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Music -- Manuscripts -- 17th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 84 Collections and/or Records:

'The Months', 12 fantasias by Christopher Simpson

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. c. 58
'The Months', 12 fantasias for treble viol, two bass viols and organ, by Christopher Simpson, Oct 1669.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: Oct 1669

Movements from consort suites by Christopher Gibbons

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. c. 53
Christopher Gibbons: movements from consort suites in D minor, for two trebles and bass with organ, [c 1660-1670].
Extents: 1 box
Dates: [c 1660-1670]

'Mr. Sylvanus Taylor's Ayres, for two Trebles & a Base'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. e. 429 (Former reference: Lowe's no. 19; Music School B. 4. 34)
'Mr. Sylvanus Taylor's Ayres, for two Trebles & a Base', between 1650 and 1682.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: between 1650 and 1682

Music bequeathed by T. W. Bourne

 Collection
Collection of mostly 18th-century manuscript music bequeathed by the pioneering Handel scholar, Thomas William Bourne (1862-1948), 1601-1902.
Extents: 2.20 Linear metres (20 boxes)
Dates: 1601-1902

Music-book with compositions for voice and lute at one end and keyboard music by Orlando Gibbons and music for lyra viol at the other

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. f. 575 (Former shelfmark: Music School B. 3. 1)
Music-book with compositions for voice and lute at one end and music by Orlando Gibbons and music for lyra viol at the other, mid-17th cent.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: mid-17th cent.

Music copied by Edward Lowe over a long period

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. e. 451 (Former reference: Music School A. 3. 29)
Music copied by Edward Lowe, c 1636-1682.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c 1636-1682

Music for two violins with other instruments

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. c. 70 (Former shelfmark: Music School A. 5. 7)
Music for two violins with other instruments, early 18th cent?
Extents: 1 box
Dates: early 18th cent?

Music of Benjamin Hely for two bass viols and continuo

 Collection
Music of Benjamin Hely for two bass viols and continuo, with some music by Marin Marais, late 17th-early 18th cent.
Extents: 0.33 Linear metres (3 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: late 17th-early 18th cent.

Musical collections of Harry Ellis Wooldridge

 Collection
A collection of music, including transcripts mainly of 17th and 18th-century Italian music, nearly all from sources in the British Museum.
Extents: 3.74 Linear metres (34 boxes)
Dates: 1870-1906, n.d.

'New Bookes for vocall'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Mus. Sch. c. 20-23
'New Bookes for vocall'. Eight 3-part motets copied by E. Lowe, [1680].
Extents: 1 box
Dates: [1680]

New College, Oxford. Chapel Choir Books

 Collection
New College, Oxford. Chapel Choir Books. Incomplete sets and isolated members of part-books which were in use from the early 17th cent. up to the middle of the 19th cent. and probably later.
Extents: 3.41 Linear metres (31 boxes)
Dates: mostly 17th and 18th centuries

Pier Francesco Cavalli: 'Il Giasone', opera in a prologue and 3 acts

 Collection
Full score of 'Il Giasone', opera in a prologue and 3 acts by Pier Francesco Cavalli to a libretto by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini, late 17th cent.
Extents: 0.45 Linear metres (3 volumes)
Dates: late 17th cent.

Pocket part-books of music composed by Valentine Oldis

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. g. 612a-d (Former reference: Music School B. 3. 12)
44 short pieces for viols in three or four parts by Valentine Oldis, 1659, 1674, n.d.
Extents: 1 box (4 volumes)
Dates: 1659, 1674, n.d.

Preces and Psalms, Services and Anthems

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. e. 40
Bass part book of Preces and Psalms, Services and Anthems, by Tye, Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Tomkins and others, [1633-1639].
Extents: 269 Leaves
Dates: [1633-1639]

Sacred music by Italian composers

 Single Item
Sacred music by Italian composers, compiled in the latter part of the 17th century.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: [c 1670-1700?]

Scores and parts mostly of music for two trebles and bass

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. c. 44
Scores and parts mostly of music for two trebles and bass, [1661-1682].
Extents: 1 box
Dates: [1661-1682]

'Sinfonie' for strings, lute and organ

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. d. 260 (Former reference: Music School B. 4. 20)
'Sinfonie' for strings, lute and organ, early 18th cent.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: early 18th cent.

Sonatas by Johann Rosenmüller

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. d. 248
Parts for eleven of the twelve sonatas by Johann Rosenmüller, published as 12 Sonate à 2, 3, 4 e 5 stromenti da arco e altri & Basso cont. (1682), [date].
Extents: 56 Leaves
Dates: Late 17th cent.

Suites for 3-4 viols and continuo

 Collection
Six part-books containing suites of airs for 3-4 viols and continuo, 1651-1669.
Extents: 0.30 Linear metres (6 boxes)
Dates: 1651-1669

Three part-books containing English music

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Mus. Sch. e. 447-449
Three part-books containing English music for 2 trebles and a bass, late 17th cent.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: late 17th cent.