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

21. Add MS 29968

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Add MS 29968
Title:
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.
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
circa 1850
Extent:
1 volume (147 folios)

22. Add MS 31464

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Add MS 31464
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CATCHES, by the Earl of Mornington, Henry Purcell, Dr. T. A. Arne, J. Isum [Isham], - Atterbury, and others. Copied by Thomas Oliphant. Paper; ff. 39. xixth cent. Oblong 24mo. Garrett Colley Wellesley, 1st Earl of Mornington: Part-songs: 19th cent. Henry Purcell, composer and organist: Glees, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

23. Add MS 34000-34002

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Add MS 34000-34002
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Collection of Motets, Masses, etc., probably mostly by Giovanni Gabrieli, or by other composers of the last quarter of the 16th century. Part books: first and second cantus and tenor.
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First and second cantus and tenor parts, in 3 volumes, of a collection of Motets, Masses, etc., probably by a composer, or composers, of the last quarter of the 16th cent. One of the pieces (vols, ii, iii, f. 17b) is addressed to Albert [III], Duke of Bavaria (d. 1579); another (vols, ii, iii, f...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
3 volumes (46, 41, 41 folios)

24. Add MS 38546

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Add MS 38546
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PEARSALL COLLECTION. Vol. VII (ff. ii + 101). Arrangements and adaptations from works by the early madrigalwriters and others, interspersed with original compositions chiefly sketches or rough drafts by Pearsall, including anthems, a canon, a carol, a catch, duets, glees, a lamentation, madrigal...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1835-1838
Extent:
1 item

25. Egerton MS 2422

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Egerton MS 2422
Title:
Index to English songs and other compositions for two or three voices
Scope & Content:
Alphabetical index to the first lines of 7442 English songs and other compositions for 2 or 3 voices, chiefly of the 17th and 18th centuries, written on as many slips of paper and pasted down. In the hand of Thomas Oliphant.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 volume (219 folios)

26. Egerton MS 2957

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Egerton MS 2957
Title:
" MUSIC IN MACBETH " [1672], commonly attributed to Matthew Lock, with symphonies and accompaniments for instruments, in score. At ff. 14-18 there is an alternative setting of the passage beginning " Now I go," apparently (see his letter at the top of f. 14) by Richard Leveridge (fl. 1695), whose name also appears on f. 3 as one of the singers. Among the miscellaneous papers at the end are:- (a) An engraving of the Duke's theatre, Dorset Gardens, 1814. f. 25;- (b) Copy by Thomas Oliphant o...
Scope & Content:
Matthew Lock: Macbeth music attrib. to.: [1672]. Bookplates: O'Callaghan (Hon. George), d. 1856. Robert Smith, of St Paul's Churchyard: Bookplates of arms (two types, one having motto underneath): 18th-19th cent. Henry Purcell, composer and organist: Macbeth music (1672) sometimes ascribed to...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1660-1875
Extent:
1 item

27. Egerton MS 2969

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Egerton MS 2969
Title:
ODE for St. Cecilia's Day, in full score, by Henry Purcell, apparently in the hand of [John] Saville, lay-chorister of Lichfield Cathedral. Paper ; ff. iv + 42. Quarto. XVIII-XIX cent. Belonged to T[homas] Jones, C[harles] Wesley (d. 1834), Enoch Hawkins (bookplate with crest, sale-cat., 1847, part of lot 222), Thomas Oliphant (sale-cat., 1873, lot 584), and William H[ayman] Cummings (bookplate, sale-cat., lot 540).
Scope & Content:
John Saville, lay chorister of Lichfield: Transcribed: 18th-19th cent. Henry Purcell, composer and organist: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: late 18th cent. Enoch Hawkins, Vicar-Choral of Westminster Abbey: Bookplate: 19th cent. Bookplates: Hawkins (Enoch): 19th cent. William Hayman Cummings, Mus...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 item

28. MS Mus. 1592

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MS Mus. 1592
Title:
MS Mus. 1592. Letters of composers: A collection of letters of British composers, performers, promoters and publishers; 1825-1929; n.d. All names are in the index to this catalogue. Includes letters relating to Sacred Harmonic Society performances, from W. Crotch, G. Duprez, W. Horsley and others, and some musical fragments and autographs. Purchased from Sotheby’s, 4 Dec. 2007, lot 19. ff. 148. 260 x 222mm.
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-7 Thomas Adams, composer and organist: Five letters to unknown recipients: middle of the 19th cent.f. 8 Henry Robinson Allen, singer: J. M. Bacon, singer, of Northwood, county Middlesex: Postcard from Henry Robinson Allen to J. M. Bacon: between 1840 and 1850 (?).ff. 9-10r. Luig...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1825-1929
Extent:
1 item

29. RPS MS 88

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RPS MS 88
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CONRADIN KREUTZER Recit. and trio ‘Say what reward … Seek not youth’ (‘Trenne nicht das Band der Liebe’) from Das Nachtlager in Granada. Copy by W[illia]m G[oodwin].; 1850. ff. i+14 240 x 305mm. Thomas Oliphant, composer and author: Conradin Kreutzer, composer: William Goodwin, music copyist...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1850
Extent:
1 item

30. RPS MS 330

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RPS MS 330
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Scope & Content:
Letter book; 1850-58. ff. 179. 225 x 184mm. includes: ff. 2, 10, 34, 54, 56, 60v, 75r, 75v, 77, 95, 96, 97 Sir Michael Costa, composer: George Hogarth, music critic and composer; Secretary, Philharmonic Society: Letters to Sir Michael Costa from George Hogarth: 1850-54: Copies.ff. 2, 6, 34v...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1850-1858
Extent:
1 item