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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 18942
Title:: Collection of compositions including: Pavans, Galliards, Airs, Corantos in 3 and 4 parts, for viols, by R. Deering, Maurice Webster, C. Hely, Charles Coleman, Th. Mudde, William Lawes, John Bannister, senior, William Childe, John Jenkins, and Simon Ives, the elder, and Christopher Simpson.
Scope & Content:: Collection of compositions including: Pavans, Galliards, Airs, Corantos in 3 and 4 parts, for viols, by R. Deering, Maurice Webster, C. Hely, Charles Coleman, Th. Mudde, William Lawes, John Bannister, senior, William Childe, John Jenkins, and Simon Ives, the elder, and Christopher Simpson. Vol....
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: mid 17th century
Extent:: 1 of five volumes (Part book)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 18943
Title:: Collection of compositions including: Pavans, Galliards, Airs, Corantos in 3 and 4 parts, for viols, by R. Deering, Maurice Webster, C. Hely, Charles Coleman, Th. Mudde, William Lawes, John Bannister, senior, William Childe, John Jenkins, and Simon Ives, the elder, and Christopher Simpson.
Scope & Content:: Collection of compositions including: Pavans, Galliards, Airs, Corantos in 3 and 4 parts, for viols, by R. Deering, Maurice Webster, C. Hely, Charles Coleman, Th. Mudde, William Lawes, John Bannister, senior, William Childe, John Jenkins, and Simon Ives, the elder, and Christopher Simpson. Vol....
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: mid 17th century
Extent:: 1 of five volumes (Part book)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 18944
Title:: Collection of compositions including: Pavans, Galliards, Airs, Corantos in 3 and 4 parts, for viols, by R. Deering, Maurice Webster, C. Hely, Charles Coleman, Th. Mudde, William Lawes, John Bannister, senior, William Childe, John Jenkins, and Simon Ives, the elder, and Christopher Simpson.
Scope & Content:: Collection of compositions including: Pavans, Galliards, Airs, Corantos in 3 and 4 parts, for viols, by R. Deering, Maurice Webster, C. Hely, Charles Coleman, Th. Mudde, William Lawes, John Bannister, senior, William Childe, John Jenkins, and Simon Ives, the elder, and Christopher Simpson. Vol....
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: mid 17th century
Extent:: 1 of five volumes (Part book)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19569
Title:: Songs written and set to music by Thomas Moore; arranged by Henry Rowley Bishop and others; 1819-1826, viz.-i. Seven of the "National Melodies:" "The Crystal Hunter;" with accompaniment. Two copies, as single and part song; words and music in Bishop's autograph; with his signature, and the date of 1821, f. 1; "Then fare thee well, my own dear love;" words and music in Bishop's autograph; with signature, and date, 30th Oct. 1819, f. 6; The same; words and music in Moore's autograph, with corr...
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-21b passim. Songs by Thomas Moore, the poet, sent by him to James Power, the music-publisher, for insertion in his Popular National Airs (1818-about 1826). The poet's original MSS of the words and melodies as sent by Power to Sir John Stevenson and Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, together with th...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1819-1826
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19570
Title:: Anthems, composed for the use of the King's Chapel, by James Nares.
Scope & Content:: ff. 96. Bookplate, with arms, of Nares. compos'd for the use of the Kings Chapel by James Nares. '(First Book of) Anthems compos'd for the use of the Kings Chapel by James Nares, from 1757 to (1709 &c.).' The words in brackets appear to have been added by Richard Clark (see f. 1), whose s...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1757-1759
Extent:: 1 volume (96 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19583
Title:: A collection of sacred chants and hymns, the words in Latin; and songs, the words in French, by various authors.
Scope & Content:: ff. 1b-45 passim. Single vocal parts (1st or 2nd treble, or tenor) of compositions for several voices by French and Flemish composers of the 15th-16th cent. 1. ‘Confitemini Domino, quoniam bonus.’ ‘Andreas [Silvanus ?].’ In 3 parts, f. 1b. 2. ‘O sancte seraphice.’ ‘[Pierre] de la fage.’ f. 6b. 3...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume (48 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19647
Title:: Songs in full score, composed for Vauxhall Gardens, by James Hook.
Scope & Content:: Songs, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings and other instruments mentioned below, in score, written by J[ames] Hook for Vauxhall. Autograph. 1. 'To sing about love I know is the plan'; with oboes, horns, bassoons, etc., 1786. f. 27. 2. 'Farewell, ambitious, gilded Toys'; written for '...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1785-1798
Extent:: 1 volume (108 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19648
Title:: Collection of 19th-century compositions predominently for voice, by Franz Joseph Haydn, D. Bruguier, Thomas Brewer, W. H. Cutler, and anonymous.
Scope & Content:: ff. 2, 7. Canzonets, originally written for a single voice, by Franz Joseph Haydn, harmonized for 3 voices, with pianoforte accompaniment, in score, by D. Bruguier. 1. 'Despair,' begins 'The anguish of my bursting heart.' f. 2. 2. 'Fidelity,' begins 'While hollow burst the rushing winds.' f. 7. ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1810-1833
Extent:: 1 volume (46 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19758
Title:: A TREATISE of music, "By Thomas Rauenscroft, Bacheler of Musick, and one of ye children of Poules." Paper; xviith cent. Small Quarto.
Scope & Content:: Thomas Ravenscroft, composer and editor: Treatise on music: 17th cent.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

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