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1. Add MS 5036-5062

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Add MS 5036-5062
Title:
A collection of pieces, including motets, madrigals, masses, anthems, duets and other works
Scope & Content:
A collection of pieces, including motets, madrigals, masses, anthems, duets and other works. Prefixed to Add MS 5036 is a letter from Gabriel Mathias to the trustees of the British Museum, containing an extract from the will of James Mathias esq, from which it appears that these volumes are all...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1760
Extent:
27 volumes

2. Add MS 5319-5337

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Add MS 5319-5337
Title:
Manuscript music presented by Sir John Hawkins
Scope & Content:
A collection of manuscript music formerly owned by Sir John Hawkins, chiefly copied by Mr. John Stanley
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
19 volumes

3. Add MS 5324

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Add MS 5324
Title:
Maurice Greene: 'Phoebe', a pastoral drama
Scope & Content:
'Phœbe: a Pastoral Drama' in 3 Acts, with overture, symphonies, and accompaniments for flutes, horns, oboes, and strings, and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score, by Dr. [Maurice] Greene [1748]. The words are by Dr. John Hoadly. Characters: Phœbe, Sylvio, Amyntas, Celia, Linco; with Choruses...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 5325

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Add MS 5325
Title:
Maurice Greene: 'Florimel' or 'Love's revenge', a pastoral drama
Scope & Content:
'Florimel,' or 'Love's Revenge': a Pastoral Drama in two parts, with symphonies and accompaniments for horns, oboes, bassoons, and strings, and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score, by Dr. [Maurice] Greene [1737]. The words are by Dr. John Hoadly. Characters: Cupid, Florimel, Myrtillo, and a ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 5333

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Add MS 5333
Title:
Dramatic compositions by Henry Purcell
Scope & Content:
Dramatic compositions, with instrumental accompaniments, and a song, in score, by Henry Purcell: transcripts {partly} by Dr. William Croft. 1. 'King Arthur' [1691]. Wanting some of the numbers given in Rimbault's and Arkwight's editions, viz., Overture, Military symphony in Act i, Introduction...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 5337

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Add MS 5337
Title:
A collection of incidental music from operas, madrigals, sonatas, catches, glees, a duet from an oratorio and a canon
Scope & Content:
The contents of this MS. are in different hands. ff. 1-42. Incidental music, by Henry Purcell, in score; early 18th cent. The symphonies are written for flutes, oboes, strings, etc., and, in the case of no. 2, for trumpets also. 1. [The Masque in] 'Timon of Athens' [1694]. f. 1. 2. 'The Musick ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 10337

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Add MS 10337
Title:
The virginal book of Elizabeth Rogers, 1656, containing many almaines, marches, corrantes, airs, etc., in score, with the names of the composers
Scope & Content:
passim. 'Elizabeth Rogers hir Virginall booke: February the 27, 1656;' with an index to the contents in the same hand; before 1656. Consists of arrangements of songs, dances, etc., for that instrument, mostly anonymous, the music being written on two staves of 6 lines each. A leaf (v. Index) is ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Add MS 10338

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Add MS 10338
Title:
A collection of anthems, songs, duets, trios, services, cantatas, motets, and other pieces, in the hand of George Jeffreys
Scope & Content:
ff. 4-13. 'Fantazies,' or Fancies, for strings and organ, in score, by George Jeffreys. 1-6. Six 'of 3 Parts for the Violls and the Virginall.' Autograph. In the 5th Fantasia, a few notes have been added to the virginal part to make it suitable for playing on the organ. f. 4. 7. Another 'of 2 pa...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
after 1669
Extent:
1 volume

9. Add MS 11518

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Add MS 11518
Title:
'Comus': two settings of Milton's Masque, which includes portions of an opera by Handel
Scope & Content:
1. Five songs, with a bass, in score, as written for the original representation at Ludlow Castle in 1634, viz.: 'From the Heav'ns now I fly'; 'Sweet Echo'; 'Sabrina fair'; 'Back, Shepherds, back'; and 'Now my task is smoothly done.' 'Henry Lawes.' ff. 1-2b. 2. Another setting, in 3 Acts, for s...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (107 folios)

10. Add MS 11581-11591

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Add MS 11581-11591
Title:
Extracts from various early musical writers, by Charles Burney, Mus. Doct., with remarks and criticisms by him
Scope & Content:
Also includes extracts and examples of various compositions.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
11 volumes