Music -- Manuscripts -- 18th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 107 Collections and/or Records:
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James Sherard: Sonatas, op. 2
'Sonate di Giacomo Sherard. Opera 2da' (fol. 44). 11 sonatas (no. 10 of the 12 is lacking), late 17th cent.
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. d. 252 (Former reference: Music School B. 4. 12)
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
late 17th cent?
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John Casper Heck: 'Instructions for playing on the Harpsichord[,] Fortepiano etc.'
John Casper Heck (1740?-1791): 'Instructions for playing on the Harpsichord[,] Fortepiano etc., late 18th cent.
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. b.30
Extents: 80 pages
Dates:
late 18th cent.
Single Item
Keyboard music by C. P. E. Bach and J. S. Bach
Keyboard music by C. P. E. Bach and J. S. Bach, 2nd half of the 18th cent.
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 227
Extents: 25 Leaves
Dates:
1751-1800
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'La morte di Gesù. Cantata posta in musica del Sigr. Carlo Enrico Graun, M.D.C. di S.M. Prussiana. Tradotto dal Tedesco'
'La morte di Gesù. Cantata posta in musica del Sigr. Carlo Enrico Graun, M.D.C. di S.M. Prussiana. Tradotto dal Tedesco', late 18th or early 19th cent.
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 289
Extents: 133 Leaves
Dates:
late 18th or early 19th cent.
Single Item
L'Ascanio, opera by Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei
Score of Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei's opera 'L'Ascanio', late 17th cent (1685 or later).
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. e. 385-387 (Former reference: Music School B. 5. 28-30)
Extents: 3 Volumes
Dates:
Late 17th cent.
Single Item
Latin sacred music of Emanuele d'Astorga, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Thomas Morley
Latin sacred music in score by Emanuele d'Astorga, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Thomas Morley. English mid-18th-century manuscript copied by 4 different hands.
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 294
Extents: 220 pages
Dates:
mid-18th cent.
Single Item
Lessons and pieces for pianoforte copied over several years in a book bought from Longman and Broderip
Lessons and pieces for pianoforte copied over several years in a book bought from Longman and Broderip, 1782-1792.
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 179
Extents: 52 Leaves
Dates:
1782-1792
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Manuscript additions to a printed score of William Bennett's A new set of psalm tunes and anthems
Manuscript additions to a printed score, late-18th/early-19th-cent.
Shelfmark: Mus. 32 d. 236
Extents: 117 pages
Dates:
1770-19th century
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Manuscript copy of Missa Gabriel Archangelus by Giovanni da Palestrina and The lamentations of Jeremiah by Thomas Tallis, most likely transcribed by Henry Needler
Manuscript copy of Missa Gabriel Archangelus by Giovanni da Palestrina and The lamentations of Jeremiah
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c.706
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
ca. 1720
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Mass in F, attributed to Haydn
'Missa ex F a 4 Vocibus Conc: et Ripieni, 2 Violinis Conc. et Ripieni, 2 Cornibus, et Organo, Violoncello con Violone, Del Sig[no]re Haydn'. Not an authenticated work of either Joseph or Michael Haydn. Includes postcard from H. C. Robbins Landon to Margaret Crum: "The Hopkinsons Mass by Haydn is not by Michael. I should catalogue it simply as Haydn, Joseph (attributed to), and leave it at that".
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 367
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
late 18th cent.
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Maurice Greene: 'Love's revenge. A dramatick pastoral of two interludes, set to musick by Dr. Greene, 1736 [sic]'
'Love's revenge. A dramatick pastoral of two interludes, set to musick by Dr. Greene, 1736 [sic]', copied in 1743.
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 281
Extents: 188 pages
Dates:
1743
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Miscellaneous notes, scores, bass parts, etc., collected by F. Withy
Miscellaneous notes, scores, bass parts, etc., collected by F. Withy, 1682-1703.
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. d. 217
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
1681-1703
Collection
Music bequeathed by T. W. Bourne
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
Collection
Music collected during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by the Blount family at Mapledurham
Music collected during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by the Blount family at Mapledurham, late 17th-early 19th cent., n.d.
Extents: 17 boxes (0.85 linear metres)
Dates:
late 17th-early 19th cent., n.d.
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Music for bass viols and other instruments
Music for bass viols and other instruments, early 18th cent.
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. d. 249 (Former reference: Music School B. 4. 9 (Quarto A. 2-29, 31-32, 36))
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
early 18th cent.
Collection
Musical collections of Harry Ellis Wooldridge
A collection of music, including transcripts mainly of 17th and 18th-century Italian music, nearly all from sources in the British Museum.
Extents: 3.74 linear metres (34 boxes)
Dates:
1870-1906, n.d.
Collection
New College, Oxford. Chapel Choir Books
New College, Oxford. Chapel Choir Books. Incomplete sets and isolated members of part-books which were in use from the early 17th cent. up to the middle of the 19th cent. and probably later.
Extents: 3.41 linear metres (31 boxes)
Dates:
mostly 17th and 18th centuries
Single Item
Nicolò Jommelli: 'La passione di Gesù Cristo', for SATB soli, SATB chorus and orchestra
Incomplete full score of Nicolò Jommelli's 'La passione di Gesù Cristo' [Hochstein Anh. 40] for SATB soli, SATB chorus and orchestra, c 1760-1780.
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 292
Extents: 62 pages
Dates:
c 1760-1780
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'An Ode to the Grand Khaibar' by William Croft
William Croft: 'An Ode to the Grand Khaibar', c 1726.
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 263
Extents: 5 Leaves
Dates:
c 1726
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Orchestral parts used at the Holywell Music Room, Oxford
Orchestral parts of works by various composers used at the Holywell Music Room, Oxford, c 1755 - c 1820
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 638
Extents: 115 Leaves
Dates:
c 1755 - c 1820