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Add MS 31922
- Record Id:
- 032-002025620
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002025620
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000054.0x0001e8
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100054739944.0x000001
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- Add MS 31922
- Title:
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A collection of songs, ballads, and instrumental pieces, composed early in the reign of Henry VIII
- Scope & Content:
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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, XXX, 11, p.29} {For comments on several of Henry VIII's songs see J. Ward 'The Lute Music of MS Royal Appendix 58' in 'Journal of the American Musicological Society', 1960. See also Musica Britannica, XVIII, 'Music at the Court of Henry VIII'}1. 'Fortune esperee' (à 4). Without words. Anonymous. f. 4b. 2. 'Alles, regretz.' Without words. Anonymous. {[Hayne van Ghizeghen]} f. 5b. 3. 'Een frolyk weson.' Without words. Anonymous. {[Barbireau]} f. 6b. 4. 'Pastyme with good companye' 'H[enry] VIII.' f. 14b. 5. 'Adew, mes amours'; with second part, 'Pardon a moy.' 'Cornysche.' f. 15b. 6. 'Adew, madam' (à 4). 'H[enry] VIII.' f. 17b. 7. 'Helas, madam' (à 4). By the same. f. 18b. 8. 'Alas, what shall I do' (à 4). By the same. f. 20b. 9. 'O my hart.' By the same. f. 22b. 10. 'A dew, a dew, my hartis lust.' 'Cornysch.' f. 23b. 11. 'Whoso that wyll hym selff applye' (à 4). 'Kysbye.' f. 27b. 12. 'The tyme of youthe.' 'H[enry] VIII.' f. 28b. 13. 'The thowght within my brest.' 'T. Fardyng.' f. 29b. 14. 'A[h!l] the syghs.' 'W. Cornysshe.' f. 32b. 15. 'With sorowfull syghs.' 'T. Fardynge.' f. 33b. 16. 'If I had wytt.' Anonymous. f. 34b. 17. 'Alac, alac, what shall I do.' 'H[enry] VIII.' f. 35b. 18. 'Grene growith ye hol[l]y.' By the same. f. 37b. 19. 'Who so that wyll all feattes optayne.' By the same. f. 38b. 20. 'Blow þi hornne, hunter.' 'W. Cornyshe.' f. 39b. 21. 'De tons bien plare.'{plane} Without words. Anonymous. {[Hayne van Ghizeghen]} f. 40b. 22. 'lay pryse amours.' Without words. Anonymous. f. 41b. 23. 'A dew, corage.' 'W. Cornyshe.' f. 42b. 24. 'Trolly lolly loly lo syng.' By the same. f. 43b. 25. 'I loue trewly.' 'T. Fardynge.' f. 44b. 26. 'Yow and I and Amyas.' 'Cornysh.' f. 45b. 27. 'Ough, warder, mount' (à 4). Without words. Anonymous. f. 46b. 28. 'La season' (sic). Without words. Anonymous. f. 47b. 29. 'If love now reynyd.' 'H[enry] VIII.' f. 48b. 30. 'Gentyl prince de renom' (à 4). Without words. By the same. {Only altus part by Henry cf. Odhecaton ed. Helen Hewitt, 1942, p. 209} f. 49b. 31. 'Sy fortune.' Anonymous. f. 50b. 32. 'Wherto shuld I expresse.' 'H[enry] VIII.' f. 51b. 33. 'A Robyn.' '[W.] Cornysh.' The words 'I can not think' appear to be sung by the tenor, unless they begin a second part. f. 53b. 34. 'Whill lyue or breth.' By the same. f. 54b. 35. 'Thow that men do call it dotage.' 'H[enry] VIII.' f. 55b. 36. 'Departure is my chef payne.' By the same. The words 'It is to me a ryght gret joy' appear to be sung by the medius voice. f. 60b. 37. 'I have bene a foster.' 'D[octor?] Cooper.' f. 65b. 38. 'Fare well my joy'; with second part, 'Though þu depart.' By the same. f. 66b. 39. 'With owt dyscord.' 'H[enry] VIII.' f. 68b. 40. 'I am a joly foster'; in two parts. Anonymous. f. 69b. 41. 'Though sum saith that youth rulyth me'; in two parts. Anonymous. f. 71b. 42. 'Madame damours' (à 4). Anonymous. f. 73b. 43. 'Adew, adew, le company.' Anonymous. f. 74b. 44. 'Whoso that wyll for grace sew.' 'H[enry] VIII.' f. 84b. 45. '[E]n vray amoure' (à 4). Without words. By the same. f. 86b. 46. 'Let not vs that yongmen be.' Anonymous. f. 87b. 47. 'Lusty yough,' with apparently a second part, 'How shuld yough,' of which only the tenor is given. 'H[enry] VIII.' f. 94b. 48. 'With goode order' (à 4). Anonymous. f. 96b. 49. 'Elle sur tautes' (sic); with the words 'Tota pulcra es' in the bass. Anonymous. f. 99b. 50. 'Englond be glad.' Anonymous. f. 100b. 51. 'And I war a maydyn' (à 5). Anonymous. f. 106b. 52. 'Why shall not I.' Anonymous. f. 107b. 53. 'What remedy'; in two parts. Anonymous. f. 108b. 54. 'Wher be ye, my love.' Anonymous. f. 110b. 55. 'My thought oppressed.' Anonymous. f. 116b. 56. 'Svmwhat musyng'; in two parts. Anonymous. f. 120b. 57. 'I loue vnloued'; in two parts. Anonymous. f. 122b. 58. 'Hey troly loly lo! mayde, whether go you.' Anonymous. f. 124b.
