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1. Add MS 22597

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Add MS 22597
Title:
Tenor and treble parts and incidental music for a collection of compositions, by various composers.
Scope & Content:
(String Quintets, Motets and a Carol, in the same hand, Song in 'Don Quixote,' by R. Courteville, in a later hand.) ff. 3-15, 18-21b, 53 Tenor part of the following Anthems: — [late 16th cent.]. 1. 'The Lorde blesse vs.' 'R. White.' Attributed by Tudway, in Harley MS 7339, f. 34b, to Matthew Wh...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume (53 folios)

2. Add MS 29246

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Add MS 29246
Title:
Lute accompaniments to, or arrangements of, madrigals, masses, motets, and pieces originally written for string ensembles
Scope & Content:
Lute accompaniments to, or arrangements of, the following madrigals, masses, motets, etc., in Italian tablature. They appear to be arranged, roughly speaking, according to the number of voices, for which they were originally written, namely; 1-4, for two voices; 5-78, for 3 voices; 79 to end, fo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
after 1611
Extent:
1 volume (57 folios)

3. Add MS 29247

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Add MS 29247
Title:
Lute accompaniments to, or arrangements of, anthems, madrigals, and motets
Scope & Content:
Lute accompaniments to, or arrangements of, the following anthems, madrigals, and motets, in Italian tablature. They appear to be arranged, roughly speaking, according to the number of voices, for which they were originally written, namely; 1-72, for 5 voices; 73 to end, for 6 voices. 1. 'Prostr...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
after 1611
Extent:
1 volume (77 folios)

4. Add MS 29987

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Add MS 29987
Title:
Madrigals, ballads, and motets by Italian composers (mainly anonymous), including: Jacobus de Bolonia. Johannes de Florentia. Franciscus de Florentia. Frater Bartolinus de Padova. Giovanni de Chascina. Ser Lorenzo, prete di Firenze Ser Gheradello. Bonavitus Corsini, pitor. Frate Andrea de ser Vi. Donato da Chascina. Frate Vincenzo. Nicholo del Proposto. Frate Guigliemo di S. Spirito. Francescho degli Organni. Don Paghollo. Rosso de Chollegrana.
Scope & Content:
ff. 2b-69b passim. 'Madriali,' 'Ballate,' 'Cacce,' etc., by little-known Italian composers of the 14th century. There are similar collections in the Biblioteca Laurenziana at Florence (87) and in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris. Unless the contrary is stated, the compositions are for 2 voice...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-16th century
Extent:

1 volume (88 folios)

5. 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)

6. Add MS 31992

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Add MS 31992
Title:
A collection of miserere, anthems, motets and madrigals, in Italian lute notation
Scope & Content:
A collection, similar to Add MSS 29246, 29247, in Italian tablature; Probably after 1611 (date of latest known published compositions). In the first part of the MS. (ff. 3-55) nos. 1 to 81, and a few others named below, are by William Byrd, those marked with an asterisk, from Psalms, Sonets, and...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (99 folios)

7. Add MS 33933

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Add MS 33933
Title:
The Wode Psalter or St Andrews Psalter: contra-tenor part-book containing musical settings of metrical psalms from the 1564 Scottish Psalm Book and other music
Scope & Content:
Most of the music was collected and copied by Thomas Wode (or Wood). Wode was a former monk who worked at St Andrews after the Reformation in Scotland, eventually becoming vicar there. At the core of the collection are harmonisations of the psalms by Scottish composer David Peebles. Over a perio...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
c 1564-c 1625
Extent:
1 volume (94 folios)

8. Harley MS 1709

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Harley MS 1709
Title:
Motets by English composers of the beginning of the 16th century. Medius part.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-57 passim. Medius part of some ‘antemns‘ (i.e. Motets) by English composers of the beginning of the 16th century. More than half of them are anonymous. 1. ‘Gaude plurimum.’ By J. Taverner. f. 1. 2. ‘Aue, dei patris filia.’ f. 3b. 3. ‘Adoro te, domine.’ f. 5. 4. ‘Salue, regina, pudi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Royal Appendix MS 58

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal Appendix MS 58
Title:
Collection of English vocal compositions, predominantly by anonymous authors.
Scope & Content:
Vocal compositions: one part only (except in no. 27), chiefly tenor. Unless the contrary is stated, they are anonymous. 1. 'A[h], the syghes that come fro my hert.' By W. Cornish. f. 1. 2. 'Though that she cannot Redresse.' f. 3b. 3. 'Colle to me the Rysshes greene.' f. 4. 4. 'Down bery down': a...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (60 folios)