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Reference (shelfmark):: WOOS/35/2
Title:: 'Island Off La-Wa Ada'
Scope & Content:: Comprises the islands of Dolokhtiya and Duren. Portrays coastal outline, survey control points and place names.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1934
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 36
Title:: George Frideric Handel: Aria ‘E troppo bella troppo amorosa la Pastorella’, part of the cantata ‘Ho fuggito Amore anch’io’ (HWV 118), for voice and basso continuo
Scope & Content:: Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of two staves: vocal line in the alto clef and figured bass. In D; tempo direction ‘allegro’ (f. 1r). Annotations by Vincent Novello in the upper margin of f. 1r record that the manuscript formerly belonged to Domenico Dragonetti and attest to its authe...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1st half of the 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (ii + 2 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 39
Title:: Joseph Haydn: Symphony no. 97 in C
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 12 staves. Signed and dated on the title-page (f. 1r): ‘Sinfonia in C / di me giuseppe Haydn m[anu] p[ro]pria London. 792 [line above]’. In four movements, as follows: ff. 1v-13r. ‘Adagio (f. 1v) - Vivace’ (f. 2r). The first page of music (f. ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1792
Extent:: 1 volume (ii + 43 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 43
Title:: Paul Hindemith: Kammermusik no. 2 (Piano Concerto), op. 36, no. 1, for piano and 12 solo instruments: draft of the first and last movements
Scope & Content:: Autograph. The last movement incomplete. In short and condensed score. Written in pencil and ink on systems of two to six staves. No tempo directions. In a small notebook, the two movements written from opposite ends of the volume. At some stage Hindemith wrote in titles for both movements, and ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: [1924]
Extent:: 1 volume (30 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 48
Title:: Ruggero Leoncavallo: ‘Cortège de Pulcinella’, ‘marche humoristique’ for orchestra
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in violet ink on systems of 24 staves. Scored for piccolo, flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, percussion (tambourine, castanets), 3 trombones, tuba, harp and strings. Calligraphic title-page (f.1) in French, perhaps in another han...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: [1903]
Extent:: 1 volume (iii + 12 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 71
Title:: Friedrich Nietzsche: ‘Nachklang einer Sylvesternacht’ for piano duet
Scope & Content:: 1-7 November 1871. Written in dark brown ink on systems of two staves, the two parts on facing pages. Autograph fair copy. Music occupies ff. 2v-13r. Opening tempo direction ‘Langsam’. Title-page (f. 2r): ‘Nachklang einer Sylvesternacht / mit Prozessionslied, Bauerntanz und Mitternachtsglocke / ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: Nov 1871
Extent:: 1 volume (14 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 72
Title:: Jacques Offenbach: ‘La belle Hélène’, operetta in three acts (libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy)
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 15 to 24 staves. With corrections and additions in ink, some on inserted leaves, and a few pencil annotations also in autograph. Repeated passages are usually not entered in full and are instead indicated by numbered or lettered bars. In some nu...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French and German
Date Range:: [1864]
Extent:: 1 volume (iii + 205 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 74
Title:: Maurice Ravel: ‘Boléro’, ballet for orchestra, 1928: version for piano duet
Scope & Content:: Autograph score. Written in ink, on systems of five staves (centre stave blank). Headed ‘Bolero’, with tempo direction ‘Tempo di bolero moderato assai [crotchet] = 76’ (f. 1r). The Secondo part is marked ‘Sordina’ at the beginning, and ‘senza sord.’ two bars after cue no. 4 (f. 2v). There are ma...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French
Date Range:: [1929?]
Extent:: 1 volume (8 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 82
Title:: Franz Schubert: ‘Schlachtlied’ (words F.G. Klopstock) for double male-voice choir (D 912)
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in dark brown ink on systems of eight staves. Tempo direction ‘Nicht zu geschwind, kraftvoll’ (f. 1r). Minor autograph corrections to music and text in ink in a number of places. Title ‘Schlachtlied. Von Klopstock. / Doppel=Chor.’, with date and signature ‘28. Febr....
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 28 Feb 1827
Extent:: 1 volume (ii + 7 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 207
Title:: Sketchbook of Josef Teltscher, including drawings of Beethoven on his deathbed
Scope & Content:: The notebook includes sketches, portraits (with some sitters named) and drawings finished to varying degrees, in pencil, with colour added to some. The items in pencil alone include two views of Beethoven's deathbed, and one very rough sketch of the scene. The notebook is listed in Zweig MS 214 ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1827
Extent:: 1 volume (iii + 25 folios)

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