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1. 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

2. Add MS 14340

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Add MS 14340
Title:
A collection of motets, graces, sacred songs, hymns, glees, a secular song, a vocal trio, an organ duet, an organ solo, a string quartet
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-36 passim. Motets, etc., for 4 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score, by S[amuel] Wesley; 1798-1814. Autograph. 1. ‘Anima nostra erepta est’: antiphon for 5 voices, with ad libitum accompaniment for the organ, f. 2. 2. ‘Levate capita vestra.’ ‘1798.’ f. 7. 3. ‘Constitues eos pri...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1788-1814
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 14342

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Add MS 14342
Title:
A collection of music by Samuel Wesley, which includes masses and portions of masses, requiems or portions of requiems, plainsong melodies, as well as a motet, a chant, a madrigal, a glee, a duet, a miserere and part of a service
Scope & Content:
ff. 2, 18, 53-55. Masses and portions of Masses, in score, harmonized by S. Wesley; from a volume of his compositions collected, and in many cases transcribed, by Vincent Novello, by whom it was presented to the British Museum in 1843; 1810 etc. 1. The Gregorian Mass ‘Pro Angelis,’ for 4 voices,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1782?-1813?
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 14343

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Add MS 14343
Title:
A collection of music by Samuel Wesley, including glees, songs, duets, pianoforte solos, a vocal trio, and a quartet
Scope & Content:
passim. Glees, for 3 voices (with two exceptions noted below), in score, by Samuel Wesley; about 1839 (see f. 46). In the hand of Vincent Novello, from MSS belonging to Charles Stokes, etc. 1. 'While others, Delia, use their Pen.' '1800.' f. 4b. 2. 'Sol, Do, Re, Mi': a fantasia. f. 6. 3. 'When B...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1798-1839?
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 19647

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Add MS 19647
Title:
Songs in full score, composed for Vauxhall Gardens, by James Hook.
Scope & Content:
Songs, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings and other instruments mentioned below, in score, written by J[ames] Hook for Vauxhall. Autograph. 1. 'To sing about love I know is the plan'; with oboes, horns, bassoons, etc., 1786. f. 27. 2. 'Farewell, ambitious, gilded Toys'; written for '...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1785-1798
Extent:
1 volume (108 folios)

6. Add MS 19648

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Add MS 19648
Title:
Collection of 19th-century compositions predominently for voice, by Franz Joseph Haydn, D. Bruguier, Thomas Brewer, W. H. Cutler, and anonymous.
Scope & Content:
ff. 2, 7. Canzonets, originally written for a single voice, by Franz Joseph Haydn, harmonized for 3 voices, with pianoforte accompaniment, in score, by D. Bruguier. 1. 'Despair,' begins 'The anguish of my bursting heart.' f. 2. 2. 'Fidelity,' begins 'While hollow burst the rushing winds.' f. 7. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1810-1833
Extent:
1 volume (46 folios)

7. Add MS 25073-25078

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Add MS 25073-25078
Title:
A collection of various British dance tunes, songs, airs, and other pieces
Scope & Content:
Collections of English, Irish and Scottish, songs, numbers from operas, dance tunes, airs, and other pieces from various composers, compiled around 1790.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
6 volumes

8. Add MS 29291

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Add MS 29291
Title:
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

9. 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)

10. Add MS 30521

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Add MS 30521
Title:
Poems of Robert Bloomfield set to music by Matthew Cooke, Organist of St. George's, Bloomsbury; 1824. Preceded by two elegies on the poet; and followed by 'Love in a shower' set as a three-part glee by R. A. Firth.
Scope & Content:
f. 1. 'Wine, beauty, smiles and social Mirth'; for 3 voices, in score, by Matthew Cooke, 1824. Autograph. The words are from The Remains of Robert Bloomfield (1824). ff. 3-16b passim. Elegies, etc., in score, by Matthew Cooke. Autograph. Words of nos. 1-3 by Robert Bloomfield. 1. 'Beneath this...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1824
Extent:

1 volume (20 folios)