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1. Add MS 14398

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Add MS 14398
Title:
A collection of motets, madrigals, canons, a carol and part of a mass
Scope & Content:
ff. 5-126b, 134b. 'A collection of Motetts . . . chiefly selected from the Original parts and put into score, 1770,’ by Edmund T. Warren Home, whose bookplate with arms is prefixed. Unless the contrary is stated, they are for 5 voices. Nos. 1-12 are from William Bird's Liber primus Sacrarum Cant...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1770
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 29291

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Add MS 29291
Title:
A collection of part-songs, canons, catches, glees, parts of services, vocal trios and duets, as well as some instrumental music
Scope & Content:
ff. 3-56 passim. Part music, for 4 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score; 18th cent. 1. 'Hark, jolly shepheards.' 'Thos Morley.' [1594.] f. 3. 2. 'Dare you haunt' ('The Fayries daunce'). 'Thos Ravenscroft.' [From .] '1614.' f. 10. 3. 'Awake, sweet Love.' This and nos. 4-6 [from the ],...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. 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

4. Add MS 29386

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Add MS 29386
Title:
A collection of catches, canons, songs, vocal trios, excerpts from oratorios, excerpts from operas, and a duet
Scope & Content:
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

5. 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

6. Add MS 34050

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Add MS 34050
Title:
Tenor part of a collection of Italian madrigals and motets by anonymous composers. At the end are some English madrigals, two of which are by William Byrd.
Scope & Content:
Passim. Madrigals, apparently all written for 5 voices, in England. Tenor part. The words are omitted in most cases. Nos. 2-10 are by B. Pallavicino, nos. 2-4 being published in 1588, and nos. 5-7 in 1593. Nos. 16 and 23 may be taken from an earlier edition.1. 'Bascia e ribascia By L. Marenzio(?...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (41 folios)

7. Add MS 36484

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Add MS 36484
Title:
A collection of bass parts for various compositions
Scope & Content:
passim. Vocal compositions, apparently in the hand of David Melvill alias Melvine, whose name is written in a contemporary hand at the bottom of every page. Unless the contrary is stated, they are for 4 voices. Bass part. The composers' names are not given. {See the Melvill Book of Roundels, Rox...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
after 1604
Extent:
1 volume (71 folios)

8. Add MS 38071

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Add MS 38071
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Scope & Content:
COLLECTION of letters, receipts, autographs, etc., of musicians, artists, actors, and others, comprising, besides others included in the index, the following:- 1. Renunciation by Haydn of rights in the first six "Salomon" overtures, or symphonies; 13 Aug. 1795. Signed. Germ. f. 5. 2. Wrapper...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 item

9. R.M.24.c.11

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R.M.24.c.11
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Scope & Content:
(1-26.). ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Vocal music; end of 17th century. All in score. Paper. 1. 5 ff. Byrd (William): Laudate pueri. Motet for 6 voices. From the Tallis and Byrd Cantiones, 1575. 2. 2 ff. Byrd (William): Memento homo. Motet for 6 voices. From the Tallis and Byrd Cantiones, 1575. 3...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

10. R.M.24.c.15

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R.M.24.c.15
Title:
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Catches, Canons and Madrigals; 18th century. A collection, in the same hand throughout, of 205 pieces, in score and with words, by Morley, Byrd, Immyns, Ives, Le Jeune, Mouton, Torri, Ferrabosco, Seymour, Ford, Purcell, Hilton, Verdonck, Bateson, Wilbye, Gero, de Lasso, F...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item