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Subject Dance music

1. Add MS 19759

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Add MS 19759
Title:
Collection of compositions, mostly without accompaniment, by various authors, including: Purcell, Hart, Banister, Turner, and other composers of the latter part of the 17th century.
Scope & Content:
Songs without accompaniments. Anonymous, unless the contrary is stated. 1. 'Love you by all that's good.' f. 2. 2. 'I bring thee, ô thou charming Fair.' '[James (?)] Hart.' f. 2b. 3. 'Let's loue and let's laugh.' '[J.] Banister.' f. 3. 4. 'I loue and am lou'd.' f. 3. 5. 'To Cloris what I did pre...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jun 1681
Extent:
1 volume (46 folios)

2. Add MS 25073

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Add MS 25073
Title:
A collection of dance music, songs, and numbers from operas
Scope & Content:
ff. 3-45b. Dances, etc., for Pianoforte, mostly anonymous, begun in England in 1790; late 18th cent. Nos. 1-23 are 'Country dances of the year 1790,' followed by instructions for their rendering. Nos. 24-39, 40-46, 53-58, and 63 have also similar instructions. 1. 'The Waltz.' f. 3. 2. 'The Rival...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 25073-25078

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Add MS 25073-25078
Title:
A collection of various British dance tunes, songs, airs, and other pieces
Scope & Content:
Collections of English, Irish and Scottish, songs, numbers from operas, dance tunes, airs, and other pieces from various composers, compiled around 1790.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
6 volumes

4. Add MS 27932

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Add MS 27932
Title:
A collection of arias, songs, hymns, airs, and other melodies
Scope & Content:
passim. Arias, etc., with a figured bass for harpsichord (except where the contrary is stated), in score; first half of 18th cent., etc. 1. 'A soldier and a sailor' [from 'Love for love,' by John Eccles, 1695]. f. 3b. 2-4. Three arias, the first with an additional violin part, from 'Rinaldo,' by...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 29291

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Add MS 29291
Title:
A collection of part-songs, canons, catches, glees, parts of services, vocal trios and duets, as well as some instrumental music
Scope & Content:
ff. 3-56 passim. Part music, for 4 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score; 18th cent. 1. 'Hark, jolly shepheards.' 'Thos Morley.' [1594.] f. 3. 2. 'Dare you haunt' ('The Fayries daunce'). 'Thos Ravenscroft.' [From .] '1614.' f. 10. 3. 'Awake, sweet Love.' This and nos. 4-6 [from the ],...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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)

9. Add MS 32411

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Add MS 32411
Title:
Musical extracts [by Johann Christian Lobe?], mostly specimens of fugues and canons.
Scope & Content:
passim. Examples of Harmony in various forms of composition, chiefly fragmentary and in compressed score, collected by Johann Christian Lobe, the flutist. The principal ones are:— 1-4. Four, including one from 'Titus.' 'Mozart.' f. 3. 5. Part of a movement from a symphony in E-flat . 'Haydn.' f....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1818
Extent:

1 volume (69 folios)

10. Add MS 32669

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Add MS 32669
Title:
Sketch-books of compositions by Michael William Balfe, 1836-1865. Volume 1.
Scope & Content:
Passim. Sketch-book of Musical compositions by Michael William Balfe, containing chiefly fragments of Operas. About 1836 (watermark)-1843.1. 'Stretta (sc. Stretto), per finale.' f. 3b. 2. 'Tu devi scendere'; from an Opera in which one of the characters appears to be Costantino. f. 4b. 3. 'Ah, ch...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1836-1843
Extent:

1 volume (113 folios)