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1. Add MS 29386

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A collection of catches, canons, songs, vocal trios, excerpts from oratorios, excerpts from operas, and a duet
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passim. Catches, Rounds, etc., for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score. Most of them are in the hand of Edmund T. Warren Home; some of them, beginning with no. 4, were 'corrected [in] 1756.' 1. 'Tobacco is but a vapor' (à 4). 'Ed. Nelham.' f. 5. 2. 'Hey ho, what shall I say' (à 9)...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1762?
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 29396

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A collection, mostly of English songs
Scope & Content:
passim. Songs, with a bass (unless the contrary is stated), for harpsichord, in score. Those marked with an asterisk appear for the first time in Playford's , 1652. Almost the whole of the MS is in the hand of Edward Lowe, organist of the Chapel Royal (1661-1682), who added the bass to some of t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1678?-1682?
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 30382

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Anthems and songs collected, and many of them composed, by Henry Bowman. The names of the other composers are Johann Felice Sances, P. Nadal Monferrato, Richard Deering, Giovanni Giacoppo Carissimi, Maria Marini, - Cassati, John Blow, Henry Purcell Giovanni Rovetta, - Silvestro, Michael Wise, and Henry Lawes.
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Passim. Anthems for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score, viz.1. ['Awake up, my glory']: the end only. M. Wise. f. 2. 2. 'Wake sleeping ones': a Dialogue between the Angel and the Soul; with chorus. 'H[enry] B[owman].' Autograph. f. 43b. 3. ''Sing vnto the Lord, O yee Saints': fune...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1680-1686
Extent:

1 volume (94 folios)

4. Add MS 33965

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Original letters of musicians, arranged as in the preceding volume. Among them are letters of:- Dr. Thomas Augustus Arne, Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, Dr. William Boyce, Orlando Gibbons, Henry Lawes, Matthew Locke, André Ernest Modeste Grétry, Hector Berlioz, François Adrien Boieldieu, François Gounod, Étienne Henri Méhul, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, George Frederic Handel, Joseph Haydn, Franz Liszt, Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Robert Alexander Schumann, Louis Spoh...
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includes: f. 1 E- T- Allan, husband of Mad. Caradori-Allan: Letter to P. F. Laporte: 1834. ff. 1, 372 Pierre François Laporte, actor and impresario: Letters to him: 1832-1841.: Fr. f. 3 Thomas Augustine Arne, composer: Letter to G. Woodfall: n.d. f. 3 George Woodfall, Printer: Letter to, from D...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Polish, and Swedish
Date Range:
16th century-19th century
Extent:

1 volume (418 folios)

5. Add MS 34071

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A collection of madrigals, motets, elegies, and a catch
Scope & Content:
passim. Chansons and Madrigals, in score. The earlier ones are almost all of them taken from the collections of Gardane and Tylman Susato (1541-1550). Except where the contrary is stated, they are for 5 voices.1. 'D'amour me plains.' 'Mai[tre] Rogier, 1543.' This and nos. 2-6 are for 4 voices. f...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (51 folios)

6. Add MS 59846

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MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS. Paper and vellum; ff. 225. British Library arrangement. A. Examination of Philip Wake before Sir Salathiel Lovell, Recorder of London, relating to the setting fire to the house of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., in Bloomsbury Square; 27 April 1700. Purchased of Alan G. Thomas, Jan. 1977. f. 1. 300 x 185mm. B. Letter of Ethel Rowe afterwards Holloway (b.1866, d.1927) to her brother John Christopher Rowe, entitled 'Jottings from Kimberley Delivered'; 27 Feb. 1...
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includes: f. 1 Sir Salathiel Lovell, Recorder of London: Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet: Examination of Philip Wake signed by Sir Salathiel Lovell rel. to Sir Hans Sloane: 1700.f. 2 Ethel Rowe, afterwards Holloway; of Kimberley, South Africa: John Christopher Rowe: Letter to her brother from Ethe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1360-1977
Extent:
1 item