George Jeffreys: Collection of Latin motets, anthems and a Te Deum
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Collection of Latin motets, anthems and a Te Deum, in the autograph of George Jeffreys, steward to Lord Hatton, organist to Charles I, etc. Volume i (Add MS 30829) contains the altus part, vol. ii (Add MS 30830) the tenor. The bassus part is Add MS 17816. For a collection containing most of the ...
Collection of English poems and romances, written in a northern dialect by Robert Thornton, the scribe of a similar book in the Lincoln Cathedral Library
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1. Fragment of the latter part of the " Cursor Mundi," beginning at the 56th line of the " Childhood of Mary " (l. 10,630, ed. R. Morris, Early English Text Society, 1874-1878). f. 3. The text is of a different recension from any of those edited by Dr. Morris; it approaches nearest to the Fairfa...
A collection of songs, ballads, and instrumental pieces, composed early in the reign of Henry VIII
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passim. Compositions for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in parts, apparently written early in the reign of Henry VIII (see for 1882-1887, p. 7). {Severeal published by the Roxburghe Club in 1912} {See J. E. Stevens 'Rounds and Canons from an early Tudor Song Book', Music and Letters,...
A collection of hymns, motets, carols, and other sacred compositions
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passim. ‘Liber Cantionum Martini Gobelii’: a collection of hymns and other poems of a religious character, in score. Nos. 1—4 are for 3 voices; the others, except where the contrary is stated, are for 4 voices and unaccompanied. Nos. 60-71 are carols. 1. ‘Jesu, süsser Morgensterne.’ f. 7b. 2. ‘E...
The Wode Psalter or St Andrews Psalter: contra-tenor part-book containing musical settings of metrical psalms from the 1564 Scottish Psalm Book and other music
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Most of the music was collected and copied by Thomas Wode (or Wood). Wode was a former monk who worked at St Andrews after the Reformation in Scotland, eventually becoming vicar there. At the core of the collection are harmonisations of the psalms by Scottish composer David Peebles. Over a perio...