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21. 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

22. Add MS 14336

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Add MS 14336
Title:
A collection of songs, duets, madrigals and motets
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-10b. Compositions for 3 voices, with a bass for harpsichord, in score. Anonymous; possibly by H. du Mont. 1. 'Arme...a la mano.' f. 2. 2. 'Nel regno damore.' f. 3b. 3. 'Pianti, fermati (sic) ui.' f. 5. 4. 'Non credet' a donne.' f. 6. 5. 'Duna bella infidele.' f. 7. 6. 'Ahi, cosi va costei....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

23. Add MS 14342

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Add MS 14342
Title:
A collection of music by Samuel Wesley, which includes masses and portions of masses, requiems or portions of requiems, plainsong melodies, as well as a motet, a chant, a madrigal, a glee, a duet, a miserere and part of a service
Scope & Content:
ff. 2, 18, 53-55. Masses and portions of Masses, in score, harmonized by S. Wesley; from a volume of his compositions collected, and in many cases transcribed, by Vincent Novello, by whom it was presented to the British Museum in 1843; 1810 etc. 1. The Gregorian Mass ‘Pro Angelis,’ for 4 voices,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1782?-1813?
Extent:
1 volume

24. Add MS 14394

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Add MS 14394
Title:
A collection of duets by Clari, in the hand of William J. Taylor
Scope & Content:
'Duetti,' with figured bass for harpsichord, in score; by Clari. In the hand of William J. Taylor. In Add MS 15516, nos. 1-6 are attributed to D. Bigaglia, but they are described in a MS belonging to the Royal College of Music as part of vol. iv of Clari's Madrigals, etc. Three of the last four ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
after 1831
Extent:
1 volume (88 folios)

25. Add MS 14395

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Add MS 14395
Title:
A collection of madrigals by Clari, as well as a motet by Steffani
Scope & Content:
ff. 3-76. 'Madrigali' or 'Terzetti,' with figured bass, in score, by Clari. In the hand of William J. Taylor. Nos. 3-8 are attributed in Add MS 15516 to D. Bigaglia; but upon what authority does not appear. They occur in a MS belonging to the Royal College of Music as part of vol. iv of Clari's ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
after 1831
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 15117

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Add MS 15117
Title:
A collection, mostly comprising compositions for the lute, as well as songs, anthems, madrigals, duets, and an extract from an opera, all with lute accompaniment. This volume also contains a quartet, and an index to 'The Psalmes of David in Meter'.
Scope & Content:
ff. 2, 2b, 8b. Compositions for Lute; after 1614. 1. 'Almaine.' 'Candishe' (? = M. Cavendish). f. 2. 2, 3. Two pieces, without names. Anonymous. f. 2. 4. 'Curranto.' f. 2b. 5. 'Ut re my fa sol la.' 'Dyomedes' [of Venice, lutenist to Sigismund II, of Poland]. f. 8b. f. 3. 'Awake, ye wofull weig...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1599
Extent:
1 volume

28. Add MS 15166

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Add MS 15166
Title:
The treble part of a collection of psalms, as well as the treble part of three madrigals
Scope & Content:
passim. The treble part of a collection of Psalms, etc., apparently written for 4 voices. The following forty-eight, which are set as Hymns, are by [John] Sheperd; and the words are taken, with slight variations, from the Sternhold and Hopkins version. 1. ‘The man is blest that hath not gone.’ f...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1567
Extent:
1 volume

29. Add MS 15516

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Add MS 15516
Title:
A collection of 12 madrigals for 2 and 3 voices
Scope & Content:
Madrigals or 'Cantate ' for 2 and 3 voices, with a bass for harpsichord, in score, here attributed in a later hand to 'Bigalio,' sc. Diogenio Bigaglia, but more probably composed by G. C. M. Clari, under whose name they appear in a MS belonging to the Royal College of Music, in which they are de...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (48 folios)

30. Add MS 17786

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Add MS 17786
Title:
Collection of 17th-century sacred and secular vocal and instrumental compositions, by English composers, arranged in five, six, and seven parts, across six volumes.
Scope & Content:
Vocal and instrumental compositions. Vol. I. passim. [String quintets, Anthems Carols Madrigals String sextets] Fantasias or Fancies, etc., for 5 instruments, in parts. 1. 'De la courte'; in two parts. Robert Parsons.' f. 1. 2. Fancy. 'Byrd.' f. 2b. {also in 29996 f. 211} 3. 'A toy.' An...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
early 17th century
Extent:
1 of six volumes (Part book)