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1. Add MS 5036-5062

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Add MS 5036-5062
Title:
A collection of pieces, including motets, madrigals, masses, anthems, duets and other works
Scope & Content:
A collection of pieces, including motets, madrigals, masses, anthems, duets and other works. Prefixed to Add MS 5036 is a letter from Gabriel Mathias to the trustees of the British Museum, containing an extract from the will of James Mathias esq, from which it appears that these volumes are all...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1760
Extent:
27 volumes

2. Add MS 5054

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Add MS 5054
Title:
A collection of motets, madrigals, full anthems, portions of masses, psalms (or choruses), canons and duets, as well as examples of a litany, a grace, a service, a miserere, and a stabat Mater. In score.
Scope & Content:
1. Sanctus and Gloria in Excelsis, in B minor, parts of a service, for 3 solo voices and 4-part chorus, by Dr. {William} Croft. ff. 3-5b. 2. 'La Spagnola'. A madrigal. (à 3), begins 'Al rigor d'un bel Sembiante'; with the alternative words 'Al splendor di due pupille' written underneath. 'Agost...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1760
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 11581-11591

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Add MS 11581-11591
Title:
Extracts from various early musical writers, by Charles Burney, Mus. Doct., with remarks and criticisms by him
Scope & Content:
Also includes extracts and examples of various compositions.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
11 volumes

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 19583

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Add MS 19583
Title:
A collection of sacred chants and hymns, the words in Latin; and songs, the words in French, by various authors.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1b-45 passim. Single vocal parts (1st or 2nd treble, or tenor) of compositions for several voices by French and Flemish composers of the 15th-16th cent. 1. ‘Confitemini Domino, quoniam bonus.’ ‘Andreas [Silvanus ?].’ In 3 parts, f. 1b. 2. ‘O sancte seraphice.’ ‘[Pierre] de la fage.’ f. 6b. 3...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (48 folios)

6. Add MS 24290

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Add MS 24290
Title:
Compositions, in score, by Gaetano Latilla.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-34b. 'Salve, Regina‘; for 2 voices, with accompaniments for strings (etc. ?), in score, by Gaetano Latilla. [19th cent.] ff. 37-100 'Miserere mei, Deus‘; for 1, 2, 3, and 4 solo voices, and 4-part chorus, with accompaniments for horns, flutes, and strings, in score, by Gaetano Latilla. Ap...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (100 folios)

7. Add MS 24291

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Add MS 24291
Title:
Collection of compositions, by several 'Maestri Della Venerabile Cappella Vaticana', Included are numerous settings of the 'Miserere mei, Deus’.
Scope & Content:
passim 'Musica Clas[s]ica,’ by several ‘Maestri Della Venerabile Cappella Vaticana,’ copied by or for Giovanni Jubilli, ‘Professore della sud[ett]a Cappella.’ Included are the following settings of the 'Miserere mei, Deus,’ which have pianoforte accompaniments, in score: — 1. For two choirs (a c...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
4th quarter 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (98 folios)

8. Add MS 24295

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Add MS 24295
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Compositions by Ferdinand Bertoni, Chapel Master at the Conservatorio de' Mendicanti at Venice.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1, 53. Two settings, in D minor and C minor, of the ‘Miserere mei, Deus, . . . A quatro voci con Stromenti Concertato . . . Ferdinando Bertoni,’ in full score. Autograph. The names of the female soloists are added throughout. ff. 113-154b. 'Dies iræ, a quatro Concertato con s[tromen]ti e T...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1754
Extent:
1 volume (154 folios)

9. Add MS 30382

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Add MS 30382
Title:
Anthems and songs collected, and many of them composed, by Henry Bowman. The names of the other composers are Johann Felice Sances, P. Nadal Monferrato, Richard Deering, Giovanni Giacoppo Carissimi, Maria Marini, - Cassati, John Blow, Henry Purcell Giovanni Rovetta, - Silvestro, Michael Wise, and Henry Lawes.
Scope & Content:
Passim. Anthems for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score, viz.1. ['Awake up, my glory']: the end only. M. Wise. f. 2. 2. 'Wake sleeping ones': a Dialogue between the Angel and the Soul; with chorus. 'H[enry] B[owman].' Autograph. f. 43b. 3. ''Sing vnto the Lord, O yee Saints': fune...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1680-1686
Extent:

1 volume (94 folios)

10. Add MS 31608

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Add MS 31608
Title:
'Miserere mei, Deus‘; for solo voices and 5-part chorus, in score, by Francesco Scarlatti.
Scope & Content:
ff. 30. 'Miserere mei, Deus‘; for solo voices and 5-part chorus, in score, with accompaniments for strings and a figured bass for organ, by Francesco Scarlatti. Also includes a fragment identified as being from 'Debbora, la profetessa guerriera' (see Janet Page, Convent Music and Politics in Eigh...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
24 Mar 1714
Extent:
1 volume (30 folios)