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Subject Lamentations Material Type Archives and Manuscripts Level [32] Fonds

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 17792-17796

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Add MS 17792-17796
Title:
Collection of early 17th century vocal and instrumental music, by English composers, in parts, across four and five volumes, by authors including: John Amner, T. Batson, William Birde, Richard Carlton, R. Deering, M. Easte, Alfonso Ferabosco, N. Giles, E. Hooper, Simon Ives, M. Jefferies, John Jenkins, John Lugg, W. Mundy, John Okeover, R. Parsons, Palmer, Randall, Thomas Thomkins, Tallis, John Warde, T. Weekes, Robert White; and anonymous.
Scope & Content:
Vols 1-5:- Contains also Bass-viol music, a Carol, Lamentations, Madrigals, Motets, Services, and String Duets, Trios, Quartets, Quintets, and Sextets. Anthems, etc., including a few so-called Hymns, in parts. The five volumes contain respectively the cantus, altus, tenor, quintus, and bassus p...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1624
Extent:
5 volumes (Part books)

3. Add MS 24291

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Add MS 24291
Title:
Collection of compositions, by several 'Maestri Della Venerabile Cappella Vaticana', Included are numerous settings of the 'Miserere mei, Deus’.
Scope & Content:
passim 'Musica Clas[s]ica,’ by several ‘Maestri Della Venerabile Cappella Vaticana,’ copied by or for Giovanni Jubilli, ‘Professore della sud[ett]a Cappella.’ Included are the following settings of the 'Miserere mei, Deus,’ which have pianoforte accompaniments, in score: — 1. For two choirs (a c...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
4th quarter 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (98 folios)

4. Add MS 29388-29392

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Add MS 29388-29392
Title:
A collection of motets and lamentations for 6 voices, namely cantus (wanting), altus, tenor, bassus, quintus, and sextus, in parts
Scope & Content:
Anonymous, unless otherwise stated. Add MS 29388 contains the altus part. Add MS 29389 contains the tenor part. Add MS 29390 contains the bassus part. Add MS 29391 contains the quintus part. Add MS 29392 contains the sextus part.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
5 volumes

5. Add MS 32377

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Add MS 32377
Title:
Collection of In nomines, etc., without words, followed (at f. 26) by sacred compositions in parts, and (at f. 78) by three Italian songs; by English composers of the 16th century.
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-25b passim, 75b, 76. Single parts (? for treble viol) of the following 5-part compositions.1. Piece ['Browning . . . The leaves be green'], wanting the beginning. 'Byrd.' f. 2. 2. Piece unnamed. Anonymous, ib. 3. 'Preludium.' 'Byrd.' ib. 4. 'Le Bergyre.' Anonymous. f. 5b. 5. 'Non vy dette....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1584
Extent:

1 volume

6. Add MS 34000-34002

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Add MS 34000-34002
Title:
Collection of Motets, Masses, etc., probably mostly by Giovanni Gabrieli, or by other composers of the last quarter of the 16th century. Part books: first and second cantus and tenor.
Scope & Content:
First and second cantus and tenor parts, in 3 volumes, of a collection of Motets, Masses, etc., probably by a composer, or composers, of the last quarter of the 16th cent. One of the pieces (vols, ii, iii, f. 17b) is addressed to Albert [III], Duke of Bavaria (d. 1579); another (vols, ii, iii, f...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
3 volumes (46, 41, 41 folios)

7. Add MS 34070

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Add MS 34070
Title:
'Lamentabatur Jacob' by Cristobal Morales of Seville, and a setting of ‘Incipit Lamentatio Hieremiæ’ by Thomas Tallis
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-3. 'Lamentabatur Jacob‘; for 5 voices, in score, described as ‘The Lamentations of Jacob. Sung in the Popes Chapel on the 4 Sunday in Lent. D. Cristoforo Moralis, Sivigliano {by Cristobal Morales of Seville}. From an ancient manuscript formerly in Dr Pepusch's Library.’ A compressed score ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1839
Extent:
1 volume (6 folios)

8. 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)

9. Egerton MS 2450

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Egerton MS 2450
Title:
A collection of motets, a lamentation, a miserere and a cantata
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-40, 124-150b. Collection of Motets, in score, which belonged to the Rev. Edward Goddard. They are, with one exception, unaccompanied, and (unless the contrary is stated) for 4 voices. Nos. 1-11 are ‘Antifone e Responsori à 4 e à 5 voci. . . di Tomaso Baij.’ 1. ‘Serve bone et fidelis.’ f. 1...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Egerton MS 2457

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Egerton MS 2457
Title:
A collection of sacred music by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-45b. Book I of the Lamentations for Holy Week, published by Giovanni Pier Luigi Palestrina, in 1588. They are for 4 voices, except the 'Jerusalem convertere,’ which is for 5 voices. Transcribed, from the copy at the Lateran, by Abbate Santini. ff. 44-64. Motets for 4 voices (unless the co...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 volume (129 folios)