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1. Add MS 5319-5337

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Title:
Manuscript music presented by Sir John Hawkins
Scope & Content:
A collection of manuscript music formerly owned by Sir John Hawkins, chiefly copied by Mr. John Stanley
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
19 volumes

2. Add MS 5324

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Title:
Maurice Greene: 'Phoebe', a pastoral drama
Scope & Content:
'Phœbe: a Pastoral Drama' in 3 Acts, with overture, symphonies, and accompaniments for flutes, horns, oboes, and strings, and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score, by Dr. [Maurice] Greene [1748]. The words are by Dr. John Hoadly. Characters: Phœbe, Sylvio, Amyntas, Celia, Linco; with Choruses...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 5325

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Title:
Maurice Greene: 'Florimel' or 'Love's revenge', a pastoral drama
Scope & Content:
'Florimel,' or 'Love's Revenge': a Pastoral Drama in two parts, with symphonies and accompaniments for horns, oboes, bassoons, and strings, and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score, by Dr. [Maurice] Greene [1737]. The words are by Dr. John Hoadly. Characters: Cupid, Florimel, Myrtillo, and a ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 5333

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Title:
Dramatic compositions by Henry Purcell
Scope & Content:
Dramatic compositions, with instrumental accompaniments, and a song, in score, by Henry Purcell: transcripts {partly} by Dr. William Croft. 1. 'King Arthur' [1691]. Wanting some of the numbers given in Rimbault's and Arkwight's editions, viz., Overture, Military symphony in Act i, Introduction...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 5334

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Title:
George Frideric Handel: 'Il Sylla', opera
Scope & Content:
'Il Sylla': Opera in 3 Acts, with overture, symphonies and accompaniments for trumpets, oboes, flutes, bassoons and strings, and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score, by Giovanni Buononcini {Handel}. The MS is in the hands of W. T. (see: f. 26b). Characters: Cœlia, Flavia, Lepidus, Metellus, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

1 volume

6. Add MS 5337

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Title:
A collection of incidental music from operas, madrigals, sonatas, catches, glees, a duet from an oratorio and a canon
Scope & Content:
The contents of this MS. are in different hands. ff. 1-42. Incidental music, by Henry Purcell, in score; early 18th cent. The symphonies are written for flutes, oboes, strings, etc., and, in the case of no. 2, for trumpets also. 1. [The Masque in] 'Timon of Athens' [1694]. f. 1. 2. 'The Musick ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

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