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Subject String quartets Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

41. Add MS 30900

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Title:
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: String quartet in E flat. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
Quartet in E flat (Allegro moderato, Adagio non troppo, Minuet, Fugue), for 2 violins, viola, and basso, in score, composed [by Mendelssohn] in March, 1823. Autograph. At the beginning are the initials 'L. e. g. G,' which appear on so many of his compositions. This work was not published till De...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Mar 1823-30 Mar 1823
Extent:

1 volume (10 folios)

42. Add MS 31307

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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)

43. Add MS 31390

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'A booke of In nomines and other solfainge songs of v: vj vij: and viij: parts for voyces or Instrumentes', written in direct, transverse, and reversed staves, so that all can sing, or play, at once.
Scope & Content:
Compare with the layout of John Dowland's First Book. of Aires, printed in 1597. The contents are chiefly motets, and include also Italian, English, and French songs. Among them are the following:- 1. Mr Parson his Songe." f. 10 b. 2. Si grand e la pieta." f. 13 b. 3. "Vraie deu damour" f....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (128 folios)

44. Add MS 31429

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Title:
Compositions for 2 trebles and a bass, and one for four strings, in parts
Scope & Content:
Except where the contrary is stated, they are without titles and anonymous, and the folios refer to all 3 volumes. 1. Piece in C; probably added afterwards as prelude to the following set. f. 2. 2-6. Five pieces in C. 'Grabew,' sc. Louis Grabu. f. 2b. 7-10. Four pieces in D. No. 10 wants 1st ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:

3 volumes (49 folios)

45. Add MS 31573

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Title:
Rough transcripts, by Rophino Lacy, of a collection of compositions of Handel's works, including: "Magnificat, del Rd. Sigr. Erla", and "Long live the Queen", and various others.
Scope & Content:
ff 1-32b. 'Magnificat’ in A minor; for 2 choirs, with accompaniments for oboes, strings, and organ, in score. Transcribed by Michael Rophino Lacy from the Sacred Harmonic Society's copy (now in the possession of the Royal College of Music). At the top of this copy is written 'Del Rd Sigr Erba,’ ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 volume (81 folios)

46. Add MS 31749

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Add MS 31749
Title:
Quartet, in B flat for 2 violins, viola, and violoncello, in score, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript of the string quartet in B flat, K. 172, by Mozart. * ff. 14. Quartet in B flat for 2 violins, viola, and violoncello, in score, by Mozart, 1773 [op. 94, no. 5]. Autograph. According to Kochel's thematic catalogue (no. 172), the MS. was in 1860 in the possession of Richard...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1773
Extent:

1 volume (13 folios)

47. Add MS 31922

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Add MS 31922
Title:
A collection of songs, ballads, and instrumental pieces, composed early in the reign of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
passim. Compositions for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in parts, apparently written early in the reign of Henry VIII (see for 1882-1887, p. 7). {Severeal published by the Roxburghe Club in 1912} {See J. E. Stevens 'Rounds and Canons from an early Tudor Song Book', Music and Letters,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (129 folios)

48. Add MS 32174

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Add MS 32174
Title:
A collection of numbers from operas, string quartets, cantatas, and a symphony
Scope & Content:
passim. Numbers from operas, with oboes, flutes and bassoons (in nos. 1, 2), horns and strings; 1782, etc.. 1, 2. Instrumental numbers, without titles, viz. the overtures to 'L' Isola disabitata,' 1779 (ff. 33-71 passim), and to 'La Vera Costanza,' 1779 (ff. 35-72 passim), written by Franz Josep...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German and Italian
Date Range:
2nd half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (230 folios)

49. Add MS 32184-32237

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Add MS 32184-32237
Title:
Original compositions, for the most part unpublished, by Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Scope & Content:
In the case of works in full scores, the music for wind instruments will generally be found at the end of the volume.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
54 volumes

50. Add MS 32237

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Add MS 32237
Title:
A collection of compositions, vocal and instrumental, most of them unfinished and some only sketched in pencil, in the hand of Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Scope & Content:
passim. Fragments or sketches of airs, etc., most of them without accompaniment, from dramatic works, almost entirely in the hand, and presumably the composition, of J. N. Hummel; about 1797-1828. I. From an Opera in which the principal characters are Lisette, Johann (as the Marquis Ventil), Wer...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, German, and Italian
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (114 folios)