Mus. 1142b
Manuscript. Early 20th-century guardbook of stiff card and
vellum (upright format, 393 x 253 mm.), containing 10 tracts
of unrelated sheets and fascicles, the majority of them English,
17th-early 18th centuries. The foliation sequence continues
from Mus. 1142a, and omits f. 50 (f. 49v is designated '50' in
error).
Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 38.
- Mus. 1142b (ff. 46-9). [Richard Goodson Jr], 'Festo quid potius',
incomplete draft of vocal sections; autograph. English, early
18th century. For other sources of this work, based on Horace's
Odes III 28, see the description under Mus. 37 (pp. 25-58).
- Mus. 1142b (f. 51). Part of a Latin ode beginning 'Nunc juvat
doctas referare portas', copied by Sampson Estwick, and presumably
his autograph. English, early 18th century.
- Mus. 1142b (ff. 52-3). [John Blow], ode ['Gesta Britannica'];
soprano vocal part, beginning 'Auditis, auditis', copied by
Richard Goodson Sr.; English, late 17th century. The music
ultimately derives from Blow's autograph scores, Mus. 685-6.
- Mus. 1142b (ff. 54-5). Basso continuo part for an unidentified
work for voices and instruments, probably an ode. Copyist unidentified,
possibly the hand of Mus. 731; English, c. 1700.
- Mus. 1142b (ff. 56-7). Fragments from the composing score
of an unidentified ode by Richard Goodson Sr; autograph. English,
early 18th century. The section sketched here, which opens at
f. 57v, is for soprano, oboe and continuo, and opens with the
words 'With Eager hast'.
- Mus. 1142b (f. 58). Instrumental 'Tenor' part (C2 clef) in
B flat major from an unidentifed ode, headed 'Symp: Second Song'.
Copied by Charles Husbands Jr (staves 1-6) and an unidentified
copyist (staves 7-13). English, late 17th century.
- Mus. 1142b (ff. 59-60). Unidentified fragments (keyboard scores
of vocal music, and an abandoned fair copy) copied by Henry Aldrich.
English, late 17th century.
- Mus. 1142b (f. 61). The inner bifolio of an unidentified motet
'Stillate mellis flumina' for high voice and continuo; the outer
bifolio is now Mus. 1147(B). Score; copyist unidentified,
presumably Italian, late 17th century.
- Mus. 1142b (ff. 62-3). [Henry Aldrich], 'I will exalt thee',
part for '1st violin'. Copyist unidentified; English, late
17th century. The main score of this anthem is Mus. 19, pp.
157-62.
- Mus. 1142b (f. 64). [Richard Goodson Jr], ['Festo quid potius'],
incomplete soprano vocal part, autograph. English, early 18th
century.
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