Christ Church Library music catalogue

THE GOODSON BEQUEST

John Milsom

This page lists all the items known or believed to have been bequeathed to Christ Church by Richard Goodson Jr. The list is regularly updated as new information comes to light; to view the date of the latest posting, scroll down to the bottom of this page.

Items below marked 'Clement' were included by William Clement in his 'A catalogue of Mr Goodsons Books contain'd in the Archives 1747' (Christ Church, Library Records 15, reversed). To view a list of these sixty items, together with transcriptions of Clement's catalogue entries for them, follow this link.

The remaining items were not included by Clement. His reasons for omitting them are not known. Possibly some of them lay beyond his cataloguing abilities, or seemed too chaotic or inconsequential to include. Possibly the Goodson bequest reached Christ Church Library in more than one batch, only one of which was described by Clement.

Some of the items below were either copied or annotated by Richard Goodson Jr. Others appear to be linked to his professional responsibilities in Oxford.

Almost certainly the Goodson bequest also included many of the manuscripts now at Christ Church that were copied by his father, Richard Goodson Sr. However, some Goodson autographs are known to have been owned by Aldrich. For that reason, a separate list has been prepared of the autograph manuscripts of Richard Goodson Sr.

The Goodson bequest probably included the large collection of manuscript sheets and performers' parts that has been tentatively linked with the repertory of the Oxford city/university waits or 'Musick'. Today, these items are distributed over a large number of different call-numbers within the Music sequence. Rather than being listed separately below, they are covered by the cumulative entry for Mus. 34-6.

The list below is arranged by call-number. Items marked 'MS' are manuscripts; 'PR' are printed items. An asterisk (*) indicates that the provenance of the item is uncertain. The list ends with those few items mentioned by Clement that are no longer at Christ Church; presumably these have been lost.

