Add MS 33570

ff. 1-138. The Music in the following dramatic works for solo voices and 4-part chorus, with trumpets, horns, clarinets, flutes, oboes, bassoons, drums, trombones, and strings, and also (in nos. 1, 2) harp and bells, in score, by Sir Henry Rowley Bishop. Other instruments employed are mentioned below. 1828 (watermark).1. 'Fortunatus and his Sons' [1819]. f. 1. 2. 'A Roland for an Oliver' [1819]. Characters: Maria, Mrs. Selborne, Sir Mark, etc. f. 73. 3. 'Henry 4th' {Part II}; altered by the composer for performance at the time of the Coronation of George IV. in 1821; with serbano or serbino, sc. serpent, etc. At the beginning is a list of music by Cherubini, Haydn, and Handel, performed between the Acts. f. 94.

ff. 139, 172. Overture in D, composed for the Coronation of Charles X. [1825], by Sir Henry Rowley Bishop. Written for two bands (in separate scores); one consisting of drums, trombones, trumpets, horns, clarinets, flutes, oboes, bassoons, and strings; the other (a military band, behind the curtain), of drums, cymbals, triangle, trombones, trumpets, horns, flutes, clarinets, bassoons, serpano (serpent), and bass horn.

ff. 184-210. 'Years have past, fair Waterloo'; for solo voices and 4-part chorus, with trumpets, horns, clarinets, flutes, oboes, bassoons and strings, in score, and a separate score for drums and trombones, by Sir H. R. Bishop. {Sung at Vauxhall Gardens in 1826.}

ff. 211-216b. 'To arms, to arms; and banners wave'; arranged from the 'National air of the Greeks' for 4-part chorus and solos, with symphonies and accompaniments for drums, trumpets, horns, clarinets, flutes, oboes, bassoons, and strings, in score, and a separate score for trombones, apparently by Sir H. R. Bishop. First half of 19th century.