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2. Add MS 5336
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- Add MS 5336
- Title:
- A collection of catches, canons, madrigals, vocal trios, vocal quartets, and some organ voluntaries
- Scope & Content:
- passim. Rounds and Catches. Nos. 1-9, 12, 13, 16, 18, 24, 31, 34, 36, and 38 are for 4 voices; the others for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated). Nos. 1-19, 21-31, are in score, and are taken from three works by Thomas Ravenscroft, viz.: — (1609), (1609), and (1611). 1, 2. 'Trole the bo...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- Late 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume (46 folios)
3. Add MS 5337
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- Add MS 5337
- Title:
- A collection of incidental music from operas, madrigals, sonatas, catches, glees, a duet from an oratorio and a canon
- Scope & Content:
- The contents of this MS. are in different hands. ff. 1-42. Incidental music, by Henry Purcell, in score; early 18th cent. The symphonies are written for flutes, oboes, strings, etc., and, in the case of no. 2, for trumpets also. 1. [The Masque in] 'Timon of Athens' [1694]. f. 1. 2. 'The Musick ...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English and Italian
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4. Add MS 18990
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- Add MS 18990
- Title:
- Album Amicorum of Libertus Opstraet van der Moelen, of Utrecht; containing inscriptions with coloured arms, and paintings of flowers, etc., 1628-1634. Dispersed through the volume are French songs, with music notation, seemingly written by the owner of the volume
- Scope & Content:
- The musical contents of the volume are described below. Superius and (in nos. 1-4) bassus parts of the following unaccompanied compositions, apparently in the hand of, and composed by, Libertus Opstraet van der Moelen, of Utrecht. 1. 'Ach! ach!...fiere mort.' ff. 8b, 30b. 2. 'De quelle ingrate...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Dutch, English, and French
- Date Range:
- 1628-1634
- Extent:
- 1 volume (30 folios)
5. Add MS 19647
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- Add MS 19647
- Title:
- Songs in full score, composed for Vauxhall Gardens, by James Hook.
- Scope & Content:
- Songs, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings and other instruments mentioned below, in score, written by J[ames] Hook for Vauxhall. Autograph. 1. 'To sing about love I know is the plan'; with oboes, horns, bassoons, etc., 1786. f. 27. 2. 'Farewell, ambitious, gilded Toys'; written for '...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1785-1798
- Extent:
- 1 volume (108 folios)
6. Add MS 19648
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- Add MS 19648
- Title:
- Collection of 19th-century compositions predominently for voice, by Franz Joseph Haydn, D. Bruguier, Thomas Brewer, W. H. Cutler, and anonymous.
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 2, 7. Canzonets, originally written for a single voice, by Franz Joseph Haydn, harmonized for 3 voices, with pianoforte accompaniment, in score, by D. Bruguier. 1. 'Despair,' begins 'The anguish of my bursting heart.' f. 2. 2. 'Fidelity,' begins 'While hollow burst the rushing winds.' f. 7. ...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1810-1833
- Extent:
- 1 volume (46 folios)
7. Add MS 19759
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- Add MS 19759
- Title:
- Collection of compositions, mostly without accompaniment, by various authors, including: Purcell, Hart, Banister, Turner, and other composers of the latter part of the 17th century.
- Scope & Content:
- Songs without accompaniments. Anonymous, unless the contrary is stated. 1. 'Love you by all that's good.' f. 2. 2. 'I bring thee, ô thou charming Fair.' '[James (?)] Hart.' f. 2b. 3. 'Let's loue and let's laugh.' '[J.] Banister.' f. 3. 4. 'I loue and am lou'd.' f. 3. 5. 'To Cloris what I did pre...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 9 Jun 1681
- Extent:
- 1 volume (46 folios)
8. Add MS 22099
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- Add MS 22099
- Title:
- Collection of sacred and secular compositions, including hymns and catches for voice, and incidental music, and an arrangement by Henry Purcell for Queen Mary’s birthday in 1693; predominantly by English and Italian composers.
- Scope & Content:
- Short pieces on two staves, apparently written, or arranged, for Harpsichord. Several of them are in A Choice Collection of Ayres for the Harpsichord, 1700. [about 1704-1707.]. 1. Movement from 'Sonata 12' (the last of the set published in 1683). 'H. Purcel.' f. 2. 2. Prelude in A minor. 'Lock.'...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English and Italian
- Date Range:
- late 17th century-early 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume (90 folios)
9. Add MS 25073-25078
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- Add MS 25073-25078
- Title:
- A collection of various British dance tunes, songs, airs, and other pieces
- Scope & Content:
- Collections of English, Irish and Scottish, songs, numbers from operas, dance tunes, airs, and other pieces from various composers, compiled around 1790.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English, French, and Italian
- Date Range:
- Late 18th century
- Extent:
- 6 volumes
10. Add MS 25075
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- Add MS 25075
- Title:
- A collection of dance music, songs, numbers from operas, a catch, a duet, and a glee
- Scope & Content:
- passim. Numbers from Operas; either arranged for pianoforte, or with pianoforte accompaniment in score; about 1799. Apparently made by Maria Jackson, alias Egerton [? Maria, daughter of Thomas Scott Jackson, afterwards wife of Sir John Grey-Egerton, 8th Bart., whose nephew. Sir Philip de Malpas ...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English and Italian
- Date Range:
- Late 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume