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Subject Harmony Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 4910

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Add MS 4910
Title:
Hawkins Collection. Vol. II. Miscellaneous works relating to music.
Scope & Content:
Includes extracts from (a) Dethlevus Cluverus. ff. 1-10;- (b) John Birchensha (collected, as well as artt. c-e, by Silas Domville al. Taylor, apparently for Viscount Brouncker). ff. 39-40;- (c) — Allison of Covent Garden. f. 42;- (d) Matthew Lock. ff. 43-44, 60;- (e) Christopher Simpson. f. 52;-...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (87 folios)

2. 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

3. Add MS 5060

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Add MS 5060
Title:
Scales and examples of harmony by Johann Christoph Pepusch
Scope & Content:
Examples of 2-part and 3-part harmony, the bass being frequently figured for other additional parts, preceded (ff. 1-9b) by illustrations of hexachords, cadences, etc., by Johann Christopher Pepusch. In the hand of Henry Needier of the Excise Office (d. 1760).
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
before 1760
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 11581

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Add MS 11581
Title:
A collection of excerpts, exercises, canons, songs, and anthems, in the hand of Dr. Charles Burney.
Scope & Content:
Examples of Harmony in the hand of Dr. Charles Burney. 1. 'Exempla (Discant) quatuor vocum.' '[J.] Froschius,' 1535. f. 2b. 2. Fuga ad Minimam'; in 4 parts. 'Jodocus Pratensis.' From Glarean (p. 453), 1547. f. 4. Reversing the volume. 3. Extemporaneous Bass. 'Crotch' (æt. 4). f. 41b. 4-6. Three ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 11581-11591

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Add MS 11581-11591
Title:
Extracts from various early musical writers, by Charles Burney, Mus. Doct., with remarks and criticisms by him
Scope & Content:
Also includes extracts and examples of various compositions.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
11 volumes

6. Add MS 11585

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Add MS 11585
Title:
A collection of madrigals, carols, motets, graces, trios, quartets, and examples of harmony
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-34. Madrigals, etc., in score. Unless the contrary is stated, they are for 3 voices and unaccompanied. 1. 'Che (sic) prend' amor a gioco'; with accompaniments for 2 strings and a figured bass for harpsichord. 'Cavalier Tarquinio Merula, maestro di capella nella Chiesa Maggiore di S. Maria ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1782
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 11586

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Add MS 11586
Title:
A collection of motets, songs, extracts from masses, part of a Magnificat, part of a sonata, examples of harmony, and other vocal compositions
Scope & Content:
Motets, in score, for 5 voices; before 1782. In the hand of Dr. Charles Burney. Nos. 2, 3 are inserted in vol. ii of his History of Music, 1782. Leaves are missing after ff. 15, 37 and 38. 1. ‘O sacrum con vivium.’ ‘Thomas Tallis‘ (from a MS. copy, dated 1581, at C. C. C, Oxford. Printed in 1575...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Add MS 14166

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Add MS 14166
Title:
Compositions by Alessandro Scarlatti, Domenico Scarlatti, and Giuseppe Scarlatti
Scope & Content:
ff. 1, 25, 68b. Sacred Latin compositions, in score, by Alessandro Scarlatti; early 19th century. Nos. 2, 3 are in the hand of G. Sigismondo. 1. ‘Memento, Domine, David,’ with 'Gloria Patri ‘ (4 voices), f. 1. 2. 'Tu es Petrus': antiphon (8 voices, with figured bass), f. 25. 3. ‘Lætatus sum’; de...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Add MS 25073-25078

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Add MS 25073-25078
Title:
A collection of various British dance tunes, songs, airs, and other pieces
Scope & Content:
Collections of English, Irish and Scottish, songs, numbers from operas, dance tunes, airs, and other pieces from various composers, compiled around 1790.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
6 volumes

10. Add MS 25076

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Add MS 25076
Title:
A collection of dance music, songs, numbers from operas, musical exercises, a number from an oratorio, and a duet
Scope & Content:
ff. 3-26. Numbers from Operas; either arranged for pianoforte, or with pianoforte accompaniment in score; about 1799. Apparently made by Maria Jackson, alias Egerton [? Maria, daughter of Thomas Scott Jackson, afterwards wife of Sir John Grey-Egerton, 8th Bart., whose nephew. Sir Philip de Malpa...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume