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1. Add MS 24303

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Add MS 24303
Title:
Francesco Feo: 'L' Andromacca', opera
Scope & Content:
'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. This copy (unlike Add MS 22105) includes the recitativi secchi, and the names of the characters: Tele...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1730?
Extent:
1 volume (143 folios)

2. Add MS 29365

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Add MS 29365
Title:
MEMORANDA of agreements between the proprietors of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, and various musicians; 3 Sept. 1818- 18 Sept. 1820. Those for the year 1818 are signed by [Sir] Henry R[owley] Bishop, musical manager of the theatre. Paper. Folio.
Scope & Content:
London Theatres: Agreements of the proprietors of the same with musicians: 1818-1820. includes: ff. 1,32 Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, composer: Agreements, as music-manager of Covent Garden, with musicians: 1818.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Sep 1818-18 Sep 1820
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 29369

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Add MS 29369
Title:
Twelve Solos, said to be for 'Viola da gamba,' by J. J. (probably John Jenkins).
Scope & Content:
1, 2. Two 'Aires.' ff. 1, 2.3. Saraband. f. 3. 4. 'Corant.' f. 4. 5. Fancy. f. 5b. 6. 'Ayre.' f. 7. 7. Fancy. f. 8b. 8. 'Corant.' f. 9b. 9. 'Ayre.' f. 10. 10. 'Almaine.' f. 11. 11. 'Ayre.' f. 11b. 12. Fancy. f. 13b. (A thirteenth solo (f. 12b) has been cancelled, as 'false.')
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (13 folios)

4. Add MS 29371

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Add MS 29371
Title:
A collection of well-known, mostly British and Irish, tunes of the earlier half of the eighteenth century, with an index.
Scope & Content:
passim. Hornpipes, maggots, tambourins, jigs (including a Spanish one. f. 48b), a rigadoon, rants, a gavotte, Scotch reels, a Hungarian Dance (f. 71b), a Hessian Dance (f. 97b), and a Prussian Dance (f. 99); 18th cent. From a collection of tunes well-known in the British Isles. ff. 24-104 passi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 29372-29377

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Add MS 29372-29377
Title:
'Tristitiæ Remedium. Cantiones selectissimæ diuersorum tum authorum tum argumentorum labore et manu exaratæ Thomæ Myriell. 1616.' Anthems, part-songs and motets, in 4, 5 and 6 parts.
Scope & Content:
Vol. i containing the cantus part; ii, the altus; iii, the tenor; iv, the bassus; v, the quintus; and vi, the sextus. The title-page is engraved. In the original tooled leather binding, stamped with the initials T. M A list of authors is on the fly-leaf of the bass part.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1616
Extent:
6 volumes

6. Add MS 29378

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Add MS 29378
Title:
A collection of compositions, mostly by John Eccles, including excerpts from operas, duets, and an ode
Scope & Content:
Incidental music, in score, by John Eccles, with the exception of the last number. The instruments employed in the symphonies and accompaniments, where given in the MS, are indicated below; where none are mentioned, a basso continuo is to be understood. 1. 'Rinaldo and Armida,' 1699; with accom...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 29379

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Add MS 29379
Title:
A collection of motets, and a song
Scope & Content:
passim. Motets for 2, 3, and 4 voices, with a bass for organ, in score, attributed (with the exception noted below) to Henri Du Mont. They are said to be transcribed by Charles King, M.B. Nos. 1, 2, 6 are for 2 voices; nos. 3, 4 for 3; nos. 5, 7 for 4.1. ‘Duo Seraphim’; with ‘Gloria Patri.’ Attr...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
before 1719
Extent:
1 volume

8. Add MS 29380-29381

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Add MS 29380-29381
Title:
A collection of chansons, madrigals, and a motet
Scope & Content:
Eleven chansons for 3 voices by various (mostly French) composers, scored by John Immyns. Three psalms for three voices in score, by Cl[aude] le Jeune. A motet for 3 voices, in score, by Josquin des Pres.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
2 volumes

9. Add MS 29382-29385

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Add MS 29382-29385
Title:
Part-songs and other compositions, for two, three, and four voices, by William Byrd, John Farmer, Thomas Morley, and other composers
Scope & Content:
Copied by John Immyns. In separate parts. Add MS 29382 contains the canto part. Add MS 29383 contains the alto part. Add MS 29384 contains the tenor part. Add MS 29385 contains the bass part.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
4 volumes

10. Add MS 29386

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Add MS 29386
Title:
A collection of catches, canons, songs, vocal trios, excerpts from oratorios, excerpts from operas, and a duet
Scope & Content:
passim. Catches, Rounds, etc., for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score. Most of them are in the hand of Edmund T. Warren Home; some of them, beginning with no. 4, were 'corrected [in] 1756.' 1. 'Tobacco is but a vapor' (à 4). 'Ed. Nelham.' f. 5. 2. 'Hey ho, what shall I say' (à 9)...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1762?
Extent:
1 volume