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1. Add MS 34996-35027

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Add MS 34996-35027
Title:
Wesley Bequest
Scope & Content:
The compositions in Add MS 34997-35011 are almost entirely by Samuel Wesley, and in his handwriting.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
32 items

2. Add MS 34997

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Add MS 34997
Title:
Samuel Wesley: 'Ruth', oratorio
Scope & Content:
'Ruth,' by S[amuel] W[esley]. Autograph. The MS. bears various dates between 8 Sept. and 26 Oct. 1774 (when the composer was only eight years old); and the airs are said to have been composed before he was six. In score, the accompaniments written for trumpets, drums, oboes, violins, violas, vio...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1774
Extent:
1 volume (89 folios)

3. Add MS 35002

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Add MS 35002
Title:
Samuel Wesley: 'Confitebor', motet
Scope & Content:
'Confitebor‘: a work of some magnitude by S[amuel] Wesley, consisting of solos and choruses of 4 and 5 voices, with instrumental symphonies for an orchestra of horns, trumpets, flutes, oboes, bassoons, strings, and drums, in full score. Completed on ‘Aug. 14, 1799.’ On f. 1 is a copy of Dr. Burne...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1799
Extent:
1 volume (186 folios)

4. Add MS 35010

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Add MS 35010
Title:
Overtures by Samuel Wesley
Scope & Content:
The scores and some of the parts are autograph. 1. In D, 1778; for horns, oboes, strings, and organ, in score and parts. f. 1. 2. In C, 1780; for horns and strings, in score and parts. f. 20. 3. In E, about 1834 (watermark); for flutes, oboes, bassoons, trumpets, horns, trombones, drums, and ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1778-c 1834
Extent:
1 volume (111 folios)

5. Add MS 35000

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Add MS 35000
Title:
Samuel Wesley: 'Missa de Spiritu Sancto’
Scope & Content:
'Missa de Spiritu Sancto,’ in C, by S[amuel] Wesley. Autograph. Written for solo voices and chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings, oboes, horns, trumpets, and drums, in full score. The date at the end is May 22, 1784, in which year the Mass was presented to Pope Pius VI. The low...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1784
Extent:
1 volume (234 folios)

6. Add MS 35009

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Add MS 35009
Title:
A collection of concertos by Samuel Wesley
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-79b. Concertos for violin, with horns and strings, and in no. 3 for oboes also, by Samuel Wesley; 1781-1812 (watermark). Autograph. No. 5 has a bass for the organ. 1. In D, 1781. Four string and 2 horn parts (for score see 35008, f. 83). f. 1. 2. In B flat, 1782. In score (for parts see 35...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1781-1815
Extent:
1 volume (200 folios)

7. Add MS 35004

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Add MS 35004
Title:
Samuel Wesley: 'An Ode to St. Cecilia'
Scope & Content:
'An Ode to St Cecilia. The Words written By the Revd Samuel Wesley, A.M., Rector of Epwoath (sc. Epworth, co. Line), and set to Music by his Grandson, Samuel Wesley.' Composed for solo voices and 4-part chorus with accompaniments for flutes, oboes, horns, trumpets, drums, and strings, and occasio...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1836
Extent:
1 volume (145 folios)

8. Add MS 35006

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Add MS 35006
Title:
Samuel Wesley: pianoforte pieces, chants and an anthem
Scope & Content:
passim. Pianoforte pieces in the hand of Samuel Wesley, by whom they were given to his daughter Eliza a few months before his death. All the compositions not otherwise described are either original works or arrangements of the transcriber's. 1. Introduction and Fugue in G. f. 2. 2. Others, in D ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1837
Extent:
1 volume (47 folios)

9. Add MS 35012

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Scope & Content:
ORIGINAL PAPERS of Samuel Wesley to his mother (1776- 1812) and his wife (1810-1830), with a few to his children, his sister Sarah and his brother Charles; 1773-1830. At f. 108 is a prayer in his handwriting upon entering the house at Pentonville where he subsequently died. Paper; ff. 122. Quart...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1773-1830
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 35014-35015

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Add MS 35014-35015
Title:
LECTURES on musical subjects by Samuel Wesley. Autograph. The lecturers have been so much altered from their original form that it is impossible to say when or where many of them were first delivered. Two volumes. Paper; ff. 176, 262. Quarto and Folio.
Scope & Content:
Samuel Wesley, composer and organist: Lectures: 1811-1830.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1811-1830
Extent:
2 items