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Mus. 23

Manuscript. Motets, liturgical works, and extracts from Lully's Cadmus et Hermione, copied in score by Richard Goodson Sr and others, with later additions by Richard Goodson Jr; English, late 17th and early 18th centuries. Goodson Sr was responsible for copying all except the following: items 1 (copyist unidentified), 2 (copied by Edward Lowe), 23-5 (copyist unidentified), and 34-5, 37 and 42-3 (copied by Goodson Jr, working from the rear with the volume inverted).

  • Item 34: a setting of Horace, Odes 1/XXII. Goodson also copied part of this Ode in Mus. 622, item 10. For Heighington's preliminary autograph sketches for this and other Odes, see Mus. 363. A later version of this Ode was published in 1744; extant copies of this publication include Oxford, Bodleian Library, Mus. 20. c.20 and Tenbury Mus. c.542 (2).
  • Item 35: copied by Goodson Jr from Mus. 794, printed tract 3, where p. 40 is annotated by him as follows: 'N.B: this is wrote out into one of the Brown Leather Schore Books'.
Table of titles and composers in modern form. Display form found in manuscript.
The first column gives the modern numbering of the pieces; the second shows numbering used by the copyist(s).
1   Giacomo Carissimi Lucifer ff. 2v-3v
2   John Blow Awake, my lyre ff. 4r-6v
3   John Blow Fair nymph, that to the wanton winds ff. 7r-10r
4   Henry Purcell Alas, how barbarous are we [Z482] ff. 10v-11r
5   John Blow Go, perjur'd man ff. 11v-13r
6   Robert Smith O time, thy wings are wet ['A dialogue...'] ff. 13v-15r
7 1 Jean-Baptiste Lully Overture [from 'Cadmus et Hermione'] ff. 16v-18r
8 4 Jean-Baptiste Lully Gavot [from 'Cadmus et Hermione'] f. 18v
9 5 Jean-Baptiste Lully Chaconne [from 'Cadmus et Hermione'] ff. 19r-22r
10 15 Jean-Baptiste Lully Les vents [from 'Cadmus et Hermione'] ff. 22v-23r
11 11 Jean-Baptiste Lully Les sacrificateurs [from 'Cadmus et Hermione'] ff. 23v-24r
12 10 Jean-Baptiste Lully Sacrifice de Mars [from 'Cadmus et Hermione'] ff. 24v-25r
13 12 Jean-Baptiste Lully Les combattans [from 'Cadmus et Hermione'] f. 25v
14 16 Jean-Baptiste Lully Gavotte [from 'Cadmus et Hermione'] f. 26r
15 7 Jean-Baptiste Lully Les statues [from 'Cadmus et Hermione'] ff. 26v-27r
16 8 Jean-Baptiste Lully Les statues (2nd air) [from 'Cadmus et Hermione'] ff. 27v-28r
17 14 Jean-Baptiste Lully Prelude, Act V [from 'Cadmus et Hermione'] f. 28v
18 17 Jean-Baptiste Lully Minuet [from 'Cadmus et Hermione'] f. 29r
19 2 Jean-Baptiste Lully Ritournelle [= Rondeau; from 'Cadmus et Hermione'] f. 29v
20 9 Jean-Baptiste Lully Ritournelle [from 'Cadmus et Hermione'] f. 30r
21 13 Jean-Baptiste Lully Ritournelle [from 'Cadmus et Hermione'] f. 30r
22 6 Jean-Baptiste Lully Ritournelle [from 'Cadmus et Hermione'] f. 30v
23   Jean-Baptiste Lully Heureux qui peut plaire [from 'Cadmus et Hermione'] f. 30v
24   Jean-Baptiste Lully Le Dieu Pan [= Que chacun] [from 'Cadmus et Hermione'] f. 31r
25   Jean-Baptiste Lully Peut on mieux faire [from 'Cadmus et Hermione'] f. 31v
26   Jean-Baptiste Lully Suivons l'amour [from 'Cadmus et Hermione'] f. 32r
27   Jean-Baptiste Lully Amants aymez [from 'Cadmus et Hermione'] f. 32r
28   Jean-Baptiste Lully Gueris toy [from 'Cadmus et Hermione'] f. 32v
29   John Blow My trembling song, awake ff. 33v-45r
30   Giovanni Battista Bassani Quid arma, quid bella ff. 45v-49r
31   Giovanni Battista Bassani In hoc mundo inconstante ff. 49v-53v
32   Giovanni Battista Bassani In caligine umbrosa ff. 54r-60r
33   Henry Purcell Celebrate this festival [Z321] ff. 60v-65r
34   Musgrave Heighington Integer vitae scelerisque purus ff. 70v-66v
35   Henry Purcell In guilty night [Z134] ff. 76r-71r
36   Henry Purcell Kindly treat Maria's day [from 'Celebrate this festival', Z321 (14); see no. 33 above] ff. 71v-72r
37     Mass a3 (Sanctus only) [= Mus. 13, no. 30] ff. 79r-76v
38   William Croft Service in b: T/J ff. 79v-90r
39   William Croft Lord, what love have I ff. 91r-94v
40   John Goldwin O Lord, how glorious are thy works ff. 95r-96r
41   Jeremiah Clarke How long wilt thou forget me ff. 96v-98r
42     Mass a3 (K/G/C only) [=Mus. 13, no. 30] ff. 115r-98v
43   John Banister (i) The bread is all baked [from 'The man's the master'] ff. 119v-115v

Upright format, 360 x 237 mm. 119 folios; foliation is in modern pencil. Unused ruled staves on ff. 1r-2r, 15v-16r, 33r, 65v-66r and 90v. Late 17th-century binding of tooled rough brown leather over boards. Front flyleaf signed 'Mr Richard Goodson [Sr] his booke'. Inside upper cover signed 'Richard Goodson [Jr]' (partly concealed beneath a modern contents-list), and inside lower cover 'Richard Goodson [Jr] - Oxon'. No early bookplate. 19th-century shelfmark: H.1.23.

Provenance: from the Goodson bequest, listed in Clement 1747 as 'Te Deum & Jubilate in Score Dr Croft M.S. No. 12' (to which a later hand has added 'with other Music by Blow, Carissimi &c'); listed in Malchair 1787 (f. 2) as 'a mass Carissimi / Blow / Bassani / Service Croft / Goldwin / Catch - the man is - the Master Jo. Banister / Folio rugh Calf'. Clement's number-label is missing from the volume itself.

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 4.

This is one of the many music manuscripts at Christ Church copied by Richard Goodson Sr.