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Operas -- Excerpts

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Collection

Arias selected from operas performed in Rome, 1696-1697, with concert arias and cantatas

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
Single Item

Fragments relating to the chamber opera Heart of Darkness by Tarik O'Regan

Fragments relating to Heart of Darkness by Tarik O'Regan, 2011.
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. a. 8
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates: 2011
Single Item

Franz Joseph Haydn: 'Son pietosa, son bonina', aria from pasticcio La Circe

'Son pietosa, son bonina', aria from Haydn's pasticcio La Circe with orchestral accompaniment arranged for piano, [?late 18th cent.].
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 306
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates: [?late 18th cent.]
Single Item

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.'

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.
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 604
Extents: 8 Leaves
Dates: mid-19th cent.
Single Item

Italian arias and duets

25 Italian arias and duets, with instrumental accompaniment, copied in score from a French exemplar, late 17th cent.
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. c. 51
Extents: 48 Leaves
Dates: late 17th cent.
Single Item

Italian arias, mostly by Bolognese composers

One section of a collection of arias mostly by Bolognese composers in score, late 17th cent.
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. e. 424 (Former reference: Music School B. 4. 28)
Extents: 1 box
Dates: late 17th cent.
Single Item

Italian operatic arias copied by two different hands

Venetian operatic arias from the 1686/87 and 1687/88 seasons, copied by two different hands.
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. c. 103
Extents: 116 pages (58, 71-72 blank)
Dates: [1686-1688]
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
Single Item

'Romanzo: Assisa a piè d'un salice' by Gioachino Rossini

Gioacchino Rossini: 'Romanzo: Assisa a piè d'un salice', c 1818.
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 264
Extents: 16 Leaves
Dates: c 1818
Single Item

Ruled music-book in the hand of Maurice Greene

Ruled music book in the hand of Maurice Greene, mid-18th cent.
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. e. 563***
Extents: 1 box
Dates: mid 18th cent.
Single Item

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 'Overture: introduction to Mozart's Requiem' [i.e. Don Giovanni]

'Overture: introduction to Mozart's Requiem' by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The 'Grave' section only of the Overture to Don Giovanni, c 1820?.
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 297
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: c 1820?