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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 17802-17805

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Add MS 17802-17805
Title:
One of four volumes of a collection of Motets, Masses, Te Deum, and Kyrie, in parts, by 16th century English composers, including: T. Tallis, John Munday, John Taverner, John Shepherde, R. Barbar, J. Redforde, J. Ensdale, C. Okeland, Alcoke, W. Birde, Van Wilder, Hake, and Pye.
Scope & Content:
Mid to Late 16th Century. Collection of Motets, etc., all of which appear to be for 4 voices, by English composers, most of whom flourished about 1554-1565, which latter is the probable date of the first parts of the volumes. The second parts may have been written a few years later, including a...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
4 volumes (Part books)

4. 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

5. Add MS 32082

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Add MS 32082
Title:
'Das Chagas'. A mass by Sigismund von Neukomm.
Scope & Content:
'Messe solennelle sous le titre distinctif "das Chagas" (des 5 plaies) composée pour la chapelle Royale à Queluz (près Lisbonne) par le Chevalier Sigismond Neukomm.’ Autograph. For solo voices and 4-part chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments for oboes, clarinets, bassoons, and strings, and a...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1842
Extent:
1 volume (84 folios)

6. 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)

7. Add MS 37639

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Add MS 37639
Title:
Messe Solennelle (Ste. Cécile), in full score, by Charles François Gounod.
Scope & Content:
ff. 41. Messe Solennelle (Ste. Cécile), in D, written by Charles Gounod, for 3 solo-voices and 4-part chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, clarinets, 4 bassoons, 4 horns, [cornets-à-] pistons, trombones, kettle-drums, cymbals, big drum, 6 harps, strings, and organ, in ful...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
after 1852
Extent:
1 volume (41 folios)