Christ Church Library music catalogue: Mus. 23

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 as shown in the manuscript. Display in modern form.
The first column gives the modern numbering of the pieces; the second shows numbering used by the copyist(s).

1		Seig [Giacomo] Charissimi	Lucifer	ff. 2^v-3^v
2		Mr John Blow	Awake my Lyre	ff. 4^r-6^v
3		Dr [John] Blow	Faire nimph that to the wanton winds	ff. 7^r-10^r
4		[Henry Purcell]	Alass how barborous are wee [Z482]	ff. 10^v-11^r
5		[John Blow]	Goe perjur'd man	ff. 11^v-13^r
6		Rob[ert] Smith	O time thy wings are wett ['A Dialoug...']	ff. 13^v-15^r
7	1	[Jean-Baptiste Lully]	Cadmus et hermionne ... Overture	ff. 16^v-18^r
8	4	[Jean-Baptiste Lully]	Gavot [from 'Cadmus et Hermione']	f. 18^v
9	5	[Jean-Baptiste Lully]	Chaconne [from 'Cadmus et Hermione']	ff. 19^r-22^r
10	15	[Jean-Baptiste Lully]	Les vents [from 'Cadmus et Hermione']	ff. 22^v-23^r
11	11	[Jean-Baptiste Lully]	[Les sacrificateurs; from 'Cadmus et Hermione']	ff. 23^v-24^r
12	10	[Jean-Baptiste Lully]	Sacrifice de Mars [from 'Cadmus et Hermione']	ff. 24^v-25^r
13	12	[Jean-Baptiste Lully]	Les Combattans [from 'Cadmus et Hermione']	f. 25^v
14	16	[Jean-Baptiste Lully]	Gavott [from 'Cadmus et Hermione']	f. 26^r
15	7	[Jean-Baptiste Lully]	Les statues [from 'Cadmus et Hermione']	ff. 26^v-27^r
16	8	[Jean-Baptiste Lully]	[Les statues (2nd air) from 'Cadmus et Hermione']	ff. 27^v-28^r
17	14	[Jean-Baptiste Lully]	[Prelude, Act V, from 'Cadmus et Hermione']	f. 28^v
18	17	[Jean-Baptiste Lully]	Minuet [from 'Cadmus et Hermione']	f. 29^r
19	2	[Jean-Baptiste Lully]	Ritournelle [= Rondeau; from 'Cadmus et Hermione']	f. 29^v
20	9	[Jean-Baptiste Lully]	Ritor[nelle] [from 'Cadmus et Hermione']	f. 30^r
21	13	[Jean-Baptiste Lully]	Ritor[nelle] [from 'Cadmus et Hermione']	f. 30^r
22	6	[Jean-Baptiste Lully]	Ritournelle [from 'Cadmus et Hermione']	f. 30^v
23		[Jean-Baptiste Lully]	[Heureux qui peut; from 'Cadmus et Hermione']	f. 30^v
24		[Jean-Baptiste Lully]	Le Dieu Pan [from 'Cadmus et Hermione']	f. 31^r
25		[Jean-Baptiste Lully]	[Peut on mieux faire; from 'Cadmus et Hermione']	f. 31^v
26		[Jean-Baptiste Lully]	[Suivons l'amour; from 'Cadmus et Hermione']	f. 32^r
27		[Jean-Baptiste Lully]	Amants aymez [from 'Cadmus et Hermione']	f. 32^r
28		[Jean-Baptiste Lully]	Gueris toy [from 'Cadmus et Hermione']	f. 32^v
29		Dr John Blow	my trembling song awake	ff. 33^v-45^r
30		[Giovanni Battista] Bassani	Quid Arma quid Bella	ff. 45^v-49^r
31		[Giovanni Battista Bassani]	In hoc Mundo inconstante	ff. 49^v-53^v
32		[Giovanni Battista Bassani]	In Caligine umbrosa	ff. 54^r-60^r
33		[Henry Purcell]	Celebrate this feastival [Z321 (1-7)]	ff. 60^v-65^r
34		[Musgrave Heighington]	Integer vitae scelerisque purus	ff. 70^v-66^v
35		H[enry] P[urcell]	In guilty night [Z134]	ff. 76^r-71^r
36		[Henry Purcell]	Kindly treat [cont. of no. 33 above; Z321 (14)]	ff. 71^v-72^r
37		[Giacomo] Carissime [spurious]	[Mass a3: Sanctus; cont. from no. 42 below]	ff. 79^r-76^v
38		Dr [William] Croft	[Service in b: T/J]	ff. 79^v-90^r
39		Dr [William] Croft	Lord what love have I	ff. 91^r-94^v
40		Mr [John] Goldwin	O Lord how glorious are thy works	ff. 95^r-96^r
41		[Jeremiah Clarke]	How long wilt thou forget me	ff. 96^v-98^r
42		Giacomo Carissimi [spurious]	Missa a 3 voc [K/G/C; cont. no. 37 above]	ff. 115^r-98^v
43		Mr John Banister	The bread is all back'd ['The man's the master']	ff. 119^v-115^v

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.