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1. Add MS 17802

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Add MS 17802
Title:
One of four volumes of a collection of Motets, Masses, Te Deum, and Kyrie, in parts, by 16th century English composers, including: T. Tallis, John Munday, John Taverner, John Shepherde, R. Barbar, J. Redforde, J. Ensdale, C. Okeland, Alcoke, W. Birde, Van Wilder, Hake, and Pye.
Scope & Content:
Vol. I. Mid to late 16th Century. 'Te Deum'; for 4 voices, in parts. Anonymous. ff. 2-5 Collection of Motets, etc., all of which appear to be for 4 voices, by English composers, most of whom flourished about 1554-1565, which latter is the probable date of the first parts of the volumes. The ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 of four volumes (Part book)

2. Add MS 17803

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Add MS 17803
Title:
One of four volumes of a collection of Motets, Masses, Te Deum, and Kyrie, in parts, by 16th century English composers, including: T. Tallis, John Munday, John Taverner, John Shepherde, R. Barbar, J. Redforde, J. Ensdale, C. Okeland, Alcoke, W. Birde, Van Wilder, Hake, and Pye.
Scope & Content:
Vol. II. Mid to Late 16th Century. Collection of Motets, etc., all of which appear to be for 4 voices, by English composers, most of whom flourished about 1554-1565, which latter is the probable date of the first parts of the volumes. The second parts may have been written a few years later, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 of four volumes (Part book)

3. Add MS 17804

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Add MS 17804
Title:
One of four volumes of a collection of Motets, Masses, Te Deum, and Kyrie, in parts, by 16th century English composers, including: T. Tallis, John Munday, John Taverner, John Shepherde, R. Barbar, J. Redforde, J. Ensdale, C. Okeland, Alcoke, W. Birde, Van Wilder, Hake, and Pye.
Scope & Content:
Vol. III. Mid to Late 16th Century. Collection of Motets, etc., all of which appear to be for 4 voices, by English composers, most of whom flourished about 1554-1565, which latter is the probable date of the first parts of the volumes. The second parts may have been written a few years later,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 of four volumes (Part book)

4. Add MS 17805

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Add MS 17805
Title:
One of four volumes of a collection of Motets, Settings, Masses, Te Deum, and Kyrie, in parts, by 16th century English composers, including: T. Tallis, John Munday, John Taverner, John Shepherde, R. Barbar, J. Redforde, J. Ensdale, C. Okeland, Alcoke, W. Birde, Van Wilder, Hake, and Pye.
Scope & Content:
Vol. IV. Mid to Late 16th Century. One of four volumes of a collection of Motets, Settings, Masses, Te Deum, and Kyrie, in parts, by 16th century English composers, including: T. Tallis, John Munday, John Taverner, John Shepherde, R. Barbar, J. Redforde, J. Ensdale, C. Okeland, Alcoke, W. Bir...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 of four volumes (Part book)

5. Add MS 30930

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Add MS 30930
Title:
Henry Purcell: Autograph manuscript of fantazias, sonatas and sacred part-songs.
Scope & Content:
The vocal music, for between three and five voices and continuo, has been copied from one end of the manuscript (folios 3r-29v) and the instrumental music from the other (folios 72v-30r reversed).
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1678-1690
Extent:
1 volume

6. 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

7. Add MS 32377

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Add MS 32377
Title:
Collection of In nomines, etc., without words, followed (at f. 26) by sacred compositions in parts, and (at f. 78) by three Italian songs; by English composers of the 16th century.
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-25b passim, 75b, 76. Single parts (? for treble viol) of the following 5-part compositions.1. Piece ['Browning . . . The leaves be green'], wanting the beginning. 'Byrd.' f. 2. 2. Piece unnamed. Anonymous, ib. 3. 'Preludium.' 'Byrd.' ib. 4. 'Le Bergyre.' Anonymous. f. 5b. 5. 'Non vy dette....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1584
Extent:

1 volume

8. Add MS 34191

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Add MS 34191
Title:
A collection of parts of masses and motets, as well as portions of services
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-16b. Tenor part of Masses by English composers, consisting of the 'Gloria in Excelsis,’ ‘Credo,’ ‘Sanctus,’ and ‘Agnus Dei.’ The notes employed are either diamond-shaped or quasi-square, on a 5-line stave. 1. ‘Spes nostra.’ ‘Robard Joonys.’ Imperfect at the beginning, f. 1. 2. ‘Veni, Sanct...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
[1509-1547]
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 7578

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Harley MS 7578
Title:
Middle English verse, including ballads by Chaucer and Lydgate; 'The Flyting of Montgomerie and Polwart' by Alexander Montgomerie; 'Nebuchadnezzar's Fierie Furnace'; the 'Annals of Oskell'; grammatical exercises in Latin and Greek; Old songs of Durham
Scope & Content:
Miscellany compiling pages from a number of other manuscripts, which vary greatly in size and period. Major sections within the miscellany are f. 1 (verse and prose on the Ten Commandments and Seven Deadly Sins), ff. 2-20 (various ballads and other verse, some by Chaucer and Lydgate), f. 21 (a s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1400-1700
Extent:

1 volume

10. Royal Appendix MS 23

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Royal Appendix MS 23
Title:
Collection of secular and sacred Motets, including one for Christmas Day, Madrigals, a Miserere, an Anthem, suspected composed by Derick Gerarde, and in parts.
Scope & Content:
Vol. I. ff. 44. Late XVI cent. The name of Robert Jenner is written at the top of the page in vol. iii. passim. Superius, contra-tenor, and tenor parts of a collection of Motets, etc., made, if not composed, by Dyricke Gerarde, whose name occurs (in that form) at the end of vol. i, and the beg...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (of 3 part books) (44 folios)