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1. MS Mus. 1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1
Title:
Henry Purcell and Giovanni Battista Draghi: Keyboard music
Scope & Content:
The 'Purcell/Draghi keyboard manuscript' contains, on folios 1v-12, music by or arranged by Henry Purcell and in his autograph. Reversing the volume, folios 42-12v are by, and almost certainly in the hand of, Giovanni Battista Draghi. Folio 1r contains a musical setting of Draghi’s address in th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1690-1700
Extent:
1 volume (folios ii + 43)

2. MS Mus. 1, ff 1r-12r

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1, ff 1r-12r
Title:
Henry Purcell: Keyboard music. Autograph score.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1690-1695
Extent:
12 folios

3. MS Mus. 1, ff 12v-43v

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1, ff 12v-43v
Title:
Giovanni Battista Draghi: Keyboard music. Autograph score.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1690-1695
Extent:
31 folios

4. MS Mus. 1591

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1591
Title:
My Ladye Nevells Booke
Scope & Content:
William Byrd (b. circa 1540, d.1623): ‘My Ladye Nevells Booke’, a collection of music for keyboard; 1591. In the hand of John Baldwin, with small, possibly autograph, corrections. Written in ink throughout, on six-line staves, in a calligraphic hand. The manuscript contains 42 numbered pieces fo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1591
Extent:
1 item

5. MS Mus. 1707

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1707
Title:
Claudio Monteverdi: letter to the Marchese Enzo Bentivoglio
Scope & Content:
Autograph. The letter, written from Venice, concerns aspects of the music for the festivities at the marriage of the Duke Odoardo Farnese to Margherita, second daughter of Cosimo II de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, in Parma the following year. Bentivoglio had commissioned Monteverdi to write t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
18 September 1627
Extent:

2 folios

6. MS Mus. 1745/1/10

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/10
Title:
Frederick Delius: Piano Concerto in C minor
Scope & Content:
Threlfall, VII/4. 'The compositional history of this work is probably the most tortuous of any in the Delius canon' (Threlfall 1990, p. 189). Publication: 1907 [dated 1897], lithographed full score, Harmonie-Verlag; 1951, full score ed. Beecham, Boosey & Hawkes (8864); 1990, rev. ed., ed Bee...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1897
Extent:
1 volume (ff. 37)

7. MS Mus. 1745/1/11

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/11
Title:
Frederick Delius: Fantasy for Orchestra and Pianoforte
Scope & Content:
Threlfall, VII/4. Lowe comments (Catalogue, p. 55): 'Both in its material and in the cyclic repetition of the first section, this one movement fantasy form can be considered the true parent of the piano concerto as we know it in its final version'. Autograph full score (ink and pencil) with muc...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1897
Extent:
1 volume (39 folios)

8. MS Mus. 1745/1/39

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/1/39
Title:
Frederick Delius: A Volume of Sketches
Scope & Content:
f. 1-1v. Headed in the hand of Eric Fenby (green ink): 'Early attempt at piano piece'. 71 bars in 3/4 time, in G minor/B major in a mazurka style, scored in ink. f. 1v. (Upside-down), a 21-bar pencil sketch for voice and pianoforte. f. 2-2v. Headed (in pencil): 'Rhapsody good'. Harmonic plan on t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1888-[1911]
Extent:
1 volume (122 folios)

9. MS Mus. 1745/2/5

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/5
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Instrumental Music
Scope & Content:
(1). ff. 1-14. Piano solo ff. 1-2. 'Pensées Mélodieuses (No. 2)'. Signed and dated 'June 10/85'. F major, C Allegro Moderato. Ink, fair copy. 2 leaves, 12 stave 336 x 263 mm. (Threlfall, IX/2.) f. 3. A single page composition, probably incomplete, with only the number 'I' as a heading. Without d...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1885-1930
Extent:
1 file (225 folios)

10. MS Mus. 1745/2/11/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1745/2/11/3
Title:
Frederick Delius (Beecham Accession): Notebook 3
Scope & Content:
The notebook (undated) contains notes, in ink and in pencil, for several works, as follows: Koanga: 'Calinda dance' (f. 97); 'Quintette' (f. 98); 'Entracte to 3rd Act Koanga' (f. 104); and a two-page description (in English) of the 'Prelude to III Act' (ff. 123v-124, notebook inverted and revers...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1895]-[?1907]
Extent:
1 notebook (folios 97-124)