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Subject National Music: Italian

1. Add MS 34202

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Add MS 34202
Title:
A collection of Italian ariettas
Scope & Content:
Ariettas, etc., with accompaniment for guitar or (nos. 4 and 5) pianoforte, in score. Most of them are anonymous. 1. 'E la Luna 'mmiezo mare.' This and nos. 2-6 are in the Neapolitan dialect, f. 1. 2. 'Lo Guarracino.' f. 4. 3. 'Nenna sta grazia.' f. 9. 4. 'Si tu, mia sposa, mi si' fedele.' f...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (89 folios)

2. 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)

3. Sloane MS 1021

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Sloane MS 1021
Title:
Commonplace book of Johannes Stobaeus, containing musical compositions and instructions for the lute
Scope & Content:
Commonplace book of Johannes Stobaeus (or Stobäus), Kapellmeister to the Elector of Brandenburg, compiled at Königsberg in and shortly before 1640. The book contains vocal and instrumental music, writings on music and drawings of instruments. Many of the pieces are probably Stobaeus's compositio...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1640
Extent:
1 volume