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131. K.1.h.5.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.1.h.5.
Title:
SPECIMENS OF METRES; 16th cent.
Scope & Content:
A single folio inserted at the end of a printed copy of Nicolaus Wollick’s Opus Aureum (Colonie: Henrici Quentell, 1504). Contains MS. examples of elegiac, iambic, sapphic, and choriambic metres, set to music for four voices or instruments, in parts. Various annotations have been added in the bo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

132. K.2.f.13.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.2.f.13.
Title:
CONSORT FANTASIAS; circa 1590. The tenor parts of nine unidentified consort fantasias in four parts, bound with William Byrd’s Liber primus sacrarum cantionum quinque vocum. Tenor (Thomas East, 1589). With a letter from Arthur S. Boston to R. Thurston Dart; 1956. Purchased from Richard Macnutt, 17 June 1996. pp. [ii]+30 + ff. i+4. 217 x 153mm.
Scope & Content:
includes: f. i. Robert Thurston Dart, King Edward Professor of Music, University of London: Arthur S. Boston, of Bebington, county Cheshire: Letter to Robert Thurston Dart from Arthur S. Boston: 1956: Autogr.ff. 1-4 William Byrd, composer: Tenor parts of nine anonymous pieces, appended to B...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1590
Extent:
1 item

133. K.2.g.15.(1.)

Reference (shelfmark):
K.2.g.15.(1.)
Title:
PART OF A LETTER OF JAMES CRESSETT; 17 Oct. 1699. A page of entries related to John Abell at Zell in 1695. Bound in a volume of Abell’s publications collected by Julian Marshall, and with two explanatory notes in his hand on the front flyleaves. All but the last sentence is published in P. H. Highfill et al., A Biographical Dictionary of Actors ... (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973), vol. 1, p. 8. Purchased at Sotheby’s, 1904. f. 1. 230 x 177mm.
Scope & Content:
James Cressett, diplomatist: John Abell, singer and instrumentalist: Page of description by James Cressett, rel. to John Abell: 1699: Autogr?.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Oct 1699
Extent:
1 item

134. K.3.b.15.

Reference (shelfmark):
K.3.b.15.
Title:
THOMAS TALLIS: ‘O salutaris hostia’; 2nd half of 16th century. Written onto blank staves at the bottoms of pp. ii-iii, iii, ii-iii, iii and vi-vii respectively of the Canto, Tenore, Alto, Basso and Quinto printed part-books of Aurelio della Faya, Il Primo de Madrigali a Cinque Voci (In Venetia: Appresso Francesco Rampazetto, 1564). The composer’s name is not given. The hand is probably English, and the name Orlando di Lassus on the title page of the Quinto part may be in the same hand. The b...
Scope & Content:
Thomas Tallis, composer and organist: Antonio della Faya, composer: 'O salutaris hostia' by Thomas Tallis, written into a volume of madrigals by Antonio della Faya: circa 1575: Copy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of 16th century
Extent:
1 item

135. 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

136. 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

137. 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

138. 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

139. 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

140. 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