Mus. 3 (pp. [0]-38A): MS. Albinoni (attrib. 'Ziani'): 6 sonatas; copyist unidentified; = Clement No. 15.
Mus. 3 (ff. 39-70): MS. Bassani, Clarke, Lully, H. Purcell: instrumental music, copied by Goodson Sr; = Clement No. 16.
Mus. 4: MS. Anon (Carissimi?): MS. In te Domine speravi, copied by Goodson Jr.
Mus. 21: MS. Instrumental and vocal works by Orlando Gibbons and John Coprario; copyist unidentified, English, 1620s. Two layers of later additions: (1) Italian madrigals and other miscellaneous works; copyist unidentified, English, 1630s?; (2) vocal works by Benamin Rogers, autograph; English, c. 1673-85; = Clement No. 13.
Mus. 22: MS. Anthems and service music by Blow, Purcell, Aldrich and others, copied by Edward Lowe, Goodson Sr and others; later additions by Goodson Jr; = Clement no. 32 (as a replacement to a lost item).
Mus. 23: MS. Motets, opera extracts etc, copied by Goodson Sr with later additions by Goodson Jr; = Clement No. 12.
Mus. 32: MS. Instrumental and vocal music, copied by Goodson Jr; = Clement No. 29.
Mus. 34-6: MS. Instrumental music, part of the repertory tentatively associated with the Oxford waits, ca. 1700; copyist unidentified; = Clement No. 1. *** Also included in this entry is a list of all other music manuscripts at Christ Church that appear to have formed part of this repertory. ***
Mus. 37 (pp. 25-58): MS. Goodson Jr: Festo quid potius; autograph score; = Clement No. 27.
*Mus. 37 (pp. 59-74): MS. Madrigals by Pomponio Nenna, copied in score by Goodson Sr.
Mus. 37 (pp. 99-138): MS. Blow: Venus and Adonis, copied by Goodson Sr; = Clement No. 26.
Mus. 68-75: MS. Vocal and instrumental works by Handel, Pepusch, Croft, etc., copied by Fawcett and others, with later additions by Goodson Jr; = part of Clement No. 18.
Mus. 76: MS. Jottings and music theory copied by Goodson Jr; = part of Clement No. 18.
Mus. 77: MS. Galliard: Hymn of Adam and Eve, copied by Goodson Jr; = Clement No. 34.
Mus. 85: MS. Alessandro Melani: 'Te Deum laudamus; copyist unidentified; = Clement No. 40.
Mus. 86: PR. Alessandro Grandi [I]: Motetti a voce sola (1628); = Clement No. 35.
Mus. 89: MS. Organ book containing music for the Tridentine liturgy, copied in the Netherlands, 1620s.
Mus. 90-91: MS. Includes sketches by Goodson Jr.
*Mus. 110-19: PR. Lully: Isis (1677); annotations by Goodson Jr.
Mus. 167-70: PR. Du Mont: Motets a II. III. et IV. parties (1681); = Clement No. 55.
Mus. 263: PR. Du Mont: Airs a quatre parties (1663); = Clement No. 57.
Mus. 350: MS. Songs, cantatas and other vocal works largely for solo voice and continuo, copied by Goodson Sr.
Mus. 357: MS. Carissimi: cantatas; = Clement No.59.
Mus. 358: Goodson Jr's pocket book.
Mus. 360: MS. Vocal exercises, treble voice-parts, and rudiments for singers, compiled partly by Goodson Sr, with a later addition by Goodson Jr.
*Mus. 363: MS. Musgrave Heighington's commonplace book.
Mus. 364: MS. Includes a short sketch by Goodson Jr.
Mus. 433: MS. Music for solo violin (including suites by Davis Mell, autograph), with later additions by Goodson Jr.
Mus. 440: MS. Tenor partbook (services etc), c. 1700, with later additions by Goodson Jr.
Mus. 447: PR. Bononcini: Cantate e duetti (1721); = Clement No. 45.
Mus. 479-83: MS. William Lawes: consort works, with later additions (Weldon and Purcell); annotated by Goodson Jr.
Mus. 517-20: MS. Fantasias by Ferrabosco (ii), Mico, Ward John Jenkins, annotated by Goodson Jr.
Mus. 527-30, Mus. 1024: MS. Instrumental works by Ferrabosco (ii), Mico, Coprario and Lupo, and madrigals by Monteverdi, Pallavicino and Marenzio. Later additions by Goodson Jr.
Mus. 600: PR. Lully: Bellerophon (1679); = Clement No. 2.
Mus. 601: PR. Lully: Proserpine (1680); = Clement No. 5.
Mus. 602: PR. Lully: Phaëton (1683); = Clement No.3.
Mus. 603: PR. Lully: Persée (1682); = Clement No. 4.
Mus. 604: PR. Lully: Le triomphe de l'amour (1681); = Clement No. 6.
Mus. 605: PR. Louis-Nicolas Clérambault: cantatas (1710-16); = Clement No. 7.
Mus. 606: PR. Croft: Musicus / Handel: Te Deum et Jubilate; = Clement No. 8.
Mus. 609: PR. Keyboard music (London, 1708-14); = Clement No. 10.
Mus. 610: PR. Grabu: Albion and Albanius (1687); = Clement No. 9.
Mus. 615: MS. Handel: As pants the hart (2nd version, HWV 251b); copyist unidentified, with an addition by Goodson Jr; = Clement No. 34.
Mus. 616: MS. Composing scores by Goodson Sr and Goodson Jr; = Clement No. 14.
Mus. 617: MS. Composing scores by Goodson Sr; = Clement No. 22.
Mus. 618: MS. Goodson Sr: Oxford Act songs (odes); autograph; = part of Clement No. 28.
Mus. 619: MS. Oxford Act songs (odes) by Henry Aldrich, Matthew Locke and Sampson Estwick; = part of Clement No. 28.
Mus. 620 (pp. 1-101): MS. Instrumental music by Purcell, Clarke, Croft and Corelli.
*Possibly Mus. 621 (ff. 1-41): MS. Motets, anthems and secular works, copied by Lowe.
Mus. 622: MS. Choral and vocal works copied by Goodson Jr.; = Clement No. 11.
Mus. 623-6: MS. Motets and anthems, copied by Henry Bowman, c.1670-85; = Clement No. 20.
Mus. 680: PR. Geminiani: Sonate (1716); = Clement No. 25.
