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71. Add MS 34052

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Add MS 34052
Title:
A collection of canons, etc., for 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices, in score, by Floriano Arressi, - Bassetti, Giovanni Battista Borri, Quirino Colombani, - Gampani, Francesco Gasparini, Padre Giovanni Battista Martini da Bologna, Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, and other anonymous Italian composers of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Scope & Content:
passim. 'Raccolta di Cantici e Canoni di varii Autori': a collection of Canons in the unison, or catches, in score. Nos. 3-10, 12-20, are for 4 voices; no. 11 for 6 voices; nos. 21 and 28 for 5 voices; the rest are for 3 voices. Except where the contrary is stated, they are anonymous. 1. 'Il Vin...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

1 volume (69 folios)

72. Add MS 34608

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Add MS 34608
Title:
Musical Common-place Book in the hand of John Stafford Smith, organist and composer, containing short musical extracts from works by John Dowland, John Amner, Dr. Campion, Francesco Turini, the compiler, and others, with extracts from Burney's History of Music, Morley's Introduction, etc., and anecdotes of Handel, Dr. Arne, Dr. Boyce, etc.
Scope & Content:
passim. Extracts from Burney's History of Music, Morley's Introduction, etc., together with specimens of harmony and melody, in the hand of John Stafford Smith; 1785-1789. passim. Common-place book of John Stafford Smith, containing, among other things, fragments of the following sacred composi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1785-1789
Extent:
1 volume (34 folios)

73. Add MS 34803

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Add MS 34803
Title:
A collection of vocal pieces, and a composition for organ
Scope & Content:
passim. Collection of Songs, etc., most of them with pianoforte accompaniment, in score, by J[ohn] Lodge-Ellerton; 1820-1824, etc.. Autograph. Nos. 6, 8-10, 25 and 29 are published. 1. 'Thou canst not know the gen'rous mind ' (1820); with accompaniments for flutes, clarinets, horns, violins, ten...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (93 folios)

74. Add MS 34803-34804

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Add MS 34803-34804
Title:
A collection of vocal compositions by John Lodge- Ellerton and in his own hand
Scope & Content:
A few pieces, mostly autograph and some of them incomplete, are added, viz.: by Charles Henry Nottingham (vol. i. f. 75), E. Silas (i. f. 79), Karl Friedrich Zelter (i. f. 86), J. B. Cramer (ii. f. 20), Cipriani Hambly Potter (ii. f. 30), and James Coward (ii. f. 32).
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
2 volumes

75. Add MS 34804

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Add MS 34804
Title:
A collection of songs, a concerto, a canon, and part of a mass
Scope & Content:
passim. Collection of Songs, etc., most of them with pianoforte accompaniment, in score, by J[ohn] Lodge-Ellerton; 1820-1824, etc.. Autograph. 1. 'Go, leave me weep.' Romance, f. 3. 2. 'Leb wohl, mein Herz.' Two copies, ff. 5, 7. 3. 'Lass mich träumen.' f. 9. 4. 'Bertrams Grablied,' begins 'Begr...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 volume (33 folios)

76. Add MS 34998

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Add MS 34998
Title:
"Pasticcio Book, containing Anthems, Hymns," harpsichord soloes, fragments of oratorios and concertos, etc., by Samuel Wesley
Scope & Content:
passim. Short Anthems, in score, for 1 voice, with a bass, unless the contrary is stated; by Samuel Wesley. From a volume containing rough copies of his juvenile compositions. 1. 'Behold, how good and joyful' (verse anthem, with chorus and occasional accompaniments for flute, violin, violoncello...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1774-1775
Extent:
1 volume (79 folios)

77. Add MS 34999

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Add MS 34999
Title:
A collection of anthems, hymns, services, songs, part of an oratorio, and other vocal compositions, by Samuel Wesley
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-80b. Act ii and part of act iii of 'The Death of Abel,' in full score, followed by the parts of the overture to act ii, by S[amuel] Wesley; 1779, etc. Autograph. Said to have been composed when Wesley was eleven, but apparently a rather later copy. The overture bears the date 1779. The ins...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Late 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
1 volume (183 folios)

78. Add MS 35001

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Add MS 35001
Title:
A collection of antiphons, fragments from masses, a hymn, a fragment of a canon, and a fragment of a concerto
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-14. Fragments from Masses, in score, apparently all by Samuel Wesley, in whose hand they are written; 1812, etc. 1. ‘Agnus Dei’ in D, for 2 and 4 voices. ‘1812.’ f. 1. 2. ‘Missa de Sanctissima Trinitate. Tono Quinto,’ consisting of ‘Kyrie,’ ‘Gloria,’ and ‘Credo’ in D, for 4 voices, with fi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
1 volume (154 folios)

79. Add MS 35003

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Add MS 35003
Title:
A collection of antiphons, songs, solfeggi, glees, and other compositions by Samuel Wesley
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-31b passim. Antiphons, etc., by Samuel Wesley, mostly autograph; 1807, etc. Nos. 1-20 are ‘Antiphonæ communes ad Magnificat in utrisque Vesperis,’ for the principal festivals. The melody with figured bass. 1. ‘Tradent enim vos.’ f. 1. 2. ‘Estote fortes in bello.’ f. 1. 3. ‘Lux perpetua luc...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
1 volume (153 folios)

80. Add MS 35026

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Add MS 35026
Title:
Musical autograph album of Eliza Wesley, containing short pieces, inscriptions and signatures of numerous composers, musicians, singers and others
Scope & Content:
passim. Album begun by Eliza Wesley in 1836, containing the autographs of the principal composers, vocalists, and instrumentalists, and a few others, then in London; 1836-1895. Besides the compositions described below, there are also signatures, and in a few cases transcripts of fragments of mus...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 volume (73 folios)