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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 5054

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Add MS 5054
Title:
A collection of motets, madrigals, full anthems, portions of masses, psalms (or choruses), canons and duets, as well as examples of a litany, a grace, a service, a miserere, and a stabat Mater. In score.
Scope & Content:
1. Sanctus and Gloria in Excelsis, in B minor, parts of a service, for 3 solo voices and 4-part chorus, by Dr. {William} Croft. ff. 3-5b. 2. 'La Spagnola'. A madrigal. (à 3), begins 'Al rigor d'un bel Sembiante'; with the alternative words 'Al splendor di due pupille' written underneath. 'Agost...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1760
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 22597

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Add MS 22597
Title:
Tenor and treble parts and incidental music for a collection of compositions, by various composers.
Scope & Content:
(String Quintets, Motets and a Carol, in the same hand, Song in 'Don Quixote,' by R. Courteville, in a later hand.) ff. 3-15, 18-21b, 53 Tenor part of the following Anthems: — [late 16th cent.]. 1. 'The Lorde blesse vs.' 'R. White.' Attributed by Tudway, in Harley MS 7339, f. 34b, to Matthew Wh...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume (53 folios)

4. 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)

5. 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)