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81. Add MS 21467

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Add MS 21467
Title:
Collection of 18th-century operatic music for piano, strings, and bass, composed by various authors.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-66b, 107-118. Concerted numbers from three Italian Operas, with symphonies and accompaniments for oboes, horns, trumpets (in no. 3), and strings, in score. 1, 2. Trio, 'Che vipar, Dorina bella'; and quartet (Dorina, Masotto, Mingone, Titta), begins 'Dorina mia.' [From 'Le Nozze di Dorina,'...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (133 folios)

82. Add MS 22099

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Add MS 22099
Title:
Collection of sacred and secular compositions, including hymns and catches for voice, and incidental music, and an arrangement by Henry Purcell for Queen Mary’s birthday in 1693; predominantly by English and Italian composers.
Scope & Content:
Short pieces on two staves, apparently written, or arranged, for Harpsichord. Several of them are in A Choice Collection of Ayres for the Harpsichord, 1700. [about 1704-1707.]. 1. Movement from 'Sonata 12' (the last of the set published in 1683). 'H. Purcel.' f. 2. 2. Prelude in A minor. 'Lock.'...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
late 17th century-early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (90 folios)

83. Add MS 22100

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Add MS 22100
Title:
Collection of sacred and secular compositions by authors including Blow, Purcell, Gibbons, and Weldon.
Scope & Content:
ff. 3-73 passim. Songs with chorus, etc., for various occasions, with accompaniments for strings (unless the contrary is stated), in score. Except no. 1, they are by Dr. John Blow. 1. 'A Song to welcome home his Majesty from Windsor, 1680,' begins 'Welcome vicegerent of the Mighty King.' 'Purcel...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1682
Extent:
1 volume (123 folios)

84. Add MS 22101

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Add MS 22101
Title:
Early 18th-century operatic music
Scope & Content:
ff. 94. 'Arie con Stromenti Dell' Opera intitolata 'La Pastorella.' Rappresentata da' Pupazzi Nel Palazzo del Sig. Ambasciator di Venezia, 1705—Atto P[ri]mo del Sig. [Carlo] Cesarini, Atto 2o Del Sig. Giannino (sc. Giovanni detto del Violone), Atto 3o del Sig. [?Giovanni Battista] Bononcini con I...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1705
Extent:
1 volume (94 folios)

85. Add MS 22102

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Add MS 22102
Title:
Operatic music, for various instruments, by Giovanni Battista Buononcini.
Scope & Content:
ff. 181. 'Il Xerse': Opera in 3 Acts, with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes, strings (lute, archlute, etc.), and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score, by Giovanni Battista Buononcini [1694]. Characters: Xerse, Artamene, Elviro, Romilda, Adelanta, Eumene, Amastre, Clito, Aristone and ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
late 17th century-early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (181 folios)

86. Add MS 22103

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Add MS 22103
Title:
Operatic music for various instruments, by Alessandro Scarlatti; the words by Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni.
Scope & Content:
ff. 276. 'La Statira': Opera in 3 Acts, with symphonies and accompaniments for trumpets, strings and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score, by Alessandro Scarlatti; the words by Cardinal [Pietro] Ottoboni. Characters: Oronte, Alessandro, Statira, Demetrio, Perinto, Campaspe, and Apelle.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1st half 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (276 folios)

87. Add MS 22104

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Add MS 22104
Title:
Italian compositions by Giovanni Bononcini and Alessandro Scarlatti.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-84. Cantatas, etc., with accompaniments for strings (unless the contrary is stated), and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score. No. 1 was written at Rome in 1700. 1. 'La Luccioletta,' begins 'Mentre il suo caro gregge' 'Priore Pacieri' f. 1. 2. 'Mentre Clori'; with flutes. Anonymous. f....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1700
Extent:
1 volume (133 folios)

88. Add MS 22105

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Add MS 22105
Title:
Operatic music for various instruments by Francesco Feo, written for the Teatro della Valle, at Rome, in 1730.
Scope & Content:
ff. 122. 'L' Andromacca': Opera in 3 Acts, with symphonies and accompaniments for horns, oboes, strings, and harpsichord, in score, by Francesco Feo, written for the Teatro della Valle [at Rome], in 1730. The recitativi secchi are omitted.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1730
Extent:
1 volume (122 folios)

89. Add MS 22106

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Add MS 22106
Title:
Operatic music for various instruments by Leonardo Vinci, for the Alle Dame theatre at Rome, 1730.
Scope & Content:
ff. 182. 'Artaserse': Opera in 3 Acts, with symphonies and accompaniments for trumpets, horns, oboes, and strings, in score, composed by Leonardo Vinci, for the Alle Dame theatre at Rome, 1730. The recitativi secchi are omitted. The only singer named is Carestina.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1730
Extent:
1 volume (182 folios)

90. Add MS 22107

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Add MS 22107
Title:
Operatic music by Giovanni Adolfo Hasse.
Scope & Content:
ff. 193. 'Artaserse,' by Hasse, in score. The present MS closely resembles Add MS 32582, of which it is probably a transcript.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (193 folios)