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Anthems, hymn-tunes, glorias, etc., some with and others without words.

Tune book of Mair Richards (1787-1877), Darowen and Llangynyw, containing hymn-tunes, anthems, carol-tunes, psalm-tunes and popular tunes, with some accompanying words in Welsh and French.

The tune book of John Evans, Pantgwyn, parish of Llanfair Orllwyn, 1850, containing hymns and anthems.

'Canto y Gynulleidfa, sef Anthemau a Thonau cyfaddas i'w canu yn yr addoliad cyhoeddus, gan David Bynner ('Dewi Cadfan'), Llangadfan, Chwefror 8fed 1859'. The anthems are 'Praise the Lord, O my soul', 'The Congregational Anthem', and 'Moliant Seion'. Several of the hymn-tunes have titles of Montgomeryshire association, e.g. Beulah, St Cadfan, Cannoffice and Myfod.

An imperfect volume of hymn-tunes, psalm-tunes, etc., some of which are attributed to John Davies, John Roberts (Wrexham), S. Standly, John Evans, John Jeffreys, Win. Pugh, Thos. Evans (Swansea), Robert Mills, Hugh Evans, etc. At the beginning is an incomplete list of titles.

A volume containing hymns, among them one to words by Isaac Watts, and another to words by Reginald Heber; numerous arrangements for the harp including music by Daniel Franҫois Esprit arranged by Robert Nicolas Charles Boscha, arrangements by Jan Ladislav Dussek, and an arrangement of music by Giacomo Meyerbeer; an Irish air by P. J. Meyer; a rondo by J. N. Hummel; music by Meyerbeer arranged by Abraham Louis Niedermeyer; numerous variations by Henri Herz; music by Charles Horn to words by Haynes Bayly; music by Schubert to words by Goethe; music by F. H. F. Berkeley to words by Thomas Hood; music and songs by Carl Maria von Weber, Neil Gow, Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, J. P. Knight, J. B. Cramer and others; etc.

Hymn tunes, anthems, etc., some of them composed by John Edwards ('Meiriadog'), and some with words.

Tune book, mid nineteenth century, containing hymn-tunes and anthems.

A volume entitled 'The Nightingale Anthems, Choruses and Tune Book', containing compositions by G. F. Handel (including one sung to words by Hugh Jones ('Erfyl')); W. A. Mozart; J. Ambrose Lloyd; John Ellis, Llanrwst (arrangements by William Owen, Prysgol, and 'O[wain] Alaw'); Giacomo Carissimi; Owen Davies ('Eos Llechryd'); John Owen ('Owain Alaw'), including compositions to words by John Jones, ('Talhaiarn'), Edward Roberts ('Iorwerth Glan Aled'), John Jones ('Ioan Tegid'), and Hugh Jones ('Erfyl'), and a winning composition at the Tremadoc Eisteddfod, 1851; E[dward] Stephen ('Tanymarian'); Franz Joseph Haydn; John Mills ('Ieuan Glan Alarch'); John Roberts ('Ieuan Gwyllt'); Brinley Richards (to words by 'Talhaiarn'); and others. On the fly-leaf is a printed leaflet of hymns, etc. to be sung at the re-opening of Clynnog Church, 2 June, 1856, and a manuscript round for three voices by Dr. Philip Hayes. The volume is indexed.

A collection of airs, anthems, duets, part-songs, choruses and hymn-tunes, composed, arranged or harmonised by David Lewis, 1854-1907.

A volume containing 'Rousseau's Dream' by J. B. Cramer; Swiss airs and a Swiss dance; a quadrille; waltzes by Carl Maria von Weber, Balduci [sic, for Boildieu?], Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johan Nepomuka Hummel, etc.; a German drinking song; Gaelic, Tyrolese (one by Joseph Kuffner), Irish, French, Danish and German airs; marches; a pastorale by Franҫois Adrien Boildieu; a harp air; gallopades; a polonaise; Hungarian melody; preludes for the harp by P. M. Meyer ('Not to be copied'); hymn-tunes (to words by Thomas Kelly, William Cowper, John Newton, Joseph Addison, Reginald Heber, etc.); Scotch airs (to words by Miss --- Drinkwater); chants by Sir J. Stepenson; a psalm-tune; a Portuguese song ('modinha'); etc.

