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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
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 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
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 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
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 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
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 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
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 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
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 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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- Add MS 35012
- Title:
- 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
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 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