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41. Add MS 34998

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Title:
"Pasticcio Book, containing Anthems, Hymns," harpsichord soloes, fragments of oratorios and concertos, etc., by Samuel Wesley
Scope & Content:
passim. Short Anthems, in score, for 1 voice, with a bass, unless the contrary is stated; by Samuel Wesley. From a volume containing rough copies of his juvenile compositions. 1. 'Behold, how good and joyful' (verse anthem, with chorus and occasional accompaniments for flute, violin, violoncello...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1774-1775
Extent:
1 volume (79 folios)

42. Add MS 34999

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Title:
A collection of anthems, hymns, services, songs, part of an oratorio, and other vocal compositions, by Samuel Wesley
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-80b. Act ii and part of act iii of 'The Death of Abel,' in full score, followed by the parts of the overture to act ii, by S[amuel] Wesley; 1779, etc. Autograph. Said to have been composed when Wesley was eleven, but apparently a rather later copy. The overture bears the date 1779. The ins...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Late 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
1 volume (183 folios)

43. Add MS 35001

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Title:
A collection of antiphons, fragments from masses, a hymn, a fragment of a canon, and a fragment of a concerto
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-14. Fragments from Masses, in score, apparently all by Samuel Wesley, in whose hand they are written; 1812, etc. 1. ‘Agnus Dei’ in D, for 2 and 4 voices. ‘1812.’ f. 1. 2. ‘Missa de Sanctissima Trinitate. Tono Quinto,’ consisting of ‘Kyrie,’ ‘Gloria,’ and ‘Credo’ in D, for 4 voices, with fi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
1 volume (154 folios)

44. Add MS 35003

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Title:
A collection of antiphons, songs, solfeggi, glees, and other compositions by Samuel Wesley
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-31b passim. Antiphons, etc., by Samuel Wesley, mostly autograph; 1807, etc. Nos. 1-20 are ‘Antiphonæ communes ad Magnificat in utrisque Vesperis,’ for the principal festivals. The melody with figured bass. 1. ‘Tradent enim vos.’ f. 1. 2. ‘Estote fortes in bello.’ f. 1. 3. ‘Lux perpetua luc...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
1 volume (153 folios)

45. Add MS 35026

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Title:
Musical autograph album of Eliza Wesley, containing short pieces, inscriptions and signatures of numerous composers, musicians, singers and others
Scope & Content:
passim. Album begun by Eliza Wesley in 1836, containing the autographs of the principal composers, vocalists, and instrumentalists, and a few others, then in London; 1836-1895. Besides the compositions described below, there are also signatures, and in a few cases transcripts of fragments of mus...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 volume (73 folios)

46. Add MS 35038

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Title:
Volume I of a collection of compositions in the hands of Charles Wesley and Samuel Wesley
Scope & Content:
f. 2 Letters from Charles Wesley to R. Glenn: circ. 1806, 1828 ff. 4, 5. Melody, with bass, in score, of the following Services; 1822:— 1. Evening Service in D (preceded by the last few bars of a morning Service). Anonymous. f. 4. 2. Te Deum and Jubilate in F. '[Charles] King, 1822.' In the han...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
1 volume (64 folios)

47. Royal Appendix MS 58

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Royal Appendix MS 58
Title:
Collection of English vocal compositions, predominantly by anonymous authors.
Scope & Content:
Vocal compositions: one part only (except in no. 27), chiefly tenor. Unless the contrary is stated, they are anonymous. 1. 'A[h], the syghes that come fro my hert.' By W. Cornish. f. 1. 2. 'Though that she cannot Redresse.' f. 3b. 3. 'Colle to me the Rysshes greene.' f. 4. 4. 'Down bery down': a...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (60 folios)

48. Royal Appendix MS 64

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Royal Appendix MS 64
Title:
15th century Canons, by Sydrach Rahel. CANONS for 4 voices to the first lines of the Psalms (Vulgate version), by Sydrach Rahel, with a dedication, in French, to James I, from which it appears that they are intended to be accompanied by the lute (? in unison). At the end are canons on the 'Oratio Dominica' (à 5), and on the words 'Viuat Jacobus primus, rex Angliae, in eternum' (two settings, à 2). See Cat. of Music, i, p. 115. Temp. James I. The MS. was formerly numbered Add. 5341, but was...
Scope & Content:
The first lines of the Psalms in the Latin Vulgate version, set as Canons (in 4 parts, unless the contrary is stated) by Sydrach Rahel. From the dedication to James I, in French, it appears that they are intended to be accompanied by the lute, i.e. in unison with the voices. Included also are the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
[1603-1625]
Extent:
1 volume (28 folios)

49. Royal MS 11 E XI

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Royal MS 11 E XI
Title:
Magister Sampson, Benedictus de Opitiis and others, Motets
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes a collection of motets by a 'Magister Sampson', formerly believed to be bishop of Chichester 1536 and of Coventry and Lichfield 1543-1554, but now thought to be a composer from the Netherlands, and by Benedictus de Opitiis, preceded by a hymn in honour of Henry VIII, with...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1516
Extent:

17 folios.

50. Sloane MS 1021

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Sloane MS 1021
Title:
Commonplace book of Johannes Stobaeus, containing musical compositions and instructions for the lute
Scope & Content:
Commonplace book of Johannes Stobaeus (or Stobäus), Kapellmeister to the Elector of Brandenburg, compiled at Königsberg in and shortly before 1640. The book contains vocal and instrumental music, writings on music and drawings of instruments. Many of the pieces are probably Stobaeus's compositio...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1640
Extent:
1 volume