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Jeanne-Marie Dolmetsch Collection

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10371
Dates: Majority of material found within 1580 - 2008
Conditions Governing Access: The archive is not yet fully catalogued. In order to discuss access please contact the music or manuscripts department.
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John Dowland and others: musical compositions, [1598-1595]

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.02.11
Scope and Contents

Pavans, galliards, marches and songs, composed principally by John Dowland and Antony Holburne. The music is written on a single stave of six lines; the notes are represented by letters on the lines or spaces, and their length by symbols above the stave. Most pages contain 11 staves. Titles of the pieces include 'My hart is surely soft', 'Go fro my windoe goe' and 'Bonny sweete boy'.

Dates: [1598-1595]
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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John Marsh: Diaries

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7757
Scope and Contents Transcripts made by Marsh's son Edward of his father's diaries, which Marsh had started to write in 1765, with some loose notes describing particular volumes. Nos. 1-3 are missing. No.4 1768-1770 (pp.273-368); No.5 1770-1773 (pp.369-460); No.6 1773-1776 (pp.461-556); No.7 1776-1779 (pp.557-648); No.8 1779-1781 (pp.649-740); No.9 1781-1783 (pp.741-836); No.10 1783-1785 (pp.837-932); No.11 1785-1787 (pp.933-1024); No.12 1787-1790 (pp.1025-1112); No.13 1790-1794 (pp.1113-1204); No.14 1794-1799...
Dates: 1800 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letters from composers and conductors, 1968-1984 and dated without year

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10304/9-16
Scope and Contents (9) Leopold Stokowski to Ida Krehm, 6 March 1968; (10) Arthur Bliss to Mr Davis (?), 2 October 1971; (11) Adrian Boult to J. Littleton of Novello and Company, Ltd, 12 October 1971; (12) Charles Groves to the Hire Librarian, Novello Hire Library, 11 July 1980; (13) Alan Bush to Messrs Godwin and Tabb, c/o Messrs Novello and Company, 27 December 1980; (14) Alan Bush to Messrs Novello and Company, 4 August 1984; (15) John Lanchbery to Arthur [Bliss], 1 October, no year; (16) László Heltay...
Dates: 1968-1984 and dated without year
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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List of Exercises of Bachelors and Doctors of Music

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6378
Scope and Contents

A reference-list of the exercises for the Degrees of Bachelor and Doctor of Music between the years 1875 and 1910, arranged in columns as follows: 1) name of recipient of degree; 2) degree; 3) date; 4) reference number of exercise. The names are in alphabetical order. The reference numbers are those of the University Library, where the exercises are kept. There are 22 folios.

Dates: 1875-1910
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Luca Marenzio: Madrigals

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6372
Scope and Contents Madrigals for four voices by Luca Marenzio, copied from the edition published at Venice 1592 in the hand of T. Greatorex, F.R.S., F.L.S. Organist of Westminster Abbey (+1831). On fo. i appears the following note: 'This fine Score of Luca Marenzio's Madrigals, published in parts, 1592, at Venice, is in the handwriting of T. Greatorex, F.R.S., F.L.S., Conductor of the Concerts of Antient Music, Organist of Westminster Abbey, etc., etc. His collection of music, etc., was sold by Watson, at...
Dates: 1790 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Mark Brown: Musical scores for productions of the 7:84 Theatre Company

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10430
Scope and Contents

Comprises scores for: (/1) 'The Fish in the Sea'; (/2) 'Yobbo Nowt' (photocopy); (/3) 'Lay-Off'; and (/4) 'Bitter Apples' (photocopy, with a covering note by Brown).

Dates: 1975-1979
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Mathew Holmes lute books, c. 1600

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.09.33
Scope and Contents

See also MS Dd.02.11, Dd.05.78.3, and Nn.06.36. Most of the pages contain eight staves of music.

Dates: c. 1600
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Maurice Greene: Anthems

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3135
Scope and Contents

(fo. 1) 'Lord, let me know mine end', scored for four voices and bass, many printed editions; (fo. 5v) 'Bow down Thine ear', scored for six voices; (fo. 13v) 'O Praise the Lord all ye heathen', scored for four voices, written from end of volume; (Fo. 1) 'A Funeral Anthymn by Maurice Green For 4 voices to a Walking Thorough Base The Finest Anthymn that Ever was Made'; (Fo. 12) 'By Mr Maurice Green The Kings Organist & Organist of St Pauls.'

