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Total number of records: 47

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music19
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piano music6
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opera4
songs, english4
string quartets4
songs, italian4
hymns, english4
songs3

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Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)4
Spencer Stanhope, Mary Anne (1786-1862)4
Bishop, Henry Rowley (1786-1855)2
Mumby, F S1
Pavesi, Stefano1
Purcell, Henry1
Rasch, Johan1
Mayer, Johann Simon1
Marais, Marin1
Locke, Matthew (1621-1677)1

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Archive Collection

Music scores and parts

1753-2011

Includes 44 files of manuscript, copies and a DVD from various composers including Giuseppe Verdi, James Brown, Johan Rasch and Alexander Goehr.

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Hymn Book, compiled by George Whitehead

Whitehead, George (1747-1750)

1747-1750

A collection of hymns, dated 1747 at the beginning, 1750 at the end

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The Leeds Quarters, by James Runciman Denny

Denny, James Runciman (1908-1978)

1953

Comprises the score for the chiming bells installed in the clock tower of the Parkinson Building, University of Leeds.

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Gipsy's warning, Act 1, by Sir Julius Benedict

Benedict, Julius (1804-1885)

1838

Comprises a musical score for an opera

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Tabulatura nova: continens variationes aliquot psalmorum, fantasiarum, cantilenarum, passamezo et canones aliquot, in gratiam organistarum adornata a Samuel Scheidt

Scheidt, Samuel (1587-1654)

1844

Comprises a copy of the score, originally composed in 1624, made in 1844 by A. G. Ritter

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Scores by Alexander Goehr.

Goehr, Alexander

1970-1976

Comprises: (1) Symphony in one movement, 1970. (2) Metamorphosis/Dance, 1974. (3) String quartet no. 3, 1976.

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Bethel Chapel tune books

c.1801-1825

Contain collections of popular hymn tunes

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Late eighteenth-century manuscript music miscellany, copied by several hands

c.1775-1800

Contains a miscellany of songs and extracts from songs

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String quartet no.1 in B flat minor, composed by Susan Spain-Dunk.

Spain-Dunk, Susan

1914

Comprises the autograph manuscript of Susan Spain-Dunk's Quartet in B flat minor, written and dated in March 1914 at 49 Castletown Road, West Kensington, [London]. The four parts are for first and sec...

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String quartet, composed by Johan Rasch.

Rasch, Johan

c. 1910

Comprises the autograph manuscript of Johan Rasch's Quartet, undated. The four parts are for first and second violins, viola, and cello.

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Manuscript transcriptions of 17th and 18th century music for viola da gamba and bass, including a keyboard accompaniment, compiled by Auguste Tolbecque.

Tolbecque, Auguste

c.1890-1910

Comprises 19 pieces of music, including 11 by Marin Marais (1656-1728), 3 by Louis de Caix d'Hervelois (1680-1760), 2 by Pere Antoine Forqueray (1672-1745), 1 by Jean Baptiste Fils Forqueray (1699-178...

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