MS Mus. 149. CHARLES DIBDIN: movements from identified works; 1775-1808, n.d. Arranged chronologically. ff. 109. Overall size 310 x 250mm. 1. ff. 1-2. ‘No. 1’, overture to ‘The Quaker’, afterpiece, words after C. Shadwell, first performed at Drury Lane, 3 May 1775. In three movements, the thir...
MSS Mus. 149-152. CHARLES DIBDIN THE ELDER: music manuscripts; circa 1767-1814. Autograph scores, in ink, including some copies of other composers’ works. Unless otherwise stated, the words are by Dibdin, only the first verse of airs is written, and the scoring of airs and choruses is for voices, horns, oboes and strings, and of recitatives for voice and bass. Supplements the Dibdin collection at Add. 30950-30970. Other collections of Dibdin’s manuscripts are at Southampton Public Library, t...
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Charles Dibdin, composer and dramatist: Music manuscripts: circa 1767-1814: Autogr.
MS Mus. 150. CHARLES DIBDIN: miscellaneous movements and fragments; n.d. Arranged alphabetically. ff. 84. Overall size 310 x 245mm. 1. f. 1. ‘Recito. Accompd.’ , ‘Arise, behold’, for the character of ‘Poetry’ and strings. 2. ff. 2-4. ‘No. 18’, recitative, ‘At length repentant youth’, and the ...
MS Mus. 151. CHARLES DIBDIN: music manuscripts; circa 1763-73, n.d. ff. 48. 245 x 305mm. 1. ff. 1-26. Two airs from ‘The Wedding Ring’ (afterpiece, words after C. Goldoni, first performed at Drury Lane, 1 Feb 1773). For the overture, see Add. 30950. Published in The Songs, &c. in the Weddi...
MS Mus. 152. CHARLES DIBDIN AND OTHERS: album of songs and keyboard music; circa 1800. Partly autogr., partly copies, partly printed. ff. 1-11 are in the same hand. The printed items have been trimmed and pasted into the volume, and no publication details are retained. Inscribed ‘A. Dibdin’ (per...
MS Mus. 153. SUPPLEMENTARY VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. i. ‘On Wenlock Edge’ (song cycle to words by A. E. Housman): full score of the arrangement for full orchestra; [1923]. Autograph mainly in pencil, largely written over in ink, with some engraver’s markings. This arrangement was first ...
MS Mus. 154. SUPPLEMENTARY VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. ii. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis for Double Stringed Orchestra; [1921]. Printed full score (Curwen Edition, [1921]) with autograph conducting marks in pencil, signed by the composer. With a letter of presentation to H. Raymond...