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Subject Operas Material Type Archives and Manuscripts Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 5036-5062

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Add MS 5036-5062
Title:
A collection of pieces, including motets, madrigals, masses, anthems, duets and other works
Scope & Content:
A collection of pieces, including motets, madrigals, masses, anthems, duets and other works. Prefixed to Add MS 5036 is a letter from Gabriel Mathias to the trustees of the British Museum, containing an extract from the will of James Mathias esq, from which it appears that these volumes are all...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1760
Extent:
27 volumes

2. Add MS 5319-5337

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Add MS 5319-5337
Title:
Manuscript music presented by Sir John Hawkins
Scope & Content:
A collection of manuscript music formerly owned by Sir John Hawkins, chiefly copied by Mr. John Stanley
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
19 volumes

3. Add MS 10337

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Add MS 10337
Title:
The virginal book of Elizabeth Rogers, 1656, containing many almaines, marches, corrantes, airs, etc., in score, with the names of the composers
Scope & Content:
passim. 'Elizabeth Rogers hir Virginall booke: February the 27, 1656;' with an index to the contents in the same hand; before 1656. Consists of arrangements of songs, dances, etc., for that instrument, mostly anonymous, the music being written on two staves of 6 lines each. A leaf (v. Index) is ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 10338

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Add MS 10338
Title:
A collection of anthems, songs, duets, trios, services, cantatas, motets, and other pieces, in the hand of George Jeffreys
Scope & Content:
ff. 4-13. 'Fantazies,' or Fancies, for strings and organ, in score, by George Jeffreys. 1-6. Six 'of 3 Parts for the Violls and the Virginall.' Autograph. In the 5th Fantasia, a few notes have been added to the virginal part to make it suitable for playing on the organ. f. 4. 7. Another 'of 2 pa...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
after 1669
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 10444-10445

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Add MS 10444-10445
Title:
A collection of masques, fancies, airs, melodies of songs, and other instrumental pieces
Scope & Content:
In score.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
2 volumes

6. Add MS 11518

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Add MS 11518
Title:
'Comus': two settings of Milton's Masque, which includes portions of an opera by Handel
Scope & Content:
1. Five songs, with a bass, in score, as written for the original representation at Ludlow Castle in 1634, viz.: 'From the Heav'ns now I fly'; 'Sweet Echo'; 'Sabrina fair'; 'Back, Shepherds, back'; and 'Now my task is smoothly done.' 'Henry Lawes.' ff. 1-2b. 2. Another setting, in 3 Acts, for s...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (107 folios)

7. Add MS 11581-11591

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Add MS 11581-11591
Title:
Extracts from various early musical writers, by Charles Burney, Mus. Doct., with remarks and criticisms by him
Scope & Content:
Also includes extracts and examples of various compositions.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
11 volumes

8. Add MS 11608

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Add MS 11608
Title:
A collection of songs, motets, duets, canons, anthems and part-songs
Scope & Content:
passim. Duets and dialogues, the latter with a bass, in score. 1. Dialogue (Strephon and Daphne), begins 'Come, my Daphne.' 'William Lawes.' f. 2. 2. Another (treble and bass), begins 'What if I dye.' By the same, f. 7b. 3. 'Come, Cloris; hye wee to ye Bower.' 'Henry Lawes.' f. 8b. 4. Dialogue (...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1656-1659
Extent:
1 volume

9. Add MS 12219

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Add MS 12219
Title:
Incidental music to Macbeth, which has been attributed to John Eccles
Scope & Content:
Incidental music to Macbeth, with symphonies and accompaniments for serpent and other instruments, in score, in the same hand as the Ode by John Eccles in Add MS 31456, and apparently autograph. In Add MS 29378, consisting almost entirely of works by Eccles, the composition of this music (ff. 57-...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (42 folios)

10. Add MS 14396

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Add MS 14396
Title:
A collection of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Xaver Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn and Sigismond Neukomm.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-13v. Franz Xaver Mozart: "Ich bin der erste Buffo", op. 13. Aria, with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, horns, clarinets, drums, and strings, in score, composed in 1808 for a private performance of his father's "Der Schauspieldirektor." Autograph. It was written for the com...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:

1 volume