Search

Subject Canons

41. Add MS 29394

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 29394
Title:
Volume II of a collection of short vocal pieces, most of them for 3 voices, in parts
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-5. Canons for 3 voices, in parts, by [John] Travers. 1. 'In amore hæc omnia insunt vitia.' f. 2. 2. 'Nemo vir magnus.' f. 3b. 3. 'Maxima debetur Pueris Reuerentia.' f. 3b. 4. 'Oderunt peccare boni.' f. 4b. 5. 'Proximus a tectis Ignis.' f. 5. ff. 6, 7b. Two Canons for 3 voices, in parts, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

42. Add MS 29395

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 29395
Title:
Volume III of a collection of short vocal pieces, most of them for 3 voices, in parts
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-5. Canons for 3 voices, in parts, by [John] Travers. 1. 'In amore hæc omnia insunt vitia.' f. 2. 2. 'Nemo vir magnus.' f. 3b. 3. 'Maxima debetur Pueris Reuerentia.' f. 4. 4. 'Oderunt peccare boni.' f. 4b. 5. 'Proximus a tectis Ignis.' f. 5. ff. 6, 7b. Two Canons for 3 voices, in parts, b...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

43. Add MS 29801

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 29801
Title:
Two sketch-books of musical compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven, containing the first ideas and rough notes of many of his completed works. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-37. 'Beethoven. Skizzenbuch. B': consisting almost exclusively of 'Skizzen zu den 'Ruinen von Athen,' with a few (ff. 11, 11b) 'zu 'König Stephan.' Both these works were produced at Pesth, 9 February, 1812. Three leaves have been lost. About 1811].{c.f. letter of Dr. F. Kaiser (18/6/1962; ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
c 1781-1811
Extent:
1 volume

44. Add MS 29996

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 29996
Title:
Motets, madrigals, fancies, by Thomas Tomkins and others, interspersed with political verses and satires, recipes etc.
Scope & Content:
Motets, madrigals, fancies, etc., annotated throughout by Thomas Tomkins, with some of his own compositions. The composers named are - Kyrton, ff. 6, 7 b. John Redford, ff. 6 b, 11, 17, 22 b, 36, 37, 40 b, 42 b. Richard Wynslate, f. 20. - Avere [Avory], f. 25. Philip Apprys [Price], of St. Paul'...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:

1 volume

45. Add MS 29997

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 29997
Title:
Sketches of musical compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven, including C sharp minor quartet, Op. 131, composed in 1826.
Scope & Content:
Sketches of musical compositions in the hand of Beethoven. The volume may be divided into two portions, of which the former (ff. 2-5) contains what appear to be sketches of the C-sharp minor quartet, op. 131; and the latter, miscellaneous sketches, most of them apparently dating from the end of ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:

1 volume (42 folios)

46. Add MS 30273

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 30273
Title:
Collection of glees, catches, rounds, etc. by Samuel Webbe, sen., John Wall Callcott, John Stafford Smith, Henry Purcell, Dr. Thomas Augustine Arne, William Lawes, and other English composers of the 18th century
Scope & Content:
Rounds, catches and cries for three or four voices. Around 1833 (watermark, f. 35). f. 2. ‘Non nobis, Domine’; for 3 voices, in score, attributed to William Byrd; followed by two ‘Amens,’ for 3 and 4 voices. ff. 4, 5b. Glees for 3 voices, in score, by Dr. Henry Harington. 1. 'What shall we si...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1833
Extent:
1 volume (53 folios)

47. Add MS 30342

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 30342
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS tracts, in French, viz. :- 1. " Des fondemens de l'estat et des moiens de regner, traduict d'Italien en Francois." f. 2. 2. Gencalogies of noble families of France. f. 12. 3. " Advis de Mr. de Vill." [Nicholas de Neufville, Seigneur de Villeroi] on the means of quieting the disorders of the kingdom circ. 1588. f. 58. 4. " Mémoire touchant les Cérémonies on precedence in State ceremonies. f. 67. 5. " Testament de feu Monseigneur [François, Due d'Anjou] frère du Roy"; 8 ...
Scope & Content:
Valentine Vickers: Survey and valuation of Worfield, co. Salop: 1789, 1811. includes: f. 2 Political Tracts: Des fondemens de l'estat et des moiens de regner: 18th cent. f. 12 History of France: Genealogies of noble families: 17th or 18th cent.: Fr. f. 12 Genealogies: Noble French families: 17...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:

1 volume (191 folios)

48. Add MS 30392

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 30392
Title:
Sketch-book of compositions by Dr. William Crotch
Scope & Content:
ff. 3, 3b, 39b, 40b. Fugues for Organ or Pianoforte, by Dr. William Crotch. Autograph. What hand S. H. (whose initials appear on ff. 40 and 41) had in them does not appear. 1, 2. In C, and G minor; composed at Oxford in 1790. ff. 3, 3b. 3, 4. In B flat, composed at Bath in 1791. The second one i...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1790-1795
Extent:

1 volume (96 folios)

49. Add MS 30485

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 30485
Title:
Pavans, galliards and songs for the virginals by William Bird, Thomas Tallis, James Harding, Thomas Weelkes, Dr. John Bull and others; taken principally from Lady Nevill's virginal book.
Scope & Content:
'Extracts from Virginal Book— Lady Nevill's' (so described in an 18th-century hand, on the remains of what appears to be the original vellum cover), containing a few pieces from that collection, of which the original is in the possession of the Marquis of Abergavenny. Written on two staves of 6 ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:

1 volume (119 folios)

50. Add MS 30930

Reference (shelfmark):
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