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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 5319-5337

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Add MS 5319-5337
Title:
Manuscript music presented by Sir John Hawkins
Scope & Content:
A collection of manuscript music formerly owned by Sir John Hawkins, chiefly copied by Mr. John Stanley
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
19 volumes

3. Add MS 10338

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Add MS 10338
Title:
A collection of anthems, songs, duets, trios, services, cantatas, motets, and other pieces, in the hand of George Jeffreys
Scope & Content:
ff. 4-13. 'Fantazies,' or Fancies, for strings and organ, in score, by George Jeffreys. 1-6. Six 'of 3 Parts for the Violls and the Virginall.' Autograph. In the 5th Fantasia, a few notes have been added to the virginal part to make it suitable for playing on the organ. f. 4. 7. Another 'of 2 pa...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
after 1669
Extent:
1 volume

4. 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

5. Add MS 11608

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Add MS 11608
Title:
A collection of songs, motets, duets, canons, anthems and part-songs
Scope & Content:
passim. Duets and dialogues, the latter with a bass, in score. 1. Dialogue (Strephon and Daphne), begins 'Come, my Daphne.' 'William Lawes.' f. 2. 2. Another (treble and bass), begins 'What if I dye.' By the same, f. 7b. 3. 'Come, Cloris; hye wee to ye Bower.' 'Henry Lawes.' f. 8b. 4. Dialogue (...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1656-1659
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 12532

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Add MS 12532
Title:
A collection of madrigals, anthems, choruses, and motets, in the hand of John Immyns
Scope & Content:
passim. Madrigals, scored by John Immyns from the original editions. They are for 5 voices, unless the contrary is stated. 1. 'Quella donna real'; with second part, 'Por[re] in una sol donna'; third part, 'Bastava ben'; and fourth part, 'Ma dell' error.' 'Giaches de Wert.' From Madrigals à 5, bo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 18936-18939

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Add MS 18936-18939
Title:
Collection of early 17th Century Secular and Sacred vocal compositions for voice, and instruments; portions of Masses and Requiem-Masses; Secular and Sacred Latin compositions, in parts across four volumes; by mostly English composers, including: T. Tallis, John Munday, John Taverner, John Shepherde, W. Birde, Thomas Morley, Thomas Bateson, Thomas Weilkes, John Wilbye, Horat. Vecchi, Francisci Bianchardi, 'William Cobbold, and Tommaso Lodovico da Vittoria.
Scope & Content:
Collection of early 17th Century Secular and Sacred vocal compositions for voice, and instruments; portions of Masses and Requiem-Masses; Secular and Sacred Latin compositions, in parts across four volumes; by mostly English composers, including: T. Tallis, John Munday, John Taverner, John Sheph...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter 17th century
Extent:
Four volumes (Part books)

8. Add MS 29396

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Add MS 29396
Title:
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

9. Add MS 29397

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Add MS 29397
Title:
A collection, largely of songs, duets and catches
Scope & Content:
passim. Songs for the most part unaccompanied, but occasionally with a bass for harpsichord, in score. Many are taken from John Playford's , 1673-1683, the , 1685, and other collections of that period. See indices by Thomas Oliphant at the beginning and end of the volume. 1. 'The bright Clarinda...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1682?-1690?
Extent:
1 volume

10. Add MS 29427

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Add MS 29427
Title:
Anthems, madrigals, etc., by John Wilbye, Nathaniel Gyles, Thomas Tomkins, Thomas Weelkes, John Milton, Martin Pearson, John Wilson, Richard Deering Orlando Gibbons, and others; with fantasias by Alfonso Ferabosco and other Italian composers. The Altus part only; the other parts of many of the pieces being in Add MS 29366-29368 and of some in Add MS11586
Scope & Content:
Passim. Anthems. Altus part (unless the contrary is stated) of the following Anthems: —1. 'Oute of the deepe' (5 voices). By Thomas Lupo. f. 14. 2. 'When Israell,' with second part, 'What aileth thee' (verse anthem for 5 voices). Quintus part. By M. Este. f. 15. 3. 'O, O my sonne Absolon' (6 voi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:

1 volume