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2. Add MS 11581-11591
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 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
3. Add MS 14340
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 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
4. Add MS 14341
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 14341
- Title:
- A collection of pieces by Samuel Wesley, including motets, anthems, portions of services, a part-song, a canon, a chorus, a sacred song and the melodies of 4 hymns
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 2b, 20. Portions of Services, in score, by Samuel Wesley. 1. Responses to the Litany composed in 1806 (Add MS 34999, f. 117); the first part consisting of the melody with figured bass; the second part beginning 'From our enemies defend us,' and written for 4 voices, in score, the bass part b...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- before 1843
- Extent:
- 1 volume
5. Add MS 15117
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 15117
- Title:
- A collection, mostly comprising compositions for the lute, as well as songs, anthems, madrigals, duets, and an extract from an opera, all with lute accompaniment. This volume also contains a quartet, and an index to 'The Psalmes of David in Meter'.
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 2, 2b, 8b. Compositions for Lute; after 1614. 1. 'Almaine.' 'Candishe' (? = M. Cavendish). f. 2. 2, 3. Two pieces, without names. Anonymous. f. 2. 4. 'Curranto.' f. 2b. 5. 'Ut re my fa sol la.' 'Dyomedes' [of Venice, lutenist to Sigismund II, of Poland]. f. 8b. f. 3. 'Awake, ye wofull weig...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- after 1599
- Extent:
- 1 volume
6. Add MS 15166
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 15166
- Title:
- The treble part of a collection of psalms, as well as the treble part of three madrigals
- Scope & Content:
- passim. The treble part of a collection of Psalms, etc., apparently written for 4 voices. The following forty-eight, which are set as Hymns, are by [John] Sheperd; and the words are taken, with slight variations, from the Sternhold and Hopkins version. 1. ‘The man is blest that hath not gone.’ f...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- after 1567
- Extent:
- 1 volume
7. Add MS 31239
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 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)
8. Add MS 31855
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 31855
- Title:
- Psalms and anthems, scored by Joseph Warren
- Scope & Content:
- passim. 'The whole psalmes in four partes, whiche may be song to al musicall instrumentes . . . Imprinted at London by John Day . . . 1563. Scored by Joseph Warren [from the original parts at Brasenose College]; 1870-1871.’ For a further account of the work, see the preface at the beginning' of ...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1870-1871
- Extent:
- 1 volume (125 folios)
9. Add MS 33568
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 33568
- Title:
- Anthems, hymns and other sacred vocal music by John Smith, Joseph Stephenson, Jeremiah Clark, John Knapp, John Church, James Hawkins, Robert Barber, John Bishop, Maurice Greene, Aaron (?) Williams, Handel (" Zadok the Priest "), James Green, William Cole, John Weldon, Henry Purcell, Dr. Edward Miller of Doncaster, and others (anonymous).
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 3-87v. Anthems in score, most of them without accompaniment. About 1768 (see f. 1). 1. 'Lord, thou art become gracious' (verse). 'J. Smith.' f. 3. 2. 'O all ye nations of the world' (verse). By the same. f. 6. 3. 'Behold, I bring you glad tidings' (verse). 'Stephenson.' f. 6b. 4. 'Blessed i...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- c 1768-c 1834
- Extent:
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1 volume (94 folios)
10. Add MS 33933
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 33933
- Title:
- The Wode Psalter or St Andrews Psalter: contra-tenor part-book containing musical settings of metrical psalms from the 1564 Scottish Psalm Book and other music
- Scope & Content:
- Most of the music was collected and copied by Thomas Wode (or Wood). Wode was a former monk who worked at St Andrews after the Reformation in Scotland, eventually becoming vicar there. At the core of the collection are harmonisations of the psalms by Scottish composer David Peebles. Over a perio...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English, French, and Italian
- Date Range:
- c 1564-c 1625
- Extent:
- 1 volume (94 folios)
