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Collection Area Music Collections Subject Carols

1. Add MS 5036-5062

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Add MS 5036-5062
Title:
A collection of pieces, including motets, madrigals, masses, anthems, duets and other works
Scope & Content:
A collection of pieces, including motets, madrigals, masses, anthems, duets and other works. Prefixed to Add MS 5036 is a letter from Gabriel Mathias to the trustees of the British Museum, containing an extract from the will of James Mathias esq, from which it appears that these volumes are all...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1760
Extent:
27 volumes

2. Add MS 5043

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Add MS 5043
Title:
A collection of motets and carols by Jean Mouton
Scope & Content:
‘Ioannis Moreton, Sameracensis, Musici præstantissimi, selecti aliquot moduli, et in 4, 5, 6, et 8 vocum harmoniam distincti. Liber primus. Parisiis, ap Adr. Le Roy et Rob. Ballard, 1555’. Scored by Needler. Also included are three carols, in score. 1. ‘Quæramus cum pastoribus,’ with second p...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
before 1760
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 5319-5337

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Add MS 5319-5337
Title:
Manuscript music presented by Sir John Hawkins
Scope & Content:
A collection of manuscript music formerly owned by Sir John Hawkins, chiefly copied by Mr. John Stanley
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
19 volumes

4. Add MS 5336

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Add MS 5336
Title:
A collection of catches, canons, madrigals, vocal trios, vocal quartets, and some organ voluntaries
Scope & Content:
passim. Rounds and Catches. Nos. 1-9, 12, 13, 16, 18, 24, 31, 34, 36, and 38 are for 4 voices; the others for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated). Nos. 1-19, 21-31, are in score, and are taken from three works by Thomas Ravenscroft, viz.: — (1609), (1609), and (1611). 1, 2. 'Trole the bo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (46 folios)

5. Add MS 10338

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Add MS 10338
Title:
A collection of anthems, songs, duets, trios, services, cantatas, motets, and other pieces, in the hand of George Jeffreys
Scope & Content:
ff. 4-13. 'Fantazies,' or Fancies, for strings and organ, in score, by George Jeffreys. 1-6. Six 'of 3 Parts for the Violls and the Virginall.' Autograph. In the 5th Fantasia, a few notes have been added to the virginal part to make it suitable for playing on the organ. f. 4. 7. Another 'of 2 pa...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
after 1669
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 11581-11591

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Add MS 11581-11591
Title:
Extracts from various early musical writers, by Charles Burney, Mus. Doct., with remarks and criticisms by him
Scope & Content:
Also includes extracts and examples of various compositions.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
11 volumes

7. Add MS 11585

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Add MS 11585
Title:
A collection of madrigals, carols, motets, graces, trios, quartets, and examples of harmony
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-34. Madrigals, etc., in score. Unless the contrary is stated, they are for 3 voices and unaccompanied. 1. 'Che (sic) prend' amor a gioco'; with accompaniments for 2 strings and a figured bass for harpsichord. 'Cavalier Tarquinio Merula, maestro di capella nella Chiesa Maggiore di S. Maria ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1782
Extent:
1 volume

8. Add MS 11586

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Add MS 11586
Title:
A collection of motets, songs, extracts from masses, part of a Magnificat, part of a sonata, examples of harmony, and other vocal compositions
Scope & Content:
Motets, in score, for 5 voices; before 1782. In the hand of Dr. Charles Burney. Nos. 2, 3 are inserted in vol. ii of his History of Music, 1782. Leaves are missing after ff. 15, 37 and 38. 1. ‘O sacrum con vivium.’ ‘Thomas Tallis‘ (from a MS. copy, dated 1581, at C. C. C, Oxford. Printed in 1575...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Add MS 14398

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Add MS 14398
Title:
A collection of motets, madrigals, canons, a carol and part of a mass
Scope & Content:
ff. 5-126b, 134b. 'A collection of Motetts . . . chiefly selected from the Original parts and put into score, 1770,’ by Edmund T. Warren Home, whose bookplate with arms is prefixed. Unless the contrary is stated, they are for 5 voices. Nos. 1-12 are from William Bird's Liber primus Sacrarum Cant...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1770
Extent:
1 volume

10. Add MS 17786

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Add MS 17786
Title:
Collection of 17th-century sacred and secular vocal and instrumental compositions, by English composers, arranged in five, six, and seven parts, across six volumes.
Scope & Content:
Vocal and instrumental compositions. Vol. I. passim. [String quintets, Anthems Carols Madrigals String sextets] Fantasias or Fancies, etc., for 5 instruments, in parts. 1. 'De la courte'; in two parts. Robert Parsons.' f. 1. 2. Fancy. 'Byrd.' f. 2b. {also in 29996 f. 211} 3. 'A toy.' An...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
early 17th century
Extent:
1 of six volumes (Part book)