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31. Add MS 33933

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Add MS 33933
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)

32. Add MS 34725

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Add MS 34725
Title:
A collection of original compositions, vocal and instrumental, mostly unpublished, in score, by Sir Henry Rowley Bishop
Scope & Content:
ff. 1, 120. Marches in E flat for trumpets, horns, flute, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, trombone, and serpent (in no. 1), and drums (in no. 2), in score, by Sir Henry Rowley Bishop; 1827, etc. Autograph. 1. In full score; 1827. ff. 1-7. 2. In compressed score. f. 120. f. 8. Quartet for strings, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 volume (153 folios)

33. Add MS 35026

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Add MS 35026
Title:
Musical autograph album of Eliza Wesley, containing short pieces, inscriptions and signatures of numerous composers, musicians, singers and others
Scope & Content:
passim. Album begun by Eliza Wesley in 1836, containing the autographs of the principal composers, vocalists, and instrumentalists, and a few others, then in London; 1836-1895. Besides the compositions described below, there are also signatures, and in a few cases transcripts of fragments of mus...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 volume (73 folios)

34. Add MS 36484

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Add MS 36484
Title:
A collection of bass parts for various compositions
Scope & Content:
passim. Vocal compositions, apparently in the hand of David Melvill alias Melvine, whose name is written in a contemporary hand at the bottom of every page. Unless the contrary is stated, they are for 4 voices. Bass part. The composers' names are not given. {See the Melvill Book of Roundels, Rox...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
after 1604
Extent:
1 volume (71 folios)

35. Add MS 36993

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Add MS 36993
Title:
Collection of compositions, for strings, by Richard Deeringe, John Jenkins, Morris Webster, Charles Colman or Coleman, Alfonso Ferrabosco [possibly junior], and Robert Johnson.
Scope & Content:
passim. Dances for 4 viols, in tablature, apparently in the hand of F. C. (see f. 13b). Basso continuo part (see f. 15b). Leaves are missing at the beginning (?), after ff. 5 and 14, and apparently also after ff. 9 and 10. 1. Allemande in 'C fa ut.' 'Jo. Jenkins.' f. 3. 2-10. Nine more Allemande...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (21 folios)

36. Add MS 37074

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Add MS 37074
Title:
Collection of vocal and instrumental compositions, in score, probably by Reverend Robert Creyghton.
Scope & Content:
ff. 4-6b Series of seven short unnamed pieces for Lute, apparently in the hand of the Rev. Robert Creyghton, D.D., who has signed four with his initials, and added the date 1727 on the first and the last pages. ff. 7-8b. 'Hark! How ye pleasant thunder-tempest sounds'; with a bass for harpsicho...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:
1727
Extent:
1 volume (101 folios)

37. Add MS 37763-37765

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Add MS 37763-37765
Title:
Original drafts of ten of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Quartets, for 2 violins, viola, and violoncello, in score.
Scope & Content:
Original drafts of ten of Mozart's quartets, for 2 violins, viola, and violoncello, in score. In three volumes. They are respectively numbered, probably by Stumpff, 28-33, 37, 34-36. The K. (followed by a number) given below, stands for Kochel's Thematic Catalogue, from which also the dates in s...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Not applicable
Date Range:
1782-1790
Extent:
3 volumes (ff. iv., 68; ii., 14; ii., 40)

38. Royal Appendix MS 23

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Royal Appendix MS 23
Title:
Collection of secular and sacred Motets, including one for Christmas Day, Madrigals, a Miserere, an Anthem, suspected composed by Derick Gerarde, and in parts.
Scope & Content:
Vol. I. ff. 44. Late XVI cent. The name of Robert Jenner is written at the top of the page in vol. iii. passim. Superius, contra-tenor, and tenor parts of a collection of Motets, etc., made, if not composed, by Dyricke Gerarde, whose name occurs (in that form) at the end of vol. i, and the beg...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (of 3 part books) (44 folios)

39. Royal Appendix MS 23-25

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Royal Appendix MS 23-25
Title:
Collection of secular and sacred Motets, including one for Christmas Day, Madrigals, a Miserere, an Anthem, suspected composed by Derick Gerarde, and in parts.
Scope & Content:
passim. Superius, contra-tenor, and tenor parts of a collection of Motets, etc., made, if not composed, by Dyricke Gerarde, whose name occurs (in that form) at the end of vol. i, and the beginning of vol. ii. The folios are the same in each volume, unless the contrary is stated. 1. ‘Angelus Domi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
3 volumes (Part books: 44, 42, 43 folios respectively)

40. Royal Appendix MS 24

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Royal Appendix MS 24
Title:
Collection of secular and sacred Motets, including one for Christmas Day, Madrigals, a Miserere, an Anthem, suspected composed by Derick Gerarde, and in parts.
Scope & Content:
Vol. II. ff. 42. Late XVI cent. The name of Robert Jenner is written at the top of the page in vol. iii. passim. Superius, contra-tenor, and tenor parts of a collection of Motets, etc., made, if not composed, by Dyricke Gerarde, whose name occurs (in that form) at the end of vol. i, and the be...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (of 3 Part books) (42 folios)