A composite volume containing sermons, extracts or 'hints' from sermons (taken partly from a sermon by Mr [Daniel] Rowland), a hymn and a holograph elegy [by the Reverend Edward Matthews, Ewenny] written on the dorse of an invoice to him, 1888, for the purchase of a printed book.

Tune book, first compiled in the late eighteenth century, containing anthems, hymn-tunes and psalm-tunes, with some accompanying words in Welsh; ff. 1-20 appear to have been written in the 1840s.

A copy of a hitherto unidentified printed tune-book (ff. 3-14), lacking title-page, ?second half of the nineteenth century, bound with a manuscript tune-book (ff. 15-84), also second half of the nineteenth century, containing hymn-tunes.

'Absence, death to those who love' composed for Miss F. Wyndham by John Parry, junior, 4 April 1839; 'The song of Flylas', by John Parry, junior, 26 Jan. 1840; 'A Summer Midnight' by John Parry, 24 Nov. 1843; 'Smiling Spring', 24 April 1854; 'Night, or hush'd in repose', 2 Oct. 1855; 'Meeting and Parting at Sea', 14 Nov. 1855; two hymn-tunes, 'Raglan' and 'Ty Gwyn' composed for the Llanover Choir 19 Sept. 1865; 'The New-born Year', 12 July 1858; 'Rest in peace, sweet child', 15 Nov. 1858; 'Oh! 'tis pleasant to walk in the meadows in spring', composed expressly for the Llanover choir, 4 Sept. 1865; 'A Winter Night's Song', composed for the Llanover choir, 30 Sept. 1865, with words, also by John Parry, written at Ty Uchaf, Llanover; 'Glory to God in the Highest', December 1871; and undated works- 'A little hymn of thankfulness arranged in an easy form for the use of National Schools and sung by the children of Surbiton National School for whom it was written', 'The departure of the Nightingale', and 'The Sweet vesper bells of Ancona'.

A tune book of Thomas Jenkins, Llanychaearn, co. Cardigan, 1821?, containing hymn-tunes and psalm-tunes by John [David] Edwards ('Aelod o Goleg Iesu Rhydychen') [aft. of Rhosymedre], Thomas Jenkins, Dd. J[enki]n Morgan [of Llechryd], and John Broderip ('organist of Wells and Sipton Mallet'), and numerous unattributed compositions; hymns; 'The Scale of Musick Called the Gamut'; etc.

A copy of Thomas Williams, Y Salmydd Cenedlaethol, neu gerddoriaeth eglwysig (Llanidloes, Thomas Williams, [1846]) (ff. 2-73), bound with a manuscript tune book (ff. 74-143), ?1890s, containing hymn-tunes and anthems.

The tune book of Benjamin Price, containing hymn-tunes, anthems and glees by Thomas Williams ('Hafrenydd'), Llanidloes, R[ichard] Mills ['Rhydderch Hael'], Morris Davies, D. Thomas and others.

A volume in the hand of R[owland] Watkins, Eglwyswrw containing tables of particulars of sermons preached at Ebenezer [Baptist meeting-house, Eglwyswrw] and at 'Other' and 'Different Places' during the period 1805-11. The latter for the most part consist of neighbouring meeting-houses and private houses, the [Calvinistic Methodist] meeting-house at Eglwyswrw (including the opening service, 27 October 1808) and Baptist Association, quarterly, and monthly meetings in West Wales. The volume also contains abstracts of sermons by Lewis Evan(s), minister of Ebenezer Church, and others and, beginning from the end, are details of 'Light Infantry Exercise' and hymns.