Mus. 683: MS. Treble voice-parts etc., copied by Goodson Jr.
Mus. 698-707: PR with MS additions. Tomkins: Musica Deo sacra (1668); = Clement No. 37.
*Possibly Mus. 782: MS. Blow: I beheld, and lo! a great multitude.
Mus. 786: PR. H. Purcell: Dioclesian (1691); = Clement No. 21.
Mus. 792: PR. Blow: Amphion Anglicus (1700); = Clement No. 30.
Mus. 794: PR with MS additions. H. Purcell: Te Deum (1697); Harmonia sacra (1688-93); = Clement No. 31.
Mus. 802: PR. Morley: A plaine and easie introduction (1608); = Clement No. 42.
Mus. 807: PR. William King: Songs for one two and three voices (1692); = Clement No. 43.
Mus. 817: PR. E. Porta: Hore di recreatione (1612); = Clement No. 41.
Mus. 832: PR. Blow: Ode on the death of Purcell (1696); = Clement No. 38.
*Mus. 865(A): MS. Dialogues apparently by Francis Pigott.
Mus. 869a-c: PR. Conti: Symphonys in the opera Clotilda (1709); = Clement No. 33.
*Mus. 936: PR. [Pepusch]: A short treatise on harmony (1730).
*Mus. 942-3: MS. Suites and other instrumental music, c. 1675.
Mus. 944: MS. T. Tollett: Instrumental music for 'The Cheats'.
Mus. 945: MS. Legrenzi etc: cantatas; = Clement No. 60.
Mus. 960: MS. Choristers' commonplace book, in use at Christ Church during the later 1720s under the tutelage of Goodson Jr.
Mus. 961: MS. Arias, keyboard music and jottings by Goodson Jr.
Mus. 974-8: PR. 7 tracts of Marenzio madrigals (1607-10); = Clement No. 58.
Mus. 992: MS. A. Scarlatti: serenata 'Venere, Adone e Amore'; = Clement No. 48.
Mus. 993: MS. A. Scarlatti, Bononcini, Gasparini: cantatas = Clement No. 47.
Mus. 994: MS. Carissimi: cantatas; = Clement No. 49.
Mus. 995: MS. = Clement No. 51.
Mus. 998: = Clement No. 46.
Mus. 999: MS. John Wilson: Psalterium Carolinum; = Clement No. 53.
*Possibly Mus 1003: MS. Keyboard book. For details, see Candace Bailey, Seventeenth-Century British Keyboard Sources (Warren, MI, 2003), pp. 93-6.
Mus. 1005: MS. John Jenkins: 2- and 3-part airs; autograph score; = Clement No. 54.
Mus. 1027: MS. Instrumental music by Simpson, Lupo and Jenkins, with later additions by Goodson Jr.
Mus. 1078: MS. Two accompanied madrigals by Tarquinio Merula, copied by Goodson Jr; = Clement No. 52.
Mus. 1079: MS. Goodson Jr: Magnificat (opening only).
Mus. 1082: MS. Handel: As pants the hart (treble vocal part only), copied by Goodson Jr.
Mus. 1114: MS. Includes vocal music copied by Goodson Sr, and pedagogical material copied by Goodson Jr and choristers.
Mus. 1115: MS. Drafts and jottings by Goodson Jr.
*Mus. 1118, Mus. 1121: MS. Instrumental music, possibly partly copied by Francis Pigott.
Mus. 1120: MS. Choristers' pocketbook.
Mus. 1141a (ff. 8-9): MS. Goodson Jr: Festo quid potius (first violin part).
Mus. 1141a (f. 48): MS. Transposed oboe part for Handel: I will magnify thee.
Mus. 1141b (ff. 90-93): MS. Goodson Jr, 'Festo quid potius' (unfigured bass part).
Mus. 1141b (ff. 95-8): MS. Fragment of an unidentified instrumental work in D major; pages numbered '9-16'.
Mus. 1141b (ff. 99-100): MS. Double chants.
Mus. 1142a (ff. 38-9): MS. Heighington: 'Donec gratus eram tibi' (autograph, incomplete at end).
Mus. 1142b (ff. 46-9): MS. Goodson Jr: Festo quid potius (incomplete draft of vocal sections).
Mus. 1142b (ff. 56-7): MS: Goodson Sr: drafts for an unidentified ode.
Mus. 1142b (f. 64): MS. Goodson Jr: 'Festo quid potius' (soprano part).
Mus. 1153: MS. Chorus (opening 'Yee Vocal Choir whom sacred love of Harmony') from an unidentified ode for St Cecilia's Day, copied by Goodson Jr.
*Mus. 1174: MS. H. Purcell: Sonnata's of III. Parts (1683), copied in score by Goodson Sr.
Mus. 1177: MS. Keyboard book copied by Edward Lowe and Goodson Sr; original covers annotated by Goodson Jr.
Mus. 1185: MS. Coprario: fantasia-suites (organ part), copied by Bing; Handel: fugue in e minor, copied by Goodson Jr.
Mus. 1188-9 (ff. 36-7): MS. Fragment from an unidentified anthem, copied by Goodson Jr.
Mus. 1205(B): MS. Anthems by Byrd and Blow, copied by Goodson Jr.
*Mus. 1211: MS. Dramatic scenes by 'Mr Pigot'.
Mus. 1213: MS. Unattributed orchestral work in D, copied in score by Goodson Jr, possibly his composing score.
Mus. 1214: MS. Handel: Concerti grossi op. 3 nos. 1-2, copied by Goodson Jr.
*Mus. 1215(10): MS. Doggerel song on a ground bass, beginning 'Hi jinko brisco alphonzo', copied by Richard Goodson Sr; apparently his composing score.
Mus. 1219(B): MS. Songs and fragments, partly copied by Goodson Jr.
Mus. 1219(G): MS. Goodson Sr: I am well pleased that the Lord hath heard; autograph short score.
Mus. 1219(H): MS. Goodson Sr: Not unto us O Lord; autograph score.
Mus. 1219(I-T): MS. Goodson Sr: 'Rejoice in the Lord O ye righteous'; autograph score and performing parts.
Mus. 1219(U): MS. Sketches by Goodson Sr.
LOST: PR. Walsh's edition of Handel's Otho (RISM H 219), listed by Clement (item 32) as 'Otho an Opera Mr Handel'.
LOST: PR. Matthew Locke's Psyche (RISM L2647), listed by Clement (item 44) as 'Opera Mr Mat: Lock. London 1675'.
LOST: MS. Clement's item 50, 'Oratorio Del Segr. Iacomo Charissimi / M.S. in Score', has not been located among the Christ Church music manuscripts.