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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 5336

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Add MS 5336
Title:
A collection of catches, canons, madrigals, vocal trios, vocal quartets, and some organ voluntaries
Scope & Content:
passim. Rounds and Catches. Nos. 1-9, 12, 13, 16, 18, 24, 31, 34, 36, and 38 are for 4 voices; the others for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated). Nos. 1-19, 21-31, are in score, and are taken from three works by Thomas Ravenscroft, viz.: — (1609), (1609), and (1611). 1, 2. 'Trole the bo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (46 folios)

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 11588

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Title:
A collection of madrigals, canons, sonatas, songs, portions of operas, and other short compositions transcribed by Dr. Charles Burney
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-16. 'Recercari (10) et Canzoni (5) Francese (sic) fatte sopra diversi oblighi in partitura da Girolamo Frescobaldi .... Libro Prirno. 1615.' Transcribed and commented on by Dr. Charles Burney. ff. 16b-66b passim. Madrigals, etc, in score, transcribed by Dr. Charles Burney, and included i...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1783
Extent:
1 volume

5. 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

6. Add MS 14396

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Add MS 14396
Title:
A collection of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Xaver Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn and Sigismond Neukomm.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-13v. Franz Xaver Mozart: "Ich bin der erste Buffo", op. 13. Aria, with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, horns, clarinets, drums, and strings, in score, composed in 1808 for a private performance of his father's "Der Schauspieldirektor." Autograph. It was written for the com...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:

1 volume

7. Add MS 15233

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Add MS 15233
Title:
Volume of music, plays, religious songs and poems, possibly connected with St Mary-at-Hill, Billingsgate
Scope & Content:
A manuscript containing organ music, the incomplete text of John Redford's The Play of Wyt and Science (c. 1540), and religious songs and poems. Several leaves (including the first seven) are missing. ff. 1-10: John Redford (Master of the singing boys at St Paul's School), Organ fantasias, writ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1555
Extent:
1 volume

8. Add MS 28550

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Add MS 28550
Title:
Fragment of a register of the Cistercian abbey of Robertsbridge, Sussex, in Latin. Also included are some musical pieces.
Scope & Content:
1. Part of a chronicle of the abbey; 1308-1333. Imperfect at the beginning. At the end is a reference to a continuation of the work in a later part of the original volume. f. 1. 2. Reports of suits in the courts of Exchequer and the King's Bench, with regard to claims of the abbey at Salherst,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Add MS 31307

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Add MS 31307
Title:
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)

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