THE REPERTORY OF CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL
John Milsom
INTRODUCTION
Within the music collection in Christ Church Library, a clear
distinction can be made between items that were formerly owned
institutionally by Christ Church Cathedral, and materials that
formerly belonged personally to individuals associated with the
choir. The books listed below all fall into the former category;
cumulatively, they reveal much about the cathedral's performing
repertory as it existed between the mid 17th and early 19th century.
Manuscripts and printed books are included; they are arranged
in approximately chronological order.
As the 19th century progressed, the choir relied increasingly
upon inexpensive sets of printed sheet-music containing single
compositions, many of which also survive. These copies fall outside
the current scope of the Online Catalogue, and enquiries concerning
them should be addressed to the Librarian.
- Mus. 1220-4: manuscript. Five partbooks (Contratenor Decani;
Tenor Decani and Cantoris; Bass Decani and Cantoris) from an
otherwise lost set of at least eight partbooks. Principal layers:
copied by Zacharie Irishe for Christ Church Cathedral, c.1643-4.
Subsequent layers copied at Christ Church by members of the Cathedral
Choir during the later 17th and early 18th centuries.
- Mus. 438: manuscript. Organ accompaniments to services and
anthems, copied by Edward Lowe, at least partly in the 1660s.
This book appears to have been owned privately by Lowe, but may
then have passed to his successors as Organist of Christ Church
Cathedral.
- Mus. 1246: manuscript. Tenor partbook from an otherwise lost
set of probably eight or ten partbooks. Principal layer: presumably
copied in Oxford for use at Christ Church Cathedral, c. 1670-77.
Subsequent additions were made by members of Christ Church Cathedral
choir during the later 17th and early 18th centuries.
- Mus. 1230: manuscript. Organ accompaniments for choral repertory,
begun in the early 18th century by Richard Goodson Sr (Organist
1692-1718), and later extended by Richard Goodson Jr and others.
- Mus. 1234: manuscript. Organ accompaniments to anthems; second
quarter of the 18th century. Begun by Richard Goodson Jr, and
extended by two later copyists, the first tentatively identified
as Richard Church, the second William Walond Sr, copying in the
1730s and early 1740s.
- Mus. 1229: manuscript. Organ accompaniments to anthems and
services, begun by Richard Goodson Jr in the second quarter of
the 18th century, and extended by later copyists, including William
Walond Sr, copying in the 1750s.
- Mus. 1181a, Mus. 1254 and Mus. 1255: printed. Three copies
of Maurice Greene, 'Forty select anthems' (1743); RISM 3736.
- Mus. 1232: manuscript. Organ accompaniments for anthems and
services, copied in the 1740s by William Walond Sr.
- Mus. 1233: manuscript. Organ accompaniments for anthems and
services, copied in the 1740s-60s by William Walond Sr.
- Mus. 1261-2: printed. Maurice Greene, 'A new and correct edition
of forty select anthems'; RISM G3742.
- Mus. 1263: printed. Jonathan Battishill, 'Twelve hymns' [?1749];
RISM B1297.
- Mus. 1227: manuscript. Organ accompaniments for services, copied
probably in the 1750s by William Walond Sr.
- Mus. 1231: manuscript. Organ accompaniments for services, copied
probably in the 1750s by William Walond Sr.
- Mus. 1228: manuscript. Organ accompaniments for anthems and
services, copied jointly by William Walond Sr and Jr; third quarter
of 18th century.
- Mus. 1235: manuscript. Organ accompaniments for anthems, copied
jointly by William Walond Sr and Jr; third quarter of 18th century.
- Mus. 1256a, Mus. 1256b and Mus. 1256c, and other shelfmarks:
printed. Multiple copies of William Boyce's 'Cathedral Music',
vols. I (1760), II (1768) and III (1773).
- Mus. 1253: printed. James Kent, 'Twelve anthems' (1773); RISM
K402; bound with Capel Bond, 'Six anthems' (1769): RISM B3446.
- Mus. 1267: printed. James Nares, 'Twenty anthems' (1778); RISM
N55.
- Mus. 1266: printed. William Boyce, 'Fifteen anthems' (1780);
RISM B4050.
- Mus. 1257: printed. Arnold: Cathedral Music (organ part).
- Mus. 1258: printed. William Croft, 'A new edition of thirty
select anthems (vol. 2)' (undated); RISM C4509.
- Mus. 1265: printed. James Kent, 'Twelve anthems' (undated);
RISM K404.
- Mus. 1268: printed. James Kent (ed. Joseph Corfe), 'A morning
& evening service, with eight anthems' (undated); RISM K409.
- Mus. 1226: manuscript. Organ accompaniments for anthems and
Anglican chants, copied in the last quarter of the 18th century;
includes autograph works by William Crotch, dated in the 1790s.
- Mus. 1225: manuscript. Organ accompaniments for anthems and
services, copied probably in the 1820s.
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