Operas. Musical compositions.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Dramatic musical compositions in which singing forms an essential part, chiefly consisting of recitatives, arias, and choruses, with orchestral accompaniment, usually documented by a libretto and musical score.
Found in 56 Collections and/or Records:
Vocal score of 'Anagilda, atto terzo'., 1717.
Item
Identifier: MS.9472
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The manuscript is dated Pesaro, 8 March 1717. This is a composite work, being a collection of arias by various north Italian composers, interspersed with anonymous recitatives. The names of the composers and various alterations to the text have been added in a different hand, possibly that of G M Ruggieri, maestro di cappella at Pesaro. Fifteen of the arias are by Agostino Tinazzoli, otherwise known only by two small works in manuscript. Other composers named are Tommaso Albinoni, Floriano...
Dates:
1717.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Panmure music books.
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Italian operatic manuscripts collected by James Maule, 4th Earl of Panmure, during his exile after the 1715 Jacobite rebellion.
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Vocal score of 'Anagilda', an opera in three acts, with violin and bass parts (figured in recitatives).
Vocal score of ‘The lady of the lake’ by G W Crawford., [?1892-?1941.]
Item
Identifier: MS.21955
Scope and Contents
A leaf has been cut out before folio 29.
Dates:
[?1892-?1941.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Surviving musical archive, chiefly undated, of Gerald W Crawford (1868-1942), a consulting engineer and an Edinburgh city councillor and Justice of the Peace, who was well known in his day for his musical activities, especially as composer and conductor of several orchestras including, latterly, one of his own.
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Music of G W Crawford for stage works.
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Operas of G W Crawford.
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Full scores and vocal score of ‘The lady of the lake’, an opera in four acts adapted by G W Crawford from the poem by Sir Walter Scott.
Volume 1: Acts 1 and 2, ca. 1855
Item
Identifier: Acc.14056/1
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
A score in three volumes, written in Germany with the libretto translated into German. The copy is the work of several copyists, none of whom has been identified. The numbering of sections in the manuscript corresponds to the numbering found in Verdi's autograph rather than the printed editions of the opera. The German translation is that of Ricordi's edition of 1852. First German-language performances of Rigoletto took place in 1853. Consistent with the...
Dates:
ca. 1855
Volume 2: Act 3, ca. 1855
Item
Identifier: Acc.14056/2
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
A score in three volumes, written in Germany with the libretto translated into German. The copy is the work of several copyists, none of whom has been identified. The numbering of sections in the manuscript corresponds to the numbering found in Verdi's autograph rather than the printed editions of the opera. The German translation is that of Ricordi's edition of 1852. First German-language performances of Rigoletto took place in 1853. Consistent with the...
Dates:
ca. 1855
Volume 3: Act 4, ca. 1855
Item
Identifier: Acc.14056/3
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
A score in three volumes, written in Germany with the libretto translated into German. The copy is the work of several copyists, none of whom has been identified. The numbering of sections in the manuscript corresponds to the numbering found in Verdi's autograph rather than the printed editions of the opera. The German translation is that of Ricordi's edition of 1852. First German-language performances of Rigoletto took place in 1853. Consistent with the...
Dates:
ca. 1855
Volume of 'Opera songs' belonging to Hugh Rose of Kilravock (died 1755), whose name as Hugh Rose of Geddes, with the date 25 November 1738, are on the inside of the back cover.
Item
Identifier: MS.21748
Scope and Contents
The songs are set with a melody line and bass only, and consist of excerpts from works of many of the major opera composers of the first third of the 18th century, notably Hasse, Handel, Porpora and Vinci.
One or two small dances have been put into blank spaces, and on page 1 there is a set of variations by William McGibbon on a theme by Corelli.
Dates:
1738.