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1. Add MS 4415

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Add MS 4415
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Scope & Content:
PELL PAPERS. Vol. IX (ff. i + 330). Various works and extracts, partly in Pell's autograph, among them being:-(a) 'De progressionis differentialis gradu secundo'; 1630. f. 9;-(b) 'Logistica generalis'; 1634. f. 15;-(c) 'Progymnasma analyticum'; 1637. f. 19;-(d) 'Paradigmata progressionis differe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1630-1637
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 23624

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Add MS 23624
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Collection of compositions, including: Latin anthems, by Thomas Tallis and William Bird, organists of the Chapel Royal; and Cathedral services of Thomas Tallis, William Bird, and Orlando Gibbons.
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ff. 5-116b passim 'Cantiones quæ ab argumento sacræ vocantur quinque et sex partium. Autoribus Thoma Tallisio et Guilielmo Birdo . . . Reginæ a privato sacello generosis et organistis, 1575.’ Scored by John Alcock. Nos. 1-15 are by Tallis, and are written for 5 voices (unless the contrary is sta...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1763
Extent:
1 volume (155 folios)

3. Add MS 23626

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Add MS 23626
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Sacred vocal compositions, in score, by William Bird.
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Sacred vocal compositions, in score, by William Bird. Nos. 1-7 are for 3 voices. 1. 'Lord, in thy rage.' f. 3. 2. 'Right blest are they.' f. 4. 3. 'Lord, in thy wrath.' f. 5b. 4. 'God, which art most mercifull.' f. 7. 5. 'Lord, hear my prayer.' f. 8b. 6. 'From depth of sin.' f. 9b. 7. 'Attend mi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (106 folios)

4. Add MS 29289

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Add MS 29289
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A collection of single parts of services, and single parts of anthems
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ff. 1-119b passim. Single parts of Church Services (altus, unless the contrary is stated). The number of voices for which they are written is not generally indicated. 1. Morning Service. Imperfect at the beginning. '[Robert] Parsons.' f. 1. 2. Second evening Service, apparently in F. By the same...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1629?
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 29291

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Add MS 29291
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A collection of part-songs, canons, catches, glees, parts of services, vocal trios and duets, as well as some instrumental music
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ff. 3-56 passim. Part music, for 4 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score; 18th cent. 1. 'Hark, jolly shepheards.' 'Thos Morley.' [1594.] f. 3. 2. 'Dare you haunt' ('The Fayries daunce'). 'Thos Ravenscroft.' [From .] '1614.' f. 10. 3. 'Awake, sweet Love.' This and nos. 4-6 [from the ],...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 29372-29377

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Add MS 29372-29377
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'Tristitiæ Remedium. Cantiones selectissimæ diuersorum tum authorum tum argumentorum labore et manu exaratæ Thomæ Myriell. 1616.' Anthems, part-songs and motets, in 4, 5 and 6 parts.
Scope & Content:
Vol. i containing the cantus part; ii, the altus; iii, the tenor; iv, the bassus; v, the quintus; and vi, the sextus. The title-page is engraved. In the original tooled leather binding, stamped with the initials T. M A list of authors is on the fly-leaf of the bass part.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1616
Extent:
6 volumes

7. Add MS 29382-29385

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Add MS 29382-29385
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Part-songs and other compositions, for two, three, and four voices, by William Byrd, John Farmer, Thomas Morley, and other composers
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Copied by John Immyns. In separate parts. Add MS 29382 contains the canto part. Add MS 29383 contains the alto part. Add MS 29384 contains the tenor part. Add MS 29385 contains the bass part.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
4 volumes

8. Add MS 29386

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Add MS 29386
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A collection of catches, canons, songs, vocal trios, excerpts from oratorios, excerpts from operas, and a duet
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passim. Catches, Rounds, etc., for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score. Most of them are in the hand of Edmund T. Warren Home; some of them, beginning with no. 4, were 'corrected [in] 1756.' 1. 'Tobacco is but a vapor' (à 4). 'Ed. Nelham.' f. 5. 2. 'Hey ho, what shall I say' (à 9)...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1762?
Extent:
1 volume

9. Add MS 29427

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Add MS 29427
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Anthems, madrigals, etc., by John Wilbye, Nathaniel Gyles, Thomas Tomkins, Thomas Weelkes, John Milton, Martin Pearson, John Wilson, Richard Deering Orlando Gibbons, and others; with fantasias by Alfonso Ferabosco and other Italian composers. The Altus part only; the other parts of many of the pieces being in Add MS 29366-29368 and of some in Add MS11586
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Passim. Anthems. Altus part (unless the contrary is stated) of the following Anthems: —1. 'Oute of the deepe' (5 voices). By Thomas Lupo. f. 14. 2. 'When Israell,' with second part, 'What aileth thee' (verse anthem for 5 voices). Quintus part. By M. Este. f. 15. 3. 'O, O my sonne Absolon' (6 voi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

10. Add MS 33239

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Add MS 33239
Title:
Church music in score, chiefly in the hand of Vincent Novello
Scope & Content:
Passim. Anthems, etc., in score, mostly copied by Vincent Novello, who presented them in 1843 to the Musical Antiquarian Society. The organ part has been occasionally added by the transcriber. 1. "Prevent us, Lord." "William Bird." From Harley MS. 7337. f.12. 2. "O Lord, encrease my faith." "Orl...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1812-c 1832
Extent:

1 volume (247 folios)