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11. Add MS 29387

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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

12. Add MS 29388-29392

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Add MS 29388-29392
Title:
A collection of motets and lamentations for 6 voices, namely cantus (wanting), altus, tenor, bassus, quintus, and sextus, in parts
Scope & Content:
Anonymous, unless otherwise stated. Add MS 29388 contains the altus part. Add MS 29389 contains the tenor part. Add MS 29390 contains the bassus part. Add MS 29391 contains the quintus part. Add MS 29392 contains the sextus part.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
5 volumes

13. Add MS 29393-29395

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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

14. Add MS 29396

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Add MS 29396
Title:
A collection, mostly of English songs
Scope & Content:
passim. Songs, with a bass (unless the contrary is stated), for harpsichord, in score. Those marked with an asterisk appear for the first time in Playford's , 1652. Almost the whole of the MS is in the hand of Edward Lowe, organist of the Chapel Royal (1661-1682), who added the bass to some of t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1678?-1682?
Extent:
1 volume

15. Add MS 29397

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Add MS 29397
Title:
A collection, largely of songs, duets and catches
Scope & Content:
passim. Songs for the most part unaccompanied, but occasionally with a bass for harpsichord, in score. Many are taken from John Playford's , 1673-1683, the , 1685, and other collections of that period. See indices by Thomas Oliphant at the beginning and end of the volume. 1. 'The bright Clarinda...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1682?-1690?
Extent:
1 volume

16. Add MS 29398

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Add MS 29398
Title:
Daniel Purcell: 'The Judgment of Paris', opera
Scope & Content:
'The Judgment of Paris': a masque for solo voices and 4-part chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments for trumpets, oboes, flutes, strings, and kettle-drum, and a figured bass for harpsichord, in score; composed by Daniel Purcell in 1699 or 1700, and performed in 1701 (see f. 1b). Characters: M...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1700?
Extent:
1 volume (44 folios)

17. Add MS 29399

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Add MS 29399
Title:
Henry Purcell: 'A Song sung att Cecilia's Feast'
Scope & Content:
'A Song sung att Cecilia's Feast' [1692], begins 'Hail, bright Cecilia'; with accompaniments for trumpets, oboes, flutes, violins, and kettle-drum, in full score, by Henry Purcell. The only singer named is — Woodson.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (49 folios)

18. Add MS 29400

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Add MS 29400
Title:
Giulio Renaldi: Primo Libro de' Madrigali, for four voices; transcribed by John Immyns.
Scope & Content:
'Di Giulio Renaldi Padouano 1o Libr[o] de Madrigali [a quatro voci]...Venetia 1583.' [The first edition appeared in 1569.] In score, in the hand of John Immyns (1741). Included is one by Francesco Pigna (f. 72b). Of the last Madrigal, 'Poiche l' alto valore,' there are two settings (ff. 85b, 86)...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

1 volume (90 folios)

19. Add MS 29401-29405

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Add MS 29401-29405
Title:
Madrigals and sacred vocal compositions for 5 voices, in parts, chiefly by William Byrd. In 5 volumes.
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-44b passim. Madrigals for 5 voices, in parts. Except nos. 6 and 17-32, which are by uncertain composers, they are known to be by W. Byrd, though no names are mentioned. Among them are laments on the deaths of Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Tallis, Queen Mary, Mary Queen of Scots, Queen Elizabet...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

5 volumes

20. Add MS 29968

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Add MS 29968
Title:
Thomas Tallis: Motet for forty voices; arranged and scored by Thomas Oliphant. Four chants and the alto part of a Te Deum. Inserted at the end is the printed three-part glee, " How merrily we live," by Michael Este.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-142. [‘Spem in alium non habui’]; for 40 voices, by [Thomas] Tallis, adapted about 1630 to the words ‘Sing and glorify Heav'n's high Majesty.’ Originally written for 8 first trebles, 8 second trebles, 8 contra-tenors, 8 tenors and 8 basses, but divided by Thomas Oliphant into 8 choirs of 5...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
circa 1850
Extent:
1 volume (147 folios)