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A collection of excerpts, exercises, canons, songs, and anthems, in the hand of Dr. Charles Burney.
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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

2. Add MS 11583

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A collection of madrigals, chansons, and motets
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Madrigals and chansons for 2 or more voices, in score. Nos. 1-5 are for 2 voices, and nos. 6-10 for 3 voices; they are scored from Add MS 5465. Nos. 11-17 are for 5 voices. 1. 'Ha, my herte.' Anonymous. f. 1b. 2. 'What causyth me wofull thoughtis.' 'William Newark.' f. 2b. 3. 'So far I trow.' By...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1782
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 11586

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A collection of motets, songs, extracts from masses, part of a Magnificat, part of a sonata, examples of harmony, and other vocal compositions
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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

4. Add MS 11587

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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

5. Add MS 11589

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Title:
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

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