ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Cosyn (Benjamin). The Cosyn Virginal Book; early 17th century. There is a list of contents, signed by Cosyn, prefaced to the volume, which contains 90 compositions, in Cosyn’s hand, for the virginal (ff. 2-111) and, in another hand, 4-part services in score (ff. 112-146)....
The Baldwin Collection of Motets, etc.: circa 1600, unless otherwise dated.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. A volume in the script throughout of John Baldwin of Windsor (excepting ff. 87b-89), containing 203 motets, instrumental pieces, canons and contrapuntal exercises by various 16th century composers, some in score, some in separate parts. There are prefatory and concluding ...
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Forster (Will). The Forster Virginal Book; 1624. There is a list of contents prefaced to the volume signed by Forster and dated Jan. 31, 1624. The book is written in Forster’s hand throughout, and contains 80 compositions for the virginal, some being compositions by Ward ...
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Bull (John). Canons; 18th century. A collection, evidently French, of 24 elaborate canons on plainsong tunes, chiefly the ‘Miserere’, written out in geometrical figures, by John Bull (18), G.V. Messaus (4), Clemens non papa (1) and an anonymous composer (1). At the beginn...
