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141. K.4.g.3.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.4.g.3.
Title:
SEBASTIANO FESTA: ‘Perch’al viso d’amor portava’ (words, Petrarch); after 1542. Written on the versos of the title pages of the four printed part-books of Quatuor vocum musicæ modulationes numero xxvi. (Antuerpiae: Apud Guilielmum Vissenacum, 1542) in a contemporary hand, and not attributed here to the composer. The piece is also found in Moteti e canzone libro primo (Rome, 1520 or 1521) and as item 24 in Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, MSS. Magl. XIX, 164-167. For a modern edition after the...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1v Francesco Petrarca, poet: Sebastiano Festa, composer: 'Perch'al viso d'amor' by Sebastiano Festa, to words by Francesco Petrarca: after 1542: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
after 1542
Extent:
1 item

142. K.5.b.8.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.5.b.8.
Title:
LETTERS FROM VINCENT NOVELLO; 22 May 1824. Two letters from Vincent Novello concerning the provision for a Music Library in the British Museum, one addressed to George Canning, enclosing a copy of another addressed to Mr Henry Banks, M.P. for Corfe Castle and a Trustee of the British Museum. Autograph. Canning’s draft of a reply is written onto the back of the first letter, and a copy of a reply from Canning’s secretary to Novello is attached. Purchased. ff. 6. 230 x 187mm.
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-2 Vincent Novello, organist, composer and publisher: George Canning, Prime Minister: Letter to George Canning from Vincent Novello: 1824: Autogr.f. 2v Vincent Novello, organist, composer and publisher: George Canning, Prime Minister: Draft of a letter to Vincent Novello from...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 May 1824
Extent:
1 item

143. K.6.e.1

Reference (shelfmark):
K.6.e.1
Title:
The Wandering Minstrels Archive: Album I.
Scope & Content:
Folio album containing photographs, concert programmes and other memorabilia from the Wandering Minstrels' concerts staged between 1860 and 1867. Contents:- f. i. Reproduction of a 17th-century illustration of a viol player, taken from Christopher Simpson’s The division-violist (1659). f. 1. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860-1867
Extent:

1 volume

144. K.6.e.1-7

Reference (shelfmark):
K.6.e.1-7
Title:
The Wandering Minstrels Archive.
Scope & Content:
Archive of the Wandering Minstrels, an amateur orchestra which gave charity concerts across England and private 'smoking concerts' in London between 1860 and 1898. The orchestra members were drawn largely from the ranks of the aristocracy and military, and the orchestra was conducted by, success...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860-1899
Extent:
7 items

145. K.6.e.2

Reference (shelfmark):
K.6.e.2
Title:
The Wandering Minstrels Archive: Album II.
Scope & Content:
Folio album containing photographs, concert programmes and other memorabilia from the Wandering Minstrels' concerts staged between 1868 and 1881. Contents:- f. 1. Dedicatory page bearing the words ‘Presented to the Wandering Minstrels by H.B. Heath.’ f. 1v. Page inscribed with the following n...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1868-1881
Extent:

1 volume

146. K.6.e.3

Reference (shelfmark):
K.6.e.3
Title:
The Wandering Minstrels Archive: Album III.
Scope & Content:
Folio album containing photographs, concert programmes and other memorabilia from the Wandering Minstrels’ concerts staged between 1882 and 1898. Contents:- [inside flyleaf]: A cutting, from Truth, noting that the Wandering Minstrels are not disbanding. f. 1. Decorative title-page, reading: ‘...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1882-1899
Extent:

1 volume

147. K.6.e.4

Reference (shelfmark):
K.6.e.4
Title:
The Wandering Minstrels Archive: Overture ‘Endymion’ by Seymour Egerton.
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score of the overture ‘Endymion’, for orchestra, by the Honourable Seymour Egerton. Dedicated to Lord Gerald Fitzgerald, ‘1st Violoncello of the Wandering Minstrels’, and dated Windsor, September 1862. First performed by the Wandering Minstrels on 11 November 1862 in Manchester.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1862
Extent:

1 volume (31 pages)

148. K.6.e.5

Reference (shelfmark):
K.6.e.5
Title:
The Wandering Minstrels Archive: ‘List of Wandering Minstrels, past and present, and concerts held in aid of various charities, with the net amounts realized.’
Scope & Content:
Ledger containing details of the membership of the society, including members’ names, instruments and dates they joined and retired or died. Also contains details of the sums raised at each of their charity concerts. Two copies of a publicity leaflet advertising music by Lionel Hymes are enclosed.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860-1897
Extent:

1 volume

149. K.6.e.6

Reference (shelfmark):
K.6.e.6
Title:
The Wandering Minstrels Archive: ‘Catalogue of the WM (Wandering Minstrels) Library’.
Scope & Content:
Ruled cash book used as a catalogue of performing materials held by the Wandering Minstrels. A note on the verso of the flyleaf reads, ‘There are complete string parts to all pieces except where specified’. Following this is a key to the abbreviations used in the catalogue. A pencil note on the...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860-c1893
Extent:

1 volume

150. K.6.e.7

Reference (shelfmark):
K.6.e.7
Title:
The Wandering Minstrels Archive: Set of badges.
Scope & Content:
Set of ten silver and gold badges formerly belonging to members of the Wandering Minstrels. In several different designs, all of the badges bear the monogram of the society, the letters 'WM', intertwined.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c1860-c1898
Extent:

1 glass case containing ten badges.