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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 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

3. Add MS 25076

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Add MS 25076
Title:
A collection of dance music, songs, numbers from operas, musical exercises, a number from an oratorio, and a duet
Scope & Content:
ff. 3-26. Numbers from Operas; either arranged for pianoforte, or with pianoforte accompaniment in score; about 1799. Apparently made by Maria Jackson, alias Egerton [? Maria, daughter of Thomas Scott Jackson, afterwards wife of Sir John Grey-Egerton, 8th Bart., whose nephew. Sir Philip de Malpa...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 29382

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Add MS 29382
Title:
Volume I of a set of part books
Scope & Content:
Unless otherwise stated, this volume contains the canto part. For the alto, tenor, and bass parts, see Add MSS 29383, 29384, 29385. passim. Motets for 2 voices (except where the contrary is stated), without accompaniment, in parts. In the hand of John Immyns. 1. ‘Qvi sequitur me.’ ‘Orlando di L...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. 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

6. Add MS 31676

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Add MS 31676
Title:
'Recueil D'Airs,' including a duet predominantly figured for harpsichord, in score, by anonymous authors.
Scope & Content:
Vol. I. passim. 'Recueil D'Airs,' including a duet (no. 22), with a bass (in almost all cases figured) for harpsichord, in score. Anonymous. 1. 'Manes des Rois' [from 'Tancrède,' 1702]; by A. Campra. f. 14. 2. 'La nuit ramène en vain le repos.' f. 14b. 3. 'Diffère d'un moment, chère ombre.' f...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (76 folios)

7. Add MS 32039-32045

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Add MS 32039-32045
Title:
Compositions of Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, grandson of J. S. Bach.
Scope & Content:
Autograph.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
7 volumes

8. Add MS 32184-32237

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Add MS 32184-32237
Title:
Original compositions, for the most part unpublished, by Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Scope & Content:
In the case of works in full scores, the music for wind instruments will generally be found at the end of the volume.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
54 volumes

9. Add MS 34999

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Add MS 34999
Title:
A collection of anthems, hymns, services, songs, part of an oratorio, and other vocal compositions, by Samuel Wesley
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-80b. Act ii and part of act iii of 'The Death of Abel,' in full score, followed by the parts of the overture to act ii, by S[amuel] Wesley; 1779, etc. Autograph. Said to have been composed when Wesley was eleven, but apparently a rather later copy. The overture bears the date 1779. The ins...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Late 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
1 volume (183 folios)