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101. 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)

102. Add MS 34050

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Tenor part of a collection of Italian madrigals and motets by anonymous composers. At the end are some English madrigals, two of which are by William Byrd.
Scope & Content:
Passim. Madrigals, apparently all written for 5 voices, in England. Tenor part. The words are omitted in most cases. Nos. 2-10 are by B. Pallavicino, nos. 2-4 being published in 1588, and nos. 5-7 in 1593. Nos. 16 and 23 may be taken from an earlier edition.1. 'Bascia e ribascia By L. Marenzio(?...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (41 folios)

103. Add MS 34071

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Title:
A collection of madrigals, motets, elegies, and a catch
Scope & Content:
passim. Chansons and Madrigals, in score. The earlier ones are almost all of them taken from the collections of Gardane and Tylman Susato (1541-1550). Except where the contrary is stated, they are for 5 voices.1. 'D'amour me plains.' 'Mai[tre] Rogier, 1543.' This and nos. 2-6 are for 4 voices. f...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (51 folios)

104. Add MS 34073

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Title:
Dixit Dominus. - Franz Joseph Haydn: Pietà de me. - Luigi Boccherini: Quintets, op. 12, first set. - Organ accompaniments to anthems by Dr Greene and Dr Croft.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-6b. 'Dixit Dominus‘; for 2 choirs of 4 voices each, with a figured bass for organ, in score. Anonymous. 18th century. Oblong octavo ff. 7-60b. 'Pietà di me': Trio for 2 sopranos and a tenor, with symphonies, and accompaniments for horns, solo bassoon, and strings, composed by Franz Joseph...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
1 volume (106 folios)

105. Add MS 34191

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Title:
A collection of parts of masses and motets, as well as portions of services
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-16b. Tenor part of Masses by English composers, consisting of the 'Gloria in Excelsis,’ ‘Credo,’ ‘Sanctus,’ and ‘Agnus Dei.’ The notes employed are either diamond-shaped or quasi-square, on a 5-line stave. 1. ‘Spes nostra.’ ‘Robard Joonys.’ Imperfect at the beginning, f. 1. 2. ‘Veni, Sanct...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
[1509-1547]
Extent:
1 volume

106. Add MS 34279 B

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Add MS 34279 B
Title:
A collection of parts from motets, songs, oratorios and operas
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-39b. The vocal and string parts of the following Motets; 1749, etc.: — 1. ‘Dixit Dominus‘ (à 4). The treble part is in Add MS 34279 A. ‘Battista Mazzaferrata.’ f. 1. 2. ‘Nisi Dominus‘ (à 3). ‘Bassani.’ Transcribed in 1749. f. 27. ff. 40-55b. First and 2nd oboe, principal violin, 1st and 2...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1749-1837
Extent:
1 volume (88 folios)

107. Add MS 34608

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Title:
Musical Common-place Book in the hand of John Stafford Smith, organist and composer, containing short musical extracts from works by John Dowland, John Amner, Dr. Campion, Francesco Turini, the compiler, and others, with extracts from Burney's History of Music, Morley's Introduction, etc., and anecdotes of Handel, Dr. Arne, Dr. Boyce, etc.
Scope & Content:
passim. Extracts from Burney's History of Music, Morley's Introduction, etc., together with specimens of harmony and melody, in the hand of John Stafford Smith; 1785-1789. passim. Common-place book of John Stafford Smith, containing, among other things, fragments of the following sacred composi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1785-1789
Extent:
1 volume (34 folios)

108. Add MS 34610

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Title:
A collection of motets, anthems, chants, madrigals, glees and songs
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-14b. Three Motets for 2 voices, the first two with accompaniments for 2 violins and bassetto, and a figured bass, the third with figured bass only, in score, by Giacomo Battistini (op. 2); 18th cent. 1. ‘Cœli stellæ luminosæ.’ f. 2. 2. ‘Duræ spinæ, de terra perite.’ f. 7. 3. ‘Maria, nomen ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
1 volume (42 folios)

109. Add MS 34726

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Title:
A collection of motets, songs, an anthem, a lamentation, and examples of harmony
Scope & Content:
Motets, in score, in the hand of John Travers; middle 18th cent. 1. ‘Conserva me, Domine’ (3 voices). ‘Parsley.’ f. 17. 2. Exurge, Domine’ (3 voices). ‘Woods.’ f. 17b. 3. ‘Singularis privelegii‘ (3 voices). Imperfect at the end. Anonymous, f. 18b. 4. ‘Soli Deo gloria’ (3 voices). Anonymo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (120 folios)

110. Add MS 34800 A

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Add MS 34800 A
Title:
Volume I of a collection of three part compositions, also including a violin solo
Scope & Content:
passim. Compositions for 3 instruments, in parts; after 1618 (see f. 51b). 1. 'See, see, myne owne sweet Jewell.' This and nos. 2-8 are taken from Thomas Morley's Canzonets or Little Short Songs to 3 voyces . . . 1593, from which the titles (omitted in the MS.) are taken. What is in the original...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (54 folios)