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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 30480-30484

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Add MS 30480-30484
Title:
Services, anthems, and a few part-songs, for five voices, by Nathaniel Giles, Robert Adams, Christopher Tye, John Shepherde, Edward Johnson, Robert Johnson, William More, Thomas Bird and others. In separate parts, in five volumes. The last volume is imperfect.
Scope & Content:
Anthems, services, motets and other part works by English composers in 5 part-books. Volume i contains the cantus, vol. ii the contra-tenor, vol. iii the tenor, vol. iv the bass, and vol. v the quintus parts. Passim. Anthems by English composers, in parts: —1. 'O prayse God in his holynes.' [R...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
5 volumes (89, 94, 87, 91, 22 folios)

3. Add MS 31307

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Add MS 31307
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A collection of mostly 18th century church music and instrumental compositions
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-12b. 'Psalmi Vespertini,' consisting of ' Domine, ad adjuvandum,' 'Dixit Dominus,' 'Beatus vir qui timet,' 'Laudate, pueri,' 'Laudate Dominum,' and 'Magnificat,' each of them ending with the 'Gloria Patri.'; 1835. They are written for 3 voices, with symphonies and accompaniments for oboes,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (108 folios)

4. Add MS 31922

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Add MS 31922
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A collection of songs, ballads, and instrumental pieces, composed early in the reign of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
passim. Compositions for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in parts, apparently written early in the reign of Henry VIII (see for 1882-1887, p. 7). {Severeal published by the Roxburghe Club in 1912} {See J. E. Stevens 'Rounds and Canons from an early Tudor Song Book', Music and Letters,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (129 folios)

5. 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

6. 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)

7. Egerton MS 2456

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Egerton MS 2456
Title:
A mass and an extract of a quartet
Scope & Content:
Short Mass in F, consisting of the ‘Kyrie‘ and ‘Gloria’; for 4 voices, with symphonies and accompaniments for trumpets, oboes, horns, and strings, and a figured bass for organ, in score, by Giovanni Paisiello; before 1849. Adagio from Beethoven's posthumous Quartet in B flat (op. 130); about 18...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 19th century
Extent:
1 volume (129 folios)