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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 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Add MS 31226

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Add MS 31226
Title:
A collection of cantatas, anthems and motets, as well as sections of a mass, and a service
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-62. Italian Cantatas, with a bass. Nos. 1-9, 14, are by Benedetto Marcello; nos. 10-12, by Handel. 1. 'Dimando a voi pietà.' f. 1. 2. 'Ecco, à funesto occaso.' f. 5. 3. 'Pecorelle che pascete.' f. 10. 4. 'Nasce il sole.' f. 14. 5. 'Senza il caro e dolce sguardo.' f. 18. 6. 'Messaggier deUe...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (106 folios)

7. Add MS 32012-32021

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Add MS 32012-32021
Title:
Compositions of Thomas Miles
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
10 items

8. 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)

9. Add MS 37404

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Add MS 37404
Title:
Collection of Madrigals and other Compositions, for voice, and violins, in parts, across five volumes, by various anonymous, English, and Italian composers; with also a Service in a much later hand from the rest of the Manuscript. A collection of Services, by various early 17th century British composers.
Scope & Content:
In parts, across five volumes: Italian Madrigals; and other Compositions, for violins, mostly anonymous, containing treble, contra-tenor, quintus, and bassus parts; Madrigals and other compositions, for voices, mostly by English composers; including: 'Fuerunt mihi lachrime mee', attributed in Th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
after 1601
Extent:
1 of five volumes (97 folios) (Part books)

10. Egerton MS 2462

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Egerton MS 2462
Title:
A collection of motets, songs, a mass, a service, and a miserere
Scope & Content:
ff 2, 32. Motets for 4 voices, in score; 19th cent. 1. ‘Alleluja! Veni, Sancte Spiritus’; with a figured bass for the organ. ‘Nicola Jommelli‘ (see also Add MS 14141, f. 102). f. 2. 2. ‘Libera me, Domine. f. 32. ‘Claudio Casciolini.’ f. 11. 'Messa a Cappella . . . sul v Tono,’ for 4 voices, in ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 volume (99 folios)