Magnificat, Requiem, Stabat Mater and motets by Giambattista Fenoglio
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ff. 1-16b. 'Magnificat’ in D; for 4 voices, with symphonies and accompaniments for horns and strings and a figured bass for organ, in score, by Giambattista Fenoglio. Autograph. Ends with an elaborate ‘Gloria Patri.’ ff. 17-24. 'Et incarnatus est'; for a treble voice, with symphony and accompa...
Five 'Motets a grand chœurs' with instrumental accompaniments, in score, by Jean Joseph Cassanae de Mondonville
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Five ‘Motets a grand chœurs‘ (of 4 or 5 voices), with symphonies and accompaniments for instruments (generally flutes, bassoons, and strings), in score, by Mondonville. 1. ‘Venite, exultemus’; with oboes, etc. f. 3. 2. ‘Jubilate Deo, omnis terra.’ f. 24. 3. ‘Nisi Dominus.’ f. 42. 4. ‘Cœl...
Thomas Tallis: Motet for forty voices; arranged and scored by Thomas Oliphant. Four chants and the alto part of a Te Deum. Inserted at the end is the printed three-part glee, " How merrily we live," by Michael Este.
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ff. 1-142. [‘Spem in alium non habui’]; for 40 voices, by [Thomas] Tallis, adapted about 1630 to the words ‘Sing and glorify Heav'n's high Majesty.’ Originally written for 8 first trebles, 8 second trebles, 8 contra-tenors, 8 tenors and 8 basses, but divided by Thomas Oliphant into 8 choirs of 5...
George Frideric Handel: Chandos Te Deum and Anthem 'Let God arise'. Full score for voices and instruments.
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ff. 2-29. Te Deum, for solo voices and chorus of 4 and 5 voices, with accompaniments for 2 violins, viola, oboe, bassoon and double bass, in full score, by Handel. It is published in the Händel-Gesellschaft's edition as Te Deum, No. 3, and is an arrangement for the King's Chapel of the earlier C...
Collection of motets for six voices, in six partbooks.
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Passim. Collection of Motets, etc., for 6 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in parts. The names of the composers are not given, but, from the few which have been identified, they evidently all belong to the second half of the 16th century. The contents are in the same hand as Add MS 30810-...