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2. Add MS 5337
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- Add MS 5337
- Title:
- A collection of incidental music from operas, madrigals, sonatas, catches, glees, a duet from an oratorio and a canon
- Scope & Content:
- The contents of this MS. are in different hands. ff. 1-42. Incidental music, by Henry Purcell, in score; early 18th cent. The symphonies are written for flutes, oboes, strings, etc., and, in the case of no. 2, for trumpets also. 1. [The Masque in] 'Timon of Athens' [1694]. f. 1. 2. 'The Musick ...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English and Italian
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
3. Add MS 14340
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- Add MS 14340
- Title:
- A collection of motets, graces, sacred songs, hymns, glees, a secular song, a vocal trio, an organ duet, an organ solo, a string quartet
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 2-36 passim. Motets, etc., for 4 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score, by S[amuel] Wesley; 1798-1814. Autograph. 1. ‘Anima nostra erepta est’: antiphon for 5 voices, with ad libitum accompaniment for the organ, f. 2. 2. ‘Levate capita vestra.’ ‘1798.’ f. 7. 3. ‘Constitues eos pri...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English, Italian, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1788-1814
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4. Add MS 14342
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- Add MS 14342
- Title:
- A collection of music by Samuel Wesley, which includes masses and portions of masses, requiems or portions of requiems, plainsong melodies, as well as a motet, a chant, a madrigal, a glee, a duet, a miserere and part of a service
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 2, 18, 53-55. Masses and portions of Masses, in score, harmonized by S. Wesley; from a volume of his compositions collected, and in many cases transcribed, by Vincent Novello, by whom it was presented to the British Museum in 1843; 1810 etc. 1. The Gregorian Mass ‘Pro Angelis,’ for 4 voices,...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1782?-1813?
- Extent:
- 1 volume
5. Add MS 14343
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- Add MS 14343
- Title:
- A collection of music by Samuel Wesley, including glees, songs, duets, pianoforte solos, a vocal trio, and a quartet
- Scope & Content:
- passim. Glees, for 3 voices (with two exceptions noted below), in score, by Samuel Wesley; about 1839 (see f. 46). In the hand of Vincent Novello, from MSS belonging to Charles Stokes, etc. 1. 'While others, Delia, use their Pen.' '1800.' f. 4b. 2. 'Sol, Do, Re, Mi': a fantasia. f. 6. 3. 'When B...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1798-1839?
- Extent:
- 1 volume
6. Add MS 19647
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- Add MS 19647
- Title:
- Songs in full score, composed for Vauxhall Gardens, by James Hook.
- Scope & Content:
- Songs, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings and other instruments mentioned below, in score, written by J[ames] Hook for Vauxhall. Autograph. 1. 'To sing about love I know is the plan'; with oboes, horns, bassoons, etc., 1786. f. 27. 2. 'Farewell, ambitious, gilded Toys'; written for '...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1785-1798
- Extent:
- 1 volume (108 folios)
7. Add MS 19648
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 19648
- Title:
- Collection of 19th-century compositions predominently for voice, by Franz Joseph Haydn, D. Bruguier, Thomas Brewer, W. H. Cutler, and anonymous.
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 2, 7. Canzonets, originally written for a single voice, by Franz Joseph Haydn, harmonized for 3 voices, with pianoforte accompaniment, in score, by D. Bruguier. 1. 'Despair,' begins 'The anguish of my bursting heart.' f. 2. 2. 'Fidelity,' begins 'While hollow burst the rushing winds.' f. 7. ...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1810-1833
- Extent:
- 1 volume (46 folios)
8. Add MS 25073-25078
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- Add MS 25073-25078
- Title:
- A collection of various British dance tunes, songs, airs, and other pieces
- Scope & Content:
- Collections of English, Irish and Scottish, songs, numbers from operas, dance tunes, airs, and other pieces from various composers, compiled around 1790.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English, French, and Italian
- Date Range:
- Late 18th century
- Extent:
- 6 volumes
9. Add MS 25074
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 25074
- Title:
- A collection of dance music, songs, numbers from operas, scales, an elegy and a glee
- Scope & Content:
- f. 3b. 'Thou to whose eyes I bend'; in compressed score; late 18th cent. [From , by William Jackson, of Exeter, op. 3.] f. 5b. 'Adieu to the Village'; in compressed score; late 18th cent. [By Joseph Baildon.] ff. 6b-37b. Songs, with pianoforte accompaniment, in score; late 18th cent. Mostly an...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- Late 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
10. Add MS 25075
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- Add MS 25075
- Title:
- A collection of dance music, songs, numbers from operas, a catch, a duet, and a glee
- Scope & Content:
- passim. Numbers from Operas; either arranged for pianoforte, or with pianoforte accompaniment in score; about 1799. Apparently made by Maria Jackson, alias Egerton [? Maria, daughter of Thomas Scott Jackson, afterwards wife of Sir John Grey-Egerton, 8th Bart., whose nephew. Sir Philip de Malpas ...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English and Italian
- Date Range:
- Late 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume