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Language English Subject Vocal quartets Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 5319-5337

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Add MS 5319-5337
Title:
Manuscript music presented by Sir John Hawkins
Scope & Content:
A collection of manuscript music formerly owned by Sir John Hawkins, chiefly copied by Mr. John Stanley
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
19 volumes

2. Add MS 5336

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Add MS 5336
Title:
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)

3. Add MS 14343

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Add MS 14343
Title:
A collection of music by Samuel Wesley, including glees, songs, duets, pianoforte solos, a vocal trio, and a quartet
Scope & Content:
passim. Glees, for 3 voices (with two exceptions noted below), in score, by Samuel Wesley; about 1839 (see f. 46). In the hand of Vincent Novello, from MSS belonging to Charles Stokes, etc. 1. 'While others, Delia, use their Pen.' '1800.' f. 4b. 2. 'Sol, Do, Re, Mi': a fantasia. f. 6. 3. 'When B...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1798-1839?
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 17991

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Add MS 17991
Title:
Collection of 17th century compositions in English and French.
Scope & Content:
'Chansons à danser, à boire,' etc. Anonymous. Unless the contrary is stated, the melody only is given, without accompaniment. 1. 'C'est trop courir les eaux.' f. 3. 2. 'Entre les roses et les soucis.' f. 5b. 3. 'C'est Anne si belle ': ballet, f. 12b. 4. 'Permettez moy de mourir.' f. 40b. 5. 'Sou...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1620-1621
Extent:
1 volume (65 folios)

5. Add MS 19648

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Add MS 19648
Title:
Collection of 19th-century compositions predominently for voice, by Franz Joseph Haydn, D. Bruguier, Thomas Brewer, W. H. Cutler, and anonymous.
Scope & Content:
ff. 2, 7. Canzonets, originally written for a single voice, by Franz Joseph Haydn, harmonized for 3 voices, with pianoforte accompaniment, in score, by D. Bruguier. 1. 'Despair,' begins 'The anguish of my bursting heart.' f. 2. 2. 'Fidelity,' begins 'While hollow burst the rushing winds.' f. 7. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1810-1833
Extent:
1 volume (46 folios)

6. Add MS 32012-32021

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Add MS 32012-32021
Title:
Compositions of Thomas Miles
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
10 items

7. Add MS 32021

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Add MS 32021
Title:
A collection of glees, canons, catches, a quartet and a sketch of a fugue, by Thomas Miles
Scope & Content:
passim. Glees, for 4 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score, by Thomas Miles; 1806-1850. Autograph. The names of the authors of the words, etc., are generally given in brackets. 1. 'Hail, Innocence, celestial maid' (à 3). '1807.' (Ogilvie.) f. 2b. 2. 'Within this cot.' [1807.] f. 5. 3....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1805-1850
Extent:
1 volume (68 folios)

8. Add MS 32184-32237

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Add MS 32184-32237
Title:
Original compositions, for the most part unpublished, by Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Scope & Content:
In the case of works in full scores, the music for wind instruments will generally be found at the end of the volume.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
54 volumes

9. Add MS 32188

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Add MS 32188
Title:
A collection of mostly vocal compositions by Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-32b, 35, 68. I. Words and melodies of some Scotch songs sent by George Thomson, of Edinburgh, to Johann Nepomuk Hummel, for the latter to write accompaniments to them; 1822 (see below). Nos. 1-3 were sent in 1831; the others, in 1829. For the accompaniments, see Add MS 32189, ff. 110-132b....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 volume (96 folios)

10. Add MS 32237

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Add MS 32237
Title:
A collection of compositions, vocal and instrumental, most of them unfinished and some only sketched in pencil, in the hand of Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Scope & Content:
passim. Fragments or sketches of airs, etc., most of them without accompaniment, from dramatic works, almost entirely in the hand, and presumably the composition, of J. N. Hummel; about 1797-1828. I. From an Opera in which the principal characters are Lisette, Johann (as the Marquis Ventil), Wer...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, German, and Italian
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (114 folios)