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Subject String quartets Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

61. Add MS 37074

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Add MS 37074
Title:
Collection of vocal and instrumental compositions, in score, probably by Reverend Robert Creyghton.
Scope & Content:
ff. 4-6b Series of seven short unnamed pieces for Lute, apparently in the hand of the Rev. Robert Creyghton, D.D., who has signed four with his initials, and added the date 1727 on the first and the last pages. ff. 7-8b. 'Hark! How ye pleasant thunder-tempest sounds'; with a bass for harpsicho...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:
1727
Extent:
1 volume (101 folios)

62. Add MS 37763-37765

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Add MS 37763-37765
Title:
Original drafts of ten of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Quartets, for 2 violins, viola, and violoncello, in score.
Scope & Content:
Original drafts of ten of Mozart's quartets, for 2 violins, viola, and violoncello, in score. In three volumes. They are respectively numbered, probably by Stumpff, 28-33, 37, 34-36. The K. (followed by a number) given below, stands for Kochel's Thematic Catalogue, from which also the dates in s...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Not applicable
Date Range:
1782-1790
Extent:
3 volumes (ff. iv., 68; ii., 14; ii., 40)

63. Egerton MS 2379

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Egerton MS 2379
Title:
A collection of quartets, sonatas, divertimenti, symphonies and other pieces of orchestral music
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-54b. Six Quartets (op. 50), for 2 violins, viola, and violoncello, in parts, by Haydn; about 1787. In the hand of his amanuensis, J. Radnitzky, and evidently those sent to William Forster for publication in London, and called by him op. 44. At the beginning is pencilled, presumably in the ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1784-c 1787
Extent:
1 volume

64. Egerton MS 2456

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Egerton MS 2456
Title:
A mass and an extract of a quartet
Scope & Content:
Short Mass in F, consisting of the ‘Kyrie‘ and ‘Gloria’; for 4 voices, with symphonies and accompaniments for trumpets, oboes, horns, and strings, and a figured bass for organ, in score, by Giovanni Paisiello; before 1849. Adagio from Beethoven's posthumous Quartet in B flat (op. 130); about 18...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 19th century
Extent:
1 volume (129 folios)

65. Egerton MS 2795

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Egerton MS 2795
Title:
Portion of a sketch-book of compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven containing chiefly sketches of the quartets (op. 130-133). There are also several in 3/8 time.
Scope & Content:
Sketches (chiefly the violin part) of the following quartets for 2 violins, viola, and violoncello, and a canon, by Beethoven. 1. In B flat (op. 130). First movement, ff. l-3b, 5, 5b, 8, etc.;— and possibly the Danza Tedesca. ff. 6-8, passim. 2. In C sharp minor (op. 131). 'Adagio.' f. 4;— an...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
c 1825
Extent:
1 volume (16 folios)

66. Royal Appendix MS 23

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Royal Appendix MS 23
Title:
Collection of secular and sacred Motets, including one for Christmas Day, Madrigals, a Miserere, an Anthem, suspected composed by Derick Gerarde, and in parts.
Scope & Content:
Vol. I. ff. 44. Late XVI cent. The name of Robert Jenner is written at the top of the page in vol. iii. passim. Superius, contra-tenor, and tenor parts of a collection of Motets, etc., made, if not composed, by Dyricke Gerarde, whose name occurs (in that form) at the end of vol. i, and the beg...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (of 3 part books) (44 folios)

67. Royal Appendix MS 23-25

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Royal Appendix MS 23-25
Title:
Collection of secular and sacred Motets, including one for Christmas Day, Madrigals, a Miserere, an Anthem, suspected composed by Derick Gerarde, and in parts.
Scope & Content:
passim. Superius, contra-tenor, and tenor parts of a collection of Motets, etc., made, if not composed, by Dyricke Gerarde, whose name occurs (in that form) at the end of vol. i, and the beginning of vol. ii. The folios are the same in each volume, unless the contrary is stated. 1. ‘Angelus Domi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
3 volumes (Part books: 44, 42, 43 folios respectively)

68. Royal Appendix MS 24

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Royal Appendix MS 24
Title:
Collection of secular and sacred Motets, including one for Christmas Day, Madrigals, a Miserere, an Anthem, suspected composed by Derick Gerarde, and in parts.
Scope & Content:
Vol. II. ff. 42. Late XVI cent. The name of Robert Jenner is written at the top of the page in vol. iii. passim. Superius, contra-tenor, and tenor parts of a collection of Motets, etc., made, if not composed, by Dyricke Gerarde, whose name occurs (in that form) at the end of vol. i, and the be...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (of 3 Part books) (42 folios)

69. Royal Appendix MS 25

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Royal Appendix MS 25
Title:
Collection of secular and sacred Motets, including one for Christmas Day, Madrigals, a Miserere, an Anthem, suspected composed by Derick Gerarde, and in parts.
Scope & Content:
Vol. III. ff. 43. Late XVI cent. The name of Robert Jenner is written at the top of the page in vol. iii. passim. Superius, contra-tenor, and tenor parts of a collection of Motets, etc., made, if not composed, by Dyricke Gerarde, whose name occurs (in that form) at the end of vol. i, and the b...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (of three Part books) (43 folios)

70. Royal Appendix MS 74

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Royal Appendix MS 74
Title:
Collection of partially scored, and complete compositions, of sacred music, largely of English origin, composed, for instruments, and voice; including: for Bass-violin, Lute, and Strings, and also including Madrigals, Anthems, Metrical Psalms or Hymns, and Services.
Scope & Content:
Vol. I. ff. 53. Apparently written about 1547-1548, before the first Booke of the Common Prayer, 1549. In many cases the versions of the Psalms followed closely resemble those in the Prymer of 1544.Collection of partially scored, and complete compositions, of sacred music, largley of English or...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1547-1548
Extent:
1 of three volumes (53 folios) (Part book)