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Subject String quartets Level [32] Fonds

21. Add MS 31307

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Title:
A collection of mostly 18th century church music and instrumental compositions
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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)

22. Add MS 31922

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A collection of songs, ballads, and instrumental pieces, composed early in the reign of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
passim. Compositions for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in parts, apparently written early in the reign of Henry VIII (see for 1882-1887, p. 7). {Severeal published by the Roxburghe Club in 1912} {See J. E. Stevens 'Rounds and Canons from an early Tudor Song Book', Music and Letters,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (129 folios)

23. Add MS 32377

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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

24. Add MS 32396

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Instrumental music:- 1. "Herrmannschlaeht ou La bataille de Teutobourg, ouverture à grand Orchestre," in full score, by Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chelard; 1835. 2. "Sinfonia a 2 violini, brazzia, et basso continuo," in parts, by Friedrich Joseph Kirmair. 3. Six string quartets, in score, by Ordeniz [Charles Ordonetz ?] (op. 2).
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-37b. Overture to 'Herrmannschlacht,' ou 'La bataille de Teutobourg'; for harps, flutes (piccolo, etc.), oboes, clarinets, bassoons, trumpets, ophicleide, drums, cymbals, and strings, in score, by A, H. [J. B.] Chelard [1835]. ff. 38-45. 'Sinfonia à Violinis (sic) Primo et Secondo, Brazzia...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:

1 volume (74 folios)

25. Add MS 32411

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Musical extracts [by Johann Christian Lobe?], mostly specimens of fugues and canons.
Scope & Content:
passim. Examples of Harmony in various forms of composition, chiefly fragmentary and in compressed score, collected by Johann Christian Lobe, the flutist. The principal ones are:— 1-4. Four, including one from 'Titus.' 'Mozart.' f. 3. 5. Part of a movement from a symphony in E-flat . 'Haydn.' f....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1818
Extent:

1 volume (69 folios)

26. Add MS 33295

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Instrumental music in parts: 1. Pavans, Galliards, and Intradas, in 5 parts, by Moritz August, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel; with a few anonymous pavans bearing English names. - 2. Two flute concertos, by Johann Joachim Quantz.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-114b passim. Compositions for 5 viols (quintano, sc. quintus part, cantus, altus, tenor, and bassus), in parts. Copied at Cassel, in 1887, by F. Liebing, oboist in the 83rd Regiment (see f. 68b).Nos. 1-17, 19, 20, and 47-54, and probably others also, were composed, or at least arranged, by...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1887
Extent:

1 volume (166 folios)

27. Add MS 33933

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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)

28. Add MS 34725

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A collection of original compositions, vocal and instrumental, mostly unpublished, in score, by Sir Henry Rowley Bishop
Scope & Content:
ff. 1, 120. Marches in E flat for trumpets, horns, flute, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, trombone, and serpent (in no. 1), and drums (in no. 2), in score, by Sir Henry Rowley Bishop; 1827, etc. Autograph. 1. In full score; 1827. ff. 1-7. 2. In compressed score. f. 120. f. 8. Quartet for strings, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 volume (153 folios)

29. Add MS 36484

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Add MS 36484
Title:
A collection of bass parts for various compositions
Scope & Content:
passim. Vocal compositions, apparently in the hand of David Melvill alias Melvine, whose name is written in a contemporary hand at the bottom of every page. Unless the contrary is stated, they are for 4 voices. Bass part. The composers' names are not given. {See the Melvill Book of Roundels, Rox...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
after 1604
Extent:
1 volume (71 folios)

30. Add MS 36993

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Add MS 36993
Title:
Collection of compositions, for strings, by Richard Deeringe, John Jenkins, Morris Webster, Charles Colman or Coleman, Alfonso Ferrabosco [possibly junior], and Robert Johnson.
Scope & Content:
passim. Dances for 4 viols, in tablature, apparently in the hand of F. C. (see f. 13b). Basso continuo part (see f. 15b). Leaves are missing at the beginning (?), after ff. 5 and 14, and apparently also after ff. 9 and 10. 1. Allemande in 'C fa ut.' 'Jo. Jenkins.' f. 3. 2-10. Nine more Allemande...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (21 folios)