Christ Church Library music catalogue: Mus. 614

Mus. 614

Manuscript. Contrafacta and other adaptations by Henry Aldrich, copied in score by John Church; English, early 18th century. Evidently a partner volume to Mus. 50.

The contents are arranged in two sequences:

items 1-11: verse anthems;
items 12-24: full anthems.

Table of titles and composers in modern form. Display form found in manuscript.

1	Orlando Gibbons (arr. Henry Aldrich)	Blessed is the man (= Glorious and powerful God)	pp. 1-8
2	Henry Aldrich (after Carissimi?)	God is our refuge	pp. 9-16
3	Henry Aldrich (after Carissimi?)	Oh how amiable	pp. 17-24
4	Henry Aldrich (after Carissimi)	Haste thee, O Lord my God (= O dulcissimum Mariae nomen + final chorus of Jephte)	pp. 25-31
5	Henry Aldrich (after Carissimi)	O Lord, I will praise thee (derived from Laudemus virum gloriosum + Dicite nobis)	pp. 31-41
6	Michael Wise (arr. Henry Aldrich)	Thy beauty, O Israel (= How are the mighty fallen)	pp. 42-51
7	Henry Aldrich (after Carissimi)	For Sion's sake (derived from Egredimini caelestes curiae + Suscitavit Dominus + Annunciate gentes)	pp. 52-62
8	Henry Aldrich (after Carissimi?)	O pray for the peace of Jerusalem	pp. 63-72
9	Henry Aldrich (after Carissimi)	I am well pleased (= Praevaluerunt in nos inimici + Vidi impium superexaltatum)	pp. 73-86
10	Henry Aldrich (after Carissimi?)	Behold in heaven, on the right hand	pp. 87-97
11	John Bull (arr. Henry Aldrich)	O Lord my God (= Almighty God, who by the leading)	pp. 98-107
12	Henry Aldrich (after an unidentified model)	All people that on earth do dwell	1 - 4
13	Richard Farrant (arr. Henry Aldrich)	Call to remembrance	4 - 7
14	Richard Farrant (arr. Henry Aldrich)	Hide not thou thy face from us	8 - 10
15	Henry Aldrich (after an unidentified model)	By the waters of Babylon	11 - 14
16	Henry Aldrich (after Palestrina)	Why art thou so vexed (= Ave Maria)	15 - 18
17	Henry Aldrich (after Palestrina)	My heart is fixed (= Nos autem gloriari)	19 - 23
18	Henry Aldrich (after Palestrina)	Hold not thy tongue (= Nativitas tua)	24 - 27
19	Henry Aldrich (after Palestrina)	O God the king of glory (= O rex gloriae)	28 - 32
20	Henry Aldrich (after Palestrina)	The eye of the Lord (= Jesus junxit se)	32 - 36
21	Henry Aldrich (after Palestrina)	We have heard with our ears (= Doctor bonus)	37 - 43
22	Henry Aldrich (after Tallis)	I look for the Lord (from Absterge Domine)	44 - 49
23	Henry Aldrich (after Byrd)	Be not wroth (= Civitas sancti tui)	50 - 55
24	Henry Aldrich (after William Mundy)	O Lord, I bow the knees	56 - 61

Upright format, 333 x 207 mm. 24 gatherings, each of 2 nested bifolios (= 4 folios); 96 folios in total. Of these, gatherings 1 and 24 were used as endleaves or pastedowns, and are unpaginated; Church's index to the volume is written on f.[4r]. The remaining gatherings are arranged as follows:

Gatherings 2-15: assigned signatures A-O by Church, and paginated 1-112.
Gatherings 16-23: assigned signatures A-H by Church, and paginated 1-64. This second sequence of pagination is now distinguished from the first by prefixed asterisks, *1-*64. (Asterisks were added to these pages in 1990, and will not be present in microfilms made before that date.)

Unused ruled staves on pp. 108-112 and *62-64. Contemporary binding of dark blue leather over boards, gold tooled with fillets and small ornaments on the upper and lower covers and spine. Bookplate 2. 19th-century shelfmark: I.8.15

Provenance: from the Aldrich bequest, listed in Dowding (main hand) at position P6 as 'A Vol. of 11 Verse & 13 full Anthems / of Dr Aldrich fairly wrote'. The shelfmark 'P.6' has been written by Hind on the front flyleaf of the volume.

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 25.

For a full list of manuscripts at Christ Church copied by John Church, see the entry for Mus. 50.

Bibliography:

Robert Shay (ed.), Henry Aldrich: Selected Anthems and Motet Recompositions, Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, 85 (Madison, 1998): includes editions of items 5, 7, 9, 17, 21 and 23.