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Name Tallis, Thomas, composer and organist, c 1505-1585

1. 3437.g.19.

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3437.g.19.
Title:
PSALM TUNES; after 1712. Added in MS. on inter-leaves to the printed volume The Whole Books of Psalms…by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others (Printed by William Pearson, 1712). Those marked a, below, are for 4 voices and, unless the contrary is stated, taken from an edition of Thomas Ravenscroft’s Whole Book of Psalmes; those marked b, from John Playford’s 3-part setting of the same collection (? chiefly the 1713 edition); and those marked a, b, from both these latter works. At the be...
Scope & Content:
Robert Parsons, composer: Thomas Tallis, composer and organist: John Ward, composer: Thomas Morley, composer and writer: Music: Psalms: Thomas Ravenscroft, composer and editor: John Playford, the elder; composer and music-publisher: Giles Farnaby, composer: John Farmer, composer: John Bennet, co...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1712
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 4900

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Add MS 4900
Title:
Banks collection. Vol. XLIV. Miscellaneous writings, ornamented with initials, portraits of saints, royal arms, etc., cut from a printed book.
Scope & Content:
The principal items are:- (1) Fragments of a transcript of a calendar (latest date 1537), for the months of May to October, giving the dates on which fairs are held in those months in various towns of England and Wales (Carmarthen). A few dates are also given in the lives of British sovereigns...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (68 folios)

3. Add MS 14398

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Add MS 14398
Title:
A collection of motets, madrigals, canons, a carol and part of a mass
Scope & Content:
ff. 5-126b, 134b. 'A collection of Motetts . . . chiefly selected from the Original parts and put into score, 1770,’ by Edmund T. Warren Home, whose bookplate with arms is prefixed. Unless the contrary is stated, they are for 5 voices. Nos. 1-12 are from William Bird's Liber primus Sacrarum Cant...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1770
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 15117

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Add MS 15117
Title:
A collection, mostly comprising compositions for the lute, as well as songs, anthems, madrigals, duets, and an extract from an opera, all with lute accompaniment. This volume also contains a quartet, and an index to 'The Psalmes of David in Meter'.
Scope & Content:
ff. 2, 2b, 8b. Compositions for Lute; after 1614. 1. 'Almaine.' 'Candishe' (? = M. Cavendish). f. 2. 2, 3. Two pieces, without names. Anonymous. f. 2. 4. 'Curranto.' f. 2b. 5. 'Ut re my fa sol la.' 'Dyomedes' [of Venice, lutenist to Sigismund II, of Poland]. f. 8b. f. 3. 'Awake, ye wofull weig...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1599
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 15166

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Add MS 15166
Title:
The treble part of a collection of psalms, as well as the treble part of three madrigals
Scope & Content:
passim. The treble part of a collection of Psalms, etc., apparently written for 4 voices. The following forty-eight, which are set as Hymns, are by [John] Sheperd; and the words are taken, with slight variations, from the Sternhold and Hopkins version. 1. ‘The man is blest that hath not gone.’ f...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1567
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 17842

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Add MS 17842
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Scope & Content:
ANTHEMS for four, five, and six voices, by Croft, Tallis, Byrd, Purcell, etc.; in the handwriting of William Walrond. Paper; XVIIIth cent. Folio. [Add 17,842.] Thomas Tallis, composer and organist: Anthems. Henry Purcell, composer and organist: Harmonia Sacra, etc.: 1730, 1770. Music: Anthems...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 22597

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Add MS 22597
Title:
Tenor and treble parts and incidental music for a collection of compositions, by various composers.
Scope & Content:
(String Quintets, Motets and a Carol, in the same hand, Song in 'Don Quixote,' by R. Courteville, in a later hand.) ff. 3-15, 18-21b, 53 Tenor part of the following Anthems: — [late 16th cent.]. 1. 'The Lorde blesse vs.' 'R. White.' Attributed by Tudway, in Harley MS 7339, f. 34b, to Matthew Wh...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume (53 folios)

8. Add MS 23624

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Add MS 23624
Title:
Collection of compositions, including: Latin anthems, by Thomas Tallis and William Bird, organists of the Chapel Royal; and Cathedral services of Thomas Tallis, William Bird, and Orlando Gibbons.
Scope & Content:
ff. 5-116b passim 'Cantiones quæ ab argumento sacræ vocantur quinque et sex partium. Autoribus Thoma Tallisio et Guilielmo Birdo . . . Reginæ a privato sacello generosis et organistis, 1575.’ Scored by John Alcock. Nos. 1-15 are by Tallis, and are written for 5 voices (unless the contrary is sta...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1763
Extent:
1 volume (155 folios)

9. Add MS 29246

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Add MS 29246
Title:
Lute accompaniments to, or arrangements of, madrigals, masses, motets, and pieces originally written for string ensembles
Scope & Content:
Lute accompaniments to, or arrangements of, the following madrigals, masses, motets, etc., in Italian tablature. They appear to be arranged, roughly speaking, according to the number of voices, for which they were originally written, namely; 1-4, for two voices; 5-78, for 3 voices; 79 to end, fo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
after 1611
Extent:
1 volume (57 folios)

10. Add MS 29247

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Add MS 29247
Title:
Lute accompaniments to, or arrangements of, anthems, madrigals, and motets
Scope & Content:
Lute accompaniments to, or arrangements of, the following anthems, madrigals, and motets, in Italian tablature. They appear to be arranged, roughly speaking, according to the number of voices, for which they were originally written, namely; 1-72, for 5 voices; 73 to end, for 6 voices. 1. 'Prostr...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
after 1611
Extent:
1 volume (77 folios)