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1. 3437.g.19.

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3437.g.19.
Title:
PSALM TUNES; after 1712. Added in MS. on inter-leaves to the printed volume The Whole Books of Psalms…by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others (Printed by William Pearson, 1712). Those marked a, below, are for 4 voices and, unless the contrary is stated, taken from an edition of Thomas Ravenscroft’s Whole Book of Psalmes; those marked b, from John Playford’s 3-part setting of the same collection (? chiefly the 1713 edition); and those marked a, b, from both these latter works. At the be...
Scope & Content:
Robert Parsons, composer: Thomas Tallis, composer and organist: John Ward, composer: Thomas Morley, composer and writer: Music: Psalms: Thomas Ravenscroft, composer and editor: John Playford, the elder; composer and music-publisher: Giles Farnaby, composer: John Farmer, composer: John Bennet, co...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1712
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 4429

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Add MS 4429
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Scope & Content:
Vol. XXIII (ff. 471). includes: f. 8 Henry Oldenburg, Secretary of the Royal Society: Letter to, from G. W. von Leibnitz: 1676.: Lat. f. 8 Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz, d 1716, German philosopher and mathematician: Correspondence with H. Oldenburg: circ. 1673-1676.: Lat.: Partly copies...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1661-1663
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 29291

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Add MS 29291
Title:
A collection of part-songs, canons, catches, glees, parts of services, vocal trios and duets, as well as some instrumental music
Scope & Content:
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

4. Add MS 29372-29377

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Add MS 29372-29377
Title:
'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

5. Add MS 29427

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Add MS 29427
Title:
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
Scope & Content:
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

6. Add MS 50899

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Add MS 50899
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CHURCH HOUSE MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XII. 'A Course of Anthems, Introits, Hymns at the Offertory and after Evening Service throughout the Year', partly by named composers; compiled aft. 1866 (f. 99). Imperfect, by the excision of pp. 71-74, 131 in the original pagination. Mostly for four voices in ope...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1866
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 71107

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Add MS 71107
Title:
SAMUEL WESLEY: ‘Harmony 1800’, vocal and instrumental music mainly by Samuel Wesley; 1800-1807. Autograph of Wesley. Other composers represented are Charles Burney, Henry Purcell, Thomas Ravenscroft and Agostino Steffani. In the list below pieces are by Samuel Wesley except where stated otherwise, and references are given where further (often variant) autograph versions of the pieces are to be found in other manuscripts in the British Library or the Royal College of Music (Lcm). Volume conta...
Scope & Content:
Samuel Wesley, composer and organist: Vocal and instrumental music by and in the hand of Samuel Wesley: 1800-1807: Mostly Lat., partly Gr. includes: f. 6 Agostino Steffani, composer: Motet, `Qui diligit Mariam' by Agostino Steffani: [1800]: Lat: Copy by S. Wesley. f. 15 Franz Joseph Haydn, com...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
1792-1807
Extent:
1 item

8. B.580.ww.

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B.580.ww.
Title:
VERSIFIED PSALM TUNES; 1710-1762. A composite volume of psalm tunes and other material. There are several marks of ownership, from which it appears that the two main components of the book, the printed collection of Psalm tunes for St Laurence Church, Reading (ff. 7-48) and the manuscript collection from Portsmouth Chapel (ff. 49-138), were separately owned until 1748-50, when they were brought together and added to. Inscribed ‘Thomas Collens His Book 1750’ (f. 1v, also f. 3 without date and...
Scope & Content:
Music: Psalms: Versified Psalms, set to music: 1710-1762. includes: ff. 3v-6v William Tans'ur, composer and music theorist: 'The Preface to all Lovers of Divine Musick': 1748: Copy.ff. 7-48 John Bishop, composer and organist: A set of new psalm tunes, part of a composite volume: [1710]: Pr...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1710-1762
Extent:
1 item

9. R.M.24.i.6-R.M.24.i.10

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R.M.24.i.6-R.M.24.i.10
Title:
R.M.24.i.6-10. ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Ravenscroft (Thomas). Pammelia; 18th century. A late copy of the collection of rounds and catches published in 1609 under the above title. No. 9 of the printed edition is omitted, and the order is occasionally different. Paper. 5 partbooks.
Scope & Content:
Thomas Ravenscroft, composer and editor: 'Pammelia': 18th cent: Copy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
5 items