Mus. 49 (pp. 88-151)
Manuscript. Anthems, songs and dialogues, copied in score.
Copyist unidentified; English, late 17th century.
Table of titles and composers in modern form. Display form found in manuscript.
1 |
Richard Portman |
Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous |
pp. 88-90 |
2 |
Pelham Humfrey |
Wilt thou forgive that sin ('A Hymn to God the Father') |
pp. 91-93 |
3 |
Thomas(?) Wilkinson |
Hear my prayer, O Lord |
pp. 94-95 |
4 |
Pelham Humfrey |
Lord, I have sinned |
pp. 96-98 |
5 |
Pelham Humfrey and John Blow |
Hark how the wakeful cheerful cock ('A dialogue between two penitents') |
pp. 99-107 |
6 |
Pelham Humfrey |
O, the sad day when friends shall shake their heads |
pp. 108-110 |
7 |
Henry Cooke |
Awake, my soul ('The morning hymn') |
pp. 110-114 |
8 |
James Hart |
Where would coy Aminta run |
pp. 115-116 |
9 |
John Wilson |
Stay, lovely boy |
pp. 117-118 |
10 |
John Wilson |
Black maid, complain not that I fly ('The answer') |
pp. 119-120 |
11 |
Matthew Locke |
When death shall part us from these kids ('Dialogue between Thirsis and Dorinda') |
pp. 121-127 |
12 |
John Blow |
Awake, my lyre |
pp. 128-132 |
13 |
Henry Hall (i) |
Haste, Charon, haste, 'tis Noll ('A dialogue between Oliver and Charon') |
pp. 133-140 |
14 |
Henry Cooke |
As on a river's side |
pp. 141-144 |
15 |
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If I live to be old |
pp. 145-146 |
16 |
Michael Wise |
Old Chiron thus preached |
pp. 147-150 |
Upright format, 307 x 200 mm. Four gatherings, as follows:
- Fascicle 1: originally 6 nested bifolios = 12 folios, of which
ff. 7-12 have been excised (ff. 1-6: now pp. 88-99). To judge
from surviving stubs of the excised folios, music had been copied
on them with the fascicle inverted, copying from the rear. The
excised leaves have not been traced elsewhere in the Christ Church
collection.
- Fascicle 2: originally 4 nested bifolios = 8 folios, of which
ff. 5-8 have been excised (ff. 1-4: now pp. 100-107). There
is no trace of music on the surviving stubs of the excised leaves.
- Fascicle 3: originally 4 nested bifolios = 8 folios, of which
ff. 5-8 have been excised (ff. 1-4: now pp. 108-115). There
is no trace of music on the surviving stubs of the excised leaves.
- Fascicle 4: 9 nested bifolios = 18 folios, intact (now pp. 116-51).
Unused staves on p. 151. Now bound as pp. 88-151 of Mus. 49,
a late 18th-century guardbook bound in white parchment over boards;
pagination is modern.
Provenance uncertain, but most likely from the Aldrich bequest,
to judge from a jotting in Aldrich's handwriting on p. 127:
'Here's a Health to the King whom the Crown does belong to' (written
below a blank stave, as if intended as text-underlay for a catch).
Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 6.
Bibliography:
Jonathan P. Wainwright, Musical Patronage in Seventeenth-Century
England: Christopher, First Baron Hatton (1605-1670) (Aldershot
and Brookfield VT, 1997), pp. 378-82. 
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