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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 59 Collections and/or Records:

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The Seraglio, by Mozart, 1806 - 1860

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Nn.06.39, MS Nn.06.40, MS Nn.06.41
Scope and Contents

The words are the Italian of Buonaiuti. The Musick of the Recitative is inserted. The key of some passages is different from the text published by Birchall.

Dates: 1806 - 1860
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Thomas Attwood Walmisley: Installation Ode

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6446
Scope and Contents

Music composed by Thomas Attwood Walmisley, Professor of Music, for William Wordsworth's Ode on the Installation of H.R.H. the Prince Consort as Chancellor of the University. The ode was performed at the ceremony in the Senate House, 5 July 1847. Printed and published 1849.

Dates: 1847
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Transcript of lute music from MS Dd.2.11 in hand of W.C. Denis-Browne

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5998
Dates: 1908 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Translation of J.J. Fux 'Gradus ad Parnassum'

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3845
Scope and Contents

Translation of sections on double counterpoint (pp. 139-57 of the 1742 Leipzig edition, with (fo. 8v) copy of title-page from 1725 edition, and (fos 9v-22) series of engraved plates numbered 30 to 56, taken from the same and here pasted in). fo. 1v: list of works of J. C. Heck.

Dates: 1750 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Treatise on music and grammar, Undated

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.17
Scope and Contents 'Tome the seconde, of schoolle exercises, or, the divine humanie mathematicall work of master John Stay, philo musus, and student, in the universe 1634. In which is contained στεριομετρια: and the arte of Μυσικε as well of the whole worlde as of the humaine voyce, and instrumentall also the arte of Grammer all in 500 leaves or 10 quires.' There are similar titles of a 3rd, 4th and 5th book, the last said to be the 'quinta essence' of the other four. Traces of the first book exist in the form...
Dates: Undated
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Viol music, c. 1620

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.78.03
Scope and Contents

Each page contains five lines of music on red staves of six lines. It seems to have been an exercise book, the tunes being similar to those in MS Dd.02.11, but of an easier character.

Dates: c. 1620
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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W. B. Molique: quartet for pianoforte, violino alto and violincello composed for and dedicated to A. G. Kurtz Esq., Op. 71

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6003
Scope and Contents

(p. i) title; (p. 1) score. Signed and dated by the composer on p. 30. Inside front cover is attached bookplate with the letters MLThC.

Dates: 6 July 1862
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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William S. Mann Collection

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10015
Scope and Contents

Contains musical compositions by Mann; also some works by friends. No items known to be published.

Dates: 1947-1958
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: overture to 'The Magic Flute' in the hands of Sir George Smart and Mary Anne Bacon

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6250
Scope and Contents

Notes on the title page read 'The first page is in the hand writing of Sir George Smart who was kind enough to teach me how to score. M.A.B' and 'Imperfect. Wanting tenor and alto trombones and 2d. fagotto. M.B.' Remaining pages in the hand of Mary Anne Bacon. Signed and dated: 'Mary Anne Bacon, Dec.r 1824'.

Dates: 1824 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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