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Music -- Manuscripts -- 18th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 111 Collections and/or Records:

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.

'Violino Secundo' of sonatas for two violins, bass and basso continuo by Corelli, Bassani and Finger

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. c. 62 (Former reference: Music School B. 6. 40)
'Violino Secundo' of sonatas for two violins, bass and basso continuo by Corelli, Bassani and Finger, c 1700.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: [c 1700]

Vocal duets with continuo by Agostino Steffani and Alessandro Stradella

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 275
Vocal duets with continuo by Agostino Steffani and Alessandro Stradella, early 18th-cent.
Extents: 122 pages
Dates: early 18th-cent.

Vocal music by Giacomo Carissimi, Henry Purcell and John Blow

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 437
Vocal music by Giacomo Carissimi, Henry Purcell and John Blow, [1690s], 18th cent.
Extents: 208 pages
Dates: [1690s], 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]

Volume of parochial psalmody, consisting largely of 18th-cent. anthems

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. e. 55
Volume of parochial psalmody, consisting of a service and anthems, c 1730?
Extents: 84 Leaves
Dates: c 1730?

Volume of songs, keyboard pieces and dance tunes, compiled for Augusta Anne Vavasour of Weston

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 261
Volume of songs, keyboard pieces and dance tunes, compiled c 1795 for Augusta Anne Vavasour of Weston.
Extents: 43 Leaves
Dates: c 1795

William Boyce: Birthday Ode for the Prince of Wales (later George III)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. c. 105
Birthday Ode for the Prince of Wales (later George III) by William Boyce, [1752].
Extents: 1 box
Dates: [1752]

William Croft: 10 verse anthems, copied in score by his pupil James Kent

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 173
10 verse anthems by William Croft, copied in score by his pupil James Kent, [1731-1737].
Extents: 104 Leaves
Dates: [1731-1737]

William Croft: Ode 'Laurus cruentas', 1713, with another ode by an unidentified composer

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 271
Largely complete autograph working manuscript of William Croft's ode 'Laurus cruentas', 1713, with working manuscript of another ode by an unidentified composer, [18th cent.].
Extents: 26 Leaves
Dates: [18th-cent.]

William Hayes: Ode, 'The Passions'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 178
Autograph fair copy of 'The Passions', secular ode by William Hayes, [1750].
Extents: 125 Leaves
Dates: [1750]