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Project / Collection Additional Manuscripts Subject Canons Name Oliphant, Thomas, composer and author

1. Add MS 29382-29385

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 29382-29385
Title:
Part-songs and other compositions, for two, three, and four voices, by William Byrd, John Farmer, Thomas Morley, and other composers
Scope & Content:
Copied by John Immyns. In separate parts. Add MS 29382 contains the canto part. Add MS 29383 contains the alto part. Add MS 29384 contains the tenor part. Add MS 29385 contains the bass part.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
4 volumes

2. Add MS 29386

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 29386
Title:
A collection of catches, canons, songs, vocal trios, excerpts from oratorios, excerpts from operas, and a duet
Scope & Content:
passim. Catches, Rounds, etc., for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score. Most of them are in the hand of Edmund T. Warren Home; some of them, beginning with no. 4, were 'corrected [in] 1756.' 1. 'Tobacco is but a vapor' (à 4). 'Ed. Nelham.' f. 5. 2. 'Hey ho, what shall I say' (à 9)...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1762?
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 29387

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 29387
Title:
A song and a canon
Scope & Content:
1. 'Auld Robin Gray,' begins 'Young Jamie lou'd me weel'; with a bass for pianoforte, in score. {The words are attributed to} Rev. W[illiam] Leeves, Rector of Wrington, co. Somerset; about 1818 (watermark). Autograph. The MS was enclosed in a letter, dated 1834, from Andrew Loder, organist of As...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 29393-29395

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 29393-29395
Title:
A collection of short vocal pieces, most of them for 3 voices, in parts
Scope & Content:
Add MS 29393 contains the cantus part (also referred to as part 1, haute or dessus). Add MS 29394 contains the medius part (also referred to as part 2 or moienne). Add MS 29395 contains the bassus part (also referred to as part 3 or basse part). In the hand of John Immyns.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
3 volumes