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Subject Violin and pianoforte duets

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 5337

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Add MS 5337
Title:
A collection of incidental music from operas, madrigals, sonatas, catches, glees, a duet from an oratorio and a canon
Scope & Content:
The contents of this MS. are in different hands. ff. 1-42. Incidental music, by Henry Purcell, in score; early 18th cent. The symphonies are written for flutes, oboes, strings, etc., and, in the case of no. 2, for trumpets also. 1. [The Masque in] 'Timon of Athens' [1694]. f. 1. 2. 'The Musick ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. 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

4. Add MS 29801

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Add MS 29801
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

5. Add MS 30272

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Add MS 30272
Title:
Collection of dance tunes and airs, etc., for flute or violin, in the hand, and most of them the composition of, J. B. Crotch.
Scope & Content:
Passim. 'Collection of . . . Minuets, Strathspeys, Reels, Hornpipes, and other Dance-tunes, etc., for Flute or Violin, in the autograph of . . . J. B. Crotch [see f. 4b], with . . . others added [at the end], but not composed by him 1779 [? 1799, see below]-1802. This volume formed the 2nd book ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1799-1802
Extent:
1 volume (49 folios)

6. Add MS 31531

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Add MS 31531
Title:
Solos or Sonatas 'For a Violin and a Base Viol or Harpsichord,' with the bass figured for the latter instrument, in score, by John Christopher Pepusch.
Scope & Content:
Vol. I. ff. 66. Early xviiith cent. Solos or Sonatas 'For a Violin and a Base Viol or Harpsichord,' with the bass figured for the latter instrument, in score, by John Christopher Pepusch. There are three sets of sixteen pieces, each consisting of four movements, of which the first and third are...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
early 18th century
Extent:
1 of two volumes (66 folios)

7. Add MS 31532

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Add MS 31532
Title:
Solos or Sonatas 'For a Violin and a Base Viol or Harpsichord,' with the bass figured for the latter instrument, in score, by John Christopher Pepusch.
Scope & Content:
Vol. II. ff. 33. Early xviiith cent. Solos or Sonatas 'For a Violin and a Base Viol or Harpsichord,' with the bass figured for the latter instrument, in score, by John Christopher Pepusch. There are three sets of sixteen pieces, each consisting of four movements, of which the first and third ar...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 of two volumes (33 folios)

8. Add MS 31993

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Add MS 31993
Title:
A collection of songs, duets, operatic songs, and compositions for violin and harpsichord
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-5b, 84b-79b (reversed). Single parts, mostly figured basses, but a few treble parts also, of compositions apparently written for a violin with harpsichord accompaniment, including (f. 83b) a Sonata by Carolo Ambrosio, or Ambrogio, Gigues, etc.; early 18th cent. The compositions on ff. 1-5b...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (84 folios)

9. Add MS 32039-32045

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Add MS 32039-32045
Title:
Compositions of Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, grandson of J. S. Bach.
Scope & Content:
Autograph.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
7 volumes

10. Add MS 32043

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Add MS 32043
Title:
A collection of compositions by Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-20. Five movements in various keys at the beginning of which is written 'Divertimento per 4 mani. W. [Friedrich Ernst] Bach.' Whether the title refers to the whole, or only to the first two movements, is not certain. They are Allegro assai and Andante with Variations in F. ff. lb, 5b; — Al...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (81 folios)