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Collection Area Music Collections Language Italian Name Oliphant, Thomas, composer and author

1. Add MS 24303

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Add MS 24303
Title:
Francesco Feo: 'L' Andromacca', opera
Scope & Content:
'L' Andromacca': Opera in 3 Acts, with symphonies and accompaniments for horns, oboes, strings, and harpsichord, in score, by Francesco Feo, written for the Teatro della Valle [at Rome], in 1730. This copy (unlike Add MS 22105) includes the recitativi secchi, and the names of the characters: Tele...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1730?
Extent:
1 volume (143 folios)

2. Add MS 29380-29381

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Add MS 29380-29381
Title:
A collection of chansons, madrigals, and a motet
Scope & Content:
Eleven chansons for 3 voices by various (mostly French) composers, scored by John Immyns. Three psalms for three voices in score, by Cl[aude] le Jeune. A motet for 3 voices, in score, by Josquin des Pres.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
2 volumes

3. Add MS 29382-29385

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 29382-29385
Title:
Part-songs and other compositions, for two, three, and four voices, by William Byrd, John Farmer, Thomas Morley, and other composers
Scope & Content:
Copied by John Immyns. In separate parts. Add MS 29382 contains the canto part. Add MS 29383 contains the alto part. Add MS 29384 contains the tenor part. Add MS 29385 contains the bass part.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
4 volumes

4. Add MS 29386

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 29386
Title:
A collection of catches, canons, songs, vocal trios, excerpts from oratorios, excerpts from operas, and a duet
Scope & Content:
passim. Catches, Rounds, etc., for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score. Most of them are in the hand of Edmund T. Warren Home; some of them, beginning with no. 4, were 'corrected [in] 1756.' 1. 'Tobacco is but a vapor' (à 4). 'Ed. Nelham.' f. 5. 2. 'Hey ho, what shall I say' (à 9)...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1762?
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 29396

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 29396
Title:
A collection, mostly of English songs
Scope & Content:
passim. Songs, with a bass (unless the contrary is stated), for harpsichord, in score. Those marked with an asterisk appear for the first time in Playford's , 1652. Almost the whole of the MS is in the hand of Edward Lowe, organist of the Chapel Royal (1661-1682), who added the bass to some of t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1678?-1682?
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 29397

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 29397
Title:
A collection, largely of songs, duets and catches
Scope & Content:
passim. Songs for the most part unaccompanied, but occasionally with a bass for harpsichord, in score. Many are taken from John Playford's , 1673-1683, the , 1685, and other collections of that period. See indices by Thomas Oliphant at the beginning and end of the volume. 1. 'The bright Clarinda...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1682?-1690?
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 29400

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 29400
Title:
Giulio Renaldi: Primo Libro de' Madrigali, for four voices; transcribed by John Immyns.
Scope & Content:
'Di Giulio Renaldi Padouano 1o Libr[o] de Madrigali [a quatro voci]...Venetia 1583.' [The first edition appeared in 1569.] In score, in the hand of John Immyns (1741). Included is one by Francesco Pigna (f. 72b). Of the last Madrigal, 'Poiche l' alto valore,' there are two settings (ff. 85b, 86)...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

1 volume (90 folios)