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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 5054

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Add MS 5054
Title:
A collection of motets, madrigals, full anthems, portions of masses, psalms (or choruses), canons and duets, as well as examples of a litany, a grace, a service, a miserere, and a stabat Mater. In score.
Scope & Content:
1. Sanctus and Gloria in Excelsis, in B minor, parts of a service, for 3 solo voices and 4-part chorus, by Dr. {William} Croft. ff. 3-5b. 2. 'La Spagnola'. A madrigal. (à 3), begins 'Al rigor d'un bel Sembiante'; with the alternative words 'Al splendor di due pupille' written underneath. 'Agost...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1760
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 6145

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Add MS 6145
Title:
A collection of chansons by Jean Jacques Rousseau
Scope & Content:
'Recueil de [6] Chansons, avec Accompagnemens de deux Violons, Basson ou Quinte, et Basse-Continue'; the violins being in separate parts, the rest in score. [By Jean Jacques Rousseau.] Autograph . 1. 'L'amour m'a fait la peinture.' ff. 2b, 9b, 13b, 17b. 2. 'Ecoutez I'histoire du beau Misis.' f...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (20 folios)

4. Add MS 6146

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Add MS 6146
Title:
Volume I of a collection of French 'Airs', in parts
Scope & Content:
'Airs,' with a bass (occasionally figured) for harpsichord, in score, and separate parts for 2 violins and a quintus (tenor), by Jean Jacques Rousseau, dedicated to the Comtesse d'Egmont, about 1770-1771 (see Albert Jansen's , p. 415). Holograph. All published in , 1781. Prefixed is a dedication...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1770
Extent:

1 volume (35 folios)

5. Add MS 6146-6149

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Add MS 6146-6149
Title:
A collection of French 'Airs', in parts
Scope & Content:
'Airs,' with a bass (occasionally figured) for harpsichord, in score, and separate parts for 2 violins and a quintus (tenor), by Jean Jacques Rousseau, dedicated to the Comtesse d'Egmont, about 1770-1771 (see Albert Jansen's , p. 415). Holograph. All published in , 1781. Add MS 6146 contains th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1770
Extent:

4 volumes

6. Add MS 6147

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Add MS 6147
Title:
Volume II of a collection of French 'Airs', in parts
Scope & Content:
'Airs,' with a bass (occasionally figured) for harpsichord, in score, and separate parts for 2 violins and a quintus (tenor), by Jean Jacques Rousseau, dedicated to the Comtesse d'Egmont, about 1770-1771 (see Albert Jansen's , p. 415). Holograph. All published in , 1781. This volume contains th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1770
Extent:

1 volume (16 folios)

7. Add MS 6148

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Add MS 6148
Title:
Volume III of a collection of French 'Airs', in parts
Scope & Content:
'Airs,' with a bass (occasionally figured) for harpsichord, in score, and separate parts for 2 violins and a quintus (tenor), by Jean Jacques Rousseau, dedicated to the Comtesse d'Egmont, about 1770-1771 (see Albert Jansen's , p. 415). Holograph. All published in , 1781. This volume contains th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1770
Extent:

1 volume (16 folios)

8. Add MS 6149

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Add MS 6149
Title:
Volume IV of a collection of French 'Airs', in parts
Scope & Content:
'Airs,' with a bass (occasionally figured) for harpsichord, in score, and separate parts for 2 violins and a quintus (tenor), by Jean Jacques Rousseau, dedicated to the Comtesse d'Egmont, about 1770-1771 (see Albert Jansen's , p. 415). Holograph. All published in , 1781. This volume contains th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1770
Extent:

1 volume (16 folios)

9. 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

10. Add MS 11582

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Add MS 11582
Title:
A collection of masses, motets, madrigals, a stabat mater and a miserere, in the hand of Dr. Charles Burney
Scope & Content:
ff. 2b, 12-59 and 95. Masses, or portions of Masses, for 4 voices (unless the contrary is stated), scored by Dr. Charles Burney. Some of them appear in vol. ii of his 'History of Music', 1782. The names of the Masses and of their composers are: — 1. ‘L'Omme Armé.’ ‘Josquin [des Près].’ There are...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1782
Extent:
1 volume

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