passim. Rounds written out at length — for how many voices is not stated. 1. 'Hey nowe' (without words). 'Kempe.' f. 21b. 2. 'Alone I leffe.' 'Doctor Cooper.' f. 22. 3. 'Aboffe all thynge.' 'Faredynge.' f. 24b. 4. 'Downbery down, now am I exild.' 'Wylliam Daggere.' f. 25. 5. 'Hey now' (without words).' 'Thomas Faredyng.' f. 25b. 6. 'In May, that lusty sesone.' By the same. f. 26. 7. 'Deme the best,' 'J. Fluyd.' f. 79b. 8. 'Hey troly loly, my love is lusty.' Anonymous. f. 80. 9. 'Now...' Anonymous. f. 98. 10. 'Pray we to god.' (For the king.) Anonymous. f. 103.
passim. Compositions for 3 instruments (or voices), in parts. Unless the contrary is stated, they are without title and anonymous. {See J. E. Stevens in Music & Letters, xxxii, p. 29. 1. 'Benedictus.' f. 3b. 2. 'Fa la sol.' f. 9b. 3, 4. Two pieces '[John] Flude (or Floyd), in armoniâ graduat.' f. 26b, 31b. 5. Piece, with apparently a ground tenor. 'Dunstable.' f. 36b. 6-17. Twelve pieces:—By 'H[enry] VIII.' ff. 52b, 56b;—by '[Robert] Fayrfax.' f. 57b;—by 'H[enry] VIII.' ff. 58b, 59b, 61b;—by 'T. Fardyng.' f. 62;—by 'W. Cornysshe.' f. 63b;—by 'H[enry] VIII.' f. 64b;—anonymous. ff. 75b, 76b, 77. 18-23. Six pieces. 'H[enry] VIII.' ff. 77b, 78b, 80b, 81b, 82b ('Tannder Naken'), 85b. 24-26. Three pieces. ff. 89b, 90, 91b. 27, 28. Two pieces. 'H[enry] VIII.' ff. 98b, 103b. 29. 'Fors solemant' (?=seulement, as in Add MS 35087, f. 80b). f. 104b. 30. Another. f. 105b.
passim. Compositions for 4 instruments (or voices ?), in parts. Anonymous, except no. 5. 1. 'La my.' f. 7b. 2-4. Pieces without titles, ff. 19b, 92b, 93b. 5. Piece without title. 'H[enry] VIII.' f. 98b.
f. 30b. 'My loue she morneth'; for 2 voices, in parts, by [William] Cornyshe.
f. 88b. 'Dulcis amica,’ without the words; for 3 voices, in parts. Anonymous.
ff. 90b, 91. Three canons without words, of which the first has no description, the second is a 'Songe...iij parts in one,' and the third 'Duas partes in vnum.' Anonymous.
f. 112b. 'Qui (sic) petis, o filij‘; with second verse, ‘The moder full manerly‘; third verse, ‘I mene this by Mary‘; and fourth verse, 'Musyng on her maners‘; for 4 voices in parts, by ‘Pygott.’
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- Music Collections
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- 032-002025620
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-002025620
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume (129 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100054739944.0x000001
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1549
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
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- Vellum. Small Folio.
- Custodial History:
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Thomas Fuller, MD: Book plate, as owner: ante 1762.
Stephen Fuller, Agent for Jamaica: Owned: in 1762.
Sir Charles Montolieu Lamb, 2nd Baronet: Owned: in the 19th cent.
Hon Archibald Montgomery, Lieutenant Colonel, afterwards 11th Earl of Eglintoun: Owned: in the 18th cent.
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