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131. Add MS 29386

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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

132. Add MS 29387

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Title:
A song and a canon
Scope & Content:
1. 'Auld Robin Gray,' begins 'Young Jamie lou'd me weel'; with a bass for pianoforte, in score. {The words are attributed to} Rev. W[illiam] Leeves, Rector of Wrington, co. Somerset; about 1818 (watermark). Autograph. The MS was enclosed in a letter, dated 1834, from Andrew Loder, organist of As...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

133. Add MS 29396

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Add MS 29396
Title:
A collection, mostly of English songs
Scope & Content:
passim. Songs, with a bass (unless the contrary is stated), for harpsichord, in score. Those marked with an asterisk appear for the first time in Playford's , 1652. Almost the whole of the MS is in the hand of Edward Lowe, organist of the Chapel Royal (1661-1682), who added the bass to some of t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1678?-1682?
Extent:
1 volume

134. Add MS 29397

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Add MS 29397
Title:
A collection, largely of songs, duets and catches
Scope & Content:
passim. Songs for the most part unaccompanied, but occasionally with a bass for harpsichord, in score. Many are taken from John Playford's , 1673-1683, the , 1685, and other collections of that period. See indices by Thomas Oliphant at the beginning and end of the volume. 1. 'The bright Clarinda...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1682?-1690?
Extent:
1 volume

135. Add MS 29430

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Title:
Church music by Benjamin Rogers, Orlando Gibbons, and Elway Bevin; with an anthem, 'My song shall be always', by Henry Purcell.
Scope & Content:
ff. l-58b. Whole Services, in parts; ff. 34-41 are in a different – probably earlier – hand from the rest of the MS.1. In D. (Te Deum, Jubilate, Kyrie, Creed, Sanctus, Magnificat, and Nunc Dimittis.) For 8 voices (4 Decani and 4 Cantoris). 'Ben. Rogers.' ff. 1-33b. 2. In F. Two tenor (Decani) pa...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume

136. Add MS 29481

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Add MS 29481
Title:
English songs, psalms and anthems, 17th century
Scope & Content:
f. 2. Letters on a 6-line stave, said to be for 'Consort'-tuning. ff. 2-26 passim. Songs or sonnets, with a bass (unless the contrary is stated), in score. Anonymous. {See J. Cutts, 'Music and Letters', Oct 1952} 1. 'Sleep, waiward thoughts.' [From J. Dowland, in , 1597.] f. 2. 2. 'O let vs how...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:

1 volume

137. Add MS 29484

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Title:
Twenty eight cantatas for one voice, with basso continuo, to Italian words, by George Frederic Händel, Nicola Porpora, Francesco Mancini, Benedetto Marcello, and Giovanni Giorgi
Scope & Content:
Italian cantatas in score, by Nicola Porpora (ff. 1-18), Francesco Mancini (f. 19), Benedetto Marcello (ff. 27-34b), Giovanni Giorgi (ff. 34 b-45), and George Frideric Handel (ff. 45b-49).Except where the contrary is stated, they are written for a soprano voice, with bass only (occasionally figu...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
First half of the 18th century
Extent:

1 volume (96 folios)

138. Add MS 29801

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Title:
Two sketch-books of musical compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven, containing the first ideas and rough notes of many of his completed works. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-37. 'Beethoven. Skizzenbuch. B': consisting almost exclusively of 'Skizzen zu den 'Ruinen von Athen,' with a few (ff. 11, 11b) 'zu 'König Stephan.' Both these works were produced at Pesth, 9 February, 1812. Three leaves have been lost. About 1811].{c.f. letter of Dr. F. Kaiser (18/6/1962; ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
c 1781-1811
Extent:
1 volume

139. Add MS 29803

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Add MS 29803
Title:
Cadenza by Beethoven, Canzonetta by Rossini, and Nocturne by Johann Nepomuk Kafka
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-2b. Cadenza [by Beethoven] to the rondo in Mozart's pianoforte concerto in D minor [No. 466 in Köchel's Catalogue]. Autograph. Followed by Breitkopf und Härtel's printed edition of the same. f. 5. 'Mi lagnerò tacendo della mia sorte': Canzonetta, apparently no. 10 of a series by Rossini,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German and Italian
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

1 volume

140. Add MS 29962

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Add MS 29962
Title:
Six sonatas da Cembalo by Benedetto Marcello; with cantatas and arias by the same, and by Antonio Biffi, Nicola Porpora, Giovanni Porta and Tomaso Albinoni.
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-33b. Six solos for Harpsichord, in score, by Benedetto Marcello. Nos. 1 and 3-6 are Sonatas, most of them in three movements, of which the only ones named are an Adagio and two Largos. Early 18th century.1. In C minor. f. 2. 2. Minuet, with variations. f. 10. 3. In D minor. f. 18. 4. In D....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

1 volume (70 folios)

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