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Language English Name Eccles, John, Master of the Queen's Musick Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 12219

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Add MS 12219
Title:
Incidental music to Macbeth, which has been attributed to John Eccles
Scope & Content:
Incidental music to Macbeth, with symphonies and accompaniments for serpent and other instruments, in score, in the same hand as the Ode by John Eccles in Add MS 31456, and apparently autograph. In Add MS 29378, consisting almost entirely of works by Eccles, the composition of this music (ff. 57-...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (42 folios)

2. Add MS 24889

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Add MS 24889
Title:
A collection of arrangements, in parts, mostly of dramatic works
Scope & Content:
passim. First and second treble, and bass, parts of the following sets or suites arranged for strings; 18th cent:— 1. 'The Storme sett' (Overture, Rondeau, 'The Seamen's tune,' Trumpet tune, 'Farwell,' 'The Brikler's tune,' 'Magett' or Maggot, Chaconne). 'Gillier (sc. either Jean Claude Gilliers...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (92 folios)

3. Add MS 29378

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Add MS 29378
Title:
A collection of compositions, mostly by John Eccles, including excerpts from operas, duets, and an ode
Scope & Content:
Incidental music, in score, by John Eccles, with the exception of the last number. The instruments employed in the symphonies and accompaniments, where given in the MS, are indicated below; where none are mentioned, a basso continuo is to be understood. 1. 'Rinaldo and Armida,' 1699; with accom...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 29386

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Add MS 29386
Title:
A collection of catches, canons, songs, vocal trios, excerpts from oratorios, excerpts from operas, and a duet
Scope & Content:
passim. Catches, Rounds, etc., for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score. Most of them are in the hand of Edmund T. Warren Home; some of them, beginning with no. 4, were 'corrected [in] 1756.' 1. 'Tobacco is but a vapor' (à 4). 'Ed. Nelham.' f. 5. 2. 'Hey ho, what shall I say' (à 9)...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1762?
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 33351

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Add MS 33351
Title:
A collection of songs, duets, and trios by Dr. Thomas Augustine Arne, Corbet [? William Corbett], Dr. Samuel Howard, John Stanley, Daniel Purcell, Michael Wise, John Eccles, Richard Leveridge, - Monro, J- Barker, Henry Carey, and several other anonymous composers. Interspersed are also several songs without music, including versions of 'God save the King', beginning with the words 'Fame let thy Trumpet sound' (f. 30), and of 'Rule Britannia' (f. 29-b) ; also some verses spoken on the death o...
Scope & Content:
ff. 1b, 5b, 6. Three numbers from Dr. William Boyce's 'Solomon'; without accompaniment.1. Recit. and air, 'How lovely art thou.' f. lb. 2. Air, 'On his Face the vernal Rose.' f. 5b. 3. Recit. and air, 'Who quits the Lilly's fleecy white.' f. 6. ff. 2b-63b passim. Collection of Songs, etc., app...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

1 volume (68 folios)

6. Add MS 35043

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Add MS 35043
Title:
A collection of dance tunes, numbers from incidental music, pieces for violin, duets, trios and odes
Scope & Content:
passim. Dance-tunes, etc., for the violin or flute, written in England, and most of them anonymous; about 1694-1697. Many of them are probably arrangements from Incidental music. 1. 'A new dance,' immediately followed by Minuet and Gigue. f. 5. 2. 'The old Riggadoon,' and 'Prince Lewis's March '...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1694-c 1697
Extent:
1 volume (125 folios)

7. Add MS 40139

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Add MS 40139
Title:
DANCES, marches, and other arrangements for harpsichord or spinet. The only composers named are George Spencer, Dr. Croft, Handel, and Papusch; but some of the anonymous pieces have been identified as the compositions of John Eccles, Francesco Mancini, and Henry Purcell. Paper; ff. I + 49. After A.D. 1714 (f.6b). Oblong octavo. 18th cent. calf binding, blind-tooled. An old press-mark OM/9. Presented by Ronald Assheton Coates, Esq.
Scope & Content:
Press-marks: om / 9: aft. 1714. Music: Dances, marches, etc. for harpsichord or spinet, mostly English: 18th cent. Bindings ENGLISH: Calf, blind-tooled: 18th cent. includes: ff. 8 b, 16 b, 31 b, 38 b George Spencer: Harpsichord music by: 18th cent.f. 19 b William Croft, composer and orga...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1714
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 41205

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Add MS 41205
Title:
COLLECTION of dance tunes, etc., mainly by English composers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, apparently written or arranged for the harpsichord. Said (f. ii) to be in the hand of John Barrett [Music Master at Christ's Hospital; d. 1719]. Many of the compositions are anonymous; of those to whom authorship has been attributed the majority are by Henry Purcell and Dr. John Blow. Some of the pieces have been published from this MS. by E. Pauer, Old English Composers. In that w...
Scope & Content:
William Barclay Squire, CVO; Deputy Keeper of Printed Books, British Museum: Subscribed, towards purchase of: in 1925. Music: Music composed or arranged for harpsichord: 18th cent. John Barrett, music-master al Christ's Hospital: Transcribed (?): 18th cent. includes: ff. 1, 9, 13 b-20 b, 22 ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of 18th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 47446

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Add MS 47446
Title:
A COLLECTION of song and dance tunes, mostly treble part only, originally made by 'William Pitt June ye 12th. 1722' (cf. the index of tunes at ff. 1-2), with somewhat later additions at ff. 14b-35 passim, including a suite for two flutes, and, reversing the volume, ff. 79, 81-80b. The composers named or identified are Handel (ff. 7b, 22, 47b, 69b, 96, 100, 103b), Babell (f. 11b), Banister (ff. 12, 26, 40, 44, 52, 53b), Eccles (f. 13b), Barrett (ff. 14, 43b, 54, 77b), Purcell (ff. 15b, 17b, 2...
Scope & Content:
William Pitt: Transcribed: circ.1722. includes: ff. 7b, 22, 47b, 69b, 96, 100,103b George Frideric Handel, composer: Minuets, etc.: bef. 1722.f. 11b William Babel, composer: Minuet: bef. 1722.ff. 12, 26, 40, 44, 52, 53b John Banister, composer: Dance tunes, etc.: bef. 1722.f. 13b John ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1722
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 49599

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Add MS 49599
Title:
‘Recueil de Synphonie de Plusieurs Maistres’: collection of sixteen sonatas and a chaconne for various combinations of trumpets, oboes and strings.
Scope & Content:
‘Recueil de Synphonie de Plusieurs Maistres’ (see f. i). Collection of sixteen sonatas and a chaconne, in parts, for various combinations of trumpets, oboes and strings; early 18th century. Copied in a single hand, except for f. 122. Described as ‘Recueil de Synphonie de Plusieurs Maistres’ (see...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item