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1. 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

2. Add MS 9071-9077

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Add MS 9071-9077
Title:
A collection of pieces by Henry Purcell
Scope & Content:
Includes Anthems, Services, Chants, Hymns, Motets, Canons, Duets, and Songs. Also included are two chants attributed to Thomas Purcell. All transcribed by Vincent Novello.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1829-c 1832
Extent:
7 volumes

3. Add MS 11581

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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

4. Add MS 11581-11591

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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

5. Add MS 14342

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Add MS 14342
Title:
A collection of music by Samuel Wesley, which includes masses and portions of masses, requiems or portions of requiems, plainsong melodies, as well as a motet, a chant, a madrigal, a glee, a duet, a miserere and part of a service
Scope & Content:
ff. 2, 18, 53-55. Masses and portions of Masses, in score, harmonized by S. Wesley; from a volume of his compositions collected, and in many cases transcribed, by Vincent Novello, by whom it was presented to the British Museum in 1843; 1810 etc. 1. The Gregorian Mass ‘Pro Angelis,’ for 4 voices,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1782?-1813?
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 17784

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Add MS 17784
Title:
Bass parts for a collection of Services and Anthems by English composers, and four part settings of the Psalms of David.
Scope & Content:
Written about 1676, while Henry Compton was Bishop of London (f. 53) and before the death (1678) of George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol (f . 94); with additions down to time of James II. Ornamented in many places by the Royal Arms, in trick, and by those of Knights of the Garter elected temp. Cha...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1676
Extent:

1 volume (177 folios)

7. Add MS 29968

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Add MS 29968
Title:
Thomas Tallis: Motet for forty voices; arranged and scored by Thomas Oliphant. Four chants and the alto part of a Te Deum. Inserted at the end is the printed three-part glee, " How merrily we live," by Michael Este.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-142. [‘Spem in alium non habui’]; for 40 voices, by [Thomas] Tallis, adapted about 1630 to the words ‘Sing and glorify Heav'n's high Majesty.’ Originally written for 8 first trebles, 8 second trebles, 8 contra-tenors, 8 tenors and 8 basses, but divided by Thomas Oliphant into 8 choirs of 5...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
circa 1850
Extent:
1 volume (147 folios)

8. Add MS 31239

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Add MS 31239
Title:
A collection of pieces transcribed, and mostly composed by, Samuel Wesley.
Scope & Content:
f. 1b. 'Faint is my head‘: 4-part Hymn, in score, the melody being in the tenor; the music by Dr. William Boyce, the words by the Rev. C[harles] Wesley; about 1825-1829. ff. 4b-10, 11b, 12b. Double Chants (with one exception), for 4 voices, with a compressed score for organ below, in score, mos...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1825?-1829?
Extent:
1 volume (48 folios)

9. Add MS 31559

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Title:
Copies of two Chandos Anthems of allied Manuscripts, in full score; Morning and Evening Services in voice-score, by Dr. Blow; and "Dies Iræ" for ten voices, in full score, by Jean Baptiste Lully.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1, 21 Two of the Chandos Anthems, in full score, by Handel, transcribed by John Christopher Smith, the elder. 1. 'As pants the hart': the original version as published by Arnold (No. 8), for solo voices and 3-part chorus, with symphony and accompaniments for 2 violins, oboe, violoncello, and...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (102 folios)

10. Add MS 34609

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Add MS 34609
Title:
A collection of anthems, chants, songs, glees, compositions for organ, and other fragments
Scope & Content:
passim. Portions of Anthems, in the hand of John Stafford Smith, mostly in organ score; late 18th cent. 1. Funeral anthem without words. 'Jno James.' f. 7. 2. 'Though ye have lien among the pots.' Unfinished. By J. S. Smith (?). f. 13b. 3. 'Wherewithal shall a young man' (2 voices). 'Arnold.' f....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (86 folios)