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191. Add MS 30956

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Add MS 30956
Title:
Songs written and composed by Charles Dibdin for his Table, or Sans Souci, Entertainments. Volume 6.
Scope & Content:
Passim. Numbers, with accompaniments for horns, oboes, and strings (unless the contrary is stated), in score, from dramatic compositions, most of them by Charles Dibdin, and autograph. 1. 'Affrighted thus the Fisher finds.' f. 1. 2. 'Blest with your charms'; with flutes, etc. [From 'The Villai...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:

1 volume (90 folios)

192. Add MS 30957

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Add MS 30957
Title:
Catches and glees composed by Charles Dibdin for his dramatic works, many with full orchestral accompaniments.
Scope & Content:
Passim. Catches composed, or collected, by Charles Dibdin, and apparently intended for insertion, with instrumental accompaniments, in some of his dramatic works. They are for 3 voices and in score, unless the contrary is stated. 1. 'Alas, poor Nick' (à 4). Anonymous. f. 1. 2. 'Come, honest frie...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:

1 volume (80 folios)

193. Add MS 30960

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Add MS 30960
Title:
Libretti of the table entertainments. Volume 1.
Scope & Content:
" A Frisk," " A Tour to the Land's End," " Castles in the Air," Christmas Gambols," " Commodore Pennant," " Great News," Reads or Tails," " King and Queen," The Wags " (parts ii. and iii.), and " Nature in Nubibus." ff. 10-11b. 'A loyal Effusion,' by [Charles] Dibdin. The beginning of the libre...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

1 volume (242 folios)

194. Add MS 30963

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Add MS 30963
Title:
Libretti of operas and other dramatic pieces. Volume 1.
Scope & Content:
1. 'Conceit in a Cottage': a Dramatic Pastoral in 2 Acts. ' Written in early youth.' Characters: Silvius, Philander, Thyrsis, Bromia, Flavilla, etc. f. 2. 2. 'The suspicious Rustic': a Dramatic Pastoral in 2 Acts. 'Written in early life.' Characters: Corin, Leander, Dorilas, Narcissa, Cleora. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

1 volume (341 folios)

195. Add MS 30964

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Add MS 30964
Title:
Libretti of operas and other dramatic pieces. Volume 2.
Scope & Content:
1. 'The Cake-house': Ballad Farce in 2 Acts; afterwards [1800] converted into a Table Entertainment (see f. 30). Characters: Sandwich, Belfield, Grouse, Trail, Dr. Drylips, Neddy, Nat, Cocks, Majorum, Caleb, Lady Quinze, Miss Chance, Mrs. Volatile, etc. ff. 1-29, 86-92b. 2. 'The Cottage': Comic ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

1 volume (378 folios)

196. Add MS 30965

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Add MS 30965
Title:
Libretti of operas and other dramatic pieces. Volume 3.
Scope & Content:
1. 'The Villain': Comic Opera in 3 Acts (cf. Add MS 30964, no. 2). Characters: Compass, O'Liffy, Staysail, Gig, Grey, French-general, Count Fourbe, Murdoch, Nanny, Fanny, Judy, Patty, etc. ff. 1-25. 2. 'Wife and no Wife,' or 'The Oddities': Comic Opera in 3 Acts. Different from the Table entertai...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

1 volume (241 folios)

197. Add MS 30999 E

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Add MS 30999 E
Title:
Rugantino, or the Bravo of Venice. Opera in 2 acts by Dr Thomas Busby. Words by Matthew Gregory Lewis
Scope & Content:
'Rugantino,' or 'The Bravo of Venice': Opera in 2 Acts, followed (f. 50b) by a masque. By Dr. [Thomas] Busby. Arranged for pianoforte apparently by the composer, in whose hand the MS is said to be. The words are by Matthew Gregory Lewis, 1804, 1805. Characters: Parozzi, Memmo, Contarino, Rosabel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1810
Extent:
1 item

198. Add MS 31024 A

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Add MS 31024 A
Title:
The full score of 'Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, In Her Prison At Fotheringay'
Scope & Content:
'Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, In Her Prison At Fotheringay: Lyrical Monodrama With Chorus written by Frederick Marc, Ph.D. Music composed by Carli Zoeller.' Autograph. Finished 12 October, 1875, as attested by the signatures of the librettist and the composer. The instruments for which the sympho...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1875
Extent:
1 volume (44 folios)

199. Add MS 31024 B

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Add MS 31024 B
Title:
The pianoforte score of 'Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, In Her Prison At Fotheringay'
Scope & Content:
'Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, In Her Prison At Fotheringay: Lyrical Monodrama With Chorus written by Frederick Marc, Ph.D. Music composed by Carli Zoeller.' Autograph. Finished 12 October, 1875, as attested by the signatures of the librettist and the composer. The instruments for which the symph...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1875
Extent:
1 volume (26 folios)

200. Add MS 31454

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Add MS 31454
Title:
Incidental music in 'Macbeth' by John Eccles
Scope & Content:
'Macbeth'; by John Eccles, in score. Evidently transcribed from Add MS 29378, ff. 57-95, with the singers' names added in pencil from Add MS 12219. The history of this copy is related in a notice extracted from William Linley and prefixed to Add. 12219 (f. 3).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1805?
Extent:
1 volume (51 folios)