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21. Add MS 29397

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Title:
A collection, largely of songs, duets and catches
Scope & Content:
passim. Songs for the most part unaccompanied, but occasionally with a bass for harpsichord, in score. Many are taken from John Playford's , 1673-1683, the , 1685, and other collections of that period. See indices by Thomas Oliphant at the beginning and end of the volume. 1. 'The bright Clarinda...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1682?-1690?
Extent:
1 volume

22. Add MS 29480

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Title:
‘Stille Feier‘: a Cantata for Good Friday, written for solo voices and 4-part chorus with organ obbligato, in score
Scope & Content:
'GESANG am heiligen Charfreitag, von 4 Singstimmen sammt einer obligaten Orgel, in Musik gesetzt,' beginning, 'Stille feier banger Todes-stunden.' The name of the composer is erased.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

1 volume (38 folios)

23. Add MS 30246

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Title:
Selected vocal pieces, in score, by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-6b. 'Dall' Oriente'; for treble, 2 tenors, and a bass, with pianoforte accompaniment, in score, by Rossini. Autograph. 1823. Dedicated to the Countess Sant' Antonio. ff. 7-1 3b. Song ['Il pianto delle Muse in morte di Lord Byron,' 1824], for a tenor voice, with a sextet (? Muses) and 3-pa...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1st half of 19th century
Extent:

1 volume (27 folios)

24. Add MS 30382

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Title:
Anthems and songs collected, and many of them composed, by Henry Bowman. The names of the other composers are Johann Felice Sances, P. Nadal Monferrato, Richard Deering, Giovanni Giacoppo Carissimi, Maria Marini, - Cassati, John Blow, Henry Purcell Giovanni Rovetta, - Silvestro, Michael Wise, and Henry Lawes.
Scope & Content:
Passim. Anthems for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score, viz.1. ['Awake up, my glory']: the end only. M. Wise. f. 2. 2. 'Wake sleeping ones': a Dialogue between the Angel and the Soul; with chorus. 'H[enry] B[owman].' Autograph. f. 43b. 3. ''Sing vnto the Lord, O yee Saints': fune...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1680-1686
Extent:

1 volume (94 folios)

25. Add MS 30392

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Title:
Sketch-book of compositions by Dr. William Crotch
Scope & Content:
ff. 3, 3b, 39b, 40b. Fugues for Organ or Pianoforte, by Dr. William Crotch. Autograph. What hand S. H. (whose initials appear on ff. 40 and 41) had in them does not appear. 1, 2. In C, and G minor; composed at Oxford in 1790. ff. 3, 3b. 3, 4. In B flat, composed at Bath in 1791. The second one i...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1790-1795
Extent:

1 volume (96 folios)

26. Add MS 31004

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Title:
Christian Ernst Graaf: ‘Der Tod Jesu‘, a cantata
Scope & Content:
‘Der Tod Jesu‘: Cantata, the words by C[arl] W[ilhelm] Ramler, the music by Christian Ernst Graaf, Kapellmeister to the Prince of Orange and Nassau. Apparently autograph. Written for solo voices and 4-part chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments for oboes, flutes, horns, bassoons, and strings,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1802
Extent:
1 volume (115 folios)

27. Add MS 31051

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Title:
Recitatives and arias by Carl Heinrich Graun
Scope & Content:
‘Trostvolle Gedancken über das Leiden und Sterben unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi . . . C. H. Graun‘: recitatives and arias, etc., for solo voices, and 4-part choruses, with symphonies and accompaniments for trumpets, oboes d'amore, flutes, and strings, and a figured bass for organ, in sc...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (36 folios)

28. Add MS 31307

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Title:
A collection of mostly 18th century church music and instrumental compositions
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-12b. 'Psalmi Vespertini,' consisting of ' Domine, ad adjuvandum,' 'Dixit Dominus,' 'Beatus vir qui timet,' 'Laudate, pueri,' 'Laudate Dominum,' and 'Magnificat,' each of them ending with the 'Gloria Patri.'; 1835. They are written for 3 voices, with symphonies and accompaniments for oboes,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (108 folios)

29. Add MS 31310

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Title:
A collection which includes a magnificat, a song, a cantata, a madrigal, and a concerto
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-20. ‘Magnificat’ with ‘Gloria Patri,’ in F; for 2 choirs of 4 voices each, with accompaniments for 2 orchestras, consisting of trumpets, oboes, and strings, in score, by [G. A.] Fioroni; 18th cent. Apparently autograph. ff. 21-36. ‘Mein Odem ist schwach‘: a short sacred composition, cons...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
1 volume (57 folios)

30. Add MS 31311

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Title:
Abbé [Joseph] Mainzer: 'Deutschlands Retter', cantata
Scope & Content:
Deutschlands Retter'; the words by Philipp Baren(?), the music by Abbé [Joseph] Mainzer. The symphonies and accompaniments are for flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, trumpets, trombones, drums (timpani and tamburo) and strings, in score. Begins 'Bang klirrt das Erz.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1st half of the 19th century
Extent:
1 volume (86 folios)