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Subject Organ solos

1. Add MS 5319-5337

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Add MS 5319-5337
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 5336

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Add MS 5336
Title:
A collection of catches, canons, madrigals, vocal trios, vocal quartets, and some organ voluntaries
Scope & Content:
passim. Rounds and Catches. Nos. 1-9, 12, 13, 16, 18, 24, 31, 34, 36, and 38 are for 4 voices; the others for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated). Nos. 1-19, 21-31, are in score, and are taken from three works by Thomas Ravenscroft, viz.: — (1609), (1609), and (1611). 1, 2. 'Trole the bo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (46 folios)

3. Add MS 11581-11591

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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

4. Add MS 11588

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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

5. Add MS 14247

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Add MS 14247
Title:
Versetti for organ, by Carmine Giordano
Scope & Content:
Versetti for organ, by Carmine Giordano, who was a student of Gennaro Ursino and Nicola Fago and trained at the Conservatorio della Pietà de Turchini in Naples. Written on two staves of 5 lines. Arranged according to keys in sets of sixteen and (nos. 33-49) seventeen pieces. 1-16. In D minor, f...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (49 folios)

6. Add MS 14248

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Add MS 14248
Title:
A collection of solos for the harpsichord, as well as a piece for the organ, a duet and a quartet.
Scope & Content:
Suites, sonatas, etc., for the harpsichord, several of them transcribed in about 1731-1732 etc. 1. Movement in G. '[A.] Scarlatti.' f. 1. 2. Adagio, Presto, and Gigue; in C minor. 'Durante.' f. 2b. 3. Movement in A minor. 'Durante.' f. 4b. 4. Fugue in F. Anonymous. f. 6. 5. Spiritoso in C minor....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1st half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 14335

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Add MS 14335
Title:
Collection of compositions for the organ, in the hand of Samuel Webbe
Scope & Content:
Collection of compositions — original and otherwise — for Organ, made by, and for the most part in the hand of, Samuel Webbe, sen., who is probably the author of most of the anonymous ones. 1. All[egr]o [from concerto in F, op. 4, no. 4]. This and nos. 2-4 are by Handel. f. 2b. 2. Piece withou...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1768?-1799?
Extent:
1 volume (119 folios)

8. Add MS 14340

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Add MS 14340
Title:
A collection of motets, graces, sacred songs, hymns, glees, a secular song, a vocal trio, an organ duet, an organ solo, a string quartet
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-36 passim. Motets, etc., for 4 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score, by S[amuel] Wesley; 1798-1814. Autograph. 1. ‘Anima nostra erepta est’: antiphon for 5 voices, with ad libitum accompaniment for the organ, f. 2. 2. ‘Levate capita vestra.’ ‘1798.’ f. 7. 3. ‘Constitues eos pri...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1788-1814
Extent:
1 volume

9. Add MS 14396

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Add MS 14396
Title:
A collection of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Xaver Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn and Sigismond Neukomm.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-13v. Franz Xaver Mozart: "Ich bin der erste Buffo", op. 13. Aria, with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, horns, clarinets, drums, and strings, in score, composed in 1808 for a private performance of his father's "Der Schauspieldirektor." Autograph. It was written for the com...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:

1 volume

10. Add MS 15233

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Add MS 15233
Title:
Volume of music, plays, religious songs and poems, possibly connected with St Mary-at-Hill, Billingsgate
Scope & Content:
A manuscript containing organ music, the incomplete text of John Redford's The Play of Wyt and Science (c. 1540), and religious songs and poems. Several leaves (including the first seven) are missing. ff. 1-10: John Redford (Master of the singing boys at St Paul's School), Organ fantasias, writ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1555
Extent:
1 volume