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91. Add MS 17785

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Title:
A collection of compositions, including: cantatas, and other pieces, for the voice, and single instruments, and from operas, with accompaniments, by named and anonymous French authors
Scope & Content:
Airs (and other numbers indicated below) from French Operas. Except where the contrary is stated, they are by Jean Baptiste Lully, and unaccompanied. The bass, where given, is usually figured. 1. 'Ritournelle' for 2 violins, with a figured bass. f. 21. 2. 'Poursuivons jusqu'au trépas': duet ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1737
Extent:
1 volume (213 folios)

92. Add MS 17991

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Collection of 17th century compositions in English and French.
Scope & Content:
'Chansons à danser, à boire,' etc. Anonymous. Unless the contrary is stated, the melody only is given, without accompaniment. 1. 'C'est trop courir les eaux.' f. 3. 2. 'Entre les roses et les soucis.' f. 5b. 3. 'C'est Anne si belle ': ballet, f. 12b. 4. 'Permettez moy de mourir.' f. 40b. 5. 'Sou...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1620-1621
Extent:
1 volume (65 folios)

93. Add MS 18990

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Add MS 18990
Title:
Album Amicorum of Libertus Opstraet van der Moelen, of Utrecht; containing inscriptions with coloured arms, and paintings of flowers, etc., 1628-1634. Dispersed through the volume are French songs, with music notation, seemingly written by the owner of the volume
Scope & Content:
The musical contents of the volume are described below. Superius and (in nos. 1-4) bassus parts of the following unaccompanied compositions, apparently in the hand of, and composed by, Libertus Opstraet van der Moelen, of Utrecht. 1. 'Ach! ach!...fiere mort.' ff. 8b, 30b. 2. 'De quelle ingrate...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and French
Date Range:
1628-1634
Extent:
1 volume (30 folios)

94. Add MS 19269

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Add MS 19269
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Collections formed by Joseph Haslewood for the work privately printed in 1817 intitled Lyrical Gleanings, comprising madrigals, odes, songs, and sonnets, "chiefly by anonymous writers of the 16th and 17th centuries". The collections consist principally of the titles of works, with pieces extracted from them.
Scope & Content:
Includes: ff. 52, 107, 141b. Words of portions of three masques, namely: — 1. 'A Pleasant Comedie, called 'Wily Beguilde' ... printed by H. L. for Clement Knight... 1606.' ff. 52-53b. 2. 'Woo her and win her'; from 'The Lord's mask.' 'Thomas Campion,' 1613. f. 107. 3. Air (Tritonides), begins '...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1817
Extent:
1 volume

95. Add MS 19647

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Title:
Songs in full score, composed for Vauxhall Gardens, by James Hook.
Scope & Content:
Songs, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings and other instruments mentioned below, in score, written by J[ames] Hook for Vauxhall. Autograph. 1. 'To sing about love I know is the plan'; with oboes, horns, bassoons, etc., 1786. f. 27. 2. 'Farewell, ambitious, gilded Toys'; written for '...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1785-1798
Extent:
1 volume (108 folios)

96. Add MS 19648

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Add MS 19648
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Collection of 19th-century compositions predominently for voice, by Franz Joseph Haydn, D. Bruguier, Thomas Brewer, W. H. Cutler, and anonymous.
Scope & Content:
ff. 2, 7. Canzonets, originally written for a single voice, by Franz Joseph Haydn, harmonized for 3 voices, with pianoforte accompaniment, in score, by D. Bruguier. 1. 'Despair,' begins 'The anguish of my bursting heart.' f. 2. 2. 'Fidelity,' begins 'While hollow burst the rushing winds.' f. 7. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1810-1833
Extent:
1 volume (46 folios)

97. Add MS 19759

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Title:
Collection of compositions, mostly without accompaniment, by various authors, including: Purcell, Hart, Banister, Turner, and other composers of the latter part of the 17th century.
Scope & Content:
Songs without accompaniments. Anonymous, unless the contrary is stated. 1. 'Love you by all that's good.' f. 2. 2. 'I bring thee, ô thou charming Fair.' '[James (?)] Hart.' f. 2b. 3. 'Let's loue and let's laugh.' '[J.] Banister.' f. 3. 4. 'I loue and am lou'd.' f. 3. 5. 'To Cloris what I did pre...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jun 1681
Extent:
1 volume (46 folios)

98. Add MS 21464

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Add MS 21464
Title:
Late 18th-century orchestral parts containing music composed by Ambrogio Minoja.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-64, 78-115 Single parts of four compositions, of which the first is described as 'Sinfonia da più Stromenti ob[bliga]ti,' by Ambrogio Minoja. The orchestra is composed of 2 oboes (obbligati in nos. 1 and 4), 2 horns (obbligati in no. 4), 2 violins, viola (obbligata in nos. 1, 2, 4), and ba...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 volume (115 folios)

99. Add MS 22099

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Add MS 22099
Title:
Collection of sacred and secular compositions, including hymns and catches for voice, and incidental music, and an arrangement by Henry Purcell for Queen Mary’s birthday in 1693; predominantly by English and Italian composers.
Scope & Content:
Short pieces on two staves, apparently written, or arranged, for Harpsichord. Several of them are in A Choice Collection of Ayres for the Harpsichord, 1700. [about 1704-1707.]. 1. Movement from 'Sonata 12' (the last of the set published in 1683). 'H. Purcel.' f. 2. 2. Prelude in A minor. 'Lock.'...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
late 17th century-early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (90 folios)

100. Add MS 22104

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Add MS 22104
Title:
Italian compositions by Giovanni Bononcini and Alessandro Scarlatti.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-84. Cantatas, etc., with accompaniments for strings (unless the contrary is stated), and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score. No. 1 was written at Rome in 1700. 1. 'La Luccioletta,' begins 'Mentre il suo caro gregge' 'Priore Pacieri' f. 1. 2. 'Mentre Clori'; with flutes. Anonymous. f....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1700
Extent:
1 volume (133 folios)

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