Christ Church Library music catalogue: Mus. 681-2

Mus. 681-2

Printed. Complete set of two partbooks.

Mus. 681-2
Six sonatas of two parts purposely made and contrived for two flutes compos'd by M^r: William Croft[,] to which is added an excellent solo for a flute and a bass by Seign^r: Papus[.] The whole carefully corrected and fairly engraven.
London: Printed for J[ohn] Walsh ... and J[ohn] H[are], [1704]
Mus. 681: Fluto primo; Mus. 682: Fluto secundo.

Provenance: from the Aldrich bequest, listed in Archives 1717, item H34, as 'Croft's Sonata's. 2 Books'; there is an equivalent entry in Dowding (main hand).

Oblong format, 325 x 205 mm. Early C18th blue paper wrappers, each stitched into a folder of modern card and mounted impermanently on cords within an early C20th folder of stiff card and vellum. Shelfmark 'H.34' on original upper wrapper of Mus. 682. Bookplate 2 in Mus. 682 only. Upper original cover of Mus. 681 annotated by Malchair. C19th shelfmarks: K.3.53-4.

Microfilm: The printed music of Christ Church, Oxford, reel 37.
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