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111. K.1.c.5.

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K.1.c.5.
Title:
KEYBOARD MUSIC; circa 1700. Attributed to Henry Purcell or Pursell, on two staves of 6 lines each. Bound after the printed edition of Purcell’s A Choice Collection of Lessons for the Harpsichord or Spinnet (Printed for Mrs Frances Purcell, 1696). Purchased of Julian Marshall, 29 Sept. 1884. Paper. ff. viii + pp. 76 (pp. 63-76 in MS.). 120 x 210mm. 1. pp. 65-74. "Ouverture: Ayre: & Jegg: in Gamut: b:". The Overture is a keyboard arrangement of the overture to Purcell’s The Virtuous Wife...
Scope & Content:
includes: pp. 65-76 Henry Purcell, composer and organist: Thomas Morgan, composer: Keyboard arrangements of music by Henry Purcell and Thomas Morgan: circa 1700.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1700
Extent:
1 item

112. K.1.e.1.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.1.e.1.
Title:
VOCAL MUSIC; after 1530. Probably for three or four voices. The alto part, inserted in ink at the end of a printed collection of ‘xx sōges, ix of iiii partes and xi of thre partes’, by English composers, 1530. Purchased, 4 Apr. 1864. ff. 7. 143 x 191mm. Blind-stamped leather binding. 1. ff. 1v-3. ‘Samoht Notterts’, sc. Thomas Stretton: ‘Behold and see how byrds dothe fly’. 2. ff. 4-7. ‘By a banke as I ley’, with second part, ‘The nyghtyngalle, ye lady and mestres of alle musyk’ and third ...
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1v-3 Thomas Stretton, composer: Alto part to the song 'Behold and see how byrds dothe fly': after 1530: Copy.ff. 4-7 Music: Henry VIII of England: Alto part to the song 'By a banke as I ley' , in praise of Henry VIII: after 1530.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1530
Extent:
1 item

113. K.1.f.11.

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K.1.f.11.
Title:
NICOLA MATTEIS: the second treble of ‘Ayrs for the Violin’, parts 1 and 2; circa 1690. Matteis’ Ayrs for the Violin were first published (parts 1 and 2, [1676?], and parts 3 and 4, 1685) in obl. 4o editions for solo violin and basso continuo. An expanded reissue of the third and fourth parts (also dated 1685) mentions the addition of a second treble, and a printed second treble for parts 3 and 4, also placed at this pressmark, was published in 1687. This manuscript provides a corresponding s...
Scope & Content:
Nicola Matteis, the elder; violinist and composer: The second treble of the first and second parts of 'Ayrs for the violin': circa 1690: Copy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1690
Extent:
1 item

114. K.1.g.10.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.1.g.10.
Title:
WRITINGS ON MUSIC; after 1531. A comparison of the initial notes for each mode in the theory of Pietro Aaron, Stefano Vanni and Franchino Gafori, with musical examples showing syncopes and cadences. Aaron’s theories correspond to those in his untitled pamphlet published in Venice in 1531. Bound with two printed treatises: Bonaventura de Brixia, Regula Musice Plane (Mediolani: per I. M. de Ferrariis, 1507) (K.1.g.10.(1.)) and Tractatus Musices (Venetijs: J. B. Sessa, [1510?]) (K.1.g.10.(2.))....
Scope & Content:
Pietro Aaron, writer on music: Stefano Vanni, writer on music: Franchino Gafori, writer on music: Writings on music by Pietro Aaron, Stefano Vanni and Franchino Gafori: after 1531: Ital: Copies.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
after 1531
Extent:
1 item

115. K.1.h.5.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.1.h.5.
Title:
SPECIMENS OF METRES; 16th cent.
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A single folio inserted at the end of a printed copy of Nicolaus Wollick’s Opus Aureum (Colonie: Henrici Quentell, 1504). Contains MS. examples of elegiac, iambic, sapphic, and choriambic metres, set to music for four voices or instruments, in parts. Various annotations have been added in the bo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

