Croft, William, 1678-1727

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Birth 1678-12

Death 1727-08-14

Nationality: Britons,

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Epithet: composer and organist

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Carissimi, Giacomo, 1605-1674. [21 anthems] [microform].

New England Conservatory of Music, Harriet M. Spaulding Library

Croft, William, 1678-1727. [Voluntaries for organ], [17--].

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

TREBLE PART-BOOK containing twenty-one services by twelve English composers, and, reversing the volume, fifty-four anthems by twenty-three of the same (words only of that on ff. 136b-136 rev.,); 16th-18th cent. Copies, early 18th cent. Indexes of ser..., 16th century-18th century

British Library

Alcock, John, 1715-1806. Collection of organ parts for various church services, anthems etc., compiled by John Alcock.

Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

HYMN TUNES ETC; circa 1761. Inserted between pp. 39 and 41 of the printed volume A small collection of Psalms…sung by the charity-children of…Chichester…(W. Faden, 1761). Nos. 1-21 comprise melodies with bass, in score, of hymns by anonymous composer..., approximately 1761

British Library

Walter, David, 1913-2003. [Transcriptions for double bass / by Frederick Zimmermann].

The Juilliard School, Lila Acheson Wallace Library

MS Mus. 145. MAURICE GREENE AND OTHERS: verse anthems; second half of 18th cent. Ink. One hand is responsible for all of ff. 1-122. ff. 113-125 appear to be a later addition to the volume, of which ff. 123-5 are in two or three different hands. At le...

British Library

Phillips, Henry, 1801-1876. Musical miscellany [manuscript].

Pierpont Morgan Library.

CHURCH HOUSE MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. II. 'George Holtham, [of Sherborne, co. Glouc. (ff. 3b, 20)] his Book of Psalmody' (f. i); 1742 (ff. 3b, 20)-1758 (f. i), n.d. Copies. (1) Two canons and an anthem. ff. 1-2b;-(2) Psalmody preface, now treating only of ..., 1742

British Library

ANGLICAN SERVICE MUSIC: 'Sacred Music Collected by H. T. Ellicombe', including most notably two works by Robert Lucas Pearsall, a Burial Service in E minor (1829-1830) and an autograph communion hymn 'Therefore with Angels' (1845); 1809-1845. Except ..., 1809-1845

British Library

Croft, William, 1678-1727. Dr. Croft's service in B, and evening service in E.

Eastman School of Music

Croft, William, 1678-1727. Minuet / Dr. Croft.

Library of Congress

Croft, William, 1678-1727. Oh give thanks unto the Lord and call upon His name / [William Croft].

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Finney, Theodore M. (Theodore Mitchell), 1902-1978. Theodore M. Finney Music Manuscript Collection, ca. 1700-1850.

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

BASS PART-BOOK, containing anthems by Pelham Humfrey, John Blow, William Turner, Henry Purcell, Matthew Locke, and Thomas Tudway, from a set of Chapel Royal part-books; bef. 10 Dec. 1677 (date of Blow's doctorate). Imperfect, by the loss of five leav...

British Library

ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Croft (William). Song on Q. Anne’s Birthday; 18th century. ‘Prepare, prepare, yee sons of art …’. Song for 2 solo voices (the tenor ‘Mr. Elford’, the bass ‘Mr. Weely’); with 4-part chorus, and a bass accompaniment to the solo ..., 18th century

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VERSIFIED PSALM TUNES; 1710-1762. A composite volume of psalm tunes and other material. There are several marks of ownership, from which it appears that the two main components of the book, the printed collection of Psalm tunes for St Laurence Church..., 1710-1762

British Library

Fitzwilliam Museum. Harpsichord lessons [microform].

California Digital Library

Greene, Maurice, 1696-1755. [Collection of manuscripts dating from the early 18th and early 19th centuries in the British Library containing anthems, organ accompaniments to the anthems, and a Gloria by Maurice Greene [microform].

