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1. Add MS 15117

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A collection, mostly comprising compositions for the lute, as well as songs, anthems, madrigals, duets, and an extract from an opera, all with lute accompaniment. This volume also contains a quartet, and an index to 'The Psalmes of David in Meter'.
Scope & Content:
ff. 2, 2b, 8b. Compositions for Lute; after 1614. 1. 'Almaine.' 'Candishe' (? = M. Cavendish). f. 2. 2, 3. Two pieces, without names. Anonymous. f. 2. 4. 'Curranto.' f. 2b. 5. 'Ut re my fa sol la.' 'Dyomedes' [of Venice, lutenist to Sigismund II, of Poland]. f. 8b. f. 3. 'Awake, ye wofull weig...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1599
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 15166

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The treble part of a collection of psalms, as well as the treble part of three madrigals
Scope & Content:
passim. The treble part of a collection of Psalms, etc., apparently written for 4 voices. The following forty-eight, which are set as Hymns, are by [John] Sheperd; and the words are taken, with slight variations, from the Sternhold and Hopkins version. 1. ‘The man is blest that hath not gone.’ f...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1567
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 29996

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Title:
Motets, madrigals, fancies, by Thomas Tomkins and others, interspersed with political verses and satires, recipes etc.
Scope & Content:
Motets, madrigals, fancies, etc., annotated throughout by Thomas Tomkins, with some of his own compositions. The composers named are - Kyrton, ff. 6, 7 b. John Redford, ff. 6 b, 11, 17, 22 b, 36, 37, 40 b, 42 b. Richard Wynslate, f. 20. - Avere [Avory], f. 25. Philip Apprys [Price], of St. Paul'...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:

1 volume

4. Add MS 31922

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A collection of songs, ballads, and instrumental pieces, composed early in the reign of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
passim. Compositions for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in parts, apparently written early in the reign of Henry VIII (see for 1882-1887, p. 7). {Severeal published by the Roxburghe Club in 1912} {See J. E. Stevens 'Rounds and Canons from an early Tudor Song Book', Music and Letters,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (129 folios)

5. Add MS 33933

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Title:
The Wode Psalter or St Andrews Psalter: contra-tenor part-book containing musical settings of metrical psalms from the 1564 Scottish Psalm Book and other music
Scope & Content:
Most of the music was collected and copied by Thomas Wode (or Wood). Wode was a former monk who worked at St Andrews after the Reformation in Scotland, eventually becoming vicar there. At the core of the collection are harmonisations of the psalms by Scottish composer David Peebles. Over a perio...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
c 1564-c 1625
Extent:
1 volume (94 folios)

6. Royal Appendix MS 58

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Royal Appendix MS 58
Title:
Collection of English vocal compositions, predominantly by anonymous authors.
Scope & Content:
Vocal compositions: one part only (except in no. 27), chiefly tenor. Unless the contrary is stated, they are anonymous. 1. 'A[h], the syghes that come fro my hert.' By W. Cornish. f. 1. 2. 'Though that she cannot Redresse.' f. 3b. 3. 'Colle to me the Rysshes greene.' f. 4. 4. 'Down bery down': a...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (60 folios)