Skip to main content

Songs

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

 Fonds

Alexander Campbell Yorke: Fowlmere Papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6586-6587
Scope and Contents

Histroical notes on the parish of Fowlmere.

Dates: 1900-1921
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).
 Fonds

Alfred 1st Lord Tennyson: The Princess

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6345-6346
Dates: 1847 (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).
 File

Collection of songs, poems and epitaphs compiled by a Norfolk clergymen

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.79
Scope and Contents Items inlcude: Thomas Randolph (attrib.) 'The townsmen's petition of Cambridge', 'On the fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge', 'Oratio Praevaricatoria', (with Ben Jonson), 'Discontented Soliloquy', 'An Answer to Mr Ben Jonson's Ode'; Sir Henry Wotton, 'On his Mistress, the queen of Bohemia'; Anon., 'Thinkest thou Kate to put me down'; Hamon L'Estrange (attrib.), 'The liberty and requiem of an imprisoned Royalist'; Creswell, 'Dame Learning of late is fled the land'; Symonds, 'A pastoral...
Dates: 1661 (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).
 Series

Irish items from the collection of Sir Norman Moore, 1650-1914

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2766.20
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, poems, prose and songs.

Dates: 1650-1914
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).
 Fonds

Italian songs for treble voice and accompaniment

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2685
Scope and Contents

29 songs

Dates: 1850 (Circa. Year inferred from 19th-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).
 Fonds

Mary Anne Bacon: Music Album

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6267
Scope and Contents

In English, Italian, French, German and Spanish. A collection of songs made by Mary Anne Bacon. Doubtless most were printed in collections. On flyleaf: 'Mary Anne Bacon, Cossey - 1842.'

Dates: 1850 (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).
 Fonds

Maurice Greene: Anthems

 Fonds
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).
 Series

Poems, songs and sermons, 1791-1807

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5805, 5834
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes drafts of plays, journals of travels in the United Kingdom, diaries, notes on Great Gransden, correspondence and notes.

Dates: 1791-1807
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).
 Fonds

Seven Songs collected by C. E. Sayle, M.A.

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6590
Scope and Contents (fo. 1) 'When cockle shells'; air by J. Steuart Wilson?, words from Scottish ballad 'Waly, waly' (Oxford Book of English Verse, p. 450 (no. 388); (fo. 1v) the same: transposed by C. E. Sayle; (fo. 2v) the same: transposed by C. E. Sayle; (fo. 6v) the same; (fo. 8v) 'Near and far' by C. Armstrong Gibbs; words by A. R. Ropes; (fo. 11) 'Alla beata' by S. H. Smith, words by C. E. Sayle, printed in his Erotidia (Rugby, 1889) p. 4; (fo. 15) 'Amaryllis' by the same; words by the same, printed in...
Dates: 1890-1922
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).
 File

Two photocopies of manuscripts of Walter Leigh's song 'Now the Bright Morning Star' (text by John Milton)., 1927

 File
Reference Code: GBR/1849/FP/271/2
Scope and Contents

Item 2a is a working manuscript, with crossings-out. Following the end of the compositionis a further page that appears to be a working-out of musical ideas for this same piece. It is in three voices, but without text. Item 2b is a fair copy manuscript, with just a few textual crossings-out. Its first page is signed "W.L. 1927".

Dates: 1927