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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 70920-70924
Title:: J. W. DAVISON PAPERS. Vols. i-v. Letters to J. W. Davison; 1828-1884, n.d. Arranged alphabetically by writer. Five volumes.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1828-1884
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 70920-70925
Title:: J. W. DAVISON PAPERS: letters to James William Davison (b.1813, d.1885), sometime editor of The Musical World and music critic of The Times; 1828-1914, n.d. Some of the letters are published in Henry Davison, Music during the Victorian Era: being the Memoirs of J. W. Davison (1912), though many of the other letters reproduced there are not present in this collection. See also Charles Reid, The Music Monster (1984). Purchased from Richard Macnutt Ltd., 5 Sept. 1989. Paper. Six volumes. Briti...
Scope & Content:: James William Davison, music critic: Letters from various correspondents and related material: 1828-1914, n.d.: Partly Fr., Germ., Ital: Partly printed. Partly copies and imperf.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1828-1914
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71107
Title:: SAMUEL WESLEY: ‘Harmony 1800’, vocal and instrumental music mainly by Samuel Wesley; 1800-1807. Autograph of Wesley. Other composers represented are Charles Burney, Henry Purcell, Thomas Ravenscroft and Agostino Steffani. In the list below pieces are by Samuel Wesley except where stated otherwise, and references are given where further (often variant) autograph versions of the pieces are to be found in other manuscripts in the British Library or the Royal College of Music (Lcm). Volume conta...
Scope & Content:: Samuel Wesley, composer and organist: Vocal and instrumental music by and in the hand of Samuel Wesley: 1800-1807: Mostly Lat., partly Gr. includes: f. 6 Agostino Steffani, composer: Motet, `Qui diligit Mariam' by Agostino Steffani: [1800]: Lat: Copy by S. Wesley. f. 15 Franz Joseph Haydn, com...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:: 1792-1807
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71252-71445
Title:: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Manuscripts
Scope & Content:: Music manuscripts of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (b. 1934); [1942?]-1992. Autograph, except where stated. Dates not derived from the manuscripts are taken principally from the work-list in Stanley Sadie (ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980), vol. 5, and Colin Bayliss, The ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: [1942?]-1992
Extent:: 194 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71435-71441
Title:: F. Juvenilia, compositions and arrangements for Cirencester Grammar School and other educational material
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, German, and Latin
Date Range:: [1941-1988]
Extent:: 7 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71437
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Scope & Content:: MAXWELL DAVIES MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. clxxxvi. Arrangements by Peter Maxwell Davies (ff. 1-101, 103), and works by pupils and associates (ff. 102, 103v-125), for orchestra except where stated; 1959-1961, n.d. The pupils’ works are autograph except where stated. ff. i+127. Various sizes. 1. ff. 1-19...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 1959-1962
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71538
Title:: HUGHES-HUGHES FAMILY ALBUM: compiled by Augustus Hughes-Hughes (b.1857, d.1942), Assistant Keeper, Department of Manuscripts, British Museum; 1831-1942. A scrapbook containing photographs, newspaper cuttings, concert programmes, correspondence, school reports and other miscellaneous documents relating to members of the Hughes-Hughes family. The album is especially concerned with the lives of Augustus Hughes-Hughes, his first wife Ilona Carolina Augusta de Bajza, daughter of Gustav and Hélène...
Scope & Content:: Hughes-Hughes family: Album of Hughes-Hughes, family: n.d. includes: f. 2 Hughes-Hughes family: Photograph of family tombstone, in the churchyard of St Paul's, Clapham: circa 1890.f. 10 William Hughes-Hughes, formerly Hewitt; MP for Oxford: C. Jecks, clerk: William Hughes, of Clapham: Cert...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, Hungarian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1831-1942
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Case.35.f.10.
Title:: ‘SALVE FESTA DIES’: two parts of a polyphonic setting; after 1528. Written on f. clxiv v and the rear flyleaf of the printed Processionale ad usum Sarum ([Antwerp]: Christophorus Ruremunden, 1528). The two parts (tenor and bassus) are written in different hands, and above the bassus part (f. clxiv v) another hand has written the start of Psalm 130 (‘De profundis clamavi ad te’), with melody. Acquired in the nineteenth century. ff. 164 + i. 195 x 138mm.
Scope & Content:: includes: f. clxiv v Psalms: Psalm 130, with chant, added to a printed Sarum Processional: after 1528: Lat.ff. clxiv v, rear flyleaf Music: Tenor and bassus parts of a setting of 'Salve festa dies', added to a printed Sarum Processional: after 1528: Lat.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: after 1528
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Case.35.f.14.
Title:: POLYPHONIC ‘KYRIE ELEISON’; after 1545. Written on ff. ccxi v and 216v of the printed Processionale ad usus insignis ecclesie Sarum observandos accommodum ([Antwerp]: Christophorus Ruremunden, 1545). On f. ccxi v the first verse of the Hymn ‘Salve festa dies’ is written in square plainsong notation, then in another hand the Bassus part of a polyphonic setting of words beginning ‘Kyryeleyson qui pretioso sanguine’ in mensural notation. On f. 216v are written tenor and ‘secundus contratenor’ p...
Scope & Content:: includes: f. 211v Hymns: Words and music to the first verse of 'Salve festa dies', added to a printed Sarum Processional: after 1545: Lat.ff. 211v, 216v Music: Polyphonic 'Kyrie eleison' added to a printed Sarum Processional: after 1545: Lat.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: after 1545
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Case.35.g.12.
Title:: MUSICAL ANNOTATIONS; after 1532. Added in several hands to the printed volume Hymnorum cum notis opusculum usui insignis ecclesie Sarum subserviens (Antwerp: Christophorus Ruremunden, 1532/3). The annotations comprise the chant ‘Asperges me’ (f. i v), several musical phrases in square and mensural notation (f. 188) and the hymn ‘Intra deserti subteris annis cibium’, written in square notation (f. 188v), as well as marginal additions to rubrics in Latin and English (ff. lxxvi, lxxxvi, lxxxvii...
Scope & Content:: includes: f. i v Psalms: 'Asperges me', written into a printed Sarum Hymnal: after 1532: Lat.f. 188v Hymns: 'Intra deserti subteris', written on the back page of a printed Sarum Hymnal: after 1532: Lat.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: after 1532
Extent:: 1 item

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