George Jeffreys: Collection of Latin motets, anthems and a Te Deum
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Collection of Latin motets, anthems and a Te Deum, in the autograph of George Jeffreys, steward to Lord Hatton, organist to Charles I, etc. Volume i (Add MS 30829) contains the altus part, vol. ii (Add MS 30830) the tenor. The bassus part is Add MS 17816. For a collection containing most of the ...
Henry Purcell: Autograph manuscript of fantazias, sonatas and sacred part-songs.
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The vocal music, for between three and five voices and continuo, has been copied from one end of the manuscript (folios 3r-29v) and the instrumental music from the other (folios 72v-30r reversed).
Henry Purcell: Devotional songs for three, four and five voices, with continuo.
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ff. 3-29. Anthems in score, from miscellaneous autograph vocal and instrumental music by Henry Purcell.1. 'Plung'd in ye confines of dispair' (3 voices). f. 3. 2. 'O all ye people, clap your hands' (4 voices). f. 4. 3. 'When on my sick bed I languish' (3 voices). f. 6. 4. 'Lord, not to us' (3 vo...
'Missa solemnis,’ in D; for solo voices and 4-part chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments for horns, flutes, clarinets, bassoons, and strings, and a figured bass for organ, in score, by Sigismundo Neukomn, ‘fratrum Michaelis et Josephi Haydn discipuli.’ Autograph. It was originally written a...
Mass (‘Kyrie‘ and ‘Gloria‘) in C; for 4 voices, with symphonies and accompaniments for horns, oboes, and strings, and a figured bass for organ, in score, by Pasquale Anfossi.
f. 2b. 'Kyrie,’ for 4 voices, with a bass for organ, in score, intended for a Mass, ‘De Sancta Cruce,’ by Samuel Wesley; about 1780. Autograph. ff. 3b-26. Antiphons, etc., with a bass for organ (unless the contrary is stated), in score, by Samuel Wesley; 1780, 1781. Autograph. 1. ‘Sacerdos et ...
A collection of pieces transcribed, and mostly composed by, Samuel Wesley.
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f. 1b. 'Faint is my head‘: 4-part Hymn, in score, the melody being in the tenor; the music by Dr. William Boyce, the words by the Rev. C[harles] Wesley; about 1825-1829. ff. 4b-10, 11b, 12b. Double Chants (with one exception), for 4 voices, with a compressed score for organ below, in score, mos...