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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 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

3. Add MS 14343

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Add MS 14343
Title:
A collection of music by Samuel Wesley, including glees, songs, duets, pianoforte solos, a vocal trio, and a quartet
Scope & Content:
passim. Glees, for 3 voices (with two exceptions noted below), in score, by Samuel Wesley; about 1839 (see f. 46). In the hand of Vincent Novello, from MSS belonging to Charles Stokes, etc. 1. 'While others, Delia, use their Pen.' '1800.' f. 4b. 2. 'Sol, Do, Re, Mi': a fantasia. f. 6. 3. 'When B...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1798-1839?
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 14399

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Add MS 14399
Title:
A collection of mostly English songs, as well as some lute music, cantatas and duets
Scope & Content:
passim. Songs for a treble voice, with a bass figured for harpsichord; except in no. 13, which is unaccompanied. Nos. 1-7 are in the hand of Matthew Lock. 1. 'Cupid once, when weary grown.' By Pelham Humfrey. [In , 1679.] f. 4b. 2. 'Cloris, qui domptetout le nionde.' Anonymous. f. 5b. 3. 'Hark, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. 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)

6. Add MS 17991

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Add MS 17991
Title:
Collection of 17th century compositions in English and French.
Scope & Content:
'Chansons à danser, à boire,' etc. Anonymous. Unless the contrary is stated, the melody only is given, without accompaniment. 1. 'C'est trop courir les eaux.' f. 3. 2. 'Entre les roses et les soucis.' f. 5b. 3. 'C'est Anne si belle ': ballet, f. 12b. 4. 'Permettez moy de mourir.' f. 40b. 5. 'Sou...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1620-1621
Extent:
1 volume (65 folios)

7. Add MS 18990

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Add MS 18990
Title:
Album Amicorum of Libertus Opstraet van der Moelen, of Utrecht; containing inscriptions with coloured arms, and paintings of flowers, etc., 1628-1634. Dispersed through the volume are French songs, with music notation, seemingly written by the owner of the volume
Scope & Content:
The musical contents of the volume are described below. Superius and (in nos. 1-4) bassus parts of the following unaccompanied compositions, apparently in the hand of, and composed by, Libertus Opstraet van der Moelen, of Utrecht. 1. 'Ach! ach!...fiere mort.' ff. 8b, 30b. 2. 'De quelle ingrate...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and French
Date Range:
1628-1634
Extent:
1 volume (30 folios)

8. Add MS 25073-25078

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Add MS 25073-25078
Title:
A collection of various British dance tunes, songs, airs, and other pieces
Scope & Content:
Collections of English, Irish and Scottish, songs, numbers from operas, dance tunes, airs, and other pieces from various composers, compiled around 1790.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
6 volumes

9. Add MS 29382-29385

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Add MS 29382-29385
Title:
Part-songs and other compositions, for two, three, and four voices, by William Byrd, John Farmer, Thomas Morley, and other composers
Scope & Content:
Copied by John Immyns. In separate parts. Add MS 29382 contains the canto part. Add MS 29383 contains the alto part. Add MS 29384 contains the tenor part. Add MS 29385 contains the bass part.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
4 volumes

10. Add MS 30091

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Add MS 30091
Title:
Hymns to the Virgin, etc., with music, in Latin. Included also are two hymns in French, beginning " En mai quand rose est florie" and " Ne sai ke ie die tant voi villonnie," ff. 1b, 3.
Scope & Content:
Description of music from Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music: ff. 1-7 passim. Motets, mostly in praise of the Virgin, written in France in long lines with alternate blue and red initials. Only 2 parts are given, the 2nd (or ground bass) being generally sung to different word...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

1 volume (7 folios)