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1. Add MS 12219

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Add MS 12219
Title:
Incidental music to Macbeth, which has been attributed to John Eccles
Scope & Content:
Incidental music to Macbeth, with symphonies and accompaniments for serpent and other instruments, in score, in the same hand as the Ode by John Eccles in Add MS 31456, and apparently autograph. In Add MS 29378, consisting almost entirely of works by Eccles, the composition of this music (ff. 57-...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (42 folios)

2. Add MS 24889

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Add MS 24889
Title:
A collection of arrangements, in parts, mostly of dramatic works
Scope & Content:
passim. First and second treble, and bass, parts of the following sets or suites arranged for strings; 18th cent:— 1. 'The Storme sett' (Overture, Rondeau, 'The Seamen's tune,' Trumpet tune, 'Farwell,' 'The Brikler's tune,' 'Magett' or Maggot, Chaconne). 'Gillier (sc. either Jean Claude Gilliers...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (92 folios)

3. Add MS 29378

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Add MS 29378
Title:
A collection of compositions, mostly by John Eccles, including excerpts from operas, duets, and an ode
Scope & Content:
Incidental music, in score, by John Eccles, with the exception of the last number. The instruments employed in the symphonies and accompaniments, where given in the MS, are indicated below; where none are mentioned, a basso continuo is to be understood. 1. 'Rinaldo and Armida,' 1699; with accom...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 29386

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Add MS 29386
Title:
A collection of catches, canons, songs, vocal trios, excerpts from oratorios, excerpts from operas, and a duet
Scope & Content:
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

5. Add MS 31453

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Add MS 31453
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Scope & Content:
MISCELLANEOUS English scores, viz. 1. Song for S. Cecilia's day," by Purcell. Transcript, Jan. 1699. f.1 2. Indian Queen Musick " by H. Purcell, with the " Last Act by Mr. Daniel Purcel." f. 39. 3. Opera, without words; followed, at f. 133, by an Ode for S. Cecilia's Day [?] by [J. Eccles?]....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 31454

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Add MS 31454
Title:
Incidental music in 'Macbeth' by John Eccles
Scope & Content:
'Macbeth'; by John Eccles, in score. Evidently transcribed from Add MS 29378, ff. 57-95, with the singers' names added in pencil from Add MS 12219. The history of this copy is related in a notice extracted from William Linley and prefixed to Add. 12219 (f. 3).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1805?
Extent:
1 volume (51 folios)

7. Add MS 31456

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Add MS 31456
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Scope & Content:
ODE for the King's birthday, 1703; in score, by J. Ecsles King William died when the composition had reached f. 10 b, and the words up to that point have been amended to suit his successor. The names of the original singers appear in their places. Autograph; signed at the end. Paper;ff.29. Folio...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1703
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 31462

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Add MS 31462
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Scope & Content:
CATCHES and glees by H. Purcell, J. Blow, - Cranford, J. Eccles, T. Ford, [S.] Ives, Jeremiah Clark, - Creed, Dr. H. Aldrich, M. Wise, Dr. [William] Hayes, - Turner, [H.] Lawes, John Hilton, W. Byrd, W. Lawes, Edward Nelham, John Smith, - Stonerd, [Robert?] White, William Ellis, Dr. W. Child, Dr...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 31812 I-VI

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Add MS 31812 I-VI
Title:
31,812. MISCELLANEOUS vocal music. Paper; ff. 161. xviiith. xixth centt. Quarto.
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 44 William Boyce, composer and organist: Catches and glees, etc.: circ. 1800. f. 51 Jonathan Battishill, composer and organist: "The rites of Hecate": a melodrama: 18th-19th cent. ff. 78-118 James Saville: Glees: 18th-19th cent. ff. 78-118 John Cobb: Catches and glees: 18th-19th ce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
6 items

10. Add MS 33351

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Add MS 33351
Title:
A collection of songs, duets, and trios by Dr. Thomas Augustine Arne, Corbet [? William Corbett], Dr. Samuel Howard, John Stanley, Daniel Purcell, Michael Wise, John Eccles, Richard Leveridge, - Monro, J- Barker, Henry Carey, and several other anonymous composers. Interspersed are also several songs without music, including versions of 'God save the King', beginning with the words 'Fame let thy Trumpet sound' (f. 30), and of 'Rule Britannia' (f. 29-b) ; also some verses spoken on the death o...
Scope & Content:
ff. 1b, 5b, 6. Three numbers from Dr. William Boyce's 'Solomon'; without accompaniment.1. Recit. and air, 'How lovely art thou.' f. lb. 2. Air, 'On his Face the vernal Rose.' f. 5b. 3. Recit. and air, 'Who quits the Lilly's fleecy white.' f. 6. ff. 2b-63b passim. Collection of Songs, etc., app...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

1 volume (68 folios)