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The King’s Anthem for the Jubilee
A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed. Bible, King James Version,...
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Englische Gesänge
The bound volumes of Osborn MSS 146 comprise several dozen albums of print and manuscript music, each usually with a spine title identifying the contents and sometimes also a cover title identifying...
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God Save the King: a Gallery
Click to view slideshow. This gallery of renditions of “God Save the King” highlights a few of the many versions of the anthem to be found in Osborn MSS 146, the Hanover royal music library, and the...
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Imperial Waltz! Imported from the Rhine
Click to view slideshow. Fair Celia had some girlish Faults; But then—How Celia stepp’d a Waltz! And in that Season, it is known Waltzing was everywhere the Ton. Miss Caelia, though a sickly Maid, No...
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Who were all these princesses? Part I: Princess Augusta
As part of a household music library, the Hanover Royal Music Archive captures the musical interests of many of the fifteen children of George III and Queen Charlotte from the late eighteenth century...
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The Exhibit in Installation
God Save the King is being installed this week, for its formal opening on Monday, October 1. Below, a glimpse into the installation: The exhibition, from the Beinecke mezzanine Exhibit labels awaiting...
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The exhibition opening
Click to view slideshow. Photographs from the exhibition opening at the Beinecke last night, with a wonderful performance by the Jasper String Quartet.
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Who were all these princesses? Part II: Princess Amelia
The youngest of King George III’s daughters, and–of Queen Charlotte’s children who survived infancy–the shortest-lived, Princess Amelia (1783 – 1810) is an active musical presence in the Hanover Royal...
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il Sig. e Dr: Burney
The Hanover Royal Music Archive intersects in often unexpected ways with the Beinecke Library’s holdings for music, literature, and social history in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century...
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God Save the King: Closing Thoughts
As an exhibition, God Save the King celebrates the opening of a new scholarly collection, the Hanover Royal Music Archive, acquired by Yale’s Beinecke Library in 2008, catalogued by co-curator Karen...
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