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Total number of records: 47

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Brotherton Collection27
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse1
English Literature1
Leeds Russian Archive1
Ripon Cathedral1

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songs47
concert programs22
music6
flute and continuo music3
songs with continuo3
songs with instrumental ensemble3
german poetry2
ballads1
cantatas1
concerts1

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Music Hall (Sheffield, England)14
Schubert, Franz, 1797-18284
Sheffield Athenaeum. Concert4
Freemantle, Henry J3
Capell, Richard (1885-1954)2
Schochow, Lilly2
Schochow, Maximilian2
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)2
Sheffield Mechanics' Institution2
Arnold, John1

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Archive File

Notebook belonging to Blanche Legat Leigh

c. 1880

Comprises: i) untitled or unattributed music (14 ff.); ii) newspaper cuttings of 'Scientific notes' (11 ff.); iii) verse, further music, and printed cuttings on religious or philosophical subjects (10...

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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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Album containing manuscript and printed cantatas, songs, and arias, mainly by Handel.

1717-1755

The album, presumably at one time the property of the Miss Morgan named on the front cover, contains a total of 20 pieces of music, variously printed and manuscript, all for voice (words given) with t...

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Album containing manuscript and printed music for the harp.

c.1790-1800

The album, presumably at one time the property of the Miss O'Callaghan named on the front cover, contains a total of 23 pieces of music, variously printed and manuscript. The spine, bearing the title ...

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Miscellaneous ballads, arias, songs, and hymns by Mendelssohn and others

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847)

c.1839-1894

Modern pencil foliation. Ruled for music. Printed songs, by Mendelssohn and others, paginated 37-42 (extracts from a volume) are inserted at the front. The signature 'A.R. Kenny' is written in pencil ...

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Manuscript music, compiled by Herbert Thompson

Thompson, Herbert (1856-1945)

1880-1885

Miscellaneous pieces of music copied by Herbert Thompson and others. Including: (1) Schumann, Gypsy chorus; (2) Chopin, Valse, Op.64, no.2; (3) Stainer, Amen; (4) Twilight; (5) Shelley, "A widow bird...

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Jolly Roger: a song probably by Thomas D'Urfey.

D'urfey, Thomas

c. 1730

A comic song in 73 lines, beginning "Jolly Roger Twangdillo of Plowden Hill", published in the collection "Pills to Purge Melancholy", compiled by D'Urfey (vol. 1 of 1719 edition).

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Shir li-hevrat tiferet Tsan Yosef

Levi, G E; Servi, Flaminio; Rossi, Luigi approximately 1598-1653; Società di Mutua Istruzione Religioso-morale della Gioventù Israelitica CUNEESE; Università Israelitica di Cuneo; Comunità israelitica di Torino

1866

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Söngbók hins íslenzka Stúdentafjelags

Íslenzka Stúdentafélag

1894

Contents: Ættjarðarkvæði -- Alþýðuvísur -- Undir berum himni -- Manvísur -- Tækifæriskvæði o. fl. -- Veizlukvæði -- Drykkjukvæði -- Gamankvæði og stökur -- Eptirmáli -- Lög.

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Mr. Dawson's first concert : Music-Hall, Sheffield, April 2nd, 1845... [etc.]

Dawson Mr (of Sheffield); Music Hall (Sheffield, England)

1845

Programme, giving text of songs, and the names of those performing them.

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Grand concert of vocal and instrumental music, Wednesday evening Sept. 9th, 1840

Sheffield Mechanics' Institution; Music Hall (Sheffield, England)

1840

At head of title: "Exhibition at the Music-Hall, in aid of the building fund of the Mechanics' Institution".

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