'Surge, amica‘: ‘mottetto a due cori obligati,’ with symphonies and accompaniments, for oboes, horns, trumpets and strings, and a figured bass for organ, in score, by [Pasquale] Cafaro.
'Partenope': opera in 3 acts, with symphonies and accompaniments for oboes and strings, and occasionally trumpets and drums, in score, by Leonardo Vinci(?). The signature on f. 2 is not easily legible, but the date of this composer's 'Partenope' (1723) appears to suit the present MS, and no one ...
ff. 1-53. 'Messa per i Defonti,' in E flat; for 4 voices, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings, and a figured bass for organ, in score, composed at Wittemberg in 1756 by Nicolò Jommelli. ff. 54-105b. Mass in D, for 4 voices, with symphonies and accompaniments for oboes, horns, and str...
'Il Girello': opera in 3 acts, the words by Cavaliere Filippa Acciaioli, the music by Giacomo Melani; with an introductory sinfonia, ritornellos, and accompaniments for strings and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score. Characters: Plutone, Proserpina, Vendetta, and Inganno (in the Prologue);...
Collection of twenty-two Italian Cantatas, with a figured bass for harpsichord, in score. Here attributed to Steffani, but really (as indicated by a note at the beginning, in the hand of M. Rophino Lacy 1856), by Handel; with the exception of the last, which is by Domenico Scarlatti, and possibly...
'La Rosaura: melodrama' in 3 Acts, with instrumental symphonies and accompaniments, in score, by Alessandro Scarlatti [1690]. {The same work as that in Add MS 31513 but} The present MS wants the introductory symphony and prologue as well as the scene with which Add MS 31513 ends; on the other han...
Two Oratorios in two parts, written for solo voices with instrumental accompaniment, in score, by Giovanni Battista de Orchis. Autograph. 1. 'Oratorio sacro del Glorioso S. Gaetano'; with trumpets, oboes, etc. The characters are:— Genio Celeste, Speranza, Roma, S. Gaetano, and Genio Maligno. f....
Duets, with a figured bass for harpsichord, in score, by Giovanni Bononcini. 1. 'Chi d' Amor tra le catene.' f. 1. 2. 'Il nume d' Amore.' f. 6. 3. 'Se bella son lo.' f. 10. 4. 'Bellezza fedele.' f. 13b. 5. 'Quanto è cara la libertà.' f. 16b. 6. 'Prigionier d' un bel sembiante.' f. 22. 7. 'Sempre...