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Subject String quartets Material Type Archives and Manuscripts Level [32] Fonds

1. 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

2. Add MS 14337

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Add MS 14337
Title:
A collection of compositions for string trios and various quartets
Scope & Content:
passim. Compositions for 3 strings, in score. 1. Twelve sonatas for two violins; with a figured Bass for the Violoncello or Harpsichord. 'Dr. Boyce' [1747]. ff. 2b-45b. 2. Six trios for a violin, tenor, and violoncello obbligato. 'Boccherini' [published about 1780?]. ff. 83-114b ff. 46-83. Quar...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1785?
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 14340

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Add MS 14340
Title:
A collection of motets, graces, sacred songs, hymns, glees, a secular song, a vocal trio, an organ duet, an organ solo, a string quartet
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-36 passim. Motets, etc., for 4 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score, by S[amuel] Wesley; 1798-1814. Autograph. 1. ‘Anima nostra erepta est’: antiphon for 5 voices, with ad libitum accompaniment for the organ, f. 2. 2. ‘Levate capita vestra.’ ‘1798.’ f. 7. 3. ‘Constitues eos pri...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1788-1814
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 17727-17730

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Add MS 17727-17730
Title:
Quartets for two violins, tenor and violoncello, by Domenico Dragonetti. Holograph. Paper; XVIIIth cent. In four volumes. Folio. Presented by Vincent Novello, Esq.
Scope & Content:
Domenico Dragonetti, double-bass player and composer. ff. 36, 28, 26, 28. Quartets for strings, in parts, by Domenico Dragonetti. Autograph. They consist of from two to eight movements each, of varying lengths:— Adagio, Presto, Andantino, Allegretto (tempo d'Allemanda, etc.), Vivace, Andante, P...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
4 volumes (ff. 36, 28, 26, 28) (Part books)

5. Add MS 17792-17796

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Add MS 17792-17796
Title:
Collection of early 17th century vocal and instrumental music, by English composers, in parts, across four and five volumes, by authors including: John Amner, T. Batson, William Birde, Richard Carlton, R. Deering, M. Easte, Alfonso Ferabosco, N. Giles, E. Hooper, Simon Ives, M. Jefferies, John Jenkins, John Lugg, W. Mundy, John Okeover, R. Parsons, Palmer, Randall, Thomas Thomkins, Tallis, John Warde, T. Weekes, Robert White; and anonymous.
Scope & Content:
Vols 1-5:- Contains also Bass-viol music, a Carol, Lamentations, Madrigals, Motets, Services, and String Duets, Trios, Quartets, Quintets, and Sextets. Anthems, etc., including a few so-called Hymns, in parts. The five volumes contain respectively the cantus, altus, tenor, quintus, and bassus p...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1624
Extent:
5 volumes (Part books)

6. Add MS 17801

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Add MS 17801
Title:
Collection of compositions for various instruments, predominantly by Matthew Locke.
Scope & Content:
Collection of compositions for various instruments, predominantly by Matthew Lock. ff. 3-6 'Duos' for Bass-Viols, in score, by M[atthew] L[ock], 1652. Autograph. There are twelve divided into four sets, each set containing two 'Fantazies' and either a Courante (nos. 1 and 3), or a Saraband (nos...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and English, Old
Date Range:
c 1651-1654
Extent:
1 volume (65 folios)

7. Add MS 21465

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Add MS 21465
Title:
Collection of Quartetes for piano and strings, composed by Ambrogio Minoja.
Scope & Content:
ff. 179. Quartets for harpsichord, 2 violins and violoncello, in parts, by Ambrogio Minoja. In two sets of six each, the second set wanting the 2nd violin part. 1. Allegro and Andante (canzonetta pastorale), in B flat. ff. 1, 39, 59, 79. 2. Largo and Minuet, in D. ff. 9, 43, 63, 83. 3. Allegro mo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (179 folios)

8. Add MS 21467

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Add MS 21467
Title:
Collection of 18th-century operatic music for piano, strings, and bass, composed by various authors.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-66b, 107-118. Concerted numbers from three Italian Operas, with symphonies and accompaniments for oboes, horns, trumpets (in no. 3), and strings, in score. 1, 2. Trio, 'Che vipar, Dorina bella'; and quartet (Dorina, Masotto, Mingone, Titta), begins 'Dorina mia.' [From 'Le Nozze di Dorina,'...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (133 folios)

9. Add MS 24889

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Add MS 24889
Title:
A collection of arrangements, in parts, mostly of dramatic works
Scope & Content:
passim. First and second treble, and bass, parts of the following sets or suites arranged for strings; 18th cent:— 1. 'The Storme sett' (Overture, Rondeau, 'The Seamen's tune,' Trumpet tune, 'Farwell,' 'The Brikler's tune,' 'Magett' or Maggot, Chaconne). 'Gillier (sc. either Jean Claude Gilliers...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (92 folios)

10. Add MS 27550-27554

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Add MS 27550-27554
Title:
Airs, fantasias, etc., for three and four parts, by John Jenkins, 1674
Scope & Content:
Arranged for first and second treble, first and second bass, and organ.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1674
Extent:
5 volumes