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Reference (shelfmark):: J/07902.b.1/10
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Scope & Content:: J. L. STEPHEN COLLECTION. Vol. xxii. Catalogues of foreign player pianos; circa 1905-26. One volume. M. R. Muller, of the American Player Action Co: Letter to J. L. Stephen: 1912: Typewritten, signed.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1905-1926
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: J/07902.b.1/11
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Scope & Content:: J. L. STEPHEN COLLECTION. Vols. xxiii-xxiv. Catalogues and descriptions of pianos of foreign manufacture; circa 1892-1950. Two volumes. includes: vol. 1 Sydenham Moutrie, piano dealer, Shanghai: W. G. Robinson, piano dealer, Shanghai: Notice of dissolution of partnership between Sydenham Mo...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1892-1950
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: J/07902.b.1/12
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Scope & Content:: J. L. STEPHEN COLLECTION. Vol. xxv. Drawings of piano cases and fixtures; circa 1910-24. One volume. James Leslie Stephen, piano maker, repairer and tuner: Drawings of piano cases and fixtures: 1910-24.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1910-1924
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: J/11927.k.1.
Title:: CATALOGUE OF THE JULIAN COLLECTION; 1892. A laid-down catalogue of the hymnological collection of John Julian, formerly kept at Church House. The entries are mainly in Julian’s hand, with some later typewritten additions. The printed books in the collection are now at printed book pressmarks 3440-03441 (but are here listed with their Church House pressmarks); for related MSS see Add. 57496-57520. Presented, together with the rest of the hymnological collection at Church House, Feb. 1949. 4 ...
Scope & Content:: Hymns: Catalogue of the hymnological collection of John Julian: 1892: Mainly autogr. John Julian, DD; LLD; Rural Dean of Thirsk: Catalogue of the Julian Collection of Hymnals: 1892: Mainly autogr.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1892
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: K.1.a.19.
Title:: DANCES AND MARCHES; early 18th cent. The bass parts or melodies of 36 marches, 14 minuets and 30 miscellaneous pieces, in various eighteenth-century hands. On f. 4v, reversed, is a table entitled ‘Example of all the Flatts & Sharps’. Bound with The Compleat Dancing-Master’s Companion ... made for Her Majesty’s Birth-Day, 1709. The Seventh Book (Printed by W. Pearson, [1709]). Only the margin of f. 1 remains. On the flyleaves are written monetary calculations and part of a calendar. Purch...
Scope & Content:: Music: Dances and marches: early 18th cent. includes: f. 3v Mr Winfield, musician: The bass part to 'Mr Winfields March': circa 1720: Copy.ff. 9, 16 George Frideric Handel, composer: The bass parts to two minuets: circa 1720: Copy.f. 17v Mr Cracroft, musician: The bass part to 'Mr Cracro...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: K.1.c.5.
Title:: KEYBOARD MUSIC; circa 1700. Attributed to Henry Purcell or Pursell, on two staves of 6 lines each. Bound after the printed edition of Purcell’s A Choice Collection of Lessons for the Harpsichord or Spinnet (Printed for Mrs Frances Purcell, 1696). Purchased of Julian Marshall, 29 Sept. 1884. Paper. ff. viii + pp. 76 (pp. 63-76 in MS.). 120 x 210mm. 1. pp. 65-74. "Ouverture: Ayre: & Jegg: in Gamut: b:". The Overture is a keyboard arrangement of the overture to Purcell’s The Virtuous Wife...
Scope & Content:: includes: pp. 65-76 Henry Purcell, composer and organist: Thomas Morgan, composer: Keyboard arrangements of music by Henry Purcell and Thomas Morgan: circa 1700.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1700
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: K.1.c.23.
Title:: MOTETS; after 1580. Altus and tenor parts, and in the case of no. xxi the sexta vox also, of motets added in MS. at the end of the three remaining volumes of the printed edition of the Sex vocum cantiones Orlandi di Lassus (Argentorati: Vyriot, 1580). The numbers follow on as if forming a supplement to the collection. Only one of them, however (no. xxv), is to be found among the numerous collections of his works. They are, unless the contrary is stated, for five voices. In the volume contain...
Scope & Content:: Music: Motets: after 1580: Lat. includes: no. xxv Orlando di Lasso, composer: 'Cantate Dominum canticum novum': after 1580: Lat: Copy.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: after 1580
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: K.1.e.1.
Title:: VOCAL MUSIC; after 1530. Probably for three or four voices. The alto part, inserted in ink at the end of a printed collection of ‘xx sōges, ix of iiii partes and xi of thre partes’, by English composers, 1530. Purchased, 4 Apr. 1864. ff. 7. 143 x 191mm. Blind-stamped leather binding. 1. ff. 1v-3. ‘Samoht Notterts’, sc. Thomas Stretton: ‘Behold and see how byrds dothe fly’. 2. ff. 4-7. ‘By a banke as I ley’, with second part, ‘The nyghtyngalle, ye lady and mestres of alle musyk’ and third ...
Scope & Content:: includes: ff. 1v-3 Thomas Stretton, composer: Alto part to the song 'Behold and see how byrds dothe fly': after 1530: Copy.ff. 4-7 Music: Henry VIII of England: Alto part to the song 'By a banke as I ley' , in praise of Henry VIII: after 1530.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: after 1530
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: K.1.f.11.
Title:: NICOLA MATTEIS: the second treble of ‘Ayrs for the Violin’, parts 1 and 2; circa 1690. Matteis’ Ayrs for the Violin were first published (parts 1 and 2, [1676?], and parts 3 and 4, 1685) in obl. 4o editions for solo violin and basso continuo. An expanded reissue of the third and fourth parts (also dated 1685) mentions the addition of a second treble, and a printed second treble for parts 3 and 4, also placed at this pressmark, was published in 1687. This manuscript provides a corresponding s...
Scope & Content:: Nicola Matteis, the elder; violinist and composer: The second treble of the first and second parts of 'Ayrs for the violin': circa 1690: Copy.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1690
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: K.1.g.10.
Title:: WRITINGS ON MUSIC; after 1531. A comparison of the initial notes for each mode in the theory of Pietro Aaron, Stefano Vanni and Franchino Gafori, with musical examples showing syncopes and cadences. Aaron’s theories correspond to those in his untitled pamphlet published in Venice in 1531. Bound with two printed treatises: Bonaventura de Brixia, Regula Musice Plane (Mediolani: per I. M. de Ferrariis, 1507) (K.1.g.10.(1.)) and Tractatus Musices (Venetijs: J. B. Sessa, [1510?]) (K.1.g.10.(2.))....
Scope & Content:: Pietro Aaron, writer on music: Stefano Vanni, writer on music: Franchino Gafori, writer on music: Writings on music by Pietro Aaron, Stefano Vanni and Franchino Gafori: after 1531: Ital: Copies.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: after 1531
Extent:: 1 item

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