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141. Add MS 29963

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Cantatas by Giovanni Battista Buononcini, Mare Antonio Buononcini, Agostino Steffani, Baron Emanuele d'Astorga, Francesco Mancini, Alessandro Scarlatti, and Francesco Gasparini
Scope & Content:
Cantatas, etc., with a bass (generally figured) for harpsichord and occasionally accompaniments for other instruments (where indicated below), in score. Unless the contrary is stated, they are for a soprano voice and anonymous. Of the first eleven numbers, ascribed to 'Bononcini,' nos. 5, 7 and ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1st half of 18th century
Extent:

1 volume (136 folios)

142. Add MS 29987

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Madrigals, ballads, and motets by Italian composers (mainly anonymous), including: Jacobus de Bolonia. Johannes de Florentia. Franciscus de Florentia. Frater Bartolinus de Padova. Giovanni de Chascina. Ser Lorenzo, prete di Firenze Ser Gheradello. Bonavitus Corsini, pitor. Frate Andrea de ser Vi. Donato da Chascina. Frate Vincenzo. Nicholo del Proposto. Frate Guigliemo di S. Spirito. Francescho degli Organni. Don Paghollo. Rosso de Chollegrana.
Scope & Content:
ff. 2b-69b passim. 'Madriali,' 'Ballate,' 'Cacce,' etc., by little-known Italian composers of the 14th century. There are similar collections in the Biblioteca Laurenziana at Florence (87) and in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris. Unless the contrary is stated, the compositions are for 2 voice...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-16th century
Extent:

1 volume (88 folios)

143. Add MS 29997

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Sketches of musical compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven, including C sharp minor quartet, Op. 131, composed in 1826.
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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)

144. Add MS 29999

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ORIGINAL letters, etc., of musical composers and singers; 1780-1858:- 1. Franz Peter Schubert: Song, 'Idens Nachtgesang'; 7 July, 1815. Begins 'Vernimm es, Nacht, was Ida dir vertrauet,' with pianoforte accompaniment, in score. Autograph. The words are by [Ludwig Theobulus] Kosegarten. f. 2. 2. Lines, " Klopstock," by Johann Heinrich Rolle, director of music at Magdeburg; 20 Aug. 1780. Germ. f. 3. 3. Friedrich Rochlitz to -; Leipzig, 14 Oct. [180]5. Germ. f. 4. 4. Ferdinand Ries to C...
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William Holland: Letters to, from musicians: 19th cent. Music: Letters of musical composers: 1780-1858. includes: f. 2 Franz Peter Schubert, composer: Idens Nachtgesang. 1815. f. 3 Johann Heinrich Rolle, Director of Music at Heidelberg: Verses by: 1780. f. 4 Friedrich Rochlitz: Letter to 1805...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1780-1858
Extent:

1 volume

145. Add MS 30016-30021

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Collection of madrigals by John Wilbye, Thomas Weelkes, William Byrd, Giovan Ferretti, Alfonso Ferrabosco, Luca Marenzio, Gianetto Palestina, Orlando di Lasso, Giovan Battista Pinello, Giovanni Petraloysio Prenestino and other composers of the 16th and 17th centuries, for three, four, five, and six voices, the parts being bound in separate volumes.
Scope & Content:
Madrigals for 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices, in parts, with English words, from collections published in England, 1588-1609. In 6 volumes, containing respectively cantus i, cantus ii, altus, tenor i, tenor ii, and bassus. Copied by W. Clark in 1800. Nos. 1-44 are for 6 voices, nos. 45-116 for 5 voices...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1800
Extent:
6 volumes (62, 60, 64, 51, 35, 16 folios)

146. Add MS 30148

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Hortense Eugénie Cécile Bonaparte: Songs and three-part songs with pianoforte accompaniment
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ff. 2b-17. Songs, with pianoforte accompaniment, in score, by Hortense Bonaparte, wife of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland. Nos. 1-12 are included, in almost exactly the same order, in the 'Romances Mises en Musique par S[a] M[ajesté] L[a] R[eine] H[ortense]', which appears (from the date on som...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:

1 volume (22 folios)

147. Add MS 30245

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'The poet's song to his wife, by Barry Cornwall, Esq. [Bryan Waller Procter]: the music composed and dedicated to Mrs. Procter by the Chev. Sigismond Neukomm'. London, 20 July, 1831.
Scope & Content:
'How many Summers, love, have I been thine'; with pianoforte accompaniment, in score, by Sigismund Neukomm. Dedicated to Mrs. Procter, wife of Bryan Waller Procter, alias Barry Cornwall, the author of the words. Autograph.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jul 1831
Extent:

1 volume (4 folios)

148. Add MS 30246

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Selected vocal pieces, in score, by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini. Autograph.
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ff. 1-6b. 'Dall' Oriente'; for treble, 2 tenors, and a bass, with pianoforte accompaniment, in score, by Rossini. Autograph. 1823. Dedicated to the Countess Sant' Antonio. ff. 7-1 3b. Song ['Il pianto delle Muse in morte di Lord Byron,' 1824], for a tenor voice, with a sextet (? Muses) and 3-pa...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1st half of 19th century
Extent:

1 volume (27 folios)

149. Add MS 30310

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Compositions by George Frederic Handel, in full score. Autograph.
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ff. 2-12b. Cantata, begins 'Lungi dal mio bel Nume'; for a treble voice, with a figured bass for harpsichord, in score. [By Handel.] 'Roma. Il dì 3 di Marzzo, 1708.' Autograph. No. 25 of the Händel-Gesellschaft's edition of the Cantatas. HWV 127a. At f. 8 begins a transcript of the song in a lat...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

1 volume (62 folios)

150. Add MS 30382

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Anthems and songs collected, and many of them composed, by Henry Bowman. The names of the other composers are Johann Felice Sances, P. Nadal Monferrato, Richard Deering, Giovanni Giacoppo Carissimi, Maria Marini, - Cassati, John Blow, Henry Purcell Giovanni Rovetta, - Silvestro, Michael Wise, and Henry Lawes.
Scope & Content:
Passim. Anthems for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score, viz.1. ['Awake up, my glory']: the end only. M. Wise. f. 2. 2. 'Wake sleeping ones': a Dialogue between the Angel and the Soul; with chorus. 'H[enry] B[owman].' Autograph. f. 43b. 3. ''Sing vnto the Lord, O yee Saints': fune...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1680-1686
Extent:

1 volume (94 folios)

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