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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 5054

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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 14179

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Add MS 14179
Title:
An oratorio and litanies composed by Giovanni Adolfo Hasse
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-86. 'I Pellegrini Al Sepolcro di nostro Signore', composed by Giovanni Adolfo Hasse, for the Electoral chapel at Dresden. The characters are Albino, Eugenio, Teotimo, Agapito, a Guide, and a Chorus of 5 voices. ff. 87-155b. 'Kyrie . . . Sancta Maria,’ ‘Agnus Dei,’ and ‘Sub tuum præsidium‘...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (155 folios)

4. Add MS 32073

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Add MS 32073
Title:
A collection of cantatas, litanies and songs
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-158b. Cantatas, for solo voices and chorus, with a figured bass for organ or harpsichord, in score; 18th, 19th cent. Where other instruments are employed, mention is made of them below. Nos. 3-5, by Joh. Phill. Kirnberger, are in a later hand. 1. ‘Machet die Thore weit‘ (Advent); with trum...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (180 folios)

5. 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

6. Add MS 32401

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Add MS 32401
Title:
Johann Gottlieb Naumann: Isacco, Oratorio. - Anton Cajetan Aldgasser: Litanies.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-117b. 'Isacco': Oratorio in two parts, with an introduction, symphonies, and accompaniments for horns (occasionally flutes), oboes, bassoons, and strings, in score, and a figured bass in the recitatives, by [Johann Gottlieb] Naumann. The characters are Abramo, Isacco, L'Angelo, Sara, Gamar...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

1 volume (167 folios)

7. Add MS 34607

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Add MS 34607
Title:
A collection of sacred vocal music, in parts
Scope & Content:
passim. Masses, in parts, by Felice Anerio. 1. ‘Hor le tue forze adopra’ (4 voices). ff. 18, 51, 84, 117. 2. ‘Vestiva i colli’ (8 voices), ff. 38, 71b, 104b, 136, 152, 164, 175, 186. passim. Motets, in parts, transcribed by Theodor de Witt from MSS. at the Vatican which had been previously corr...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 volume (228 folios)