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11. Add MS 29396

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Title:
A collection, mostly of English songs
Scope & Content:
passim. Songs, with a bass (unless the contrary is stated), for harpsichord, in score. Those marked with an asterisk appear for the first time in Playford's , 1652. Almost the whole of the MS is in the hand of Edward Lowe, organist of the Chapel Royal (1661-1682), who added the bass to some of t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1678?-1682?
Extent:
1 volume

12. Add MS 29397

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Title:
A collection, largely of songs, duets and catches
Scope & Content:
passim. Songs for the most part unaccompanied, but occasionally with a bass for harpsichord, in score. Many are taken from John Playford's , 1673-1683, the , 1685, and other collections of that period. See indices by Thomas Oliphant at the beginning and end of the volume. 1. 'The bright Clarinda...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1682?-1690?
Extent:
1 volume

13. Add MS 29398

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Title:
Daniel Purcell: 'The Judgment of Paris', opera
Scope & Content:
'The Judgment of Paris': a masque for solo voices and 4-part chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments for trumpets, oboes, flutes, strings, and kettle-drum, and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score; composed by Daniel Purcell in 1699 or 1700, and performed in 1701 (see f. 1b). Characters: M...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1700?
Extent:
1 volume (44 folios)

14. Add MS 29399

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Henry Purcell: 'A Song sung att Cecilia's Feast'
Scope & Content:
'A Song sung att Cecilia's Feast' [1692], begins 'Hail, bright Cecilia'; with accompaniments for trumpets, oboes, flutes, violins, and kettle-drum, in full score, by Henry Purcell. The only singer named is — Woodson.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (49 folios)

15. Add MS 29401-29405

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Title:
Madrigals and sacred vocal compositions for 5 voices, in parts, chiefly by William Byrd. In 5 volumes.
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-44b passim. Madrigals for 5 voices, in parts. Except nos. 6 and 17-32, which are by uncertain composers, they are known to be by W. Byrd, though no names are mentioned. Among them are laments on the deaths of Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Tallis, Queen Mary, Mary Queen of Scots, Queen Elizabet...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

5 volumes

16. Add MS 29968

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Thomas Tallis: Motet for forty voices; arranged and scored by Thomas Oliphant. Four chants and the alto part of a Te Deum. Inserted at the end is the printed three-part glee, " How merrily we live," by Michael Este.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-142. [‘Spem in alium non habui’]; for 40 voices, by [Thomas] Tallis, adapted about 1630 to the words ‘Sing and glorify Heav'n's high Majesty.’ Originally written for 8 first trebles, 8 second trebles, 8 contra-tenors, 8 tenors and 8 basses, but divided by Thomas Oliphant into 8 choirs of 5...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
circa 1850
Extent:
1 volume (147 folios)

17. Add MS 31415

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Scope & Content:
MADRIGALS and part-,songs by John Morley, Gerolamo Converso, Jeremiah Saville, John Wilbye, Thomas Linley, Luca Marenzio, John Danby, Samuel Webbe [senior], Lord Mornington, Rev. R. J. S. Stevens, Thomas Ford, Giovanni dalla Croce, Jonathan Battishill, Giovanni Pizzoni, Thomas Weelkes, Orlando G...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

18. Add MS 31464

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Scope & Content:
CATCHES, by the Earl of Mornington, Henry Purcell, Dr. T. A. Arne, J. Isum [Isham], - Atterbury, and others. Copied by Thomas Oliphant. Paper; ff. 39. xixth cent. Oblong 24mo. Garrett Colley Wellesley, 1st Earl of Mornington: Part-songs: 19th cent. Henry Purcell, composer and organist: Glees, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

19. Add MS 38546

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Scope & Content:
PEARSALL COLLECTION. Vol. VII (ff. ii + 101). Arrangements and adaptations from works by the early madrigalwriters and others, interspersed with original compositions chiefly sketches or rough drafts by Pearsall, including anthems, a canon, a carol, a catch, duets, glees, a lamentation, madrigal...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1835-1838
Extent:
1 item

20. Add MS 52337 A

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Scope & Content:
AYRTON PAPERS. Vol. IV A (ff. ii+200). Letters, etc., 'From Composers, Performrs and other Musical Characters'; 1802-1847, n.d. includes: ff. 1-2 Robert Nicolas Charles Bochsa, composer and harpist: Correspondence: 1822.ff. 3-5b John Wall Callcott, composer: Letter to W. Ayrton: 1802.f. 6 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1802-1847
Extent:
1 item