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21. Add MS 14166

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Add MS 14166
Title:
Compositions by Alessandro Scarlatti, Domenico Scarlatti, and Giuseppe Scarlatti
Scope & Content:
ff. 1, 25, 68b. Sacred Latin compositions, in score, by Alessandro Scarlatti; early 19th century. Nos. 2, 3 are in the hand of G. Sigismondo. 1. ‘Memento, Domine, David,’ with 'Gloria Patri ‘ (4 voices), f. 1. 2. 'Tu es Petrus': antiphon (8 voices, with figured bass), f. 25. 3. ‘Lætatus sum’; de...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
1 volume

22. Add MS 14189

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Add MS 14189
Title:
Sacred music in score, by Leonardo Leo, Nicola Zingarelli, Francesco Feo (autograph), Giovanni Carolo Maria Clari, and Martino Martini
Scope & Content:
f. 1-27. 'Miserere mei, Deus‘; for 2 choirs of 4 voices each, with a figured bass for the organ, in score, by Leonardo Leo. Said to be in the hand of Giuseppe Sigismondo; 18th-19th cent. ff. 27b, 28. Melody, with figured bass, of the antiphon, 'Christus factus est pro nobis obediens usque ad mo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume

23. Add MS 14207

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Add MS 14207
Title:
A collection of duets, songs, excerpts from operas, and a canon
Scope & Content:
Vocal compositions, apparently all of them taken from operas, with accompaniments, mostly in score; 18th cent. Unless the contrary is stated, they are for a single voice, with accompaniments for strings. 1. 'Tergi quegl' occhi belli': chorus, with oboes, horns, bassoons, etc., from 'La Zelinda, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and Italian
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume

24. Add MS 14208

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Add MS 14208
Title:
A collection of songs, canons, pieces from operas, duets, and a madrigal
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-160b. Songs, apparently taken from operas, with accompaniments for strings, in score (except where the contrary is stated); 18th cent. 1. 'Recagli quell' acciaro': aria from 'Ezio' [about 1770]. This and nos. 2-8 are by 'Antonio Sacchini.' f. 1. 2. 'Amor che nasce con la speranza': cavatin...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

25. Add MS 14341

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Add MS 14341
Title:
A collection of pieces by Samuel Wesley, including motets, anthems, portions of services, a part-song, a canon, a chorus, a sacred song and the melodies of 4 hymns
Scope & Content:
ff. 2b, 20. Portions of Services, in score, by Samuel Wesley. 1. Responses to the Litany composed in 1806 (Add MS 34999, f. 117); the first part consisting of the melody with figured bass; the second part beginning 'From our enemies defend us,' and written for 4 voices, in score, the bass part b...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
before 1843
Extent:
1 volume

26. 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

27. 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)

28. Add MS 27579

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Add MS 27579
Title:
"Cato: sive, speculum morale; privatum vitæ genus concernens," etc. Printed. Frankfurt, 1585. Interleaved for an Album Amicorum of Johannes. Cellarius, of Nuremberg, 1599-1606
Scope & Content:
Containing paintings, coats of arms, verses, mottoes, and autographs. Among the names are those of Johannes Fabricius, f. 75;-John Doland [Dowland], with the subject of a fugue, f. 88;-Thomas Sackevila, "Engelender," f. 100 b;-Nicolaus Taurellus, f. 118. Johannes Cellarius, of Nuremburg: Album: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
1585-1606
Extent:
1 volume

29. Add MS 27642

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Add MS 27642
Title:
A collection of canons, elegies, madrigals, catches, glees, and a motet by John Wall Callcott.
Scope & Content:
passim. Canons for several voices (4, unless the contrary is stated), in score, by Dr. J. W. Callcott; 1784-1800. Autograph. 1,2. ‘Hear rny prayer, O God, and hide not thyself.’ Two settings. ff. 2b, 4b. 3. ‘Not unto us, O Lord‘ (à 3). f. 6. 4. ‘O give thanks‘ (à 3 ?). ‘Janr 15, 1800.’ f. 16b. 5...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1783-1801
Extent:
1 volume

30. Add MS 27643

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Add MS 27643
Title:
A collection of glees, catches, songs, and a canon by John Wall Callcott
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-14b. Glees, in score, by Dr. J. W. Callcott; about 1803-1812. Autograph. The first three are for 3 voices. 1. 'Ye Mariners of England.' '1810.' f. 2. 2. 'When Time was entwining the garland.' '1803.' f. 4. 3. 'Soft blows the wind.' '1812.' f. 6. 4. 'See, baleful Iris' (double quartet). The...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1783-1812
Extent:
1 volume