Add MS 32669

Passim. Sketch-book of Musical compositions by Michael William Balfe, containing chiefly fragments of Operas. About 1836 (watermark)-1843.1. 'Stretta (sc. Stretto), per finale.' f. 3b. 2. 'Tu devi scendere'; from an Opera in which one of the characters appears to be Costantino. f. 4b. 3. 'Ah, chi sa se il ciel per noi.' [From ' Elfrida,' 1840.] f. 5. 4. 'Dio di bontà, confortami.' f. 5b. 5. Ballad (f. 5b), begins 'Torn from all I loved,' Finale (f. 6), and Dead March (f. 6b), etc.; from 'Catherine Grey.' 6. 'Farewell! All good wishes go with him.' f. 7b. 7. 'Ho bisogno di denari,' and Introduction to Act i; from 'Donne Allegre' (sc. 'Falstaff,' 1838). f. 9. 8. 'When other lips.' Different from the melody published to those words in 'The Bohemian Girl,' 1843. f. 9b. 9. 'The home of my fathers.' f. 10 (see also f. 14). 10. 'My heart will break.' f. 10b. 11. 'Yes, well I remember.' f. 12. 12. 'Bring the cup' (f. 12b); duet (f. 13), begins 'Badet, captivating Badet'; 'Oh, ecstasy' (f. 14); 'Be this helm with laurel braided' (f. 14b), etc. [From 'Joan of Arc,' 1837] . 13. 'Stretto for concerted piece,' and 'Merily (sic), archers, draw your shafts.' f. 15b. 14. 'O'er the blue wave'; dated 'Cork, August 11th, [18]38.' f. 19b. 15. 'Oh, hast thou then proved false.' f. 19b. 16. 'To lift the veil, fair Lady.' f. 22b. 17. 'A Peri once was over vain': cavatina buffa. f. 23b. 18. 'Hither I sail'; apparently sung by a character named Zaphine. f. 24b. 19. 'Down in the inmost Caves of Earth,' etc. f. 25. 20. Two cavatinas for Rubini; probably intended to be sung in 'Elfrida.' ff. 26b, 27. 21. 'Oh, if there were one gentle eye': cavatina for [Mme] Albertazzi. ff. 27b. 22. 'Tis sad to leave your fatherland,' and duet, begins 'Comrade, your hand.' [From 'The Bohemian Girl,' 1841?] f. 28. 23. Melody in A (2/4 time) from '[La] Bohémienne,' by which name Balfe originally intended to call his Opera, f. 29b. 24. 'lo son vecchio': aria buffa. f. 30. 25. 'You ask me to forget thee' (sic): ballad, f. 31b. 26. Sketches for a 'new Opera, 'Adelwina.' Characters: Ernest, Adelwina, Count and Countess, Moritz, Basil, Adrian, etc. ff. 32b-49. 27. 'I saw her in childhood': ballad, f. 50. 28. 'Tis sad to leave your fatherland' (cf. no. 22, above), and trio, begins 'Through the world wilt thou fly'; from 'The Bohemian Girl.' f. 51. 29. A fragment from 'Elfrida.' f. 51b. 30. 'Yes, to-morrow... But, Norah.' f. 52. 31. 'A heart that once hath loved' [from 'The Maid of Artois,' 1836]. f. 52. 32. Some more sketches for 'Adelwina.' ff. 53-60. 33. 'When the fair land of Poland,' etc.; from 'The Bohemian Girl.' ff. 60b-62. 34. Overture in G, begun at Exeter, 24 April, 1840, and ended at Plymouth, 8 May, 1840. ff. 63-93b. 35. Sketches for 'Koelanthe,' afterwards [1840] published as 'Keolanthe.' Characters: Devil, Andrea, Filippo, Ombrastro, High Priest, Koelanthe. ff. 94-109. 36. 'Oh cielo La Duchessa.' [? From 'Elfrida.'] f. 109b. 37. 'Chorus [of] conspirators.' f. 112b. 38. 'C'est bien ici... Un Roi peut faire sentinelle' [from 'Le puits d'amour,' 1843]. f. 113b.

Passim. Country-dance (f. 1), waltzes (ff. 1b, 2), galop (f. 16), and dance (2/4 time) in F (f. 113); from a Sketch-book of Balfe.

ff. 2b, 29b. Songs, from one of M. W. Balfe's Sketch-books. 1837 etc.1. 'Bel' Amie,' or 'The Lay of the Troubadour,' 'begins 'Gentle river'; with pianoforte accompaniment. Words by Bulwer. f. 2b. 2. 'They bind with costly pearls my brow': Ballad, without accompaniment. [Published as 'Scaramuccia ' in 1837.] f. 29b.

f. 7. Waltz composed for Mrs. Stone's Album [by M. W. Balfe].