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A sett of new psalms and anthems, in four parts: on various occasions, viz. I. For Christmas-Day. II. For the Martyrdom of the Blessed K. Charles I. III. For Easter-Day. IV. For Ascension-Day, or the Sunday after. V. For Whitsunday. VI. For the Happy Restoration of K. Charles II. Vii. For Gun-Powder-Treason. Viii. For the Use of the People of Blandford, on the Fourth of June, being the Day that the Town was destroy'd by Fire. IX. On a King or Queen's Accession to the Throne. X. For the Holy Sacrament. XI. For Weddings. XII. For Funerals, &c. And an introduction to psalmody, after a plain and familiar manner. By William Knapp. The fourth edition, corrected. To which is added, an anthem in six parts, by a very eminent master. Also, An Anthem composed by King Henry the Seventh; which has been performed with the greatest Applause in the King's Chapel, St. Paul's Cathedral, and Westminster-Abbey. Now first published from a Manuscript.
Date: [1750]- Books
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The universal psalmodist. Containing, I. A compleat introduction to psalmody; or, The Art of Singing Psalms, &c. Interspersed with many useful Scales and Examples, carefully laid down and explained, in a familiar Dialogue between Master and Scholar. II. A choice and valuable collection of psalm and hymn tunes, canons and anthems, many of which were never before published; also the Tunes, Anthems, &c. sung at the Magdalene and Foundling Chapels, and other public Places in and about London, with Words adapted to each Tune. The Whole composed in a New and Easy Taste, For Two, Three, and Four, but generally for Four Voices, in the most familiar Keys and Cliffs, according to the Advice and Direction of the most eminent Masters in London. Calculated to promote and improve this most excellent Part of Social Worship, and thereby render it both useful and delightful in all Country Choirs, as well as in the Congregations and other Religious Societies in London and Westminster. By A. Williams, Teacher of Psalmody in London.
Date: 1765- Books
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Sacred mirth: or, the pious soul's daily delight being, a choice and valuable collection of psalms, hymns, anthems, and canons, on various divine subjects: Particularly, on the Birth, Miracles, Death, Resurrection, and Ascention of Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Together, With many Pious Thoughts, and Allusions, on Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell; And on all other Various Scenes of this Life; Preparative to that which is to come; Being a Taste of Heaven whilst on Earth: And set to musick. Composed in Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, and Eight Musical Parts, in Score; for Voices, or Instruments: With Gloria Patri's, and Hallelujahs to the Whole. Corrected and Enlarged. By William Tans'ur, Author of The Melody of the Heart, and the Harmony of Sion.
Date: [1739]- Books
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A choice collection of psalm-tunes. With variety of anthems and hymns in four parts; with chanting-tunes for Te Deum, Benedictus, and the song of the three holy children, with an introduction suited to the capacities of young-practitioners. By John Birch.
Date: 1728- Books
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A collection of twenty eight psalm tunes in four parts by several Authors Printed to the new Version of Psalms for the use of the Churches and Chapels in and near Birmingham.
Date: 1753- Books
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A collection of twenty eight psalm tunes in four parts by several Authors Printed to the new Version of Psalms for the use of the Churches and Chapels in and near Birmingham.
Date: 1753- Books
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Sacred harmony, or a collection of psalm tunes, ancient and modern. Containing I. More than a hundred of the most approved plain & simple airs. II. A considerable number of tunes in verse & chorus, & fugues. The whole set in four parts, ... Together with an Introduction to the art of singing, by R. Harrison.
Date: [1784?]- Books
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Sacred harmony, or a collection of psalm tunes, ancient and modern. Containing I. A great variety of the most approved plain & simple airs. II. A considerable number of tunes in verse & chorus, & fugues. The whole set in four parts, ... Together with ... an Introduction to the art of singing, by R. Harrison. ...
Date: [1785?]- Books
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The apocrypha at large; with comments and annotations, Theological, Historical, Critical, and Moral: By the Reverend W. Rider, A. B. late of Jesus College, Oxford, Sur-Master of St. Paul's School, and Chaplain to the Worshipful Company of Mercers.
Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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A book of psalmody, containing Variety of tunes For all the Common Metres of the Psalms in the Old and New versions, and others for particular measures, with chanting tunes for Venite exultemus, Te Deum, Benedicite, &c. Set tunes for Jueila te, and Nunc Dimittis, and fourteen anthems, All set in Four Parts, Within such a Compass as will most naturally suit the Voices in Country Churches, yet may be Sung in Three or Two, without any Disallowances. The sixth edition corrected. By the Rev. Mr. John Chetham.
Chetham, John, approximately 1700-1763.Date: M,DCC,XLI. [1741]- Books
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The Apocrypha at large. Illustrated with a commentary and notes; whereby the difficult passages are explained; the mistranslations corrected; and the seeming contradictions found in these books, reconciled.
Date: M.DCC.LXIV. [1764]- Books
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A book of psalmody Containing Instructions for Young Beginners after as plain & familiar a manner as any yet Extant. To which is added a collection of psalm-tunes and anthems together with some hymns and canons the whole compos'd for 3 & 4 voices Collected engrav'd and printed by Mich. Beesly. and sold by Edward Doe bookseller in Oxford by Tho. Price book-seller in Gloucester. and by John. Edmund at Winchester. price 3s-6d
Date: 1745?]- Books
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A collection of psalm-tunes; with Great Variety of hymns and anthems Compos'd by the best Masters, in Three and Four Parts; The Treble, Contra, and Tenor being all set in the same Cliff. By James Green. With the Addition of many New Tunes, and such Directions for singing as are suited to the Capacities of Common Learners.
Date: 1718- Books
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Sacred harmony: or a choice Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, in two or three parts, for the voice, harpsichord, & organ.
Date: 1789]- Books
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The whole book of psalm-tunes, in four parts, and the names of the several authors who composed them. Being the Tunes as were, and are generally Sung in England, Scotland, Wales, Germany, Italy, France, and the Netherlands, &c. With the Usual Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Collected by Thomas Ravenscroft, Batchelor of Musick. Newly done in a Fair Large Character: The Whole being drawn out in Schore, the Cantus, or Upper-Part, being put in the Treble Cliff, and corrected from several gross errors in the former edition. By William Turner. To which is added, An historical account of musick in general, and of its Divine and Civil Uses; Collected from several Authors. Being proper to be Bound up either with the Old or any of the New Versions of the Psalms.
Date: 1728- Books
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Cupid and Bacchus: Or, love and the bottle. Containing near six hundred favourite new songs, sung at the theatres, Vauxhall, Ranelagh, Marybone, Sadler's-Wells, &c. &c. &c. many of which are not to be found in any other Collection. To which are prefix'd, brief instructions for writing songs; rules for singing; and an alphabetical table of the songs.
Date: 1770- Books
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The devout singer's guide, containing all the common tunes now in use, with select portions of the psalms adapted to each tune, and rules for singing treble and bass. To which is prefix'd, directions for parish clarks [sic] in the choice of proper psalms on most occasions. Recommended by Daniel Warner, ...
Date: 1711- Books
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The psalm singer's guide: being a choice collection of the most useful tunes of the psalms, in two three, and four parts, the Upper Parts being all in the G-Sol-re-ut Cliff: With Psalms and Hymns on several Occasions. Also some new tunes for the new version of psalms. Collected and compos'd by Edm. Ireland, And Taught by J. Hall, E. Micklewhait, and R. Sowerby.
Date: 1719- Books
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Thirty psalm tunes in four parts with symphonies, interludes, and an instrumental bass being set part to the old, and part to the new version composed by John Valentine of Leicester.
Date: [1784?]- Books
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Psalms, hymns, and anthems; sung in the chapel of the hospital, for the maintenance and education of exposed and deserted young children.
