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Subject String quartets Material Type Archives and Manuscripts Level [36] Series

1. Add MS 32184-32237

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Add MS 32184-32237
Title:
Original compositions, for the most part unpublished, by Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Scope & Content:
In the case of works in full scores, the music for wind instruments will generally be found at the end of the volume.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
54 volumes

2. Add MS 37763-37765

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Add MS 37763-37765
Title:
Original drafts of ten of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Quartets, for 2 violins, viola, and violoncello, in score.
Scope & Content:
Original drafts of ten of Mozart's quartets, for 2 violins, viola, and violoncello, in score. In three volumes. They are respectively numbered, probably by Stumpff, 28-33, 37, 34-36. The K. (followed by a number) given below, stands for Kochel's Thematic Catalogue, from which also the dates in s...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Not applicable
Date Range:
1782-1790
Extent:
3 volumes (ff. iv., 68; ii., 14; ii., 40)

3. Royal Appendix MS 23-25

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Royal Appendix MS 23-25
Title:
Collection of secular and sacred Motets, including one for Christmas Day, Madrigals, a Miserere, an Anthem, suspected composed by Derick Gerarde, and in parts.
Scope & Content:
passim. Superius, contra-tenor, and tenor parts of a collection of Motets, etc., made, if not composed, by Dyricke Gerarde, whose name occurs (in that form) at the end of vol. i, and the beginning of vol. ii. The folios are the same in each volume, unless the contrary is stated. 1. ‘Angelus Domi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
3 volumes (Part books: 44, 42, 43 folios respectively)

4. Royal Appendix MS 74-76

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Royal Appendix MS 74-76
Title:
Collection of miscellaneous compositions, of Anthems, Hymns, Services, and Madrigals, including a prayer for King Edward VI, mostly in parts, predominantly anonymous, yet named composers include Tallis.
Scope & Content:
1547-1548. before the first Booke of the Common Prayer, 1549. In many cases the versions of the Psalms followed closely resemble those in the Prymer of 1544. Collection of partially scored, and complete compositions, of sacred music, largely of English origin, composed, for instruments, and voi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1547-1548
Extent:
3 volumes (53, 36, 52 folios)