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1. Add MS 17798

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Add MS 17798
Title:
Compositions for violins, and bass, in the hand of William Lawes
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-11b. Bass part of sixteen compositions ('fantazias' airs, pavans, and an 'In nomine '), for 5 viols, in the hand of William Lawes, who has signed nos. 1, 4, and 16. Described in Add MS 29410-29415 as '5 pts of Mr. Will. Lawes' Fantazies and aires to the Organn.' ff. 12-25b. Compositions ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (25 folios)

2. Add MS 18940-18944

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Add MS 18940-18944
Title:
Collection of compositions including: Pavans, Galliards, Airs, Corantos in 3 and 4 parts, for viols, by R. Deering, Maurice Webster, C. Hely, Charles Coleman, Th. Mudde, William Lawes, John Bannister, senior, William Childe, John Jenkins, and Simon Ives, the elder, and Christopher Simpson.
Scope & Content:
Collection of compositions including: Pavans, Galliards, Airs, Corantos in 3 and 4 parts, for viols, by R. Deering, Maurice Webster, C. Hely, Charles Coleman, Th. Mudde, William Lawes, John Bannister, senior, William Childe, John Jenkins, and Simon Ives, the elder, and Christopher Simpson. [Add...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
after 1612
Extent:
5 volumes (Part books)

3. Add MS 29291

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Add MS 29291
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A collection of part-songs, canons, catches, glees, parts of services, vocal trios and duets, as well as some instrumental music
Scope & Content:
ff. 3-56 passim. Part music, for 4 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score; 18th cent. 1. 'Hark, jolly shepheards.' 'Thos Morley.' [1594.] f. 3. 2. 'Dare you haunt' ('The Fayries daunce'). 'Thos Ravenscroft.' [From .] '1614.' f. 10. 3. 'Awake, sweet Love.' This and nos. 4-6 [from the ],...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 29396

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Add MS 29396
Title:
A collection, mostly of English songs
Scope & Content:
passim. Songs, with a bass (unless the contrary is stated), for harpsichord, in score. Those marked with an asterisk appear for the first time in Playford's , 1652. Almost the whole of the MS is in the hand of Edward Lowe, organist of the Chapel Royal (1661-1682), who added the bass to some of t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1678?-1682?
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 29397

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Add MS 29397
Title:
A collection, largely of songs, duets and catches
Scope & Content:
passim. Songs for the most part unaccompanied, but occasionally with a bass for harpsichord, in score. Many are taken from John Playford's , 1673-1683, the , 1685, and other collections of that period. See indices by Thomas Oliphant at the beginning and end of the volume. 1. 'The bright Clarinda...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1682?-1690?
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 29410-29415

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Add MS 29410-29415
Title:
"Will[iam] Lawes Fantazies and aires to the, Organn," for 5 or 6 viols, in parts
Scope & Content:
Fantasias and airs for 5 viols (cantus i and ii, contratenor, tenor, and bassus), in parts. Except where the contrary is stated, the foliation is the same in each volume.1-3. Two Fantasias, and an Air; in A minor, ff. 2, 2b, 3. 4-6. Fantasia, Pavan, Air; in F. ff. 3b, 4, 4b. 7-9. Fantasia, 'In n...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
6 volumes

7. Add MS 30273

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Add MS 30273
Title:
Collection of glees, catches, rounds, etc. by Samuel Webbe, sen., John Wall Callcott, John Stafford Smith, Henry Purcell, Dr. Thomas Augustine Arne, William Lawes, and other English composers of the 18th century
Scope & Content:
Rounds, catches and cries for three or four voices. Around 1833 (watermark, f. 35). f. 2. ‘Non nobis, Domine’; for 3 voices, in score, attributed to William Byrd; followed by two ‘Amens,’ for 3 and 4 voices. ff. 4, 5b. Glees for 3 voices, in score, by Dr. Henry Harington. 1. 'What shall we si...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1833
Extent:
1 volume (53 folios)

8. Add MS 34071

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Add MS 34071
Title:
A collection of madrigals, motets, elegies, and a catch
Scope & Content:
passim. Chansons and Madrigals, in score. The earlier ones are almost all of them taken from the collections of Gardane and Tylman Susato (1541-1550). Except where the contrary is stated, they are for 5 voices.1. 'D'amour me plains.' 'Mai[tre] Rogier, 1543.' This and nos. 2-6 are for 4 voices. f...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (51 folios)

9. 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)

10. Add MS 38783

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Add MS 38783
Title:
A COLLECTION of solos for the viola da gamba transcribed into modern staff notation from the original (17th cent.) tablature of a MS. belonging to the Corporation of Manchester, under the supervision of Dr. Thomas Lea Southgate, who has written a preface, with notes on the composers. Those named are Anthonye (probably Mark Anthony Gayerdell, fi. 1558-1564), John and Thomas Bates, Thomas Birche, Dr. Charles Coleman, -Crosbey,- Elliot of Oxford, John Este, Huh Facie, Alphonso Ferrabosco (II?),...
Scope & Content:
Thomas Lea Southgate, DCL: Viola da gamba music transcribed from a 17th cent. MS. supervision of, with preface and arrangements by: 1913. Music: Viola da gamba solos, transcribed from 17th cent., tablature: 1913. Richard Sumarte: Viola da gamba solos arranged and partly composed by, 17th cent....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1913
Extent:
1 item