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1. Add MS 4900

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Title:
Banks collection. Vol. XLIV. Miscellaneous writings, ornamented with initials, portraits of saints, royal arms, etc., cut from a printed book.
Scope & Content:
The principal items are:- (1) Fragments of a transcript of a calendar (latest date 1537), for the months of May to October, giving the dates on which fairs are held in those months in various towns of England and Wales (Carmarthen). A few dates are also given in the lives of British sovereigns...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (68 folios)

2. Add MS 4910

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Hawkins Collection. Vol. II. Miscellaneous works relating to music.
Scope & Content:
Includes extracts from (a) Dethlevus Cluverus. ff. 1-10;- (b) John Birchensha (collected, as well as artt. c-e, by Silas Domville al. Taylor, apparently for Viscount Brouncker). ff. 39-40;- (c) — Allison of Covent Garden. f. 42;- (d) Matthew Lock. ff. 43-44, 60;- (e) Christopher Simpson. f. 52;-...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (87 folios)

3. Add MS 5054

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A collection of motets, madrigals, full anthems, portions of masses, psalms (or choruses), canons and duets, as well as examples of a litany, a grace, a service, a miserere, and a stabat Mater. In score.
Scope & Content:
1. Sanctus and Gloria in Excelsis, in B minor, parts of a service, for 3 solo voices and 4-part chorus, by Dr. {William} Croft. ff. 3-5b. 2. 'La Spagnola'. A madrigal. (à 3), begins 'Al rigor d'un bel Sembiante'; with the alternative words 'Al splendor di due pupille' written underneath. 'Agost...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1760
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 5336

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A collection of catches, canons, madrigals, vocal trios, vocal quartets, and some organ voluntaries
Scope & Content:
passim. Rounds and Catches. Nos. 1-9, 12, 13, 16, 18, 24, 31, 34, 36, and 38 are for 4 voices; the others for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated). Nos. 1-19, 21-31, are in score, and are taken from three works by Thomas Ravenscroft, viz.: — (1609), (1609), and (1611). 1, 2. 'Trole the bo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (46 folios)

5. Add MS 5337

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A collection of incidental music from operas, madrigals, sonatas, catches, glees, a duet from an oratorio and a canon
Scope & Content:
The contents of this MS. are in different hands. ff. 1-42. Incidental music, by Henry Purcell, in score; early 18th cent. The symphonies are written for flutes, oboes, strings, etc., and, in the case of no. 2, for trumpets also. 1. [The Masque in] 'Timon of Athens' [1694]. f. 1. 2. 'The Musick ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 9074

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Title:
A collection of anthems, motets, canons, and a hymn, by Henry Purcell
Scope & Content:
passim. Transcripts made by Vincent Novello for his edition of Purcell’s Sacred Music, 1829-1832, with some additional notes for the Musical Antiquarian edition of 1846; about 1831-1832. They comprise, besides other works, the following Anthems, in score : — Portions of Anthems : — 1. Introducto...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c1831-c 1832
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 11581

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A collection of excerpts, exercises, canons, songs, and anthems, in the hand of Dr. Charles Burney.
Scope & Content:
Examples of Harmony in the hand of Dr. Charles Burney. 1. 'Exempla (Discant) quatuor vocum.' '[J.] Froschius,' 1535. f. 2b. 2. Fuga ad Minimam'; in 4 parts. 'Jodocus Pratensis.' From Glarean (p. 453), 1547. f. 4. Reversing the volume. 3. Extemporaneous Bass. 'Crotch' (æt. 4). f. 41b. 4-6. Three ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 volume

8. Add MS 11589

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Part of a catalogue of the Tudway Collection, a treatise, part of a transcript of the 'Regole del contrappunto pratico di Nicola Sala', and some motets
Scope & Content:
The MS. contains parts of a thematic Catalogue of the works in the Tudway Collection, and of a musical treatise. ff. 19b-24b. 'Chants from the Studij di Palestrina’: short pieces of harmonized plain-song, transcribed by Dr. Charles Burney. The following are the names of the composers: — '[? Gio...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
after 1794
Extent:
1 volume

9. Add MS 27642

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A collection of canons, elegies, madrigals, catches, glees, and a motet by John Wall Callcott.
Scope & Content:
passim. Canons for several voices (4, unless the contrary is stated), in score, by Dr. J. W. Callcott; 1784-1800. Autograph. 1,2. ‘Hear rny prayer, O God, and hide not thyself.’ Two settings. ff. 2b, 4b. 3. ‘Not unto us, O Lord‘ (à 3). f. 6. 4. ‘O give thanks‘ (à 3 ?). ‘Janr 15, 1800.’ f. 16b. 5...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1783-1801
Extent:
1 volume

10. Add MS 27643

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Title:
A collection of glees, catches, songs, and a canon by John Wall Callcott
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-14b. Glees, in score, by Dr. J. W. Callcott; about 1803-1812. Autograph. The first three are for 3 voices. 1. 'Ye Mariners of England.' '1810.' f. 2. 2. 'When Time was entwining the garland.' '1803.' f. 4. 3. 'Soft blows the wind.' '1812.' f. 6. 4. 'See, baleful Iris' (double quartet). The...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1783-1812
Extent:
1 volume