Queens College, Benjamin Rosenthal Library

KEYBOARD PIECES, including suites, by John Blow, Jeremiah Clarke, William Croft, and their contemporaries, as well as Henry Purcell; bef. 1700-1707. Copies, aft. 1704-1707. Includes arias from Antonio Maria Bononcini's opera 'Camilla', produced in Lo...

British Library

CHURCH HOUSE MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. III. 'A Collection of Psalm-Tunes, selected from several eminent Authors, [including Christopher Gibbons, William Boyce, Henry Purcell and William Croft] by John Greenwood' (b. 1795, d. 1837), organist successively of L..., approximately 1821-1837

British Library

Croft, William, 1678-1727. [Collection of anthems.

HCL Technical Services, Harvard College Library

Croft, William, 1678-1727. Anthems [microform].

UC Berkeley Libraries

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Anthems ancient & modern [microform] : vol. II / by Tallis, Byrd, Purcell, Gibbons, Croft, Greene, Raylton and other masters, among which are several in Purcell's own handwriting ; collected by William Flackton.

UC Berkeley Libraries

Croft, William, 1678-1727. Oh God, our help in ages past [microform] / Croft ; arr. Sousa.

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

MS Mus. 1221. Miscellaneous 19th century letters and music.ff. 122. Largest size 36 x 26mm.A. William Croft (b.1678, d.1727): ‘O Lord thou hast searched me out’, for mixed voices; [after circa 1720]. Copy. Caption title (f. 1r) reads ‘This is a Vers..., 1715-1931

British Library

ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Motets, Anthems, Madrigals, etc.: 18th century. A collection of 48 pieces, in score for several voices, mainly with a figured bass. In four different hands, and with a list of contents prefaced to the volume. On f. 101 is a fr..., 18th century

British Library

Croft, William, 1678-1727. "Te deum and jubilate", [1708/9].

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Carissimi, Giacomo, 1605-1674. [21 anthems].

New England Conservatory of Music, Harriet M. Spaulding Library

CHURCH HOUSE MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XII. 'A Course of Anthems, Introits, Hymns at the Offertory and after Evening Service throughout the Year', partly by named composers; compiled aft. 1866 (f. 99). Imperfect, by the excision of pp. 71-74, 131 in the orig...

British Library

MAXWELL DAVIES MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. clxxxvi. Arrangements by Peter Maxwell Davies (ff. 1-101, 103), and works by pupils and associates (ff. 102, 103v-125), for orchestra except where stated; 1959-1961, n.d. The pupils’ works are autograph except where s..., 1959-1962

British Library

CHURCH HOUSE MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. V. Twenty metrical psalms, for three voices, by William Croft and others; 18th cent. Copies and extracts, aft. 1797 (watermark passim). Words from Old or New Versions, as indicated in the headings. Also includes:-(a) S..., 18th century

British Library

(1-5.). ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Croft (William). Anthems; early 18th century.Paper.1. 19 ff. The Lord is a sun and a shield. Anthem ‘Perform’d att ye King’s Coronation, 1714; for voices and instruments, in full score.2. 1 f. Laudate Dominum. Canon fo...

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CHURCH HOUSE MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XI. Chants for psalms at morning and evening prayer on thirty successive days; collected aft. 1840(watermark f. 10). Imperfect, by the excision of most of the last leaf (f. 33), which bears the remnants of pencil sketch...

British Library

British Library. Anthems by William Croft [MICROFORM].

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Trio Sonatas and Suites; circa 1697-1704. Parts, in ink. ff. 1-18 is an incomplete set of parts, all in the same hand, for a set of twelve trio sonatas by Matthew Novell (published as Sonate da Camera or Chamber Musick. Being a Sett of Twelve Sonata’..., approximately 1697-1704

British Library

Croft, William, 1678-1727. [Evening Service in B♭ and anthems [microform].

UC Berkeley Libraries

COLLECTION OF METRICAL PSALMS, HYMNS AND ANTHEMS, probably compiled by John Guy; early 18th cent. The main hand closely resembles that of John Guy on ff. iib and 10. Presumably compiled in co. Glouc.; see ff. i-iiib. Tenor or tenor and bass parts onl...

