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21. A.1232.f.

Reference (shelfmark):
A.1232.f.
Title:
PSALM TUNES; early 19th century. Added to William Tans’ur’s Melodia sacra ([St. Neots?]: Engraved, and printed by the Author, and his Son, 1768). An imperfect copy, lacking the title page and several other leaves, with many of the remainder fragmentary. Inscribed ‘William Amps His Psalm Book, June 10 1807 Comberton Cambridge Shore 1807’ (f. 1v), ‘John Amps his book’ (f. 4v) and ‘Ede [or Editha] Coas Comberton December 19. 1807’ (f. 14; all names are also written on several other folios). It ...
Scope & Content:
Music: Psalms: William Amps, organist and composer: William Tans'ur, composer and music theorist: Psalm tunes, some possibly by William Amps, added to a printed volume of psalm tunes by William Tans'ur: early 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 item

22. A.1232.h.

Reference (shelfmark):
A.1232.h.
Title:
Letter
Scope & Content:
Letter to Sir John Stainer from William Sparrow Simpson 1885
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1885
Extent:
1 item

23. A.1232.i.

Reference (shelfmark):
A.1232.i.
Title:
PSALM TUNES; 2nd half of 18th cent. Added to William Tans’ur’s The Royal Psalmodist Compleat ([Ewell?]: Engraved and printed, by and for the Author, 1748). Inscribed ‘Wm Huntley’s Book Settle 1832’ (p. 10). Presented by the Corporation of Church House, 12 Feb. 1949. pp. 210, 142A, 143A. 124 x 198mm. 1. p. 126. ‘An Hymn For Easter Day’, beginning ‘This is the day when Christ arose’. The words only. 2. p. 127. ‘Another for the same Day’, beginning ‘Christ from the dead is rais’d, and made’....
Scope & Content:
Music: 'Hathorne', psalm tune added to p.210 of a printed collection of psalm tunes: after 1748.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of 18th century
Extent:
1 item

24. A.1232.k.

Reference (shelfmark):
A.1232.k.
Title:
PSALM TUNES; after 1747. Written on blank leaves of William Tans’ur’s publication The Royal Psalmodist Compleat ([Rugby?], [1747?]). The copy, which is printed on one side of the leaf only, is wanting the title page and pages between ff. 7 and 8. ff. 47, 68, 90, 92 and 94 are fragmentary The musical additions, all in the same hand, are ‘St Paul’s Tune. Psm ye 98’ (ff. 49v, 50v), ‘St Anne’s Tune Psm ye 113th’ (ff. 64v-65), ‘London New Tune, Psm ye 148th’ (ff. 73v-74) and ‘Psalm 42nd Birchingt...
Scope & Content:
William Tans'ur, composer and music theorist: Psalm tunes added in MS to The Royal Psalmodist Compleat by W. Tans'ur by William Tans'ur: after 1747: Copies. includes: f. ii Bookplates and Book-stamps: Joseph Wright, of St Neots: Bookplate of Joseph Wright: 19th cent.ff. 49v, 50v, 64v-65, 73v...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1747
Extent:
1 item

25. A.1411.

Reference (shelfmark):
A.1411.
Title:
Letter
Scope & Content:
Letter to Novello & Co., Ltd. (music publishers) from William Albert Marson 1892
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1892
Extent:
1 item

26. A.1411.m.

Reference (shelfmark):
A.1411.m.
Title:
A CONGREGATIONAL CHANT-BOOK, compiled by Sydney H. Nicholson, with letters relating to copyright inserted; [1907]. Printed by Novello and Co., [1907]. With a list of the chants for which copyright permission is granted in the letters (f. 2). Presented, Dec. 1965. ff. i+33. 136 x 96mm.
Scope & Content:
Sir Sydney Hugo Nicholson, organist: A Cathedral Chant-Book by, with letters inserted: [1907]: Printed. includes: f. 7 Sir Sydney Hugo Nicholson, organist: Henry Baker, organist and composer: Letter to Sir Sydney Hugo Nicholson from Henry Baker: 1907: Autogr.f. 10 Sir Sydney Hugo Nicholson...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1907]
Extent:
1 item

27. B.362.

Reference (shelfmark):
B.362.
Title:
FRENCH SONGS; circa 1790. The words to eighteen songs, without music, added in manuscript to certain blank pages in a collection of 250 printed French songs (each issued separately), all published in the second half of the eighteenth century. Written in ink in the same hand throughout, with illustrations added at the foot of several pages. Purchased, 19 July 1859. 192 x 122mm.
Scope & Content:
Poetry FRENCH: 18 songs, added to a collection of printed songs: circa 1790: Fr: Copies.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1790
Extent:
1 item

28. B.362.t.

Reference (shelfmark):
B.362.t.
Title:
CHORUSES AND DANCES: added in manuscript to a printed score of Les amours de Protée, ballet by Charles-Hubert Gervais (Paris: J.-B.-Christophe Ballard, 1720); after 1720. With the bookplate of Henry Prunières. Purchased from Richard Macnutt, 3 June 1993. pp. [viii]+288 + ff. 11. 190 x 255mm. Full calf binding with label to spine. 1. ff. 1-4 (between pp. 46 and 47). ‘Duo’, ‘Pour regner sur les Coeurs’, for two sopranos (‘L’amour Constant’ and ‘L’amour Volage’) and violins; – recitative, ‘Pl...
Scope & Content:
Bookplates and Book-stamps: Bookplate of Henry Prunières: circa 1920: Printed. Charles-Hubert Gervais, composer: Choruses and dances added to 'Les amours de Protée': after 1720: Fr: Copies.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
after 1720
Extent:
1 item

29. B.370.d.

Reference (shelfmark):
B.370.d.
Title:
HYMN TUNES ETC; circa 1761. Inserted between pp. 39 and 41 of the printed volume A small collection of Psalms…sung by the charity-children of…Chichester…(W. Faden, 1761). Nos. 1-21 comprise melodies with bass, in score, of hymns by anonymous composers. Purchased, 8 Dec. 1875. Paper; pp. 80 + fff. 24. 181 x 122mm. 1. ff. 1b-2. ‘My soul, praise ye Lord’ [to the tune of ‘Hanover’, by Croft]. 2. ff. 2b-3. ‘Awake, my soul, and with the sun’ (not either of the well-known tunes). 3. ff. 3b-4. ‘...
Scope & Content:
William Croft, composer and organist; d.1727: Hymns: Thomas Tallis, composer and organist: Psalms: John Worgan, Mus. Doc.; composer: A collection of hymn tunes by (amongst others) William Croft, Thomas Tallis and John Worgan: circa 1761: Copies.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1761
Extent:
1 item

30. B.580.hh.

Reference (shelfmark):
B.580.hh.
Title:
THE CATHEDRAL PSALTER CHANTS: edited by Samuel Flood Jones et al.; [1878]-1897. Printed Novello, [1878]. With annotations throughout by the previous owner, H. K[ing], made in preparation for a new edition, and with two letters and a chant in manuscript inserted. Presented by Novello & Co., Ltd., July 1968. ff. ii+3 + pp. xix, 2-98. 160 x 190mm.
Scope & Content:
Samuel Flood Jones, Vicar of St Botolph, Aldersgate: The Cathedral Psalter Chants by, annotated copies: 1878: Printed. includes: f. 1 Novello & Co., Ltd; music publishers: H. L. Garrett, son of G M Garrett: Letter to Novello & Co., Ltd. (music publishers) from H. L. Garrett: 1897: Au...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1878]-1897
Extent:
1 item