Archive Reference (shelfmark): Add MS 11581-11591 / Subject: Operas / Digitised Content: No - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11581-11591
Title:: Extracts from various early musical writers, by Charles Burney, Mus. Doct., with remarks and criticisms by him
Scope & Content:: Also includes extracts and examples of various compositions.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 11 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11588
Title:: A collection of madrigals, canons, sonatas, songs, portions of operas, and other short compositions transcribed by Dr. Charles Burney
Scope & Content:: ff. 2-16. 'Recercari (10) et Canzoni (5) Francese (sic) fatte sopra diversi oblighi in partitura da Girolamo Frescobaldi .... Libro Prirno. 1615.' Transcribed and commented on by Dr. Charles Burney. ff. 16b-66b passim. Madrigals, etc, in score, transcribed by Dr. Charles Burney, and included i...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1783
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11591
Title:: A collection of songs, numbers from operas, and part of a transcript of the 'Regole del contrappunto pratico di Nicola Sala'
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-22. Transcript by Dr. Charles Burney of the 'Regole del contrappunto pratico di Nicola Sala' . . . 1794, only a few unimportant headings having been omitted. This is continued in Add MS 11589 and 11590. ff. 23-66 passim. Numbers from Operas, in full score, transcribed by Dr. Charles Burne...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: after 1794
Extent:: 1 volume

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