anthems for church organ, collected and scripted by a probable organist John Drinkell, containing the music and libretti for 51 items by various comp...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Undetermined
Date Range:: 23 Feb 2011
Extent:: Digital images (1 CD-ROM)

Reference (shelfmark):: MUS RP 7117
Title:
Scope & Content:: Gustav Mahler. Annotated 1st edition of the full score of the 3rd Symphony, Vienna: Josef Weinberger. Sotheby's, L11402, 08 June 2011, Lot 296. Creation dates: [1902]
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Undetermined
Date Range:: 6 Jul 2011
Extent:: Digital images (1 CD-ROM), 1 colour print and 2 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: MUS RP 7118
Title:
Scope & Content:: Luca Marenzio. Madrigale a 10 voci [Basti fin qui le pene] transcribed, from the Antwerp edition of 1594, by Thomas Oliphant in London. Creation dates: [May 1832]
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Undetermined
Date Range:: 21 Sep 2011
Extent:: Digital images (1 CD-ROM)

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