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31. B.580.ww.

Reference (shelfmark):
B.580.ww.
Title:
VERSIFIED PSALM TUNES; 1710-1762. A composite volume of psalm tunes and other material. There are several marks of ownership, from which it appears that the two main components of the book, the printed collection of Psalm tunes for St Laurence Church, Reading (ff. 7-48) and the manuscript collection from Portsmouth Chapel (ff. 49-138), were separately owned until 1748-50, when they were brought together and added to. Inscribed ‘Thomas Collens His Book 1750’ (f. 1v, also f. 3 without date and...
Scope & Content:
Music: Psalms: Versified Psalms, set to music: 1710-1762. includes: ff. 3v-6v William Tans'ur, composer and music theorist: 'The Preface to all Lovers of Divine Musick': 1748: Copy.ff. 7-48 John Bishop, composer and organist: A set of new psalm tunes, part of a composite volume: [1710]: Pr...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1710-1762
Extent:
1 item

32. B.639.

Reference (shelfmark):
B.639.
Title:
PSALM TUNES; after 1724. The first printed edition of Israel Holdroyd’s The Spiritual-Man's Companion (William Pearson, for William Dyson, [1724?]) with chants added in manuscript in two contemporary hands on ff. xiiv and xv. The additions are tenor parts for psalms 8, 125, 136, 138 and 104. Several other annotations occur throughout the book. Ownership inscriptions of William Smith (dated 1724) and Thomas Halliday on ff. xvv-xvi. Purchased, July 1870. ff. xvi + pp. 156. 191 x 122mm.
Scope & Content:
Psalms: MS additions to Israel Holroyd's The Spiritual-Man's Companion: [1724?].
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1724
Extent:
1 item

33. B.784.a.

Reference (shelfmark):
B.784.a.
Title:
THE CATHEDRAL PSALTER CHANTS: edited by Samuel Flood Jones et al.; [1878]-1890. Printed Novello, 1878. A copy with additional chants mounted on extra leaves, heavily annotated by the previous owner, H. King (f. ii). Apparently intended for the preparation of an American edition. Presented by Novello & Co., Ltd, July 1968. ff. ii+105. 162 x 182mm.
Scope & Content:
Samuel Flood Jones, Vicar of St Botolph, Aldersgate: The Cathedral Psalter Chants by, annotated copies: 1878: Printed.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1878]-1890
Extent:
1 item

34. c.105.u.

Reference (shelfmark):
c.105.u.
Title:
THREE MINUETS; late 18th cent. A single leaf containing three minuets, probably for solo flute, bound with the printed collection The Overture, Songs, &c. in The Deserter ... adapted for the German Flute, by Monsigny, Philidor and Dibdin (Longman and Broderip, circa 1785). Cropped at the edges. Purchased, June 1969. f. 1 + pp. 28. Largest size 159 x 232mm.
Scope & Content:
includes: f. i Music: 3 minuets: late 18th cent.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 item

35. C.167.k. (1-3)

Reference (shelfmark):
C.167.k. (1-3)
Title:
New Cathedral Psalter Chants
Scope & Content:
'New Cathedral Psalter Chants Nos 81a. 82a. 83a.' (cover title). Music and correspondence pasted into a printed volume comprising copies of three publications by Novello and Company, bound together: 'The new Cathedral psalter chants: the St. Paul's Cathedral Chant Book', 'The new Cathedral psalt...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1909
Extent:
372 folios

36. C.270.

Reference (shelfmark):
C.270.
Title:
CHORALES; after 1703. Bound as an appendix to the printed collection David’s Kleinod…Psalmen…In eine…Zweystimmige partitur gebracht durch Christian Möller (2 parts; Franckfurt und Cassel: Johann Wilhelm Kürssner, 1703). Chorales of the Lutheran Church, consisting of the melody with a bass generally figured, in score. Possibly by Carl Möller, the editor of his father’s work. With an index, ff. 6-11b. The words are only given in nos. 3 and 6. Purchased, 30 July 1884. Paper; ff. 12. 204 x 166m...
Scope & Content:
Hymns: Carl Möller, son of Christian Möller, composer: A collection of Lutheran chorales , possibly made by Carl Möller: after 1703: Germ.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
after 1703
Extent:
1 item

