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21. Add MS 31653

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Add MS 31653
Title:
18th century Compositions from Operas, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings and other instruments, in score.
Scope & Content:
After 1763 Vol. III. ff. 119. xviiith cent. PassimArias, etc., from Operas, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings (and other instruments mentioned below), in score. In most instances the dates of performance are given. Three volumes. Add MS 31653. Vol. Ill (ff. 119). 1. 'Fedele e co...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
2nd half 18th century
Extent:
1 of three volumes (119 folios)

22. Add MS 31566

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Title:
Handel's "Alcina": an Opera in three acts, in score, transcribed by Rophino Lacy.
Scope & Content:
ff. 55. 'Alcina': Opera in 3 Acts, with overture, symphonies, and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, strings, etc., and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score, by Handel [1735]; preceded by a table of contents [in the hand of Michael Rophino Lacy]. From the absence of the ballets throughout the ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (55 folios)

23. Add MS 31742

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Title:
Three Canzonets, and two Cavatinas, by Giuseppe Scolari, Domenico Cimarosa, Antonio Lotti, and anonymous authors.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-24 passim. Songs, with accompaniments, in score. 1-3. 'Trè Canzoncine con Accompagnamento di Cembalo o Piano Forte,' viz., 'Or che niega i doni miei.' f. 1b; — 'D' un visetto lusinghiero.' f. 3; — and 'Pià (sc. Già) la notte s' avvicina.' f. 4. 'Domenico Cimarosa.' Presented by Miss Moore ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 volume (33 folios)

24. Add MS 31631

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Title:
Part of the opera of "Ruggiero", by Johann Adolf Hasse.
Scope & Content:
ff. 29. Selections, with accompaniments, in score, from an Opera at the beginning of which are written the words 'Ruggiaro amorodo' (sc. 'Ruggiero amoroso'), to which has been added in pencil 'del Sigr Hasse,' but on what authority it does not appear, as the work is evidently different from Hass...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (49 folios)

25. Add MS 31652

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Add MS 31652
Title:
18th century Compositions from Operas, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings and other instruments, in score.
Scope & Content:
Vol. II. ff. 137. xviiith cent. PassimArias, etc., from Operas, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings (and other instruments mentioned below), in score. In most instances the dates of performance are given. Three volumes. Add MS 31652. Vol. II (ff. 137). All the pieces in this volume...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
2nd half 18th century
Extent:

After 1763

1 of three volumes (137 folios)

26. Add MS 31555

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Add MS 31555
Title:
Selections from Operas and similar works, by Handel, transcribed roughly, in score, by Michael Rophino Lacy.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-98, 109-125b. Portions of Operas, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings, etc., and (in the recitatives) basses, generally tigured, for harpsichord, in score, by Handel; apparently all of them transcribed by Michael Rophino Lacy from the originals at Buckingham Palace. 1. Arias, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 volume (284 folios)

27. Add MS 31571

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Title:
Transcripts made by John Christopher Smith from Operas by Handel, in score; taken from: "Pastor Fido", "Muzio Scævola", "Ottone", "Floridante", "Tamerlano", "Giulio Cesare" "Rodelinda" and "Alessandro".
Scope & Content:
ff. 135. Transcripts made by John Christopher Smith from Operas by Handel, in score. Unless the contrary is stated, they are arias. The symphonies and accompaniments are generally for violins or mixed strings, with the occasional addition of oboes (which are, however, only once named—in no. 1). ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (134 folios)

28. Add MS 31672

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Add MS 31672
Title:
Orfeo: Opera, by Christoph Willibald von Gluck.
Scope & Content:
Vol. I. ff. 148. 'Orfeo [ed Euridice]'; in 3 Acts, with overture, ballets, symphonies, and accompaniments for double orchestra, consisting of flutes, chalumeaux, oboes, cornetti (?Zinken), horns, trumpets, drums, bassoons, trombones, harp (occasionally), and strings, in score, by Christoph Wil...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (148 folios)

29. Add MS 31647

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Title:
Numbers from Operas, with symphonies and accompaniments, in score, by Baldassare Galuppi, called 'Il Buranello'.
Scope & Content:
ff. 168. Numbers from Operas, with symphonies and accompaniments, in score, by Baldassarre Galuppi 'detto il Buranello.' Unless the contrary is stated, they are arias with strings only. 1, 2. 'Rammentati, Ben mio' (with Add MS parts), and 'Nell' onor de' Fasti miei.' Performed at the Argentina...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1748-1763
Extent:
1 volume (168 folios)

30. Add MS 31673

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Add MS 31673
Title:
Orfeo: Opera, by Christoph Willibald von Gluck.
Scope & Content:
Vol. II. ff. 85. Another copy of the same work, [as Add MS 31672, VOL I.] here styled a cantata. The general contents of the present MS are similar to those of the preceding one, except that the former ends (ff. 74-85) with the duet, 'Vieni, appagga il tuo consorte,' in an elaborated form, and...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (85 folios)