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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 12532

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Add MS 12532
Title:
A collection of madrigals, anthems, choruses, and motets, in the hand of John Immyns
Scope & Content:
passim. Madrigals, scored by John Immyns from the original editions. They are for 5 voices, unless the contrary is stated. 1. 'Quella donna real'; with second part, 'Por[re] in una sol donna'; third part, 'Bastava ben'; and fourth part, 'Ma dell' error.' 'Giaches de Wert.' From Madrigals à 5, bo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 14341

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Add MS 14341
Title:
A collection of pieces by Samuel Wesley, including motets, anthems, portions of services, a part-song, a canon, a chorus, a sacred song and the melodies of 4 hymns
Scope & Content:
ff. 2b, 20. Portions of Services, in score, by Samuel Wesley. 1. Responses to the Litany composed in 1806 (Add MS 34999, f. 117); the first part consisting of the melody with figured bass; the second part beginning 'From our enemies defend us,' and written for 4 voices, in score, the bass part b...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
before 1843
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 24288

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Add MS 24288
Title:
Portions of two psalms in Ecclesiastical Sclavonic, for 4 voices, in score, by Giuseppe Sarti and Maxim Berezovsky.
Scope & Content:
ff. 114. Portions of two psalms in Russian, for 4 voices, in score. 1. ‘Pomiluy mya Bozhe’ (Ps. li, in 14 numbers); with symphonies and accompaniments for flute, 3 violas, violoncello, and bass, and a figured bass for organ. ‘Giuseppe Sarti.’ f. 1. 2. ‘Ne otverz i menevo’ (Ps. lxxi), 'konshchert...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Russian, and Slavic languages
Date Range:
4th quarter 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (114 folios)

5. Add MS 28757

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Add MS 28757
Title:
A collection of psalms and madrigals
Scope & Content:
Five psalms for 3 voices, in score, by Claude Le Jeune [1607-1608?].1. ‘Dieu nous soit doux.’ f. 1.2. ‘O Seigneur, que de gens.’ f. 19.3. ‘Helas! Seigneur.’ f. 23b.4. ‘Misericorde au pauvre vicieux.’ f. 29.5. ‘J'ay de ma voix à Dieu crié.’ f. 35. Madrigals for 3 voices, in score.1. 'Come, Shep...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 29380-29381

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Add MS 29380-29381
Title:
A collection of chansons, madrigals, and a motet
Scope & Content:
Eleven chansons for 3 voices by various (mostly French) composers, scored by John Immyns. Three psalms for three voices in score, by Cl[aude] le Jeune. A motet for 3 voices, in score, by Josquin des Pres.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
2 volumes

7. Add MS 29382-29385

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Add MS 29382-29385
Title:
Part-songs and other compositions, for two, three, and four voices, by William Byrd, John Farmer, Thomas Morley, and other composers
Scope & Content:
Copied by John Immyns. In separate parts. Add MS 29382 contains the canto part. Add MS 29383 contains the alto part. Add MS 29384 contains the tenor part. Add MS 29385 contains the bass part.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
4 volumes

8. Add MS 29393-29395

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Add MS 29393-29395
Title:
A collection of short vocal pieces, most of them for 3 voices, in parts
Scope & Content:
Add MS 29393 contains the cantus part (also referred to as part 1, haute or dessus). Add MS 29394 contains the medius part (also referred to as part 2 or moienne). Add MS 29395 contains the bassus part (also referred to as part 3 or basse part). In the hand of John Immyns.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
3 volumes

9. 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

10. Add MS 32039-32045

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Add MS 32039-32045
Title:
Compositions of Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, grandson of J. S. Bach.
Scope & Content:
Autograph.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
7 volumes