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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 5054

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Add MS 5054
Title:
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

3. Add MS 11581

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Add MS 11581
Title:
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

4. 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

5. Add MS 11586

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Add MS 11586
Title:
A collection of motets, songs, extracts from masses, part of a Magnificat, part of a sonata, examples of harmony, and other vocal compositions
Scope & Content:
Motets, in score, for 5 voices; before 1782. In the hand of Dr. Charles Burney. Nos. 2, 3 are inserted in vol. ii of his History of Music, 1782. Leaves are missing after ff. 15, 37 and 38. 1. ‘O sacrum con vivium.’ ‘Thomas Tallis‘ (from a MS. copy, dated 1581, at C. C. C, Oxford. Printed in 1575...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 11587

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Add MS 11587
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Scope & Content:
ff. 2-17. Fragments of Masses, in score, in the hand of Dr. Charles Burney: — 1. ‘Visibilium omnium’ and ‘Et in terra pax’ (6 voices), from the Mass, 'Gloria tibi, Trinitas.’ ‘Johannes Taverner.’ Copied ‘from the Oxford Music-School set of Books, which . . . belonged to the Chapel Royal in the t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 14342

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Add MS 14342
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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

8. Add MS 17731

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Add MS 17731
Title:
Masses and Motets by Samuel Wesley.
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-25b. Mass, ‘Pro Angelis,’ arranged and harmonized for solo voices and 4-part chorus, with accompaniment for organ, in score, by S. Wesley. Autograph. Novello, in a note dated 1848, alludes to the missing 'Kyrie‘ as having been published in his 'Sacred Music'. ff. 26-35 'Exultate Deo adjut...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1812
Extent:
1 volume (35 folios)

9. Add MS 17802

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Add MS 17802
Title:
One of four volumes of a collection of Motets, Masses, Te Deum, and Kyrie, in parts, by 16th century English composers, including: T. Tallis, John Munday, John Taverner, John Shepherde, R. Barbar, J. Redforde, J. Ensdale, C. Okeland, Alcoke, W. Birde, Van Wilder, Hake, and Pye.
Scope & Content:
Vol. I. Mid to late 16th Century. 'Te Deum'; for 4 voices, in parts. Anonymous. ff. 2-5 Collection of Motets, etc., all of which appear to be for 4 voices, by English composers, most of whom flourished about 1554-1565, which latter is the probable date of the first parts of the volumes. The ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 of four volumes (Part book)

10. Add MS 17802-17805

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Add MS 17802-17805
Title:
One of four volumes of a collection of Motets, Masses, Te Deum, and Kyrie, in parts, by 16th century English composers, including: T. Tallis, John Munday, John Taverner, John Shepherde, R. Barbar, J. Redforde, J. Ensdale, C. Okeland, Alcoke, W. Birde, Van Wilder, Hake, and Pye.
Scope & Content:
Mid to Late 16th Century. Collection of Motets, etc., all of which appear to be for 4 voices, by English composers, most of whom flourished about 1554-1565, which latter is the probable date of the first parts of the volumes. The second parts may have been written a few years later, including a...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
4 volumes (Part books)