Dates: 1750 (Circa, Date inferred from 18th-century hand)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Music copybook

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6619
Scope and Contents Collection of short musical pieces, probably copied from printed editions. Among them the following: (p. 8) anon: Pastoral Dialogue, published c. 1760, c. 1765, c. 1770; (p. 23) T. A. Arne: 'When daisies pied', from As You Like It, published c. 1750; (p. 25) the same: 'Blow, blow, thou winter wind', from the same, published c. 1750, c. 1765; (p. 29) G. F. Handel: 'See the conquering Hero comes', from Judas Maccabaeus, first published 1747; (p. 65) anon: 'Adieu to the Village Delights',...
Dates: 1765 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Musical compositions, c. 1620

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.20
Scope and Contents

On the flyleaf is written 'For the bass vyall'. Leaves 1-11, 19-25, 33 and 40-42 contain the bass part of a number of dance tunes: this portion of the manuscript is written in the notation semibreves, minims, etc., but without bars. Leaves 12-18 and 26-27 contain music in similar notation to that in MS Dd.02.11. The remaining leaves are blank. For the recorder part to many of these pieces, see MS Dd.05.21.

Dates: c. 1620
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Musical compositions, c. 1620

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.21
Scope and Contents

Contains the recorder part of most of the music whose bass is in MS Dd.05.20.

Dates: c. 1620
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Musical compositions, c. 1600

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.18
Scope and Contents Most of the leaves contain on each page seven staves of music. The notation and the character of the music in this volume is the same as in MS Dd.2.11. The music is generally harmonized, in which case the staves contain six lines; when only the melody is given, the staves contain five lines only. On leaf 64 there is a melody written in a later hand and in the more modern notation of breves, minims, etc. On leaf 66 there is an index headed 'Lessons in this book'. The airs or melodies are...
Dates: c. 1600
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Musical compositions, c. 1610

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.04.23
Scope and Contents

Music, of a similar kind to that in MS Dd.02.11 ('pavans, galliards, marches and songs').

Dates: c. 1610
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Musical compositions, c. 1640

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.24
Scope and Contents

Each page is ruled for five staves of four-line music. On 56 of the pages there are harmonised dance-tunes, similar to those in MS Dd.02.11; the remaining pages are not used.

Dates: c. 1640
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Musical compositions, c. 1615

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.04.22
Scope and Contents

Music, of a similar kind to that in MS Dd.02.11 ('pavans, galliards, marches and songs'). The last two leaves give the notes and clefs used in the modern notation, together with a scale-exercise for the harpsichord.

Dates: c. 1615
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Musical compositions, c 1671

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.48
Scope and Contents

Each page is ruled for four lines of music. The first 19 and the last 26 leaves contain dance-tunes and 'ayres' written on staves of six lines; the remaining leaves are blank. The notes to be played are indicated by letters between the lines, the length of the notes is marked by minims, etc., above the staves.

Dates: c 1671
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Photographs and family documentation

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10371/C
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The archive is not yet fully catalogued. In order to discuss access please contact the music or manuscripts department.
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Ralph Griffin: Index of music

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6870
Scope and Contents

Index of Manuscript Music for Lute, Cither, Recorder, Violin, Bass Viol etc. by Ralph Griffin F. S. A., copied from R. Griffin's manuscript catalogue by A. F. Scholfield and D.N. Walker, written on slips in pencil. 157 folios.

Dates: 1820-1834
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Repertorium Antiphonarum Florentinarum

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6674
Scope and Contents

Antiphons and hymns with notation sung at chief festivals through the year in Florence Cathedral. Large artificial hand of the 18th Century with a later, rougher hand at p. 90v. 110 pages.

Dates: 1750 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Robert Willis: General catalogue of writers on music and sound

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4307
Scope and Contents

A catalogue of writers on music and sound in general, arranged in alphabetical order, with the entries in various languages, 52 folios. The catalogue was compiled by Robert Willis, and based upon earlier lists. The books that were in Willis' possession are marked as such. There are additions by John Willis Clark, including a list of three books on dancing (fo. 51v). There are also additional entries by Willis on the versos.

Dates: 1872 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Sedley Taylor: Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6290
Scope and Contents

Includes sketch book containing sketches of Swiss mountain scenery, lists of letter writers in CUL MS Add.6247, various music copied by, or associated with, Mary Anne Bacon and music composed by Sedley Taylor.

Dates: 1825-1826 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: Symphony no. 7, Op. 124.

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5349
Scope and Contents

Autograph. 58 folios

Dates: 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Tantum Ergo, a duet for soprano and contralto, with instrumental accompaniment

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6249
Scope and Contents

Performed at Cremona.

Dates: 1774
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Method for Intoneing the Eight Tones to the Psalms Regular and Irregular on the Gregorian Note

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3862
Scope and Contents The tones are shown applied to various parts of the Catholic liturgy, with musical notation throughout, saves where prayers intervene. Headings and initials are in red or green ink, with occasional ornate coloured initials and use of decorative flowerwork. Following p. 104 are 40pp of printed devotions titled Bona Mors: or A Preparation for a Happy Death, n.p., 1737, parts of which carry a musical accompaniment. A ref. on p. 73 of the MS shows that the MS was designed to be bound with this...
Dates: 1737
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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