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Subject Vocal duets

1. Add MS 37025

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Add MS 37025
Title:
Collection of French Vaudevilles, Duets, Trios and other dancing songs, in score.
Scope & Content:
passim. 'Recueil de Vaudeuilles..., Brunet[t]es, et Chansonettes a Danser. Et autres, fort divertissants. 1728.' Unaccompanied and anonymous. Nos. 1 and 2 are for a bass voice; the others for a treble. 1. 'Vaste mer.' f. 2. 2. 'Ruisseau, combien de fois.' f. 4b. 3. 'Des grandeurs la suite import...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1728
Extent:
1 volume (125 folios)

2. Add MS 37074

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Add MS 37074
Title:
Collection of vocal and instrumental compositions, in score, probably by Reverend Robert Creyghton.
Scope & Content:
ff. 4-6b Series of seven short unnamed pieces for Lute, apparently in the hand of the Rev. Robert Creyghton, D.D., who has signed four with his initials, and added the date 1727 on the first and the last pages. ff. 7-8b. 'Hark! How ye pleasant thunder-tempest sounds'; with a bass for harpsicho...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:
1727
Extent:
1 volume (101 folios)

3. Add MS 37267

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Add MS 37267
Title:
Duets and Canons, in score, by Giuseppe Aprile; and an Operatic fragment by Ferdinando Bertoni.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-52 passim. 'Dodici Divertimenti Notturni'; for 2 female voices, with a bass for harpsichord, in score, by Giuseppe Aprile, 1776. 1. 'Soffri che in traccia almeno di mia perduta pace.' f. 2b. 2. 'Io fra remote sponde.' f. 6. 3. 'Ecco, dirò quel fonte.' This and nos. 4-6 have English words f...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1762-1776
Extent:
1 volume (53 folios)

4. Stowe MS 1081

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Stowe MS 1081
Title:
Twelve ink drawings of persons and groups, elaborately executed by a French artist, generally without removing the pen from the surface. Opposite each drawing are one or more anonymous French songs for voice with a bass for harpsichord, in score. On the covers are two similar figures cut out of the upper vellum skin with a penknife.
Scope & Content:
The first six songs are described as 'Airs,' the others as 'Chansons à boire, à dancer,' etc. 'Philis, quel destin dois-ie suiure.' f. 4. 'Me veux tu voir mourir ' (cf. Add MS 17991, f. 47b, the date of which is about 1620-1621). f. 5b. 'Source des plus aymables charmes.' f. 8. 'Puisque ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (32 folios)