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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 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

3. Add MS 14175

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Add MS 14175
Title:
Collection of songs, motets, operas and oratorio excerpts
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-172. 'Mottetti,' etc., for one voice, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings and a bass for harpsichord or organ, in score (unless the contrary is stated). Nos. 1-5 are by Letterio Ferrari and in his autograph. 1. 'Ardet coelesti face.' f. 1. 2. 'Salue, Regina.' f. 5. 3. 'Rident in...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. 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)

5. Add MS 14245

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Add MS 14245
Title:
A collection of solfeggi, keyboard solos, portions of oratorios, and the opening bars of a Stabat Mater
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-29b. A work ['Lettioni per noteggiare a Voce Sola, con il Suo Basso continuo'] by Giuseppe Montuoli, copied at Naples in 1726 [from the work published at Lucca in 1702]; 1726. ff. 30-33. Portions of several melodies, most of them with a bass for harpsichord, in score; 1st half of 18th cen...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 29382

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 29382
Title:
Volume I of a set of part books
Scope & Content:
Unless otherwise stated, this volume contains the canto part. For the alto, tenor, and bass parts, see Add MSS 29383, 29384, 29385. passim. Motets for 2 voices (except where the contrary is stated), without accompaniment, in parts. In the hand of John Immyns. 1. ‘Qvi sequitur me.’ ‘Orlando di L...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 29382-29385

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Add MS 29382-29385
Title:
Part-songs and other compositions, for two, three, and four voices, by William Byrd, John Farmer, Thomas Morley, and other composers
Scope & Content:
Copied by John Immyns. In separate parts. Add MS 29382 contains the canto part. Add MS 29383 contains the alto part. Add MS 29384 contains the tenor part. Add MS 29385 contains the bass part.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
4 volumes

8. Add MS 29386

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Add MS 29386
Title:
A collection of catches, canons, songs, vocal trios, excerpts from oratorios, excerpts from operas, and a duet
Scope & Content:
passim. Catches, Rounds, etc., for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score. Most of them are in the hand of Edmund T. Warren Home; some of them, beginning with no. 4, were 'corrected [in] 1756.' 1. 'Tobacco is but a vapor' (à 4). 'Ed. Nelham.' f. 5. 2. 'Hey ho, what shall I say' (à 9)...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1762?
Extent:
1 volume

9. Add MS 32169

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Add MS 32169
Title:
A collection of arias from operas and oratorios, duets, a motet and part of a sonata
Scope & Content:
passim. Arias, etc., most of them, if not all, from Operas; 18th-19th cent. Unless the contrary is stated, they have accompaniments for strings, in score. Nos. 1-14 are described as 'Ariette del P. Attilio Ariosti,' and are taken apparently from one and the same Opera. The instruments employed i...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (201 folios)

10. 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