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Subject Duets Level [40] File

1. Add MS 4900

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Add MS 4900
Title:
Banks collection. Vol. XLIV. Miscellaneous writings, ornamented with initials, portraits of saints, royal arms, etc., cut from a printed book.
Scope & Content:
The principal items are:- (1) Fragments of a transcript of a calendar (latest date 1537), for the months of May to October, giving the dates on which fairs are held in those months in various towns of England and Wales (Carmarthen). A few dates are also given in the lives of British sovereigns...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (68 folios)

2. Add MS 5054

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Add MS 5054
Title:
A collection of motets, madrigals, full anthems, portions of masses, psalms (or choruses), canons and duets, as well as examples of a litany, a grace, a service, a miserere, and a stabat Mater. In score.
Scope & Content:
1. Sanctus and Gloria in Excelsis, in B minor, parts of a service, for 3 solo voices and 4-part chorus, by Dr. {William} Croft. ff. 3-5b. 2. 'La Spagnola'. A madrigal. (à 3), begins 'Al rigor d'un bel Sembiante'; with the alternative words 'Al splendor di due pupille' written underneath. 'Agost...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1760
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 5055-5056

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Add MS 5055-5056
Title:
A collection of duets, with a bass for harpsichord, in score
Scope & Content:
Mostly by Abbate Agostino Steffani. Others have been attributed to Petro Torri, Stradello, Pistocchi, Feroci, Bernardo Pasquini, and C. L. P. Grua. An Index is prefixed to both volumes.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
before 1760
Extent:
2 volumes

4. Add MS 5322

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Add MS 5322
Title:
Twelve duets, with a bass for harpsichord, in score, by George Frideric Handel
Scope & Content:
Nos. 1-11 are supposed to have been composed at Hanover in 1710-1712. They are included, but in a different order, in the first series published by the Händel-Gesellschaft. No. 12 is there replaced by 'Langue, geme' (no. 11); it is also excluded from the second series published by the same socie...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1st half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 5329-5332

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Add MS 5329-5332
Title:
Duets, with a bass for harpsichord, in score, by Agostino Steffani
Scope & Content:
Apparently transcribed for [Charles] John Stanley (bookplate).
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
4 volumes

6. Add MS 5335

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Add MS 5335
Title:
A collection of Italian duets for soprano and another voice
Scope & Content:
With a bass for harpsichord, in score, in the same hand as Add MS 5329-5332. Nos. 1-8 are by [Pietro] Torri; nos. 14-19 by [?G.] Feroci. 1. 'Piaggie fiorite.' f. 4. 2. 'Per te, mio bene.' f. 11. 3. 'Dall' arco.' f. 16. 4. 'Odi, o Lilla.' f. 18b. 5. 'Da me lungi.' f. 26b. 6. 'Valli secrete....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 9077

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Add MS 9077
Title:
A collection of anthems, songs, and duets by Henry Purcell
Scope & Content:
passim. Transcripts made by Vincent Novello for his edition of Purcell’s Sacred Music, 1829-1832, with some additional notes for the Musical Antiquarian edition of 1846; about 1831-1832. They comprise, besides other works, the following Anthems, in score : — Sacred songs or hymns for solo, with ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1831-c 1832
Extent:
1 volume

8. Add MS 11585

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Add MS 11585
Title:
A collection of madrigals, carols, motets, graces, trios, quartets, and examples of harmony
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-34. Madrigals, etc., in score. Unless the contrary is stated, they are for 3 voices and unaccompanied. 1. 'Che (sic) prend' amor a gioco'; with accompaniments for 2 strings and a figured bass for harpsichord. 'Cavalier Tarquinio Merula, maestro di capella nella Chiesa Maggiore di S. Maria ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1782
Extent:
1 volume

9. Add MS 11587

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Add MS 11587
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Scope & Content:
ff. 2-17. Fragments of Masses, in score, in the hand of Dr. Charles Burney: — 1. ‘Visibilium omnium’ and ‘Et in terra pax’ (6 voices), from the Mass, 'Gloria tibi, Trinitas.’ ‘Johannes Taverner.’ Copied ‘from the Oxford Music-School set of Books, which . . . belonged to the Chapel Royal in the t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Add MS 11588

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Add MS 11588
Title:
A collection of madrigals, canons, sonatas, songs, portions of operas, and other short compositions transcribed by Dr. Charles Burney
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-16. 'Recercari (10) et Canzoni (5) Francese (sic) fatte sopra diversi oblighi in partitura da Girolamo Frescobaldi .... Libro Prirno. 1615.' Transcribed and commented on by Dr. Charles Burney. ff. 16b-66b passim. Madrigals, etc, in score, transcribed by Dr. Charles Burney, and included i...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1783
Extent:
1 volume