37. C.531.f.

Reference (shelfmark):
C.531.f.
Title:
WELSH ANTHEMS: for unaccompanied choir, appended to Yr Anthemau buddugol ynghyd â’r feirniadaeth ar y cyfansoddiadau, yn Eisteddfod Bethesda (Bethesda: R. Jones, 1852); circa 1852. In several different hands. Purchased, October 1970. pp. 52 + ff. 28. 153 x 175mm. 1. ff. 1-4. ‘Anthem "Y Mab Afradlon" gan J. A. Lloyd’: begins ‘Mi a godaf, ac a âf at fy nhad’. 2. ff. 4v-9. ‘Blessed be the Lord’: begins ‘Bendigedig fyddo Duw’. 3. ff. 9v-10. ‘C. M. S. C. Gan H. Roberts’: without text. 4. ff....
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-4 John Ambrose Lloyd, composer: Anthem 'Y Mab Afradlon': circa 1852: Welsh: Copy.ff. 9v-10 H[umphrey?] Roberts, composer: Anthem: circa 1852: Welsh: Copy.ff. 10-11v M. J. S., composer: Anthem, 'Calondid': circa 1852: Welsh: Copy.ff. 13v-14v Robert Davies, composer: Anthe...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Welsh
Date Range:
c 1852
Extent:
1 item

38. C.549.vv.

Reference (shelfmark):
C.549.vv.
Title:
JAMES TURLE: two hymn tunes; 1870- c 1890. Inserted into an annotated copy of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, composed by James Turle ... collected and edited by his daughter S. A. Turle (Novello, 1885). One, pasted onto the front flyleaf, is a copy of an ‘Offertory Hymn’ composed in 1876 and setting the words ‘Praise to Jesus, Lord and God’; the other, attached to p. 31, is probably an autograph of the tune ‘Zennor’ (no. 21 in this publication), dated 1870 and setting the words ‘O Lord of heaven, and...
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. i-ii James Turle, organist, composer and writer; d.1882: Two hymn tunes: 1870-1890: Partly autogr.?, partly copy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1870-c 1890
Extent:
1 item

39. Case.35.f.10.

Reference (shelfmark):
Case.35.f.10.
Title:
‘SALVE FESTA DIES’: two parts of a polyphonic setting; after 1528. Written on f. clxiv v and the rear flyleaf of the printed Processionale ad usum Sarum ([Antwerp]: Christophorus Ruremunden, 1528). The two parts (tenor and bassus) are written in different hands, and above the bassus part (f. clxiv v) another hand has written the start of Psalm 130 (‘De profundis clamavi ad te’), with melody. Acquired in the nineteenth century. ff. 164 + i. 195 x 138mm.
Scope & Content:
includes: f. clxiv v Psalms: Psalm 130, with chant, added to a printed Sarum Processional: after 1528: Lat.ff. clxiv v, rear flyleaf Music: Tenor and bassus parts of a setting of 'Salve festa dies', added to a printed Sarum Processional: after 1528: Lat.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
after 1528
Extent:
1 item

40. Case.35.f.14.

Reference (shelfmark):
Case.35.f.14.
Title:
POLYPHONIC ‘KYRIE ELEISON’; after 1545. Written on ff. ccxi v and 216v of the printed Processionale ad usus insignis ecclesie Sarum observandos accommodum ([Antwerp]: Christophorus Ruremunden, 1545). On f. ccxi v the first verse of the Hymn ‘Salve festa dies’ is written in square plainsong notation, then in another hand the Bassus part of a polyphonic setting of words beginning ‘Kyryeleyson qui pretioso sanguine’ in mensural notation. On f. 216v are written tenor and ‘secundus contratenor’ p...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 211v Hymns: Words and music to the first verse of 'Salve festa dies', added to a printed Sarum Processional: after 1545: Lat.ff. 211v, 216v Music: Polyphonic 'Kyrie eleison' added to a printed Sarum Processional: after 1545: Lat.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
after 1545
Extent:
1 item