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Music

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 883 Collections and/or Records:

Collection of hymns mainly taken, by Alexander Huish, from four English primers

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 56
Collection of hymns mainly taken, by Alexander Huish, from four English primers.
Extents: 152 pages : Calf, gilt, rebacked
Dates: c.1634-1638

Collection of In Nomines and anthems by 16th and 17th-century composers

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Mus. Sch. d. 212-216
Collection of In Nomines and anthems by 16th and 17th-century composers, [c 1610-c 1625].
Extents: 1 box
Dates: [c 1610-c 1625]

Collection of Italian sacred music of the late-17th or early-18th cent.

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 594
Collection of Italian sacred music of the late-17th or early-18th century in full score, 18th cent.
Extents: 97 Leaves
Dates: 18th cent.

Collection of Latin sacred music of the 16th-18th cent., copied by Rev. Charles Hayward

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 293
Latin sacred music of the 16th-18th cent., copied in score by Rev. Charles Hayward, c 1800.
Extents: 188 pages
Dates: c 1800

Collection of madrigals by Luca Marenzio and Giovanni Ferretti

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. e. 54
Collection of madrigals for 5-10 voices by Luca Marenzio and Giovanni Ferretti. Scored up by James Bartleman, [early 19th cent.].
Extents: 200 pages
Dates: [early 19th cent.]

Collection of material relating to George Butterworth, his father Alexander Kaye Butterworth and Lady Butterworth (née Ionides)

 Collection
Photographs and correspondence between members of the Butterworth family and significant figures from the musical and literary world in England at the turn of the 20th century.
Extents: 0.6 Linear metres (3 shelfmarks)
Dates: 1888?-2014?

Collection of miscellaneous letters relating mainly to music

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8410, fols. 92-106
Collection of miscellaneous letters relating mainly to music, 1847-1850, 1878, n.d.
Extents: 14 Leaves
Dates: 1847-1878, n.d.

Collection of mostly sacred 18th-century vocal music

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 592
Collection of predominantly sacred 18th-century vocal music, mostly copied from printed editions in the mid-19th century.
Extents: 83 Leaves
Dates: mid-19th cent.

Collection of motets and other vocal music, mainly by Giovanni Battista Bassani and Giacomo Carissimi

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 590
Collection of motets and other vocal music, mainly by Giovanni Battista Bassani and Giacomo Carissimi. English copy in the hand of Sampson Estwick, [1690s].
Extents: 207 Leaves
Dates: [1690s]

Collection of motets, cantatas and madrigals by Italian composers, collected by the younger Richard Goodson

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. c. 9
Collection of motets, cantatas and madrigals by Italian composers, collected by the younger Richard Goodson, [1720s-1730s].
Extents: 312 pages
Dates: [1720s-1730s]

Collection of music used at the church of St Johann Nepomuk in Vienna

 Collection
A collection of vocal music (mainly in manuscript set of parts) performed at the church of St Johann Nepomuk in Vienna from the beginning of the 19th to the middle of the 20th century.
Extents: 3.0 Linear metres (26 boxes)
Dates: 1810-1961

Collection of sonatas for two violins, bass and basso continuo

 Single Item
Part-books in which several hands working together copied 60 sonatas for two violins, bass and basso continuo, [date].
Extents: 1 box (4 volumes)
Dates: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

A collection of tunes for the Psalms in English metre

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. F. 605*
A collection of tunes for the Psalms in English metre.
Extents: 114 pages
Dates: Written in c.1700

Collection of vocal and instrumental music, inscribed 'Contratenor. I.P.'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. e. 423
A single partbook containing vocal and instrumental music for various voice-parts (mostly Contratenor). First and third sequences contain works for 6 voices; the second only 5-voice works. Copied by several scribes. Some pieces have text incipits or titles only. Of English origin with possible connections with Sir John Petre (1549-1613), of Ingatestone, Essex, [c 1575-1586].
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c 1575-1586

'Collections for a history of Musicians and an account of their works'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. e. 17
'Collections for a history of Musicians and an account of their works'
Extents: 61 Leaves
Dates: Written about 1700

A composite volume of instrumental music

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. c. 93
A composite volume of unrelated manuscript of instrumental music from the 2nd half of the 17th cent, including Italianate ensemble music from John Sherard's collection and organ music (partly autograph) by Thomas Tomkins.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 2nd half of the 17th cent.

A composite volume of instrumental parts

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. d. 261 (Former reference: Quarto B. 1-6)
A composite volume, containing various instrumental parts, some incomplete, late 17th/early 18th cent.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: Late 17th/early 18th cent.

Compositions and working notebooks of Howard Ferguson, with the composer's catalogue

 Collection
Autographs of Howard Ferguson's compositions and working notebooks, indexed by the composer in MS. Mus. e.37.
Extents: 3.96 linear metres Linear metres (36 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1929-1959

Compositions by William Crotch and other members of the Harmonic Society of Oxford

 Collection
Compositions by William Crotch and other members of the Harmonic Society of Oxford, as transcribed by Wallis Searle in 1926-1927 from MSS. Tenbury 598-600.
Extents: 3 Volumes (0.45 linear metres)
Dates: 1926-1927

Compositions commissioned by the Radcliffe Trust for the fourth Radcliffe Music Award, [1974-1975]

 Series
Compositions commissioned for the fourth Radcliffe Music Award, 1975.
Dates: [1974-1975]