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Subject National music: English

1. 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

2. Add MS 30272

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Add MS 30272
Title:
Collection of dance tunes and airs, etc., for flute or violin, in the hand, and most of them the composition of, J. B. Crotch.
Scope & Content:
Passim. 'Collection of . . . Minuets, Strathspeys, Reels, Hornpipes, and other Dance-tunes, etc., for Flute or Violin, in the autograph of . . . J. B. Crotch [see f. 4b], with . . . others added [at the end], but not composed by him 1779 [? 1799, see below]-1802. This volume formed the 2nd book ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1799-1802
Extent:
1 volume (49 folios)

3. 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Original compositions, for the most part unpublished, by Johann Nepomuk Hummel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

4. 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)