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Reference (shelfmark):: A.647.g.
Title:: PSALM TUNES; after 1742. Written on blank leaves of William Tans’ur’s publication The Royal Psalmodist Compleat ([Rugby?], [1742?]). The copy, which is printed on one side of the leaf only, is wanting the title page, and the pages are not bound in the correct order of the psalms. The musical additions, possibly all in the same hand, are ‘Psalm the 21, Cortenhall Tune’ (f. 23v), ‘Psalm ye 102, Withcock Tune’ (f. 127v), ‘Psalms [81]’ (f. 144v), ‘Psalm 77’ (f. 147v), ‘Solos Psalm 75’ (f. 157v),...
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: ff. 23v, 127v, 144v, 147v, 157v Psalms: Tunes for Psalms 21 (Cortenhall), 102 (Withcock), 81, 77 and 75: after 1742.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: after 1742
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: A.909.
Title:: VOCAL MUSIC; end of 18th cent. A collection of sacred and secular tunes bound after a printed copy of A Select Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes…By…Henry Boyd [1793]. Nos. 1-6 are of a sacred character, and, with the exception of the last, unaccompanied and anonymous. The names given in brackets to the first five, after the manner of hymn-tunes, are misleading, as they bear no resemblance to that class of composition. Purchased, 5 June 1891. Paper; pp. 154. 130 x 210mm. 1. pp. 105-6. ‘O T...
Scope & Content:: William Boyce, composer and organist: Thomas Augustine Arne, composer: Henry Purcell, composer and organist: Music: John Worgan, Mus. Doc.; composer: Fenick, alias Fenwick; composer: George Frideric Handel, composer: A collection of sacred and secular vocal music by (amongst others) John Worgan,...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: A.1231.p.
Title:: TREBLE PARTS TO PSALM SETTINGS; after 1730. Bound after a set of four printed part-books of John Bishop’s A Sett of New Psalm Tunes, in Four Parts ... The third edition (Walsh, [1730]). Ink, in the same hand throughout. Presented by the Corporation of Church House, 12 Feb. 1949. pp. [iv]+26+26+26+26+[1] + ff. 23. 153 x 95mm. Full leather binding. 1. ff. 1-2v. [John] Bishop: ‘Anthem Psalm the 34th’, beginning ‘I will always give thanks’. 2. ff. 2v-3. ‘Isaiah Chap. the 12th’, beginning ‘Beh...
Scope & Content:: Music: Psalms: Treble parts to psalm settings: after 1730. includes: ff. 1-2v John Bishop, organist: Treble part to psalm 34: after 1730: Copy.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: after 1730
Extent:: 1 item

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

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

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

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

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

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

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