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1. Add MS 29370

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Title:
A collection of songs, excerpts from operas, and an anthem, by by Dr. Thomas Augustine Arne
Scope & Content:
ff. 8, 20, 113b. Songs, by Dr. Thomas Augustine Arne, with instrumental accompaniments, in score; mid 18th cent. 1. 'The kind appointment Cœlia made': cantata, with flutes, oboes, and violins, f. 8. 2. 'A wretch, long tortured with disdain': cantata, with horns, flutes, oboes, and violins, and a...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 30308

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Title:
Two anthems, 'The King shall rejoice' and 'As pants the hart', by George Frederick Handel, in full score.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-16. Original draft, with numerous alterations, of the Dettingen Anthem, 'The King shall rejoice,' with accompaniments for three trumpets, drum, two oboes, bassoon, two violins, viola, and bass, and chorus for two trebles, alto, tenor, and bass, in full score. At the beginning is written, '...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1718-1743
Extent:

1 volume (27 folios)

3. Add MS 30309

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Add MS 30309
Title:
Anthems, in score, by Handel, transcribed by Edmund Thomas Warren.
Scope & Content:
Anthems, in score, by Handel, transcribed, at least as far as f. 41, by Edmund Thomas Warren. The remainder were probably copied by Warren at a rather later period. The first four are nos. 6, 4, 5, and 8, of the Chandos Anthems as published by Arnold. They are written for solo voices and (unless...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (111 folios)

4. Add MS 30930

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Add MS 30930
Title:
Henry Purcell: Autograph manuscript of fantazias, sonatas and sacred part-songs.
Scope & Content:
The vocal music, for between three and five voices and continuo, has been copied from one end of the manuscript (folios 3r-29v) and the instrumental music from the other (folios 72v-30r reversed).
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1678-1690
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 30930, ff 1-29v

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Add MS 30930, ff 1-29v
Title:
Henry Purcell: Devotional songs for three, four and five voices, with continuo.
Scope & Content:
ff. 3-29. Anthems in score, from miscellaneous autograph vocal and instrumental music by Henry Purcell.1. 'Plung'd in ye confines of dispair' (3 voices). f. 3. 2. 'O all ye people, clap your hands' (4 voices). f. 4. 3. 'When on my sick bed I languish' (3 voices). f. 6. 4. 'Lord, not to us' (3 vo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1678-1690
Extent:
29 folios

6. Add MS 35026

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Add MS 35026
Title:
Musical autograph album of Eliza Wesley, containing short pieces, inscriptions and signatures of numerous composers, musicians, singers and others
Scope & Content:
passim. Album begun by Eliza Wesley in 1836, containing the autographs of the principal composers, vocalists, and instrumentalists, and a few others, then in London; 1836-1895. Besides the compositions described below, there are also signatures, and in a few cases transcripts of fragments of mus...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 volume (73 folios)

7. Harley MS 7578

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Harley MS 7578
Title:
Middle English verse, including ballads by Chaucer and Lydgate; 'The Flyting of Montgomerie and Polwart' by Alexander Montgomerie; 'Nebuchadnezzar's Fierie Furnace'; the 'Annals of Oskell'; grammatical exercises in Latin and Greek; Old songs of Durham
Scope & Content:
Miscellany compiling pages from a number of other manuscripts, which vary greatly in size and period. Major sections within the miscellany are f. 1 (verse and prose on the Ten Commandments and Seven Deadly Sins), ff. 2-20 (various ballads and other verse, some by Chaucer and Lydgate), f. 21 (a s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1400-1700
Extent:

1 volume

8. Royal Appendix MS 23

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Royal Appendix MS 23
Title:
Collection of secular and sacred Motets, including one for Christmas Day, Madrigals, a Miserere, an Anthem, suspected composed by Derick Gerarde, and in parts.
Scope & Content:
Vol. I. ff. 44. Late XVI cent. The name of Robert Jenner is written at the top of the page in vol. iii. passim. Superius, contra-tenor, and tenor parts of a collection of Motets, etc., made, if not composed, by Dyricke Gerarde, whose name occurs (in that form) at the end of vol. i, and the beg...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (of 3 part books) (44 folios)

9. Royal Appendix MS 24

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Royal Appendix MS 24
Title:
Collection of secular and sacred Motets, including one for Christmas Day, Madrigals, a Miserere, an Anthem, suspected composed by Derick Gerarde, and in parts.
Scope & Content:
Vol. II. ff. 42. Late XVI cent. The name of Robert Jenner is written at the top of the page in vol. iii. passim. Superius, contra-tenor, and tenor parts of a collection of Motets, etc., made, if not composed, by Dyricke Gerarde, whose name occurs (in that form) at the end of vol. i, and the be...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (of 3 Part books) (42 folios)

10. Royal Appendix MS 25

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Royal Appendix MS 25
Title:
Collection of secular and sacred Motets, including one for Christmas Day, Madrigals, a Miserere, an Anthem, suspected composed by Derick Gerarde, and in parts.
Scope & Content:
Vol. III. ff. 43. Late XVI cent. The name of Robert Jenner is written at the top of the page in vol. iii. passim. Superius, contra-tenor, and tenor parts of a collection of Motets, etc., made, if not composed, by Dyricke Gerarde, whose name occurs (in that form) at the end of vol. i, and the b...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (of three Part books) (43 folios)