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Collection Area Music Collections Name Cummings, William Hayman, organist, tenor and musicologist, 1831-1915

1. Add MS 39565-39567

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INCIDENTAL MUSIC, Sonatas, etc., arranged in sets or suites for wind instruments (chiefly flutes) and strings, in parts, by Paisible, Colasse, Tollett, Morgan, Purcell, Finger, Corelli, and Clerke (Jeremiah Clark ?). 1st treble, tenor, and bass parts. The 2nd treble part is in Add. MS. 30839, for a description of which see the Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum, iii, pp. 47, 52, 54, 76, 157. Paper; ff. ii+81, i+67, ii+81. XVII-XVIII cent. Oblong octavo. Bookplate of Williaim...
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James Paisible, alias Peasable; composer: Incidental music, etc.: 17th-18th cent. Music: Incidental music, sonatas, etc., for wind instruments and strings, in parts: 17th-18th cent. William Hayman Cummings, Mus.D: Bookplates. Bookplates: Cummings (William Hayman), Mus.D. d.1915.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
3 items

2. Add MS 39568

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" ARTASERSE " : opera by Johann Adolf Hasse, in score. Paper; ff. iii + 186. xviii cent. Oblong folio. Belonged to T. Millar in 1813 (?). Bookplate of W. H. Cummings (sale-cat., lot 842). Presented by the same.
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Johann Adolf Hasse, composer: "Artaserse ": an opera by: 18th cent. William Hayman Cummings, Mus.D: Bookplates. Bookplates: Cummings (William Hayman), Mus.D. d.1915.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 39569

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" RECEUFIL de Piéces choisies pour le Clauessin, 1702, "compiled by William Babell. Autogr. The principal contents are twenty-nine suites probably adapted and arranged by the compiler, many of them from operatic works by Jean Baptiste Sully (ff. 1-100 b passim.), and a set of twelve toccatas by Georg Muffat (ff.114b-132b). Other composers named or identified are [Nicholas Antoine] Le Bègue, [Robert?] King, - Deopard, Hamel Bruinincks, [Jacques Champion] de Chambonnière[s], [Giovanni Gioseffo...
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Bookplates: Griffin (Ralph), F.S.A.: 20th cent. Bindings ENGLISH: Black morocco, tooled: early 18th cent. William Babel, composer: Harpsichord suites, etc.: 1702. William Hayman Cummings, Mus.D: Bookplates. Bookplates: Cummings (William Hayman), Mus.D. d.1915. includes: ff. 3 b, 21 b, 32 ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 39570

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" ALLGEMEINES CHORAL-BUCH, geordnet nach der Liederfolge des neuen Hildburghäusischen Gesangbuchs, vierstimmig ausgesetzt mit Vor- und Zwischenspielen . . . von J[ohann] C[aspar] Rüttinger, Hofmusikus und Organist an der Waisenkirche zu Hildburghaussen " : a collection of 274 chorales for 4 voices, in compressed score, with figured bass and preludes and interludes for organ. The majority are original compositions, but 85 are by various composers, mainly of the 16th to 18th centt., some of wh...
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Bookplates: Griffin (Ralph), F.S.A.: 20th cent. Johann Kaspar Rüttinger, organist at the Orphanage church, Hildburghausen: Choral-Buch: early 19th cent.: Germ.: Probably autogr. William Hayman Cummings, Mus.D: Bookplates. Bookplates: Cummings (William Hayman), Mus.D. d.1915. includes: ff. 3...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 39845

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CONCERTO BUFFO, in full score, by W[ilhelm Friedrich Ernst] Bach, grandson of Johann Sebastian Bach. Autograph. Paper; ff. ii + 32. 1st half of xix cent. Oblong quarto. From the library of William Hayman Cummings (sale-cat., 17 May 1917, lot 235), Sotheby's sale, 13 May 1919, part of lot 888. cf. Add. 32081, also Autograph.
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William Hayman Cummings, Mus.D: Bookplates. Bookplates: Cummings (William Hayman), Mus.D. d.1915. Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach: Concerto buffo: 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of 19th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 41574

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EDWARDS PAPERS. Vol. V. Miscellaneous letters, chiefly from musicians; 1876-1909. A few letters, etc., not addressed to F. G. Edwards, include one from Edward Lear, 1881 (f. 315), and two from John Liptrott Hatton to Mrs Ann Shepherd Bartholomew, 1870 (ff. 310-313). Paper (ff. 316). Quarto. A.D....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1835-1909
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 41639

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Vol. IV (ff. 331). 1895-1927 and n.d. includes: f. 1 Sir Walter Besant, novelist: Letter to A. J. Hipkins: 1895.ff. 2, 6, 11 Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Baronet; composer: Letters to A. J. Hipkins: 1893-1895.ff. 5, 74 Sir Isidor George Henschel, musician: Letters to A. J. Hipkins:...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1895-1927
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 47216

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LETTERS TO AUGUSTUS HUGHES-HUGHES, relating to his work in the Department of Manuscripts, mainly from musicologists and librarians; 1883-1922. English, French, Italian and German. The letters are chiefly on musical subjects and include (ff. 6-8, 39, 40) information from librarians on manuscripts of the works of John Hothby, on whom Hughes-Hughes wrote an article for the second edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ii, 1906. The names of the writers are given in the Index to t...
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Music: Letters from musicologists, etc., to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1883-1922.: Engl., Fr., Germ. and Ital. Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Assistant Keeper, Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Letters to: 1883-1922.: Engl., Fr., Germ. and Ital. includes: ff. 2, 4, 5 William Chappell, music publis...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1883-1922
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 47855

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MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol.. XIII (ff. v+96). Printed editions of piano concertos nos. 1-5 and the quintet for piano and strings by John Field; 1815- 1817 (cf. C. Hopkinson, A Bibliographical Thematic Catalogue of ... John Field, 1961). Piano parts only. Concertos nos. 1-4 and the quintet are the e...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1815-1817
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 50860

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BASS PART-BOOK, containing anthems by Pelham Humfrey, John Blow, William Turner, Henry Purcell, Matthew Locke, and Thomas Tudway, from a set of Chapel Royal part-books; bef. 10 Dec. 1677 (date of Blow's doctorate). Imperfect, by the loss of five leaves. Another part-book from the same set is a bass part in the Ohki Collection, Nanki Music Library, Tokyo (N-5/10). Both books were written by the copyists of the earliest surviving leaves in the Chapel Royal part-books, British Library, R.M.27.a...
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Reverend William Tucker, composer: Partly copied: bef. 1678. includes: f. iii William Croft, composer and organist; d.1727: Signatures(?): 1697.ff. 1-3, 4b, 5b-6, 8-8b, 13b-15 Pelham Humfrey, alias Humphrey; lutenist and composer: Anthems: bef. 1678: Copies.ff. 3b-4, 6-6b, 10-11 John Blo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 10 Dec 1677
Extent:
1 item