Search

Language Italian Subject Canons Digitised Content No

1. Add MS 5036-5062

Reference (shelfmark):
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

Reference (shelfmark):
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 5319-5337

Reference (shelfmark):
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

4. Add MS 5337

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 5337
Title:
A collection of incidental music from operas, madrigals, sonatas, catches, glees, a duet from an oratorio and a canon
Scope & Content:
The contents of this MS. are in different hands. ff. 1-42. Incidental music, by Henry Purcell, in score; early 18th cent. The symphonies are written for flutes, oboes, strings, etc., and, in the case of no. 2, for trumpets also. 1. [The Masque in] 'Timon of Athens' [1694]. f. 1. 2. 'The Musick ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 11581

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 11581
Title:
A collection of excerpts, exercises, canons, songs, and anthems, in the hand of Dr. Charles Burney.
Scope & Content:
Examples of Harmony in the hand of Dr. Charles Burney. 1. 'Exempla (Discant) quatuor vocum.' '[J.] Froschius,' 1535. f. 2b. 2. Fuga ad Minimam'; in 4 parts. 'Jodocus Pratensis.' From Glarean (p. 453), 1547. f. 4. Reversing the volume. 3. Extemporaneous Bass. 'Crotch' (æt. 4). f. 41b. 4-6. Three ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 11581-11591

Reference (shelfmark):
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

7. Add MS 11584

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 11584
Title:
A collection of chansons, madrigals, motets, canons, and part of a Magnificat
Scope & Content:
Chansons, etc., mostly for 4 voices, scored from early editions by Dr. Burney. 1. 'Queste non son piu lagrime.' 'Rolando di Lassus, 1555.' f. 2b. 2. 'Sto, core mio.' By the same, 1555. f. 3. 3. 'Tu, traditora.' By the same, 1555. f. 3b. 4. 'En espoir vis.' By the same, 1555. f. 4. 5. 'Canzona Vi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1782
Extent:
1 volume

8. Add MS 11585

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 11585
Title:
A collection of madrigals, carols, motets, graces, trios, quartets, and examples of harmony
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-34. Madrigals, etc., in score. Unless the contrary is stated, they are for 3 voices and unaccompanied. 1. 'Che (sic) prend' amor a gioco'; with accompaniments for 2 strings and a figured bass for harpsichord. 'Cavalier Tarquinio Merula, maestro di capella nella Chiesa Maggiore di S. Maria ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1782
Extent:
1 volume

9. Add MS 11588

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 11588
Title:
A collection of madrigals, canons, sonatas, songs, portions of operas, and other short compositions transcribed by Dr. Charles Burney
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-16. 'Recercari (10) et Canzoni (5) Francese (sic) fatte sopra diversi oblighi in partitura da Girolamo Frescobaldi .... Libro Prirno. 1615.' Transcribed and commented on by Dr. Charles Burney. ff. 16b-66b passim. Madrigals, etc, in score, transcribed by Dr. Charles Burney, and included i...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1783
Extent:
1 volume

10. Add MS 11589

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 11589
Title:
Part of a catalogue of the Tudway Collection, a treatise, part of a transcript of the 'Regole del contrappunto pratico di Nicola Sala', and some motets
Scope & Content:
The MS. contains parts of a thematic Catalogue of the works in the Tudway Collection, and of a musical treatise. ff. 19b-24b. 'Chants from the Studij di Palestrina’: short pieces of harmonized plain-song, transcribed by Dr. Charles Burney. The following are the names of the composers: — '[? Gio...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
after 1794
Extent:
1 volume