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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 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

3. 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

4. Add MS 11585

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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

5. Add MS 11586

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Add MS 11586
Title:
A collection of motets, songs, extracts from masses, part of a Magnificat, part of a sonata, examples of harmony, and other vocal compositions
Scope & Content:
Motets, in score, for 5 voices; before 1782. In the hand of Dr. Charles Burney. Nos. 2, 3 are inserted in vol. ii of his History of Music, 1782. Leaves are missing after ff. 15, 37 and 38. 1. ‘O sacrum con vivium.’ ‘Thomas Tallis‘ (from a MS. copy, dated 1581, at C. C. C, Oxford. Printed in 1575...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 14166

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Add MS 14166
Title:
Compositions by Alessandro Scarlatti, Domenico Scarlatti, and Giuseppe Scarlatti
Scope & Content:
ff. 1, 25, 68b. Sacred Latin compositions, in score, by Alessandro Scarlatti; early 19th century. Nos. 2, 3 are in the hand of G. Sigismondo. 1. ‘Memento, Domine, David,’ with 'Gloria Patri ‘ (4 voices), f. 1. 2. 'Tu es Petrus': antiphon (8 voices, with figured bass), f. 25. 3. ‘Lætatus sum’; de...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 27579

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Add MS 27579
Title:
"Cato: sive, speculum morale; privatum vitæ genus concernens," etc. Printed. Frankfurt, 1585. Interleaved for an Album Amicorum of Johannes. Cellarius, of Nuremberg, 1599-1606
Scope & Content:
Containing paintings, coats of arms, verses, mottoes, and autographs. Among the names are those of Johannes Fabricius, f. 75;-John Doland [Dowland], with the subject of a fugue, f. 88;-Thomas Sackevila, "Engelender," f. 100 b;-Nicolaus Taurellus, f. 118. Johannes Cellarius, of Nuremburg: Album: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
1585-1606
Extent:
1 volume

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 34726

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Add MS 34726
Title:
A collection of motets, songs, an anthem, a lamentation, and examples of harmony
Scope & Content:
Motets, in score, in the hand of John Travers; middle 18th cent. 1. ‘Conserva me, Domine’ (3 voices). ‘Parsley.’ f. 17. 2. Exurge, Domine’ (3 voices). ‘Woods.’ f. 17b. 3. ‘Singularis privelegii‘ (3 voices). Imperfect at the end. Anonymous, f. 18b. 4. ‘Soli Deo gloria’ (3 voices). Anonymo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (120 folios)

10. Egerton MS 1312

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Egerton MS 1312
Title:
ALBUM of Johann Veit Stoll, containing autograph inscriptions, dated at Altorf, in the years 1643-1651. In the original covers. [Bibl. Eg. 1,312.]
Scope & Content:
Includes: ff. 12b, 17. Canons, sc; 1644, 1648. (1) ‘Ubi deficit auxilium humanum‘ (2 voices in hypodiapason), by Joh. Andreas Herbst, Director of Music at Nuremberg, 1644. f. 12b; — (2) ‘Jesus, sola hæreditas‘ (3 voices — ‘alter in subdiapason ‘), by Joh. Sigismundus Hager, organist, of Nurembe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1643-1651
Extent:
1 volume