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'Alessandro Scarlatti's 'Il Flavio Cuniberto'
Collection
Vocal and full score, with additional parts, of Alessandro Scarlatti's 'Il Flavio Cuniberto, Opera rappresentura nel Teatro di Capranica [Rome], L'Anno 1696', early 18th cent.
Extents: 2 physical shelfmarks (0.22 linear metres)
Dates:
Early 18th cent.
Arias selected from operas performed in Rome, 1696-1697, with concert arias and cantatas
Collection
Two pairs of volumes, in which were bound copies of arias selected from operas performed in Rome, 1696-1697, with concert arias and cantatas, c 1696-1697.
Extents: 4 physical shelfmarks (0.44 linear metres)
Dates:
c 1696-1697
A composite volume of instrumental parts
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. d. 261 (Former reference: Quarto B. 1-6)
A composite volume, containing various instrumental parts, some incomplete, late 17th/early 18th cent.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
Late 17th/early 18th cent.
Contemporary account of the visit by Austrian royal family to Schloss Hof near Vienna in September 1754
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7963, fols. 72-77
A contemporary account of the festivities surrounding the visit of the Austrian royal family to Schloss Hoff in September 1754 and including the first performance of Gluck's opera Le Cinesi.
Extents: 6 Leaves
Dates:
1754
Franz Joseph Haydn: 'Son pietosa, son bonina', aria from pasticcio La Circe
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 306
'Son pietosa, son bonina', aria from Haydn's pasticcio La Circe with orchestral accompaniment arranged for piano, [?late 18th cent.].
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates:
[?late 18th cent.]
'Ginevra of Sicily' ('Ariodante'), opera by George Frideric Handel
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 285
Vocal score of 'Ginevra of Sicily' as adapted from George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante [HWV 33] by Michael Rophino Lacy, with further music from other works of Handel and new material presumably composed by Lacy, [1830s-1840s].
Extents: 406 pages
Dates:
[1830s-1840s]
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Nei giorni tuoi felici. 'Duetto a due soprani nell'opera Olimpiade. Parole del Metastasio, musica di Giov[an]ni Batt. Pergolesi. Roma 1735.'
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 604
Nei giorni tuoi felici. 'Duetto a due soprani nell'opera Olimpiade. Parole del Metastasio.' by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. For two sopranos, violin, viola and continuo, mid-19th cent.
Extents: 8 Leaves
Dates:
mid-19th cent.
Giovanni Paisiello: 'Il mio ben quando verrà', aria from the opera 'Nina, o sia La pazza per amore'
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 300
Vocal score of 'Il mio ben quando verrà', aria from the opera 'Nina, o sia La pazza per amore' by Giovanni Paisiello, early 19th cent.
Extents: 6 Leaves
Dates:
early 19th-cent.
Giovanni Paisiello: 'Sinfonia' from La Frascatana
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 60, fols. 89-103
Giovanni Paisiello: 'Sinfonia' from his opera La Frascatana, [1774].
Extents: 15 Leaves
Dates:
[1774]
L'Ascanio, opera by Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. e. 385-387 (Former reference: Music School B. 5. 28-30)
Score of Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei's opera 'L'Ascanio', late 17th cent (1685 or later).
Extents: 3 Volumes
Dates:
Late 17th cent.
Maurice Greene: 'Love's revenge. A dramatick pastoral of two interludes, set to musick by Dr. Greene, 1736 [sic]'
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 281
'Love's revenge. A dramatick pastoral of two interludes, set to musick by Dr. Greene, 1736 [sic]', copied in 1743.
Extents: 188 pages
Dates:
1743
Music bequeathed by T. W. Bourne
Collection
Collection of mostly 18th-century manuscript music bequeathed by the pioneering Handel scholar, Thomas William Bourne (1862-1948), 1601-1902.
Extents: 2.20 Linear metres (20 boxes)
Dates:
1601-1902
Music manuscripts from the Library of St Michael's College, Tenbury Wells
Collection
Music manuscripts from the Library of St Michael's College, Tenbury, Worcestershire, [c 1600]-1930.
Extents: 127.16 Linear metres (1136 physical shelfmarks)
Dates:
[c 1600]-1930
Orchestral parts used at the Holywell Music Room, Oxford
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 638
Orchestral parts of works by various composers used at the Holywell Music Room, Oxford, c 1755 - c 1820
Extents: 115 Leaves
Dates:
c 1755 - c 1820
Pier Francesco Cavalli: 'Erismena', opera in a prologue and 3 acts
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 282
'Erismena', opera in a prologue and 3 acts, by Pier Francesco Cavalli. Full score with English words, copied in England c 1670.
Extents: 180 Leaves
Dates:
c 1670
Ruled music-book in the hand of Maurice Greene
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. e. 563***
Ruled music book in the hand of Maurice Greene, mid-18th cent.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
mid 18th cent.
Songs, cantatas, and airs with English words
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. e. 41
Songs, cantatas, and airs with English words, copied between 1730 and c 1750.
Extents: 355 pages
Dates:
1730-c 1750
Two vocal part-books from a set, 'Canto Chorus 1st' and 'Canto Chorus 2nd'
Collection
Two vocal parts from a set, 'Canto Chorus 1st' and 'Canto Chorus 2nd', 18th cent.
Extents: 0.22 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates:
18th cent.
Volume of 18th-century Italian and English arias and songs
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d.309
Not 14 (as written on the upper board), but 15 operatic arias and songs, mainly by G.F. Handel, [1733-1765]. They are predominantly in short score.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
[1733-1765]