British Library

Fitzwilliam Museum. Harpsichord lessons [microform].

UC Berkeley Libraries

Collection of keyboard music copied by Daniel Henstridge., approximately 1705

British Library

A "TE DEUM" and a "Jubilate," in D Major, by William Croft. Autogr. Paper; XVIIIth cent. Folio. [Add. 17,845.]Music: Anthems by Croft.William Croft, composer and organist; d.1727: Anthems., 18th century

British Library

ANTHEMS and odes with English words by William Byrd, Thomas Morley, [William] Mundy, John Bull, John Cooper, otherwise Coperario, Orlando Gibbons, Pier Antonio Fiocco, Henry Aldrich, William Turner, Henry Purcell, and William Croft. Score. Paper; ff...., approximately 1700

British Library

MORNING and Evening Service in E flat, in score, by Dr. William Croft, 1719. Autograph. Published in 1840, etc. (See f. ii). Paper; ff. ii + 16. Quarto. Belonged successively to Archdeacon Gilbert Heathcote, Rev. Gilbert Wall Heathcote (1829), and Jo..., 1719

British Library

" COLLECTION of lessons set for the harpsichord," by G. F. Handel, Giovanni Battista Buononcini, Dr. W. Croft, Johann Christoph Pepusch, Dr. M. Greene, Dr. Thomas Deane, John Weldon, Jean Baptiste Lully, -Webber, and Jeremiah Clark. At the reverse e..., 18th century

British Library

Theodore M. Finney Music Manuscript Collection TXRC98-A25., ca. 1700-1850

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

Memorial Library of Music collection

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

ANTHEM, in full score, by William Croft, composed for the thanksgiving on the suppression of the rebellion, in 1715. Paper; XVIIIth cent. Oblong Quarto. [Add. 17,846.]Music: Anthems by Croft.William Croft, composer and organist; d.1727: Anthems., 18th century

British Library

SOLOS for hapsichord and organ in score, by Croft, Blow, Froberger, Purcell, and [Robert ?] King; apparently in the hand of Croft, two of whose " sets " or suites contained in the present .MS. appeared in A Choice Collection of Ayres for the Harpsich..., 17th century-18th century

British Library

"HARMONIA Sacra," anthems "composed by the late Henry Purcell." (Printed) [1730 ?] f. 3; "Six select anthems," etc., "composed by Dr. Croft, Dr. Blow, Mr. Henry Purcell, and Jeremiah Clarke." (Printed) [1770], f. 21; "Two anthems," etc., "composed by..., 18th century

British Library

DANCES, marches, and other arrangements for harpsichord or spinet. The only composers named are George Spencer, Dr. Croft, Handel, and Papusch; but some of the anonymous pieces have been identified as the compositions of John Eccles, Francesco Mancin...

British Library

(ff. 179). Vol. i. FIFTY-ONE anthems by Dr. Maurice Green, Dr. John Bull, William Raylton, Henry Hall, Thomas Tallis, Dr. John Blow, Dr. Henry Aldrich, John Weldon, William Croft, Jeremiah Clark, Albert Bryne, Pelham Humphrey, and the following by He..., 17th century-18th century

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COLLECTION of French, English, and Scotch Dance Tunes, Marches, and Airs, for one or more flutes. Among them are the overtures to " La Grotte de Versailles " (f. 6) and Lully's " Roland " (f. 8), a Scotch tune by Godfrey Finger (f. 4), " Follia di Sp..., approximately 1700

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SACRED MUSIC, composed by Dr. Maurice Greene, Dr. William Croft, and Dr. William Boyce, and partly in their several handwritings. Paper; XVIIIth cent. Oblong Quarto. [Add. 17,861.]Music: Sacred music by Croft and Boyce.William Croft, composer and org..., 18th century

