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51. 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

52. Add MS 30933

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Add MS 30933
Title:
Anthems, services and canons by English composers of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, collected by William Flackton. Volume 3.
Scope & Content:
f. 3-133. 'Services collected by W[illia]m Flackton, Vol. 3d'. Many of them in the hand of Daniel Henstridge, organist of Canterbury cathedral. In score. The Canon formed by the Gloria Patri to the Jubilate in no. 1 is inscribed on the composer's monument at Westminster Abbey (see f. 122).1. Who...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (173 folios)

53. Add MS 31239

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Add MS 31239
Title:
A collection of pieces transcribed, and mostly composed by, Samuel Wesley.
Scope & Content:
f. 1b. 'Faint is my head‘: 4-part Hymn, in score, the melody being in the tenor; the music by Dr. William Boyce, the words by the Rev. C[harles] Wesley; about 1825-1829. ff. 4b-10, 11b, 12b. Double Chants (with one exception), for 4 voices, with a compressed score for organ below, in score, mos...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1825?-1829?
Extent:
1 volume (48 folios)

54. Add MS 31648

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Add MS 31648
Title:
18th and 19th century Compositions from Operas, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings and, in most cases, wind instruments.
Scope & Content:
Vol. I. ff. 175. xviiith cent. Passim. Arias, etc., from Operas, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings and, in most cases, wind instruments. In vol. 1, nos. 1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 13; vol. ii, nos. 1, 3-5, 7, 11, 13, 16; and vol. iii, nos. 1, 6-9; horns and oboes are employed. Other instrumen...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1730 - 1833
Extent:
1 of three volumes (175 folios)

55. Add MS 31649

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 31649
Title:
18th and 19th century Compositions from Operas, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings and, in most cases, wind instruments.
Scope & Content:
Vol. II. ff. 198. xviiith cent. Passim. Arias, etc., from Operas, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings and, in most cases, wind instruments. In vol. 1, nos. 1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 13; vol. ii, nos. 1, 3-5, 7, 11, 13, 16; and vol. iii, nos. 1, 6-9; horns and oboes are employed. Other instrume...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1730 - 1833
Extent:
1 of three volumes (198 folios)

56. Add MS 31650

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 31650
Title:
18th and 19th century Compositions from Operas, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings and, in most cases, wind instruments.
Scope & Content:
Vol. III. ff. 171. xviiith cent. Passim. Arias, etc., from Operas, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings and, in most cases, wind instruments. In vol. 1, nos. 1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 13; vol. ii, nos. 1, 3-5, 7, 11, 13, 16; and vol. iii, nos. 1, 6-9; horns and oboes are employed. Other instrum...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1730 - 1833
Extent:
1 of three volumes (171 folios)

57. Add MS 31922

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Add MS 31922
Title:
A collection of songs, ballads, and instrumental pieces, composed early in the reign of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
passim. Compositions for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in parts, apparently written early in the reign of Henry VIII (see for 1882-1887, p. 7). {Severeal published by the Roxburghe Club in 1912} {See J. E. Stevens 'Rounds and Canons from an early Tudor Song Book', Music and Letters,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (129 folios)

58. Add MS 31995

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Add MS 31995
Title:
A collection of studies in musical composition, consisting chiefly of examples of the fugue and the canon
Scope & Content:
passim. Examples of harmony, etc., in a German hand. 1. Consonances and Dissonances in cluding one by 'J. P.' (possibly John Playford). ff. 1-7b passim. 2. Fugues. ff. 8, 10b, etc. 3. Canons (?), written in a musical shorthand. ff. 21b-23. 4. 'Scala Mystica. Wie man von einer Catenz (sc. Cadence...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (24 folios)

59. Add MS 32012-32021

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 32012-32021
Title:
Compositions of Thomas Miles
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
10 items

60. Add MS 32013

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Add MS 32013
Title:
A collection of anthems, hymns, sacred songs, and a canon
Scope & Content:
passim. Anthems taken from a collection of autograph compositions by Thomas Miles; 1823-1849. Unless the contrary is stated, they are full anthems, with accompaniments for organ or pianoforte, and are in score. Most of the Anthems in this volume are described by the composer as psalms or hymns a...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 volume (117 folios)