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Add MS 17801
- Record Id:
- 032-002028260
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002028260
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000050.0x000233
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- ISAD(G)
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- Add MS 17801
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Collection of compositions for various instruments, predominantly by Matthew Locke.
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Collection of compositions for various instruments, predominantly by Matthew Lock.
ff. 3-6 'Duos' for Bass-Viols, in score, by M[atthew] L[ock], 1652. Autograph. There are twelve divided into four sets, each set containing two 'Fantazies' and either a Courante (nos. 1 and 3), or a Saraband (nos. 2 and 4). 1. In D minor. f. 3. 2. In D. f. 3b. 3. In C minor. f. 4b. 4. In C. f. 5b.
ff. 7-17. {A selection of these in 1781 ff. 7-17} Short pieces for treble-viol and bass-viol, in score, by M[atthew] L[ock]. Apparently intended to be divided into suites as follows:— 1. Fantasia, Pavan, Air, Courante, Saraband and Gigue; in G minor. f. 7. 2. Air, Courante, and Saraband; in G. f. 8. 3. A similar suite to no. 1, in B flat. f. 8b. 4. Fantasia, Pavan, Air, and Courante; in D minor. f. 9b. 5. Air, Courante, and Saraband; in D. f. 10b. 6. Pavan, Allemande, Courante, Air, Saraband, and Gigue; in E minor, f. 11 7. Fantasia, Pavan, Air, Courante, Allemande, Saraband, and Gigue; in F. f. 12b. 8. Pavan, Air, and a piece without title (Courante?); in A minor. f. 14. 9. Fantasia, Air, Courante, and Gigue; in A. f. 14b. 10. Fantasia, Pavan, Air, Courante, and Saraband; in C minor. f. 15. 11. A similar suite to no. 2, in C. f. 16. 12. Pavan, Air, Courante, and Saraband; in D minor. f. 16b.
ff. 17b-47b. Compositions for 3 strings, in score, by Matthew Lock. Autograph. The MS. is described at the beginning as 'Compositions for broken, and whole Consorts . . . made by Matthew Lock, Composer in Ordinary to his Majestye.' I. 'The Little Consort of three parts; containing [ten suites, consisting of] Pavans, Airs, Corants, and Sarabands, for Viols, or Violins; in two several Varieties. The first 20 are for two Trebles, and a Basse; the last 20 for Treble, Tenor, and Bass; to be performed either alone, or [with] Theorbos and Harpsichord.' At the end is written, in a rather later hand, 'Made att the request of Mr. Wm. Wake for his Schollars, 1651; and printed by John Playford, of the Temple, 1656.' In parts. f. 18. II. 'The fflatt Consort, for my Cousin Kemble'; containing twenty-four pieces, consisting of alternately a 'Fantazie' and either a Courante, Saraband, Gigue, or Galliard. f. 27. III. 'The Broken Consort'; in two parts, of which the first contains six suites (Fantasia, Courante, Air, Saraband), ff. 37b-45b;— and the second, two suites (Pavan, Air, Courante or Galliard). ff. 46, 46b.
ff. l8-26b. 'Little Consort of 3 parts . . . with Harpsichord,' by M[athew]. Lock. See above, p. 188.
ff. 48-61b. 'A Concert of 4 Parts,' in score, by M[atthew] L[ock]: consisting of six sets or suites, each containing a Fantasia, Courante, Air, and Saraband.
ff. 62-65 passim A composition 'for His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornets,' in score, by M[atthew] L[ock], supposed to be the music written by him for those instruments on the occasion of the progress of Charles II through London on April 22, 1661, the day before his coronation. It consists of an 'Ayre' and a Courante in 5 parts (f. 62), a 'Pavan-Almand' in 6 parts (f. 63b), both of them autograph; and a Saraband in 4 parts (f. 65) apparently in the hand of Edward Jones, who owned the MS. at the time of his death (in 1824).
ff. 63, 64. Two canons (4 in 2), for 6 instruments, in score, by M[atthew] L[ock]. Autograph. The second is written on 'A Plaine Song giuen by Mr. William Brode of Hereford, '54.'
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
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- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-002028260
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002028260
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume (65 folios)
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_17801 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
English, Old - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1646
- End Date:
- 1654
- Date Range:
- c 1651-1654
- Era:
- CE
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Paper folio.
- Custodial History:
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Said to have been presented by Lock to Charles II in 1672.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)