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1. Add MS 38540-38563

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COLLECTION of musical compositions-many of them rough drafts or sketches-works on music, and other writings, by Robert Lucas Pearsall, of Willsbridge House, in Bitton, co. Glouc., and afterwards of Wartensee Castle, near St. Gall, in Switzerland, 1836-1854, etc. Chiefly autograph, or in the bands of the writer's daughter, Philippa Swinnerton (wife of John Hughes, of Gwerclas and Kymmer, co. Merioneth), who has added many explanatory notes. In twenty-four volumes, divided as follows:
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Robert Lucas Pearsall, composer and antiquary: Musical compositions, works on music, etc.: 1836-1854, etc. Phillipa Swinnerton Hughes, née Pearsall; wife of J Hughes: Notes: 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
1836-1854
Extent:
24 items

2. Add MS 38540-38541

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PEARSALL COLLECTION. Vols. I, II (ff. 162, 175). Miscellaneous compositions, chiefly sacred, in two volumes, including anthems, carols, chants, hymns, a lamentation, a litany, motets, a fragment of an oratorio, sacred part-songs, fragments of requiems, services, sacred songs, a "Te Deum," a religious march (Vol. I, f. 93), etc., by Pearsall. Included also are compositions, or adaptations from compositions, by Jeremiah Clarke, Johannes Coclius, Thomas Este, Goudimel, Gumpeltzhaimer, Heinrich ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
2 items

3. Add MS 38544-38545

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PEARSALL COLLECTION. Vols. V, VI (ff. 176,163). Miscellaneous compositions, chiefly secular, by Pearsall, in two volumes, including canons, catches, duets, glees, madrigals, operatic fragments, fragments from an oratorio (Vol. V, f. 168 b), part-songs, songs, a vocal trio, orchestral marches (Vol. V, f. 173; Vol. VI, fir. 96 b, 97, 101 b-104 b), and solos for the organ and pianoforte. Included also are compositions, or adaptations from compositions, by C[ornelius ?] Bryan, Philippa Swinnerto...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
2 items

4. Add MS 38549-38550

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PEARSALL COLLECTION. Vols. X, XI (ff. 102,120). "Psalmodia"; with the alternative title "An Essay on Psalmtunes . . . . in the Church of England, by R. L. Pearsall, of Willsbridge, written at Carlsruhe . . . . 1842." In two volumes, vol. ii being described (vol. i, f. 2) as a "Musical Appendix containing many of the most standard continental churchmelodies with short notices of their authors," etc. [with additions down to 1847]. These are most of them chorales by German composers, adapted to...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1842
Extent:
2 items

5. Add MS 38562

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PEARSALL COLLECTION. Vol. XXIII (ff. 12). Notes by Pearsall on tenures and personal status in England, perhaps in connexion with the subjects mentioned in vol. xxi, artt. 5-7 and I0. Paper; XIX cent. Small quarto.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 38555-38559

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PEARSALL COLLECTION. Vols. XVI-XX (ff. 33,33, i + 33, 11, i + 32). Neat copies of madrigals, part-songs, glees, etc., for four or five voices, in parts, a few by Pearsall (or slightly altered by him), but most of them by the English and Italian madrigalists of the 16th century and the English gleewriters of the late l8th century. The names of the composers are Felice Anerio, Bennet, Bisliop, Brewer, Callcott, Benjamin Cooke, Donato, John Dowland, Michael Este, Ferretti, Festa, Ford, Orlando ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
5 items

7. Add MS 38563

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PEARSALL COLLECTION. Vol. XXIV (ff. i + 48). "Cobbett on Music in vi Letters," by Pearsall, 1839. They are written in imitation of the style of William Cobbett. Paper ; A.D. 1839. Small quarto. William Cobbett: Letters in imitation of his style: 1839.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1839
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 38553

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PEARSALL COLLECTION. Vol. XIV (ff. 60). Compositions for voices, in score, most of them rather roughly written, and a few merely sketched in pencil, by Pearsall. Included are, anthems, chants, glees, hymns, madrigals, part-songs, and a few unidentified works (sketched in pencil). Paper. XIX cent...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 38542

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PEARSALL COLLECTION. Vol. III (ff. i + 53). Requiem in G minor, for four voices with instrumental symphonies and accompaniments, in score, by Pearsall, here described as a Knight of St. John. Paper. A.D. 1853-1856. With bookplate of arms of Pearsall's son-in-law John Hughes. Oblong folio. John ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1853-1856
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 38561

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PEARSALL COLLECTION. Vol. XXII (ff. 44). Rough draft of a translation of Goethe's Faust into English, by Pearsall. At the end are some pencil drawings of buildings, armour, etc. Paper; XIX cent. Small quarto. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, author: Faust, Engl. verse transl. by R. L. Pearsall: 19th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item