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Name Oliphant, Thomas, composer and author

21. Add MS 29968

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Add MS 29968
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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)

22. Add MS 31415

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Scope & Content:
MADRIGALS and part-,songs by John Morley, Gerolamo Converso, Jeremiah Saville, John Wilbye, Thomas Linley, Luca Marenzio, John Danby, Samuel Webbe [senior], Lord Mornington, Rev. R. J. S. Stevens, Thomas Ford, Giovanni dalla Croce, Jonathan Battishill, Giovanni Pizzoni, Thomas Weelkes, Orlando G...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

23. Add MS 31464

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Add MS 31464
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Scope & Content:
CATCHES, by the Earl of Mornington, Henry Purcell, Dr. T. A. Arne, J. Isum [Isham], - Atterbury, and others. Copied by Thomas Oliphant. Paper; ff. 39. xixth cent. Oblong 24mo. Garrett Colley Wellesley, 1st Earl of Mornington: Part-songs: 19th cent. Henry Purcell, composer and organist: Glees, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

24. Add MS 34000-34002

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Add MS 34000-34002
Title:
Collection of Motets, Masses, etc., probably mostly by Giovanni Gabrieli, or by other composers of the last quarter of the 16th century. Part books: first and second cantus and tenor.
Scope & Content:
First and second cantus and tenor parts, in 3 volumes, of a collection of Motets, Masses, etc., probably by a composer, or composers, of the last quarter of the 16th cent. One of the pieces (vols, ii, iii, f. 17b) is addressed to Albert [III], Duke of Bavaria (d. 1579); another (vols, ii, iii, f...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
3 volumes (46, 41, 41 folios)

25. Add MS 38546

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Add MS 38546
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Scope & Content:
PEARSALL COLLECTION. Vol. VII (ff. ii + 101). Arrangements and adaptations from works by the early madrigalwriters and others, interspersed with original compositions chiefly sketches or rough drafts by Pearsall, including anthems, a canon, a carol, a catch, duets, glees, a lamentation, madrigal...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1835-1838
Extent:
1 item

26. Add MS 52337 A

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Add MS 52337 A
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Scope & Content:
AYRTON PAPERS. Vol. IV A (ff. ii+200). Letters, etc., 'From Composers, Performrs and other Musical Characters'; 1802-1847, n.d. includes: ff. 1-2 Robert Nicolas Charles Bochsa, composer and harpist: Correspondence: 1822.ff. 3-5b John Wall Callcott, composer: Letter to W. Ayrton: 1802.f. 6 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1802-1847
Extent:
1 item

27. Add MS 70848

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Add MS 70848
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Scope & Content:
MCCRIMMON COLLECTION. Vol. X (ff. 122). Correspondence of Directors and Principal Librarians; 1849-1939, n.d. English and Latin. Contents: 1. ff. 1-88. John Winter Jones, Keeper of Printed Books 1856-1866, Principal Librarian 1866-1878; 1849-1878, n.d. A few of the letters are addressed to J...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1849-1939
Extent:
1 item

28. Egerton MS 2422

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Egerton MS 2422
Title:
Index to English songs and other compositions for two or three voices
Scope & Content:
Alphabetical index to the first lines of 7442 English songs and other compositions for 2 or 3 voices, chiefly of the 17th and 18th centuries, written on as many slips of paper and pasted down. In the hand of Thomas Oliphant.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 volume (219 folios)

29. Egerton MS 2957

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Egerton MS 2957
Title:
" MUSIC IN MACBETH " [1672], commonly attributed to Matthew Lock, with symphonies and accompaniments for instruments, in score. At ff. 14-18 there is an alternative setting of the passage beginning " Now I go," apparently (see his letter at the top of f. 14) by Richard Leveridge (fl. 1695), whose name also appears on f. 3 as one of the singers. Among the miscellaneous papers at the end are:- (a) An engraving of the Duke's theatre, Dorset Gardens, 1814. f. 25;- (b) Copy by Thomas Oliphant o...
Scope & Content:
Matthew Lock: Macbeth music attrib. to.: [1672]. Bookplates: O'Callaghan (Hon. George), d. 1856. Robert Smith, of St Paul's Churchyard: Bookplates of arms (two types, one having motto underneath): 18th-19th cent. Henry Purcell, composer and organist: Macbeth music (1672) sometimes ascribed to...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1660-1875
Extent:
1 item

30. Egerton MS 2969

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Egerton MS 2969
Title:
ODE for St. Cecilia's Day, in full score, by Henry Purcell, apparently in the hand of [John] Saville, lay-chorister of Lichfield Cathedral. Paper ; ff. iv + 42. Quarto. XVIII-XIX cent. Belonged to T[homas] Jones, C[harles] Wesley (d. 1834), Enoch Hawkins (bookplate with crest, sale-cat., 1847, part of lot 222), Thomas Oliphant (sale-cat., 1873, lot 584), and William H[ayman] Cummings (bookplate, sale-cat., lot 540).
Scope & Content:
John Saville, lay chorister of Lichfield: Transcribed: 18th-19th cent. Henry Purcell, composer and organist: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: late 18th cent. Enoch Hawkins, Vicar-Choral of Westminster Abbey: Bookplate: 19th cent. Bookplates: Hawkins (Enoch): 19th cent. William Hayman Cummings, Mus...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 item