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Songs, English

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Divisions and dance tunes with a copy of Christopher Simpson's The Division-Violist (London, 1659)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: [Vet.] Mus. 184 c.8
Divisions and dance tunes with a copy of Christopher Simpson's The Division-Violist (London, 1659), mid-17th - mid-18th cent.
Extents: 48 Leaves
Dates: mid-17th - mid-18th cent.

Gerald Finzi: 'On parent knees', Jan 1935

 File
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 815
'On parent knees'. Song for voice and piano. Words attributed to Sir William Jones, from The Persian. Music by Gerald Finzi. [Published posthumously in the cycle To a poet (Boosey & Hawkes, 1965)]Reduced colour photocopy of an autograph manuscript. The original (now in private hands) was possibly presented to Rubbra by the composer to celebrate the birth of Rubbra's eldest son, Francis in 1935.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: Jan 1935

Holograph copy of 'Hopeful heart should banish care', a song in A flat by M. W. Balfe, the words not given in full

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 45
Holograph copy of 'Hopeful heart should banish care', a song in A flat by M. W. Balfe, the words not given in full, 19th century
Extents: 18 Leaves
Dates: 19th century

Holograph copy of 'The wind among the reeds', a cycle of four songs by T. F. Dunhill

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 34
Holograph copy of 'The wind among the reeds', a cycle of four songs by T. F. Dunhill
Extents: 68 pages
Dates: 1909-1924

Liturgical and secular vocal music, 1901-1969

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Shelfmark: MS. Mus. b. 628
Other church music and secular vocal music, including part songs and songs for voice(s) and piano.Liturgical music: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in E, for double choir (SATB SATB) unaccompanied. [HJ 2:13]. Draft (1908) and revised draft (1967) Communion service in B minor, for SATB and organ. [HJ 2:3]. Draft (1964) and revised draft (1968) Preces and...
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1901-1969

Music by Horace E. Randerson

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. b. 632
Music by Horace E. Randerson
Extents: 1 folder
Dates: 1926-1948

Music Collected by the Blount Family, Mapledurham

 Collection
Music collected during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by the Blount family at Mapledurham. Most of the music consists of English, Italian and French songs and operatic arias, late seventeenth to early eighteenth century. Parts for one or two voices, bass line, and (rarely) other accompaniments are given in score. Some teaching notes are included.
Extents: 17 shelfmarks
Dates: 18th-19th cent.

Music collected during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by the Blount family at Mapledurham

 Collection
Music collected during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by the Blount family at Mapledurham, late 17th-early 19th cent., n.d.
Extents: 17 boxes (0.85 linear metres)
Dates: late 17th-early 19th cent., n.d.

Music manuscripts of Vernon Butcher

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Shelfmark: CMD ID 24407
Autograph music manuscripts of the organist and composer A. Vernon Butcher (1909-1997)
Extents: 0.15 Linear metres
Dates: Majority of material found within [c.1930-c.1955]

Music of Alfred Matthew Hale

 Collection
Music manuscripts of Alfred Matthew Hale, 1897-1955.
Extents: 20.24 Linear metres (184 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1897-1955

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.

Quincy Porter, '12 songs for Helen on Mother Goose rhymes', with illustrations by Buckland Wright

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 834
Quincy Porter, '12 songs for Helen on Mother Goose rhymes', with illustrations by Buckland Wright
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1931

Songs and piano music by Ernest Walker, 1902-1937

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Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 93
Bound volume of songs and piano music by Ernest Walker. 33 leaves. Contains: (fols. 1-2) 'The wind on the wold'. Words by W.E. Henley. 3 Sep 1902. [Published: London: Novello, 1951] (fols. 3-6) Three war songs from Tennyson's 'The Princess': 'Thy voice is heard thro' rolling drums'; 'Home they brought her warrior dead'; 'Our enemies have fall'n'. [1902] (fols. 7v-8r) 'My...
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: 1902-1937

Songs by Arthur Chapman

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 15535
Volume of song texts by Arthur Chapman, 1884.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: 1884

Volume of songs, keyboard pieces and dance tunes, compiled for Augusta Anne Vavasour of Weston

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 261
Volume of songs, keyboard pieces and dance tunes, compiled c 1795 for Augusta Anne Vavasour of Weston.
Extents: 43 Leaves
Dates: c 1795