116. K.2.f.13.

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K.2.f.13.
Title:
CONSORT FANTASIAS; circa 1590. The tenor parts of nine unidentified consort fantasias in four parts, bound with William Byrd’s Liber primus sacrarum cantionum quinque vocum. Tenor (Thomas East, 1589). With a letter from Arthur S. Boston to R. Thurston Dart; 1956. Purchased from Richard Macnutt, 17 June 1996. pp. [ii]+30 + ff. i+4. 217 x 153mm.
Scope & Content:
includes: f. i. Robert Thurston Dart, King Edward Professor of Music, University of London: Arthur S. Boston, of Bebington, county Cheshire: Letter to Robert Thurston Dart from Arthur S. Boston: 1956: Autogr.ff. 1-4 William Byrd, composer: Tenor parts of nine anonymous pieces, appended to B...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1590
Extent:
1 item

117. K.2.g.15.(1.)

Reference (shelfmark):
K.2.g.15.(1.)
Title:
PART OF A LETTER OF JAMES CRESSETT; 17 Oct. 1699. A page of entries related to John Abell at Zell in 1695. Bound in a volume of Abell’s publications collected by Julian Marshall, and with two explanatory notes in his hand on the front flyleaves. All but the last sentence is published in P. H. Highfill et al., A Biographical Dictionary of Actors ... (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973), vol. 1, p. 8. Purchased at Sotheby’s, 1904. f. 1. 230 x 177mm.
Scope & Content:
James Cressett, diplomatist: John Abell, singer and instrumentalist: Page of description by James Cressett, rel. to John Abell: 1699: Autogr?.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Oct 1699
Extent:
1 item

118. K.3.b.15.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.3.b.15.
Title:
THOMAS TALLIS: ‘O salutaris hostia’; 2nd half of 16th century. Written onto blank staves at the bottoms of pp. ii-iii, iii, ii-iii, iii and vi-vii respectively of the Canto, Tenore, Alto, Basso and Quinto printed part-books of Aurelio della Faya, Il Primo de Madrigali a Cinque Voci (In Venetia: Appresso Francesco Rampazetto, 1564). The composer’s name is not given. The hand is probably English, and the name Orlando di Lassus on the title page of the Quinto part may be in the same hand. The b...
Scope & Content:
Thomas Tallis, composer and organist: Antonio della Faya, composer: 'O salutaris hostia' by Thomas Tallis, written into a volume of madrigals by Antonio della Faya: circa 1575: Copy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of 16th century
Extent:
1 item

119. K.3.h.3.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.3.h.3.
Title:
THOMAS BATESON: Quintus and tenor parts of madrigals; 18th cent. Copies, added in manuscript to complete a defective set of printed partbooks of Bateson’s The first set of English Madrigales: to 3. 4. 5. and 6. voices (Thomas Este, 1604). The additions consist of nos. 21 and 22 in the Quintus book (‘Sister, awake’ and ‘Hark, hear you not’), and the whole of the tenor book. The tenor book is in the hand of Charles Burney, and the additions to the Quintus in another hand. The printed books bea...
Scope & Content:
Charles Burney, Mus.D: Thomas Bateson, organist of Chester Cathedral: Quintus and tenor parts to madrigals by Thomas Bateson, partly in the hand of Charles Burney: 18th cent.: Copies.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

120. K.3.m.8.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.3.m.8.
Title:
SACRED MUSIC; circa 1569. Bound after the cantus part of the printed collection Preces Speciales…per Jacobum de Kerle…cum Quatuor Vocibus…(Venetiis: apud Antonium Gardanum, 1562). Bookplate of Charles Nack of Neresheim, 1811. Purchased, 19 July 1862. Paper; pp. 33 + ff. 20. 243 x 177mm. Gold stamped binding, dated 1569. 1. ff. 1-18. Mass [in dedicatione ecclesiæ], apparently for four (and partly five) voices, with a 2nd cantus part added in the ‘Sanctus’ and ‘Agnus Dei’. Cantus, or first a...
Scope & Content:
Music: Missa in dedicatione ecclesie and 'Veni, sancte Spiritus': circa 1569: Lat.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1569
Extent:
1 item