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Sosarme

Description: This item is a copy from [ca. 1790] of the score of Handel's opera Sosarme to a libretto by Matteo Noris. The performance forces include: oboe, horns, strings (violin, viola, bass), continuo, and soloist singers. A list of important musical numbers, solo arias and duets of each act appears on p.116. The names of the subscribers appear on pp.[119-120]. The title page contains an engraving showing two mythological figures [possibly, the god Apollo and the Muse Erato] and musical instrument… more
Date: 1788
Creator: Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759
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Idomeneo : dramma eroico in tre atti, volume 1

Description: This score is special edition of Mozart's opera "Idomeneo" issued by subscription by J. Frey in ca. 1822. The cursive signature J. Frey appears in ink at the bottom of the t.p. This edition is in two volumes. Volume 1 lists the names of subscribers and has a table of contents for each of the three acts with the incipit of first lines of texts of arias, recitatives and choruses. Volume 1 also contains the overture of the opera and the first act. Volume 2 contains the second and third acts. … more
Date: 1821
Creator: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.; Varesco, Giambattista. & Danchet, Antoine, 1671-1748.
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Idomeneo : dramma eroico in tre atti, volume 2

Description: This score is special edition of Mozart's opera "Idomeneo" issued by subscription by J. Frey in ca. 1822. The cursive signature J. Frey appears in ink at the bottom of the t.p. This edition is in two volumes. Volume 1 lists the names of subscribers and has a table of contents for each of the three acts with the incipit of first lines of texts of arias, recitatives and choruses. Volume 1 also contains the overture of the opera and the first act. Volume 2 contains the second and third acts. … more
Date: 1821
Creator: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
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Partitione della Nina, osia, La pazza per amore

Description: Score for Giovanni Paisiello's opera Partitione della Nina, osia, La pazza per amore. A handwritten page in French is pasted onto one of the front end pages; there is no title page or other such identifying information. Listed as 1.78 in the Robinson thematic catalog, it premiered on June 25, 1789 at the Belvedere, S. Leucio (Caserta).
Date: 1790~
Creator: Paisiello, Giovanni, 1740-1816
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Le nozze di Figaro: dramma giocoso in quattro atti, volume 2

Description: Volume 2 of a score for Mozart's Nozze di Figaro, published between 1806 and 1809. Most recitatives are in Italian only; arias and ensembles include interlinear French translation.
Date: 1806/1809
Creator: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 & Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838
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Le nozze di Figaro: dramma giocoso in quattro atti, volume 1

Description: Volume 1 of a score for Mozart's Nozze di Figaro, published between 1806 and 1809. Most recitatives are in Italian only; arias and ensembles include interlinear French translation.
Date: 1806/1809
Creator: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 & Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838
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Oeuvres de J. Haydn, Cahier IX contenant XXXIII Airs et Chansons

Description: Though the cover of this volume is in French, the title page gives the same information in German. This latter language also receives pride of place in the text underlay: Most songs are solely in German but, when lyrics are given in two languages, German is immediately below the musical staves with either Italian or French in italics below the German. Songs use one to three voices with the voice part sometimes integrated into the top staff of the piano part with text underlay indicating when to… more
Date: 1799
Creator: Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
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Oeuvres de J. Haydn, Cahier VIII

Description: This volume contains fifteen sacred and secular songs for one to four voices with piano accompaniment. Contrary to the title page, the titles of each song are given either in German or German and Italian. When both languages are present in the text underlay, the Italian text sits directly below the staves with German below the Italian. Most songs either give "Singstimme" or a voice part for the vocal staves; some give names of characters, possibly indicating a theatrical or semi-dramatic perfor… more
Date: 1799
Creator: Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809
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Kleine Suite für Klavier, Op. 26

Description: Five movements: 1. Präludium; 2. Presto; 3. Allegretto Grazioso; 4. Grave; 5. Finale. Allegro molto, quasi Presto.
Date: unknown
Creator: Oppel, Reinhard
Partner: UNT Music Library

Fra pensieri quel pensiero

Description: Autograph score of Italian art song for flute or violin, alto, and piano.
Date: unknown
Creator: Oppel, Reinhard
Partner: UNT Music Library

Nouvelles Poesies Morales sur Les Plus Beaux Airs de la Musique Francoise et Italienne avec la Basse.: Fables Choisies Dans le gout de M. De La Fontaine, Sur des Vaudevilles & petits Airs aisés à chanter, avec leur Basse & une Basse en Musette. Recueil I. 6 liv. broché.

Description: This score is a collection of poetry and set to music including moral fables (marked on the table of contents with an asterisk). Each piece has words written with musical lines in treble, bass, or a combination of both. Includes a preface ('Avis.') and table of contents for the movements prior to page 1 for each of the seven collections ('recueil'). The pagination restarts for each collection and for the fables which fall at the end of each section.
Date: 1737
Creator: La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695
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The Child of the Regiment

Description: An arrangement the aria Quand le destin with English and Italian lyrics. A color lithograph on the cover depicts Jenny Lind.
Date: 184X
Creator: Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848
Partner: UNT Music Library

[Binder's Collection: Minnie Greene, Book 2]

Description: Bound compilation of sheet music. The dates of publication range between 1852 and 1879, and most of the publishers' imprints were located in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston, with others from Cleveland and New Orleans. Several items have the name of Minnie S. Greene on the first page, and some have the location of the Southern Home School in Baltimore, or Patapsco [Ins. or Tns.]. A wide variety of composers and lyricists appear in the volume, with multiple entries from Virginia Gabriel, Luigi… more
Date: 1852/1879
Creator: Greene, Minnie S.
Partner: UNT Music Library

[Binder's Collection: Mary Waddington]

Description: Bound compilation of sheet music from the collection of Thurman Morrison, compiled by Mary Alsop King Waddington, an author who was born in New York, but lived in France beginning in 1871, and was married to French statesman William Henry Waddington. This volume consists largely of excerpts from operatic works, particularly by Gaetano Donizetti, Saverio Mercadante, Gioacchino Rossini, and Giuseppe Verdi. Most works were published in Paris, with a few published in Mayence (present-day Mainz), Vi… more
Date: 1820/1859
Creator: Waddington, Mary King, 1833-1923
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Anna Bolena

Description: Piano-vocal score for selections from Gaetano Donizetti's Anna Bolena, with libretto by Felice Romani.
Date: 18XX
Creator: Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848 & Romani, Felice, 1788-1865
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L'Atalipa: dramma per musica

Description: Libretto for L'Atalipa by Girolamo Gigli.
Date: 16XX
Creator: Gigli, Girolamo, 1660-1722
Partner: UNT Music Library

[Binder's Collection - Eva Eve - Duke M1507-C655-1841]

Description: Bound compilation of sheet music from a variety of composers, with multiple works from Giuseppe Verdi, M.W. Balfe, and Gaetano Donizetti. This volume is held by Duke University, and is posted here in conjunction with the Binders Volumes Research Initiative, a project funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities - Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (PW-290538-23).
Date: 1841/1858
Creator: Eve, Eva, 1841-1890
Partner: UNT Music Library
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