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Total number of records: 98

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Books and printed items93
Archives5

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Brotherton Collection62
English Literature19
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections8
Ripon Cathedral1

Top 10: Subject

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songs, english98
ballads, english23
music6
folk songs, english5
sea songs5
english poetry4
songs with continuo4
glees, catches, rounds, etc3
hymns, english3
madrigals, english3

Top 10: People and organisations

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Dibdin, Charles (1745-1814)14
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-18149
D'Urfey, Thomas6
D'Urfey, Thomas (1653-1723)6
Revolution Sick Society5
Smith, John (Of Sheffield)5
Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron (1788-1824)4
Cecil Betsalel Roth4
Nathan, Isaac (1792-1864)4
Roth, Cecil (1899-1970)4

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When the southern breezes play: song for soprano, tenor and bass voices, with orchestral accompaniment; by Sir Henry Rowley Bishop

Bishop, Henry Rowley (1786-1855)

1827

Inscribed M:S. Scored by E.A. Kellner for Lady Normanby. Florence. 1827. Modern pencilled numeration; last leaf blank

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The airs, choruses, &c introduced in the tragedy of Macbeth by Mathew Locke, with some additions to his original score by E.A. Kellner, expressly for Lord Normanby's private theatre at Florence

Locke, Matthew (1621-1677)

1827

Dated Florence, Nov. 1827. With modern pencilled numeration. With leather spine and boards marbled on the outside

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Miscellaneous songs and hymns

c.1860

Comprises the words and music of English and some Italian songs and hymns, beginning with 'Examples of modulation'

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A collection of English songs : with an appendix of original pieces

Dalrymple, Alexander (1737-1808); Dalrymple, James (1791)

1796

Preface signed: Dalrymple.

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The Melvill book of roundels

Melvill, David (fl. 1600-1612); Bantock, Sir Granville Ransome (1868-1946); Tomkinson, Michael (1841-1921); Anderton, H Orsmond; Roxburghe Club

1916

Publication financed, and presented to the Roxburghe club, by Michael Tomkinson, owner of the ms. With facsimile reproduction of original t.p.: Ane buik off roundells. Whairin thair is conteined son...

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The poetry of various glees, songs, &c : as performed at the Harmonists

Fryer, George

1798

"Presented to the Harmonists, by George Fryer." (p.[iv]).

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The first set of madrigals : for three, four, five, and six voices

Bateson, Thomas; Rimbault, Edward F (1816-1876); Warren, Joseph (1804-1881); Hilton, John (1599-1657); Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)

[1846]

With: Ayres or Fa las : for three voices / composed by john Hilton; scored from the original part books, printed A.D. 1627, and edited by Joseph Warren (1844; 4, [8], 40 p.) and Ode, composed for the ...

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