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71. Add MS 32674-32676

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Title:
Selections from operas and two oratorios chiefly by Italian composers of the second half of the 18th century
Scope & Content:
Selections from operas and two oratorios, chiefly by Italian composers of the second half of the 18th century, with symphonies and accompaniments for horns, oboes, strings, and other instruments mentioned below, in score. Unless the contrary is stated, they are for a single voice. In three volum...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 19th century
Extent:
3 volumes (140, 173, 191 folios)

72. Add MS 32675

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Title:
Selections from operas and two oratorios chiefly by Italian composers of the second half of the 18th century. Volume 2.
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Selections from operas:1. 'Ah, se t' amo'; with flutes instead of oboes. From 'La Felicita Inaspettata' [1791]. 'Domenico Cimarosa.' f. 12. 2. 'Se cerca, se dice'; with bassoons, etc. From 'Olimpiade' [1784]. By the same. ff. 22-45b. 3. 'Sposo amato': duettino, from 'La Conte' (sc. 'Laoconte,' 1...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 19th century
Extent:

1 volume (173 folios)

73. Add MS 32677

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Two parts of an anonymous French 18th century vocal composition. - Violin sonata by Felice Giardini (op. 16). - Overture to Solomon by William Boyce, arranged for pianoforte. - Treatise on the organ by August Wilhelm Bach, 1826. - Music on a bell at Great St Mary's, Oxford, in four parts, 1612.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-3. A Sacred composition with Latin words, consisting of a prelude and at least 7 vocal numbers, of which the first begins with the words ‘Parce mihi, Domine,’ the fifth is a duet, and the last a trio. The accompaniments are apparently for strings. 18th century. The composer's name is not g...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:

1 volume (64 folios)

74. Add MS 33229

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Title:
Emilio del Cavalieri: Rappresentazione di Anima e di Corpo. Oratorio.
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'Rappresentazione di Anima e di Corpo nuovamente posta in Musica dal Sige Emilio del Cavalliere per recitar cantando; data in Nice da Alessandro Guidotti Bolognese . . . Roma. Appresso Nicolo Mutij . . . MDC.' Transcribed, together with the dedication, proemio, etc., in 1886, for the donor, from...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1886
Extent:

1 volume (54 folios)

75. Add MS 33351

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A collection of songs, duets, and trios by Dr. Thomas Augustine Arne, Corbet [? William Corbett], Dr. Samuel Howard, John Stanley, Daniel Purcell, Michael Wise, John Eccles, Richard Leveridge, - Monro, J- Barker, Henry Carey, and several other anonymous composers. Interspersed are also several songs without music, including versions of 'God save the King', beginning with the words 'Fame let thy Trumpet sound' (f. 30), and of 'Rule Britannia' (f. 29-b) ; also some verses spoken on the death o...
Scope & Content:
ff. 1b, 5b, 6. Three numbers from Dr. William Boyce's 'Solomon'; without accompaniment.1. Recit. and air, 'How lovely art thou.' f. lb. 2. Air, 'On his Face the vernal Rose.' f. 5b. 3. Recit. and air, 'Who quits the Lilly's fleecy white.' f. 6. ff. 2b-63b passim. Collection of Songs, etc., app...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

1 volume (68 folios)

76. Add MS 33568

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Anthems, hymns and other sacred vocal music by John Smith, Joseph Stephenson, Jeremiah Clark, John Knapp, John Church, James Hawkins, Robert Barber, John Bishop, Maurice Greene, Aaron (?) Williams, Handel (" Zadok the Priest "), James Green, William Cole, John Weldon, Henry Purcell, Dr. Edward Miller of Doncaster, and others (anonymous).
Scope & Content:
ff. 3-87v. Anthems in score, most of them without accompaniment. About 1768 (see f. 1). 1. 'Lord, thou art become gracious' (verse). 'J. Smith.' f. 3. 2. 'O all ye nations of the world' (verse). By the same. f. 6. 3. 'Behold, I bring you glad tidings' (verse). 'Stephenson.' f. 6b. 4. 'Blessed i...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1768-c 1834
Extent:

1 volume (94 folios)

77. Add MS 33571

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Title:
Overture to 'St. Paul', by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, in full score
Scope & Content:
Overture to 'Paulus' (sc. 'St. Paul'), for flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, trumpets, trombones, serpent, drums, and strings, in full score. Composed [in 1836] by F. M[endelssohn]-Bartholdy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

1 volume (20 folios)

78. Add MS 34006

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Title:
George Frideric Handel: Deborah. Oratorio in three parts.
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'Deborah': Oratorio in three parts, for solo voices and 8-part chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments for trumpets, horns, flutes, oboes, bassoons, drums, strings, organ, and harpsichord, in score, by George Frederic Handel, transcribed by [John Christopher] Smith from the original. It corre...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1733
Extent:
1 volume (ff. 163)

79. Add MS 34074-34076

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Three-part compositions for two violins and a bass, with some vocal music, by eighteenth century composers, in three part-books (2 violins and a bass part). Additional sonatas and other pieces appear in the first two volumes only, and two vocal pieces in the third volume only.
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Passim. Compositions for 2 violins and a bass, in parts. Anonymous, unless the contrary is stated.1. Sonata [No. 2 of Twelve Trios for two Violins and a bass, 1747]. 'Boyce.' i, ii, f. 2; iii, f. 1. 2, 3. Two Marches in F. '[John] Valentine, of Leicester.' i, ii, f. 3; iii, f. 2. 4. Sonata, appa...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
3 volumes (35, 32, 16 folios)

80. Add MS 34182

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Title:
An oratorio, a chorus, and a composition for pianoforte, by Franz Liszt
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-105. 'Christus': Oratorio in three parts, for solo voices (Christus, Mary Magdalene, etc.), and choruses of from 4 to 10 voices (Disciples, Women of Jerusalem, etc.), with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes (piccolo, etc.), oboes, clarinets, horns (English, etc.), trumpets, trombones...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1863-1877
Extent:
1 volume