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1. Add MS 5036-5062

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Add MS 5036-5062
Title:
A collection of pieces, including motets, madrigals, masses, anthems, duets and other works
Scope & Content:
A collection of pieces, including motets, madrigals, masses, anthems, duets and other works. Prefixed to Add MS 5036 is a letter from Gabriel Mathias to the trustees of the British Museum, containing an extract from the will of James Mathias esq, from which it appears that these volumes are all...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1760
Extent:
27 volumes

2. Add MS 5054

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Add MS 5054
Title:
A collection of motets, madrigals, full anthems, portions of masses, psalms (or choruses), canons and duets, as well as examples of a litany, a grace, a service, a miserere, and a stabat Mater. In score.
Scope & Content:
1. Sanctus and Gloria in Excelsis, in B minor, parts of a service, for 3 solo voices and 4-part chorus, by Dr. {William} Croft. ff. 3-5b. 2. 'La Spagnola'. A madrigal. (à 3), begins 'Al rigor d'un bel Sembiante'; with the alternative words 'Al splendor di due pupille' written underneath. 'Agost...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1760
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 12532

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Add MS 12532
Title:
A collection of madrigals, anthems, choruses, and motets, in the hand of John Immyns
Scope & Content:
passim. Madrigals, scored by John Immyns from the original editions. They are for 5 voices, unless the contrary is stated. 1. 'Quella donna real'; with second part, 'Por[re] in una sol donna'; third part, 'Bastava ben'; and fourth part, 'Ma dell' error.' 'Giaches de Wert.' From Madrigals à 5, bo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 14341

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Add MS 14341
Title:
A collection of pieces by Samuel Wesley, including motets, anthems, portions of services, a part-song, a canon, a chorus, a sacred song and the melodies of 4 hymns
Scope & Content:
ff. 2b, 20. Portions of Services, in score, by Samuel Wesley. 1. Responses to the Litany composed in 1806 (Add MS 34999, f. 117); the first part consisting of the melody with figured bass; the second part beginning 'From our enemies defend us,' and written for 4 voices, in score, the bass part b...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
before 1843
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 24288

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Add MS 24288
Title:
Portions of two psalms in Ecclesiastical Sclavonic, for 4 voices, in score, by Giuseppe Sarti and Maxim Berezovsky.
Scope & Content:
ff. 114. Portions of two psalms in Russian, for 4 voices, in score. 1. ‘Pomiluy mya Bozhe’ (Ps. li, in 14 numbers); with symphonies and accompaniments for flute, 3 violas, violoncello, and bass, and a figured bass for organ. ‘Giuseppe Sarti.’ f. 1. 2. ‘Ne otverz i menevo’ (Ps. lxxi), 'konshchert...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Russian, and Slavic languages
Date Range:
4th quarter 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (114 folios)

6. Add MS 27573

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Add MS 27573
Title:
Psalms and hymns in the Ladine, or Grisons, dialect, for several voices in parts; taken from German or Swiss collections, mostly of the second half of the 18th cent
Scope & Content:
At f. 1 b is an acrostic on the name "Anna Zavrit." Only 3 parts are given, unless the contrary is stated. 1. ‘Hoatz ais a nus‘ (4 voices). ‘Berius’ [?F. K. von Baer, fl. 1777]. f. 2. 2. ‘Quaist di eis bain.’ Anonymous, f. 4. 3. ‘Lodo tu saiast.’ Anonymous, f. 5. 4. ‘Tuots leidamaing da cor C...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Romance languages
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 27574

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Add MS 27574
Title:
The treble part of some Psalms, etc., selected from various Swiss and German collections, by Gian G. Schechi, for the use of Barbla and Chiatrina Secchi of Zutz in the Grisons, in the dialect of which (Ladine) the words are written
Scope & Content:
Those marked with an asterisk are taken from 'Selemusic', i.e. 'Seelen-musik', most of them from the first edition, 1694. Of the composers and compilers referred to below, ‘Sweling‘ is Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck; ‘Smidlin’ or ‘Smitlin,’ Johann Schmidlin; 'Bachofen,’ Johann Kaspar Bachofen; ‘Godau...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Romance languages
Date Range:
1817
Extent:
1 volume (52 folios)

8. Add MS 28757

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Add MS 28757
Title:
A collection of psalms and madrigals
Scope & Content:
Five psalms for 3 voices, in score, by Claude Le Jeune [1607-1608?].1. ‘Dieu nous soit doux.’ f. 1.2. ‘O Seigneur, que de gens.’ f. 19.3. ‘Helas! Seigneur.’ f. 23b.4. ‘Misericorde au pauvre vicieux.’ f. 29.5. ‘J'ay de ma voix à Dieu crié.’ f. 35. Madrigals for 3 voices, in score.1. 'Come, Shep...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Add MS 29380

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Add MS 29380
Title:
A collection of chansons by various French composers, as well as a psalm and a motet
Scope & Content:
A Psalm for 3 voices, in score, by Cl[aude] le Jeune. ‘Vouloir m'est pris de mettre en escriture.’ f. 3. A motet, 'Solomon autem genuit Roboam‘; for 3 voices, in score, by Josquin des Pres. f. 6b. Chansons, etc., for 3 voices, scored by John Immyns.1. 'Le Grant desir.' 'Johannes Mouton.' f. 17...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Add MS 29380-29381

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Add MS 29380-29381
Title:
A collection of chansons, madrigals, and a motet
Scope & Content:
Eleven chansons for 3 voices by various (mostly French) composers, scored by John Immyns. Three psalms for three voices in score, by Cl[aude] le Jeune. A motet for 3 voices, in score, by Josquin des Pres.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
2 volumes