British Library

ANTHEMS (full and verse), in score, many of them with organ accompaniment. One by Dr. Croft (f. 8) is dated 1720. The names of the composers are given in the Index. Paper; ff. 94. XVIII. cent. Belonged to Thomas W. Taphouse, of Oxford (sale-cat. 3 Ju..., 18th century

British Library

Hanover royal music archive, 1651-1951, 1770-1870

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

ANTHEM, " Rejoice in the Lord," in score, by Dr. William Croft. Autogr. Paper; ff. iii + 18. Oblong quarto. XVII-XVIII cent. Belonged to T. W. Taphouse, of Oxford, 19th-20th centt. Bookplate of W. H. C[ummings] (sale-cat., lot 540)., 17th century-18th century

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SUITES for the harpsichord by H. Purcell, George Holmes, Dr. W. Croft, M. Locke, Dr. Blow, Jeremiah Clark, and Philip Hart. Prefixed are Locke's rules " For Playing on a Continued Bass." Paper; ff. 63. Early xviiith cent. Oblong Octavo.Henry Purcell,...

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ANTHEMS for four, five, and six voices, by Croft, Tallis, Byrd, Purcell, etc.; in the handwriting of William Walrond. Paper; XVIIIth cent. Folio. [Add 17,842.]Thomas Tallis, composer and organist: Anthems.Henry Purcell, composer and organist: Harmoni..., 18th century

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ANTHEMS and songs, in score, by Daniel Purcell and Dr. William Croft. Chiefly in the autograph of Daniel Purcell. At f. 58 is an anthem, "My song shall be alway," by Henry Purcell. Inserted are several motets and Italian songs transcribed by James Ke..., 18th century

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ANTHEMS, by William Croft. Autograph. Paper; XVIIIth cent. Folio. [Add. 17,847.]Music: Anthems by Croft.William Croft, composer and organist; d.1727: Anthems., 18th century

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ANTHEMS and other sacred music, by William Croft. Paper; XVIIIth and XIXth centuries. Oblong Folio. [Add. 17,848.]Music: Anthems by Croft.William Croft, composer and organist; d.1727: Anthems., 18th century-19th century

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SUITES and voluntaries for the organ. The composers named are J. Blow, Dr. Christopher Gibbons, H. Purcell, W. Croft, and William Davis; by the last of whom the volume was written. Paper; ff. 48. Late xviith cent. Oblong Folio.Music: Suites and volun...

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MISCELLANEOUS Collection of compositions in score, including:-1. Acting copy of the music in " The Tempest," supposed to have been compoased by Henry Purcell in 1690, omitting several of the numbers published in the only extant (late 18th cent.) edi..., 17th century-18th century

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SERVICES and anthems, by William Croft. Paper; XVIIIth cent. Folio. [Add. 17,849.]Music: Anthems by Croft.William Croft, composer and organist; d.1727: Anthems., 18th century

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Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Manuscripts, [1942?]-1992

British Library: Music Collections

ANTHEMS by William Croft. Paper; XVIIIth cent. Folio. [Add. 17,843.]Music: Anthems by Croft.William Croft, composer and organist; d.1727: Anthems., 18th century

British Library

ORGAN-PART of a collection of anthems, services, chants, hymns, etc., begun in 1724 by John Bennet, including compositions by Aldrich, Batten, Thomas Bennet, Blow, Child, [Jeremiah] Clark, Crofts, Ferrant [i.e. Farrant], [Robert ?] Fuller, T-G-, [Or..., 18th century

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ANTHEMS, by William Croft. Paper; XVIIIth cent. Folio. [Add. 17,844.]Music: Anthems by Croft.William Croft, composer and organist; d.1727: Anthems., 18th century

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SONGS from operas, odes, and motets, principally by Henry Purcell, John Blow, and William Croft. The tenor, counter-tenor, bass and thorough-bass parts only remain. Paper; ff. 17, 21, 33, 86. Early xviiith cent. Folio.Henry Purcell, composer and orga...

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Croft, William, 1678-1727, composer and organist

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