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1. Add MS 11581-11591

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Add MS 11581-11591
Title:
Extracts from various early musical writers, by Charles Burney, Mus. Doct., with remarks and criticisms by him
Scope & Content:
Also includes extracts and examples of various compositions.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
11 volumes

2. Add MS 17786-17791

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Add MS 17786-17791
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Collection of 17th-century sacred and secular vocal and instrumental compositions, by English composers, arranged in five, six, and seven parts, across six volumes.
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Music: Vocal and instrumental music by English composers. Add MS 17786-17791 17786-89, 91:- passim. [String quintets, Anthems Carols Madrigals String sextets] Fantasias or Fancies, etc., for 5 instruments, in parts. 1. 'De la courte'; in two parts. Robert Parsons.' f. 1. 2. Fancy. 'Byrd.'...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
early 17th century
Extent:
6 volumes (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 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)

5. Add MS 18936-18939

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Add MS 18936-18939
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Collection of early 17th Century Secular and Sacred vocal compositions for voice, and instruments; portions of Masses and Requiem-Masses; Secular and Sacred Latin compositions, in parts across four volumes; by mostly English composers, including: T. Tallis, John Munday, John Taverner, John Shepherde, W. Birde, Thomas Morley, Thomas Bateson, Thomas Weilkes, John Wilbye, Horat. Vecchi, Francisci Bianchardi, 'William Cobbold, and Tommaso Lodovico da Vittoria.
Scope & Content:
Collection of early 17th Century Secular and Sacred vocal compositions for voice, and instruments; portions of Masses and Requiem-Masses; Secular and Sacred Latin compositions, in parts across four volumes; by mostly English composers, including: T. Tallis, John Munday, John Taverner, John Sheph...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter 17th century
Extent:
Four volumes (Part books)

6. Add MS 18940-18944

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Add MS 18940-18944
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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)

7. Add MS 21467

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Add MS 21467
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Collection of 18th-century operatic music for piano, strings, and bass, composed by various authors.
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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)

8. Add MS 29366-29368

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Add MS 29366-29368
Title:
The cantus, bassus, and quintus parts of a collection of anthems, motets, madrigals, and fancies, for five and six voices
Scope & Content:
By Richard Deering, Thomas Wilkinson, Orlando Gibbons, Alfonso Ferabosco, and others. Add MS 29366 contains the cantus part.Add MS 29367 contains the bassus part. Add MS 29368 contains the quintus part.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
3 volumes

9. Add MS 29401-29405

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Add MS 29401-29405
Title:
Madrigals and sacred vocal compositions for 5 voices, in parts, chiefly by William Byrd. In 5 volumes.
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-44b passim. Madrigals for 5 voices, in parts. Except nos. 6 and 17-32, which are by uncertain composers, they are known to be by W. Byrd, though no names are mentioned. Among them are laments on the deaths of Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Tallis, Queen Mary, Mary Queen of Scots, Queen Elizabet...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

5 volumes

10. 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