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31. Add MS 28613

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Add MS 28613
Title:
A collection of songs by Francis Joseph Haydn
Scope & Content:
A collection of songs by Francis Joseph Haydn. Autograph. Prefixed is a lithograph copy of a letter from Haydn to Anton Polzelli; Vienna, 20 Mar. 1808. Sketches, in the hand of Joseph Haydn, of the choruses, 'Awake the harp,' and 'The heav'ns are telling,' in his Oratorio, 'The Creation.'; bef...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume

32. Add MS 28743

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Add MS 28743
Title:
Recitatives with arias from 'II Trionfo della chiesa', by Ferdinando Paer
Scope & Content:
Four Recitatives with arias from 'II Trionfo della chiesa'; for solo voices and chorus, with accompaniments for flutes, oboes, clarinets, horns, trumpets, bassoons, drums, harp and strings, in score, by Ferdinando Paer. The only characters named are Abraham and an Angel.1. 'Tremeranno i venti ir...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1804?
Extent:
1 volume (58 folios)

33. Add MS 29382

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Add MS 29382
Title:
Volume I of a set of part books
Scope & Content:
Unless otherwise stated, this volume contains the canto part. For the alto, tenor, and bass parts, see Add MSS 29383, 29384, 29385. passim. Motets for 2 voices (except where the contrary is stated), without accompaniment, in parts. In the hand of John Immyns. 1. ‘Qvi sequitur me.’ ‘Orlando di L...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

34. Add MS 29382-29385

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Add MS 29382-29385
Title:
Part-songs and other compositions, for two, three, and four voices, by William Byrd, John Farmer, Thomas Morley, and other composers
Scope & Content:
Copied by John Immyns. In separate parts. Add MS 29382 contains the canto part. Add MS 29383 contains the alto part. Add MS 29384 contains the tenor part. Add MS 29385 contains the bass part.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
4 volumes

35. Add MS 29386

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Add MS 29386
Title:
A collection of catches, canons, songs, vocal trios, excerpts from oratorios, excerpts from operas, and a duet
Scope & Content:
passim. Catches, Rounds, etc., for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score. Most of them are in the hand of Edmund T. Warren Home; some of them, beginning with no. 4, were 'corrected [in] 1756.' 1. 'Tobacco is but a vapor' (à 4). 'Ed. Nelham.' f. 5. 2. 'Hey ho, what shall I say' (à 9)...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1762?
Extent:
1 volume

36. Add MS 29906

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Add MS 29906
Title:
Giacomo Meyerbeer: Jephta's Gelübde
Scope & Content:
Score and words of 'Jephtas Gelübde, Ernsthafte Oper in drey Aufzügen, gedichtet vom Professor Aloys Schreiber, in Musik gesezt von J[acob] Meyerbeer'. First produced at Munich in 1812. A 'serious opera,' in three acts, for solo voices and chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments for trumpets,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1812
Extent:
1 volume (347 folios)

37. Add MS 29997

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Add MS 29997
Title:
Sketches of musical compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven, including C sharp minor quartet, Op. 131, composed in 1826.
Scope & Content:
Sketches of musical compositions in the hand of Beethoven. The volume may be divided into two portions, of which the former (ff. 2-5) contains what appear to be sketches of the C-sharp minor quartet, op. 131; and the latter, miscellaneous sketches, most of them apparently dating from the end of ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:

1 volume (42 folios)

38. Add MS 30388

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Add MS 30388
Title:
William Crotch: The Captivity of Judah: a sacred oratorio, 1786-1789
Scope & Content:
'The Captivity of Judah': Oratorio in three parts, for solo voices and chorus (single and double), with symphonies and accompaniments for oboes, trumpets, bassoons, strings, drums, and organ, in score, by William Crotch. Autograph. The words were selected by the Rev. Alexander Crowcher Schomberg...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1786-1789
Extent:

1 volume (221 folios)

39. Add MS 30389

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Add MS 30389
Title:
William Crotch: The Captivity of Judah (1812-1834) and 'When these are days of old'. Both performed at Oxford, 10th June, 1834, on the installation of the Duke of Wellington as Chancellor of the University.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-144b. 'The Captivity of Judah': Oratorio in two parts, for solo voices and chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments for trumpets, drums, clarinets, flutes, oboes, horns, bassoons, trombones, strings, and organ, in score, by William Crotch, Mus. Doc. Autograph. Quite different from his ea...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1812-1834
Extent:

1 volume (169 folios)

40. Add MS 30390

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 30390
Title:
William Crotch: Palestine: an oratorio. Original rough score
Scope & Content:
'Palestine': Oratorio, in two parts, for solo voices and chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, clarinets, horns, trumpets, cymbal, trombones, bassoons, drums, strings, organ, and pianoforte or harp, in score, by William Crotch, 'Mus. Doc, Professor of music in the Univers...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1805-1811
Extent:

1 volume (180 folios)