Date: Printed In The Year M.DCC.XCVII. [1797]- Books
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Catalogue of books, consisting of near ten thousand volumes, In various Languages, Arts, and Sciences, Including several libraries lately Purchased, with Pamphlets, Prints, Music, &c. Among others equally valuable are the following: Folio. Bibles, by Wright, Rider, Moore, Purver, Cruden, Stackhouse, the Bishops, &c. Hargrave's State Trials, 10 vols. Chambers's Dictionary, 4 vols. Harris's Voyages, 2 vols Horsman's Conveyancing, 2 vols. Large English Atlas Middleton's Geography, 2 vols. Middleton's Dictonary of Arts and Sciences, 2 vols. Moore's Voyages, 2 vols Quarto Grosse's Antiquities, 4 vs. & Sup. Blair's Lectures, 2 vols. Wallis's Northumberland, 2 vs. Baskerville's Classics, 5 vols. Burn's Westmor. and Cumber. 2 vs. Anson's Voyage Hawkesworth's Voyages, 3 vols. Josephus's Works, 2 vols Leland's History of Ireland, 3 vs. Millar's Gardener's Dictionary Mosheim's Ecclesiastical Hist. 2 vs. Priestley's Vision, Light and Colo. Ruff head's Statutes, 9 vols. Octavo, &c. Bell's British Theat. 21 vs. roy. pa. Coke's Reports, 7 vols. Atkins's ditto, 3 vols. Strange's ditto, 2 vols. Blackstone's Comm. 4 vs. by Burn Pennant's Zoology, 4 vols. Bible, 4 vols. large print Antiquites of West. Abbey, 2 vs. Universal Magazines, 63 vs com. London ditto, 50 vs. complete. Martin's ditto, 11 vols Buffon's Natural History, 6 vols. Baskerville's Shakespeare, 9 vols. Baskerville's Classics, 6 vols Clarendon's Hist of Rebel. 6 vs. Dodsley's Poems, 6 vols. Johnson's Shakespeare, 8 vols. Smollett's Hist. of England, 12 vs, Rapin's ditto, 15 vols. Goldsmith's ditto, 4 vols. Robertson's Hist. of America, 2 vs. Bp Beveridge's Sermons, 12 vols. Nature Display'd, 7 vols. Van Swieten's Commentar. 18 vs. Hist. des Indes, par Raynal, 7 tom. Swift's Works, 14 vols. The Books in general are in good Condition, many of them new, and in elegant Bindings. Which will begin to be Sold at the very low Prices printed in the Catologue, on Monday Nov. 17, 1783, By R. Christopher, bookseller and printer, in Stockton. Who gives the full value for any Library or Parcel of Books. Catalogues to be had (gratis) at the Place of Sale, and of Mr Goldsmith, Pater-Noster-Row, London; and may be seen at the Booksellers Shops in Edinburgh, Newcastle, Durham, Sunderland, Kendal, Whitby, Scarbro', Hull, Leeds, York, Doncaster, Whitehaven, &c.
Christopher, Robert, 1751-1819.Date: 1783]- Books
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Melodia sacra: or, the devout psalmist's new musical companion. Being a choice collection of psalm-tunes for divine service, &c. adapted to the most select portions of the psalms, of the old, and new versions: Half of which were never before Printed. Correct[ly] set in Four Musical parts, in Score, for Voices, or Organs, &c. with Instructions for Young Beginners. By William Tans'ur, senior, Musico Theorico, &c. Author of the Royal Melody: The Elements of Musick made easy, and Musical Dictionary: and The Psalm-Singer's Jewel, &c. &c.
Date: [1768]- Books
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A sett of new psalm tunes, in Four Parts: containing proper tunes to all the different measures of the psalms which are to be found in the old, or any of the new versions, or supplement: With variety of Tunes for the most common Measures; contrived within a moderate Compass for the Ease of the Voice, and may be sung in 1, 2, 3, or 4 Parts, with a Figured Bass for the Organ, and a Table shewing what Psalms are proper to each Tune. With Variety of Anthems, in four Parts, for the Delight and Improvement of all who are truly Lovers of Divine Music. Taught by Tho. Batten. Cantus. By John Bishop, Organist of the College at Winton. The Second Edition, with Additions.
Date: [1722?]- Pictures
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The adoration of the shepherds at the birth of Christ; a shepherd-boy plays a flute. Stipple engraving by J.B. Michel, 1780, after G. Farington after C. Cignani.
Cignani, Carlo, 1628-1719.Date: 25 March 1780Reference: 21939i- Books
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An introduction to psalmody. containing some easy instructions for young beginers, [sic] to which is added a select number of the best psalm tunes, hymns & anthems, in 2, 3 & 4 parts, of the best masters, collected by Mathew Wilkins. ...
Date: [1750?]