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111. K.3.h.3.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.3.h.3.
Title:
THOMAS BATESON: Quintus and tenor parts of madrigals; 18th cent. Copies, added in manuscript to complete a defective set of printed partbooks of Bateson’s The first set of English Madrigales: to 3. 4. 5. and 6. voices (Thomas Este, 1604). The additions consist of nos. 21 and 22 in the Quintus book (‘Sister, awake’ and ‘Hark, hear you not’), and the whole of the tenor book. The tenor book is in the hand of Charles Burney, and the additions to the Quintus in another hand. The printed books bea...
Scope & Content:
Charles Burney, Mus.D: Thomas Bateson, organist of Chester Cathedral: Quintus and tenor parts to madrigals by Thomas Bateson, partly in the hand of Charles Burney: 18th cent.: Copies.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

112. K.3.m.8.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.3.m.8.
Title:
SACRED MUSIC; circa 1569. Bound after the cantus part of the printed collection Preces Speciales…per Jacobum de Kerle…cum Quatuor Vocibus…(Venetiis: apud Antonium Gardanum, 1562). Bookplate of Charles Nack of Neresheim, 1811. Purchased, 19 July 1862. Paper; pp. 33 + ff. 20. 243 x 177mm. Gold stamped binding, dated 1569. 1. ff. 1-18. Mass [in dedicatione ecclesiæ], apparently for four (and partly five) voices, with a 2nd cantus part added in the ‘Sanctus’ and ‘Agnus Dei’. Cantus, or first a...
Scope & Content:
Music: Missa in dedicatione ecclesie and 'Veni, sancte Spiritus': circa 1569: Lat.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1569
Extent:
1 item

113. K.3.m.23.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.3.m.23.
Title:
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL: Keyboard parts for certain movements of the organ concertos, op.4; mid-eighteenth century. Copies, in ink. Bound with an annotated copy of the printed organ score of Six Concertos For the Harpsichord or Organ (Walsh, circa 1740). The copies incorporate substantial written-out ornamentations, and comprise the first and third movements of nos.1, 3 and 5, and the second movement of no.6. All of the remaining movements are annotated with ornaments in the printed score, in...
Scope & Content:
George Frideric Handel, composer: Ornamented versions of certain movements of the organ concertos, op.4: mid-18th cent.: Copies.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1740
Extent:
1 item

114. K.4.a.8.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.4.a.8.
Title:
MUSIC FOR FLAGEOLET; circa 1690. Added in a contemporary hand to Youth's Delight on the Flagelet the second part [...] Being the 9th edition (Iohn Clarke, [1690?]), using the ‘dot-way’ notation, or flageolet tablature, also found in the printed portions of the volume. ‘Love’s a sweet passion’ (i.e. ‘If love’s a sweet passion’, from Act III of Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen) is added to the blank tablature lines printed on f. 10. On f. 14v are jottings for a tune with the title ‘my young nan...
Scope & Content:
Music: Flageolet music: circa 1690. includes: f. 10 Henry Purcell, composer and organist: 'If love's a sweet passion' from 'The fairy queen', arranged for flageolet: circa 1690: Copy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1690?]
Extent:
1 item

115. K.4.f.5.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.4.f.5.
Title:
SEBASTIANO FESTA AND PHILIPPE VERDELOT: two madrigals; after 1542. Written on the blank final leaves of the four printed part-books of Benedictus Appenzeller, Superius (Contratenor) (Tenor) (Bassus) Des chansons a quattre parties (Anuers: Henry Loys & Iehan de Buys, 1542) in a contemporary hand. The first piece, ‘O passi sparsi’ by Sebastian Festa, is written on ff. 27v-28 of each volume, which have been printed with blank staves. It is written with lozenge-shaped notes, in imitation of ...
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 27v-28 Francesco Petrarca, poet: Sebastiano Festa, composer: 'O passi sparsi' by Sebastiano Festa , to words by Francesco Petrarca: after 1542: Ital: Copy.f. 28v Philippe Verdelot, composer: 'Fedele et bel cagnuolo': after 1542: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
after 1542
Extent:
1 item

116. K.4.g.2.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.4.g.2.
Title:
THOMAS CREQUILLON: ‘Dont vient cela belle je vous supply’; after 1541. The solution to the canon printed in the Superius book of Tylman Susato’s collection Vingt et Six Chansons musicales (Anuers: Par Thilman Susato, [1541?]), written in a contemporary italic hand and pasted into the printed book (f. 1*). This set of part-books was previously the first item in a set of bound volumes comprising K.4.g.2., K.4.f.5., K.4.g.1., a fourth item not in the British Library, K.4.g.3. and K.4.d.16. Each...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1* Thomas Crequillon, composer: Solution to the canon 'Dont vient cela': after 1541: Fr: Copy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
after 1541
Extent:
1 item

117. K.4.g.3.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.4.g.3.
Title:
SEBASTIANO FESTA: ‘Perch’al viso d’amor portava’ (words, Petrarch); after 1542. Written on the versos of the title pages of the four printed part-books of Quatuor vocum musicæ modulationes numero xxvi. (Antuerpiae: Apud Guilielmum Vissenacum, 1542) in a contemporary hand, and not attributed here to the composer. The piece is also found in Moteti e canzone libro primo (Rome, 1520 or 1521) and as item 24 in Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, MSS. Magl. XIX, 164-167. For a modern edition after the...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1v Francesco Petrarca, poet: Sebastiano Festa, composer: 'Perch'al viso d'amor' by Sebastiano Festa, to words by Francesco Petrarca: after 1542: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
after 1542
Extent:
1 item

118. K.5.b.8.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.5.b.8.
Title:
LETTERS FROM VINCENT NOVELLO; 22 May 1824. Two letters from Vincent Novello concerning the provision for a Music Library in the British Museum, one addressed to George Canning, enclosing a copy of another addressed to Mr Henry Banks, M.P. for Corfe Castle and a Trustee of the British Museum. Autograph. Canning’s draft of a reply is written onto the back of the first letter, and a copy of a reply from Canning’s secretary to Novello is attached. Purchased. ff. 6. 230 x 187mm.
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-2 Vincent Novello, organist, composer and publisher: George Canning, Prime Minister: Letter to George Canning from Vincent Novello: 1824: Autogr.f. 2v Vincent Novello, organist, composer and publisher: George Canning, Prime Minister: Draft of a letter to Vincent Novello from...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 May 1824
Extent:
1 item

119. K.6.e.1-7

Reference (shelfmark):
K.6.e.1-7
Title:
The Wandering Minstrels Archive.
Scope & Content:
Archive of the Wandering Minstrels, an amateur orchestra which gave charity concerts across England and private 'smoking concerts' in London between 1860 and 1898. The orchestra members were drawn largely from the ranks of the aristocracy and military, and the orchestra was conducted by, success...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860-1899
Extent:
7 items

120. K.7.c.26.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.7.c.26.
Title:
ANTONIO SALIERI: ‘Divertimenti vocali’; circa 1803. A printed edition of Venti otto divertimenti vocali con accompagnamento di piano-forte (Vienna: Thadé Weigl, [circa 1803]), with one autograph leaf inserted between pp. 6-7 of the parte prima, bearing a conclusion to no. 1 (‘O vezzosissima figlia di Giove’) intended to replace that printed on p. 7. Purchased, Oct. 1971. pp. [i]+37+6*, [i]+36, [i]+42. 236 x 325mm.
Scope & Content:
includes: p. 6* Antonio Salieri, composer: Alternative ending to 'O vezzosissima figlia di Giove': circa 1803: Ital: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1803
Extent:
1 item