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1. Add MS 15118

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Add MS 15118
Title:
A collection of songs, lute solos, violin solos, string duets, and a trio
Scope & Content:
ff. 2b-7. Compositions for a treble voice, with a bass written underneath (but not in score), and possibly intended for singing; 1st quarter of the 17th cent. 1. 'Change thy mynde.' [By Richard Martin. Set for 2 voices in R. Dowland's , 1610.] f. 2b. 2. 'Walkinge alone.' Anonymous. J. Redford wr...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. 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)

3. Add MS 22098

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Add MS 22098
Title:
Collection of 17th-century compositions for flute and strings.
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-12. Airs, apparently for a violin, in the hand of Thomas Britton, most of them anonymous. 1, 2. 'A Ground in C fa ut,' and a piece in B flat (common time), without title. f. 2. 3. 'Pay the Reckining.' f. 2b. 4. Scotch tune. f. 3. 5-16. Twelve pieces without titles. ff. 3b-10. 17. Allemande...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1697
Extent:
1 volume (41 folios)

4. Add MS 30272

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Add MS 30272
Title:
Collection of dance tunes and airs, etc., for flute or violin, in the hand, and most of them the composition of, J. B. Crotch.
Scope & Content:
Passim. 'Collection of . . . Minuets, Strathspeys, Reels, Hornpipes, and other Dance-tunes, etc., for Flute or Violin, in the autograph of . . . J. B. Crotch [see f. 4b], with . . . others added [at the end], but not composed by him 1779 [? 1799, see below]-1802. This volume formed the 2nd book ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1799-1802
Extent:
1 volume (49 folios)

5. Add MS 30480-30484

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Add MS 30480-30484
Title:
Services, anthems, and a few part-songs, for five voices, by Nathaniel Giles, Robert Adams, Christopher Tye, John Shepherde, Edward Johnson, Robert Johnson, William More, Thomas Bird and others. In separate parts, in five volumes. The last volume is imperfect.
Scope & Content:
Anthems, services, motets and other part works by English composers in 5 part-books. Volume i contains the cantus, vol. ii the contra-tenor, vol. iii the tenor, vol. iv the bass, and vol. v the quintus parts. Passim. Anthems by English composers, in parts: —1. 'O prayse God in his holynes.' [R...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
5 volumes (89, 94, 87, 91, 22 folios)

6. Add MS 30955

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Add MS 30955
Title:
Songs written and composed by Charles Dibdin for his Table, or Sans Souci, Entertainments. Volume 5.
Scope & Content:
Passim. Songs chiefly from Dibdin's musical dramas. In score. Unless the contrary is stated, the accompaniments are for horns, oboes, and strings. 1. 'This strange emotion'; with bassoons, etc. [From 'The Islanders,' 1780.] f. 1. 2. Recitatives (Nancy, Kitty, Tom Pitch), begins 'Thus do we every...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:

1 volume (179 folios)

7. Add MS 32411

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Add MS 32411
Title:
Musical extracts [by Johann Christian Lobe?], mostly specimens of fugues and canons.
Scope & Content:
passim. Examples of Harmony in various forms of composition, chiefly fragmentary and in compressed score, collected by Johann Christian Lobe, the flutist. The principal ones are:— 1-4. Four, including one from 'Titus.' 'Mozart.' f. 3. 5. Part of a movement from a symphony in E-flat . 'Haydn.' f....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1818
Extent:

1 volume (69 folios)

8. 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)

9. Add MS 34800 A-C

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Add MS 34800 A-C
Title:
Three-part musical compositions, including anthems, motets, madrigals and string trios
Scope & Content:
Add MS 34800 A also includes a violin solo. Add MS 34800 C also includes a song, without accompaniment.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
3 volumes

10. Add MS 34996

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Add MS 34996
Title:
Samuel Wesley's "First Music book, from which he learned his notes"
Scope & Content:
ff. 3, 7b, 32, 34b. Compositions, arranged or otherwise, for Harpsichord or Pianoforte. 1. Minuet in 'Ariadne.' 'Handel.' f. 3. 2. Minuet (Allegro moderato). 'Handel.' f. 7b. 3. 'Old clapping cotillon.' f. 32. 4. Another cotillon. f. 34b. f. 13b. March in D for the violin, without accompaniment...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (36 folios)