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Songs, English

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

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

Divisions and dance tunes with a copy of Christopher Simpson's The Division-Violist (London, 1659), mid-17th - mid-18th cent.
Shelfmark: [Vet.] Mus. 184 c.8
Extents: 48 Leaves
Dates: mid-17th - mid-18th cent.
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Gerald Finzi: 'On parent knees', Jan 1935

'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.
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 815
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: Jan 1935
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Holograph copy of 'Hopeful heart should banish care', a song in A flat by M. W. Balfe, the words not given in full

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
Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 45
Extents: 18 Leaves
Dates: 19th century
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Holograph copy of 'The wind among the reeds', a cycle of four songs by T. F. Dunhill

Holograph copy of 'The wind among the reeds', a cycle of four songs by T. F. Dunhill
Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 34
Extents: 68 pages
Dates: 1909-1924
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Liturgical and secular vocal music, 1901-1969

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…
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. b. 628
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1901-1969
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Music Collected by the Blount Family, Mapledurham

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

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.
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Music of Alfred Matthew Hale

Music manuscripts of Alfred Matthew Hale, 1897-1955.
Extents: 20.24 Linear metres (184 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1897-1955
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Musical collections of Harry Ellis Wooldridge

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.
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Songs and piano music by Ernest Walker, 1902-1937

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…
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 93
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: 1902-1937
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Songs by Arthur Chapman

Volume of song texts by Arthur Chapman, 1884.
Shelfmark: MS. 15535
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: 1884
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Volume of songs, keyboard pieces and dance tunes, compiled for Augusta Anne Vavasour of Weston

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