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1. 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

2. Add MS 25074

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Add MS 25074
Title:
A collection of dance music, songs, numbers from operas, scales, an elegy and a glee
Scope & Content:
f. 3b. 'Thou to whose eyes I bend'; in compressed score; late 18th cent. [From , by William Jackson, of Exeter, op. 3.] f. 5b. 'Adieu to the Village'; in compressed score; late 18th cent. [By Joseph Baildon.] ff. 6b-37b. Songs, with pianoforte accompaniment, in score; late 18th cent. Mostly an...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 32586

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Add MS 32586
Title:
Songs, piano arrangements and vocal exercises by John Barnett
Scope & Content:
Passim. Songs, with pianoforte accompaniment, in score, by John Barnett. Autograph. Composed, except where the contrary is stated, in 1825. 1. 'What is love.' f. 3. 2. 'My dulcet Lute,' begins 'The gems are bright.' f. 6. 3. 'Fair Evening star,' begins 'The shadow darkens.' Published by Cramer a...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

1 volume (72 folios)

4. Add MS 34609

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Add MS 34609
Title:
A collection of anthems, chants, songs, glees, compositions for organ, and other fragments
Scope & Content:
passim. Portions of Anthems, in the hand of John Stafford Smith, mostly in organ score; late 18th cent. 1. Funeral anthem without words. 'Jno James.' f. 7. 2. 'Though ye have lien among the pots.' Unfinished. By J. S. Smith (?). f. 13b. 3. 'Wherewithal shall a young man' (2 voices). 'Arnold.' f....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (86 folios)

5. Add MS 35003

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Add MS 35003
Title:
A collection of antiphons, songs, solfeggi, glees, and other compositions by Samuel Wesley
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-31b passim. Antiphons, etc., by Samuel Wesley, mostly autograph; 1807, etc. Nos. 1-20 are ‘Antiphonæ communes ad Magnificat in utrisque Vesperis,’ for the principal festivals. The melody with figured bass. 1. ‘Tradent enim vos.’ f. 1. 2. ‘Estote fortes in bello.’ f. 1. 3. ‘Lux perpetua luc...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
1 volume (153 folios)

6. Egerton MS 2736

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Egerton MS 2736
Title:
Numbers from operas, songs, and solfeggi by Michael William Balfe
Scope & Content:
passim. Numbers from Operas, in score, by Michael William Balfe; about 1864-1869. 1. Air, 'Race vagabonde'; with accompaniments for flutes, oboes, clarinets, cornets-à-piston, horns, bassoons, drums, and strings; introduced in Act ii of the French version of 'The Bohemian Girl' [1869], but omitt...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
after 1842
Extent:
1 volume (67 folios)

7. Harley MS 7549

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Harley MS 7549
Title:
Melodies of songs and psalms, with vocal exercises
Scope & Content:
ff. 5-43 passim. Melody of some songs, mostly anonymous. Several of them are included in John Playford's publications. 1. 'Diuin objet, qui ravisses les sens.' f. 5. 2. 'Se voi, Luci amate.' f. 6. 3. 'La vita alberga.' f. 7. 4. 'Tell me, you wantdering spirits.' By H. Lawes. [From , 1652.] f. 8....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume