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11. Add MS 11608

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Add MS 11608
Title:
A collection of songs, motets, duets, canons, anthems and part-songs
Scope & Content:
passim. Duets and dialogues, the latter with a bass, in score. 1. Dialogue (Strephon and Daphne), begins 'Come, my Daphne.' 'William Lawes.' f. 2. 2. Another (treble and bass), begins 'What if I dye.' By the same, f. 7b. 3. 'Come, Cloris; hye wee to ye Bower.' 'Henry Lawes.' f. 8b. 4. Dialogue (...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1656-1659
Extent:
1 volume

12. Add MS 12219

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Add MS 12219
Title:
Incidental music to Macbeth, which has been attributed to John Eccles
Scope & Content:
Incidental music to Macbeth, with symphonies and accompaniments for serpent and other instruments, in score, in the same hand as the Ode by John Eccles in Add MS 31456, and apparently autograph. In Add MS 29378, consisting almost entirely of works by Eccles, the composition of this music (ff. 57-...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (42 folios)

13. Add MS 15117

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Add MS 15117
Title:
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

14. Add MS 15318

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Add MS 15318
Title:
'The Island Princess' or 'Generous Portuguese'. A pasticcio in 5 acts by Daniel Purcell, [Jeremiah] Clarke, and [Richard] Leveridge.
Scope & Content:
'The Island Princess' or 'Generous Portuguese': a pasticcio in 5 Acts by Daniel Purcell, [Jeremiah] Clarke, and [Richard] Leveridge, the words adapted by P[ierre] A[nthoine] Motteux from the play by Fletcher. The Opera was written for solo voices and chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments fo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1699?
Extent:
1 volume (65 folios)

15. Add MS 17785

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Add MS 17785
Title:
A collection of compositions, including: cantatas, and other pieces, for the voice, and single instruments, and from operas, with accompaniments, by named and anonymous French authors
Scope & Content:
Airs (and other numbers indicated below) from French Operas. Except where the contrary is stated, they are by Jean Baptiste Lully, and unaccompanied. The bass, where given, is usually figured. 1. 'Ritournelle' for 2 violins, with a figured bass. f. 21. 2. 'Poursuivons jusqu'au trépas': duet ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1737
Extent:
1 volume (213 folios)

16. Add MS 17799

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Add MS 17799
Title:
Masque of "Cupid and Death," written by James Shirley, with music by Matthew Locke and Dr. Christopher Gibbons, and played before the Portuguese Ambassador, in 1653, and a transcript of this volume, enables a subsequent presentation at the Military Ground in Leicester Fields, in 1659.
Scope & Content:
Music: Masque of Cupid and Death by M. Locke. Matthew Locke, composer: "Masque of Cupid and Death, " etc. 'Cupid and Death: a Masque by J[ame]s Shirley, 1653.' Presented before the Portuguese Ambassador, on the 26th of March of that year. The music by Matthew Lock and [Christopher] Gibbons. Th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1659
Extent:
1 of two volumes (36 folios)

17. Add MS 17800

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Add MS 17800
Title:
Edward Jones Transcription of a Masque of Cupid and Death, which was written by James Shirley, with music by Matthew Locke and Dr. Christopher Gibbons; with also a selection of portions put into score by Sir Henry Rowley Bishop.
Scope & Content:
Music: Masque of Cupid and Death transcribed by Edward Jones. Edward Jones: Transcription of the "Masque of Cupid and Death. ". 'Cupid and Death: a Masque by J[ame]s Shirley, 1653.' Presented before the Portuguese Ambassador, on the 26th of March of that year. The music by Matthew Lock and [Ch...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 of two volumes (41 folios)

18. Add MS 19759

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Add MS 19759
Title:
Collection of compositions, mostly without accompaniment, by various authors, including: Purcell, Hart, Banister, Turner, and other composers of the latter part of the 17th century.
Scope & Content:
Songs without accompaniments. Anonymous, unless the contrary is stated. 1. 'Love you by all that's good.' f. 2. 2. 'I bring thee, ô thou charming Fair.' '[James (?)] Hart.' f. 2b. 3. 'Let's loue and let's laugh.' '[J.] Banister.' f. 3. 4. 'I loue and am lou'd.' f. 3. 5. 'To Cloris what I did pre...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jun 1681
Extent:
1 volume (46 folios)

19. Add MS 21467

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Add MS 21467
Title:
Collection of 18th-century operatic music for piano, strings, and bass, composed by various authors.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-66b, 107-118. Concerted numbers from three Italian Operas, with symphonies and accompaniments for oboes, horns, trumpets (in no. 3), and strings, in score. 1, 2. Trio, 'Che vipar, Dorina bella'; and quartet (Dorina, Masotto, Mingone, Titta), begins 'Dorina mia.' [From 'Le Nozze di Dorina,'...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (133 folios)

20. Add MS 22099

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Add MS 22099
Title:
Collection of sacred and secular compositions, including hymns and catches for voice, and incidental music, and an arrangement by Henry Purcell for Queen Mary’s birthday in 1693; predominantly by English and Italian composers.
Scope & Content:
Short pieces on two staves, apparently written, or arranged, for Harpsichord. Several of them are in A Choice Collection of Ayres for the Harpsichord, 1700. [about 1704-1707.]. 1. Movement from 'Sonata 12' (the last of the set published in 1683). 'H. Purcel.' f. 2. 2. Prelude in A minor. 'Lock.'...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
late 17th century-early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (90 folios)