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1. 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

2. Add MS 17727-17730

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Add MS 17727-17730
Title:
Quartets for two violins, tenor and violoncello, by Domenico Dragonetti. Holograph. Paper; XVIIIth cent. In four volumes. Folio. Presented by Vincent Novello, Esq.
Scope & Content:
Domenico Dragonetti, double-bass player and composer. ff. 36, 28, 26, 28. Quartets for strings, in parts, by Domenico Dragonetti. Autograph. They consist of from two to eight movements each, of varying lengths:— Adagio, Presto, Andantino, Allegretto (tempo d'Allemanda, etc.), Vivace, Andante, P...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
4 volumes (ff. 36, 28, 26, 28) (Part books)

3. Add MS 17792-17796

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Add MS 17792-17796
Title:
Collection of early 17th century vocal and instrumental music, by English composers, in parts, across four and five volumes, by authors including: John Amner, T. Batson, William Birde, Richard Carlton, R. Deering, M. Easte, Alfonso Ferabosco, N. Giles, E. Hooper, Simon Ives, M. Jefferies, John Jenkins, John Lugg, W. Mundy, John Okeover, R. Parsons, Palmer, Randall, Thomas Thomkins, Tallis, John Warde, T. Weekes, Robert White; and anonymous.
Scope & Content:
Vols 1-5:- Contains also Bass-viol music, a Carol, Lamentations, Madrigals, Motets, Services, and String Duets, Trios, Quartets, Quintets, and Sextets. Anthems, etc., including a few so-called Hymns, in parts. The five volumes contain respectively the cantus, altus, tenor, quintus, and bassus p...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1624
Extent:
5 volumes (Part books)

4. Add MS 17801

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Add MS 17801
Title:
Collection of compositions for various instruments, predominantly by Matthew Locke.
Scope & Content:
Collection of compositions for various instruments, predominantly by Matthew Lock. ff. 3-6 'Duos' for Bass-Viols, in score, by M[atthew] L[ock], 1652. Autograph. There are twelve divided into four sets, each set containing two 'Fantazies' and either a Courante (nos. 1 and 3), or a Saraband (nos...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and English, Old
Date Range:
c 1651-1654
Extent:
1 volume (65 folios)

5. Add MS 21465

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Add MS 21465
Title:
Collection of Quartetes for piano and strings, composed by Ambrogio Minoja.
Scope & Content:
ff. 179. Quartets for harpsichord, 2 violins and violoncello, in parts, by Ambrogio Minoja. In two sets of six each, the second set wanting the 2nd violin part. 1. Allegro and Andante (canzonetta pastorale), in B flat. ff. 1, 39, 59, 79. 2. Largo and Minuet, in D. ff. 9, 43, 63, 83. 3. Allegro mo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (179 folios)

6. Add MS 21467

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Add MS 21467
Title:
Collection of 18th-century operatic music for piano, strings, and bass, composed by various authors.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-66b, 107-118. Concerted numbers from three Italian Operas, with symphonies and accompaniments for oboes, horns, trumpets (in no. 3), and strings, in score. 1, 2. Trio, 'Che vipar, Dorina bella'; and quartet (Dorina, Masotto, Mingone, Titta), begins 'Dorina mia.' [From 'Le Nozze di Dorina,'...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (133 folios)

7. Add MS 24889

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Add MS 24889
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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)

8. Add MS 29427

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Add MS 29427
Title:
Anthems, madrigals, etc., by John Wilbye, Nathaniel Gyles, Thomas Tomkins, Thomas Weelkes, John Milton, Martin Pearson, John Wilson, Richard Deering Orlando Gibbons, and others; with fantasias by Alfonso Ferabosco and other Italian composers. The Altus part only; the other parts of many of the pieces being in Add MS 29366-29368 and of some in Add MS11586
Scope & Content:
Passim. Anthems. Altus part (unless the contrary is stated) of the following Anthems: —1. 'Oute of the deepe' (5 voices). By Thomas Lupo. f. 14. 2. 'When Israell,' with second part, 'What aileth thee' (verse anthem for 5 voices). Quintus part. By M. Este. f. 15. 3. 'O, O my sonne Absolon' (6 voi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

9. Add MS 29997

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Add MS 29997
Title:
Sketches of musical compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven, including C sharp minor quartet, Op. 131, composed in 1826.
Scope & Content:
Sketches of musical compositions in the hand of Beethoven. The volume may be divided into two portions, of which the former (ff. 2-5) contains what appear to be sketches of the C-sharp minor quartet, op. 131; and the latter, miscellaneous sketches, most of them apparently dating from the end of ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:

1 volume (42 folios)

10. Add MS 30480-30484

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Add MS 30480-30484
Title:
Services, anthems, and a few part-songs, for five voices, by Nathaniel Giles, Robert Adams, Christopher Tye, John Shepherde, Edward Johnson, Robert Johnson, William More, Thomas Bird and others. In separate parts, in five volumes. The last volume is imperfect.
Scope & Content:
Anthems, services, motets and other part works by English composers in 5 part-books. Volume i contains the cantus, vol. ii the contra-tenor, vol. iii the tenor, vol. iv the bass, and vol. v the quintus parts. Passim. Anthems by English composers, in parts: —1. 'O prayse God in his holynes.' [R...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
5 volumes (89, 94, 87, 91, 22 folios)