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71. Add MS 29386

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Title:
A collection of catches, canons, songs, vocal trios, excerpts from oratorios, excerpts from operas, and a duet
Scope & Content:
passim. Catches, Rounds, etc., for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score. Most of them are in the hand of Edmund T. Warren Home; some of them, beginning with no. 4, were 'corrected [in] 1756.' 1. 'Tobacco is but a vapor' (à 4). 'Ed. Nelham.' f. 5. 2. 'Hey ho, what shall I say' (à 9)...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1762?
Extent:
1 volume

72. Add MS 29396

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A collection, mostly of English songs
Scope & Content:
passim. Songs, with a bass (unless the contrary is stated), for harpsichord, in score. Those marked with an asterisk appear for the first time in Playford's , 1652. Almost the whole of the MS is in the hand of Edward Lowe, organist of the Chapel Royal (1661-1682), who added the bass to some of t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1678?-1682?
Extent:
1 volume

73. Add MS 29397

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Title:
A collection, largely of songs, duets and catches
Scope & Content:
passim. Songs for the most part unaccompanied, but occasionally with a bass for harpsichord, in score. Many are taken from John Playford's , 1673-1683, the , 1685, and other collections of that period. See indices by Thomas Oliphant at the beginning and end of the volume. 1. 'The bright Clarinda...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1682?-1690?
Extent:
1 volume

74. Add MS 29481

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Title:
English songs, psalms and anthems, 17th century
Scope & Content:
f. 2. Letters on a 6-line stave, said to be for 'Consort'-tuning. ff. 2-26 passim. Songs or sonnets, with a bass (unless the contrary is stated), in score. Anonymous. {See J. Cutts, 'Music and Letters', Oct 1952} 1. 'Sleep, waiward thoughts.' [From J. Dowland, in , 1597.] f. 2. 2. 'O let vs how...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:

1 volume

75. Add MS 29961

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Title:
Benedetto Marcello: Vocal duets, trios and quartets
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-32. Twelve Duets, with a bass (figured in the first six), for harpsichord, in score, by Benedetto Marcello. 1. 'Porto negl' occhi.' f. 2b. 2. 'Che uolete di più, Care pupille.' f. 5. 3. 'In quel sol che trabocca.' f. 7b. 4. 'Se morto mi brami.' f. 10b. 5. 'Raddoppiate, ò Cari sguardi.' f.1...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (57 folios)

76. Add MS 29963

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Title:
Cantatas by Giovanni Battista Buononcini, Mare Antonio Buononcini, Agostino Steffani, Baron Emanuele d'Astorga, Francesco Mancini, Alessandro Scarlatti, and Francesco Gasparini
Scope & Content:
Cantatas, etc., with a bass (generally figured) for harpsichord and occasionally accompaniments for other instruments (where indicated below), in score. Unless the contrary is stated, they are for a soprano voice and anonymous. Of the first eleven numbers, ascribed to 'Bononcini,' nos. 5, 7 and ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1st half of 18th century
Extent:

1 volume (136 folios)

77. Add MS 29964

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Title:
'Ciaccona' by Nicolò Jommelli, with instrumental pieces and operatic arias by Gaetano Piazzo and others; followed, at ff. 59-101, by the overture and part of the first act of Mattia Venti's opera " La Conquista del Messico."
Scope & Content:
f. 2. 'Ciaccona' for oboes, horns, drums, and strings, in score, by Jommelli, performed at the Argentina theatre in 1764. f. 17. 'Non dan pace ai miei pensieri,' known in England to the words 'Sweet is the breath of morn'; for 2 treble voices, with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes and ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

1 volume (154 folios)

78. Add MS 30091

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Title:
Hymns to the Virgin, etc., with music, in Latin. Included also are two hymns in French, beginning " En mai quand rose est florie" and " Ne sai ke ie die tant voi villonnie," ff. 1b, 3.
Scope & Content:
Description of music from Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music: ff. 1-7 passim. Motets, mostly in praise of the Virgin, written in France in long lines with alternate blue and red initials. Only 2 parts are given, the 2nd (or ground bass) being generally sung to different word...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

1 volume (7 folios)

79. Add MS 30382

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Title:
Anthems and songs collected, and many of them composed, by Henry Bowman. The names of the other composers are Johann Felice Sances, P. Nadal Monferrato, Richard Deering, Giovanni Giacoppo Carissimi, Maria Marini, - Cassati, John Blow, Henry Purcell Giovanni Rovetta, - Silvestro, Michael Wise, and Henry Lawes.
Scope & Content:
Passim. Anthems for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score, viz.1. ['Awake up, my glory']: the end only. M. Wise. f. 2. 2. 'Wake sleeping ones': a Dialogue between the Angel and the Soul; with chorus. 'H[enry] B[owman].' Autograph. f. 43b. 3. ''Sing vnto the Lord, O yee Saints': fune...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1680-1686
Extent:

1 volume (94 folios)

80. Add MS 30840-30841

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Add MS 30840-30841
Title:
'Recueil de Duo[s]... en May, 1757.' Duets, set to French words.
Scope & Content:
'Recueil de Duo[s]...En May, 1757.' Without accompaniment. In two volumes, of which the first contains the upper part and the second the lower. Anonymous. There are several gaps in the lower part (volume 2), single leaves being lost after ff. 22, 46, 51 and 63; and two leaves after, ff. 59, 99. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1757
Extent:
2 volumes (107, 99 folios).

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