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1. Add MS 14340

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Add MS 14340
Title:
A collection of motets, graces, sacred songs, hymns, glees, a secular song, a vocal trio, an organ duet, an organ solo, a string quartet
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-36 passim. Motets, etc., for 4 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score, by S[amuel] Wesley; 1798-1814. Autograph. 1. ‘Anima nostra erepta est’: antiphon for 5 voices, with ad libitum accompaniment for the organ, f. 2. 2. ‘Levate capita vestra.’ ‘1798.’ f. 7. 3. ‘Constitues eos pri...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1788-1814
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 21467

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Add MS 21467
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Collection of 18th-century operatic music for piano, strings, and bass, composed by various authors.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-66b, 107-118. Concerted numbers from three Italian Operas, with symphonies and accompaniments for oboes, horns, trumpets (in no. 3), and strings, in score. 1, 2. Trio, 'Che vipar, Dorina bella'; and quartet (Dorina, Masotto, Mingone, Titta), begins 'Dorina mia.' [From 'Le Nozze di Dorina,'...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (133 folios)

3. 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

4. Add MS 30491

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Add MS 30491
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Canzons, caprices, etc., composed by Giovanni de Macque, Francesco Lambardo and other Italian composers. On the fly leaf (f. 2) are three stanzas of Italian poetry in terza rima.
Scope & Content:
Passim. Compositions, {in keyboard 'partitura'} {deleted: apparently for 4 strings, in score}, entitled in the cryptograph on f. 1 'Libro di canzone francese del Signor Gioanni De Macque' [fl. 1574-1601], but containing also pieces differently named and by other composers as well. They are mostl...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (52 folios)

5. Add MS 31573

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Add MS 31573
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Rough transcripts, by Rophino Lacy, of a collection of compositions of Handel's works, including: "Magnificat, del Rd. Sigr. Erla", and "Long live the Queen", and various others.
Scope & Content:
ff 1-32b. 'Magnificat’ in A minor; for 2 choirs, with accompaniments for oboes, strings, and organ, in score. Transcribed by Michael Rophino Lacy from the Sacred Harmonic Society's copy (now in the possession of the Royal College of Music). At the top of this copy is written 'Del Rd Sigr Erba,’ ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 volume (81 folios)

6. Add MS 32174

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Add MS 32174
Title:
A collection of numbers from operas, string quartets, cantatas, and a symphony
Scope & Content:
passim. Numbers from operas, with oboes, flutes and bassoons (in nos. 1, 2), horns and strings; 1782, etc.. 1, 2. Instrumental numbers, without titles, viz. the overtures to 'L' Isola disabitata,' 1779 (ff. 33-71 passim), and to 'La Vera Costanza,' 1779 (ff. 35-72 passim), written by Franz Josep...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German and Italian
Date Range:
2nd half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (230 folios)

7. 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

8. Add MS 32237

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Add MS 32237
Title:
A collection of compositions, vocal and instrumental, most of them unfinished and some only sketched in pencil, in the hand of Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Scope & Content:
passim. Fragments or sketches of airs, etc., most of them without accompaniment, from dramatic works, almost entirely in the hand, and presumably the composition, of J. N. Hummel; about 1797-1828. I. From an Opera in which the principal characters are Lisette, Johann (as the Marquis Ventil), Wer...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, German, and Italian
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (114 folios)

9. Add MS 32377

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Add MS 32377
Title:
Collection of In nomines, etc., without words, followed (at f. 26) by sacred compositions in parts, and (at f. 78) by three Italian songs; by English composers of the 16th century.
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-25b passim, 75b, 76. Single parts (? for treble viol) of the following 5-part compositions.1. Piece ['Browning . . . The leaves be green'], wanting the beginning. 'Byrd.' f. 2. 2. Piece unnamed. Anonymous, ib. 3. 'Preludium.' 'Byrd.' ib. 4. 'Le Bergyre.' Anonymous. f. 5b. 5. 'Non vy dette....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1584
Extent:

1 volume

10. 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)