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Mus. 913-18 / Mus. 611

Printed. Complete set of six partbooks in 6 tracts, with a supplementary keyboard part (Mus. 611) for tract 6.

Mus. 913-18(1)
Canzonets. Or little short songs to foure voyces: celected out of the best and approved Italian authors. By Thomas Morley, Gent. of her Majesties Chappell.
London: Imprinted ... by Peter Short, 1597
RISM B/I 159723 Early Music Online
Mus. 913: Cantus; Mus. 914: Altus; Mus. 915: Tenor; Mus. 918: Bassus.
Mus. 913-18(2)
Vecoli, Regolo, fl. 1557-1586 Grove
Di Regolo Vecoli da Lucca il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci nuovamente composti et dati in luce.
Paris: Per Adriano le Roy, & Roberto Ballard, 1586
RISM A/I V1086
Mus. 913: Canto; Mus. 914: Alto; Mus. 915: Tenore; Mus. 916: Quinto; Mus. 918: Basso.
Mus. 913-18(3)
Yonge, Nicholas, d. 1619 Grove DNB
Byrd, William, 1542 or 3-1623 Grove DNB
Musica transalpina. Madrigales translated of foure, five and sixe parts, chosen out of divers excellent authors, with the first and second part of La verginella, made by Maister Byrd, upon two stanz's of Ariosto, and brought to speake English with the rest. Published by N. Yonge, in favour of such as take pleasure in musick of voices.
London: Imprinted ... by Thomas East, the assignè of William Byrd, 1588
ESTC, S120367; STC (2nd ed.), 26094.5 EEBO; RISM B/I 158829 Early Music Online
Mus. 913: Cantus; Mus. 914: Altus; Mus. 915: Tenor; Mus. 916: Quintus; Mus. 917: Sextus; Mus. 918: Bassus.
Mus. 913-18(4)
Yonge, Nicholas, d. 1619 Grove DNB
Musica transalpina. The second booke of madrigalles, to 5. & 6. voices: translated out of sundrie Italian authors & newly published by Nicolas Yonge.
London: Printed by Thomas Este, 1597
ESTC, S120387; STC (2nd ed.), 26095 EEBO; RISM B/I 159724 Early Music Online
Mus. 913: Cantus; Mus. 914: Altus; Mus. 915: Tenor; Mus. 916: Quintus; Mus. 917: Sextus; Mus. 918: Bassus.
Mus. 913-18(5)
Finetti, Giacomo, fl. 1605-1631 Grove
Iacobi Finetti Anconitani in ecclesia magnae Domus Venet. musices magistri. Concerti ecclesiastici II. III. et IIII. vocibus. Cum basso generali ad organum. Iam de novo, multis sublatis erroribus, in lucem editi.
Antwerp: Apud Petrum Phalesium, 1621
RISM A/I F830
Mus. 913: Cantus; Mus. 914: Altus; Mus. 915: Tenor; Mus. 917: Bassus generalis; Mus. 918: Bassus.
Mus. 913-18(6), Mus. 611
Philips, Peter, 1560 or 61-1628 Grove DNB
Paradisus sacris cantionibus consitus, una, duabus et tribus vocibus decantandis. Cum basso generali ad organum. Auctore R. D. Petro Philippi Anglo, ecclesiae collegiatae S. Vincentii Sonegiensis canonico, et serenissimorum Alberti et Isabellae Archiducum Austriae &c. organista. Nunc primùm in lucem editus.
Antwerp: Apud Petrum Phalesium, 1628
RISM A/I P1988
Mus. 914: Tertia pars; Mus. 916: Secunda pars; Mus. 917: Prima pars; Mus. 611: Bassus generalis.

Provenance: from the Aldrich bequest. Mus. 913-18 is listed in Dowding (main hand) at shelfmark N.3.1; a full listing of the tracts is given there. Mus. 611 is first listed by Hind (in Dowding) at shelfmark P16: 'Paradisus sacris Cantionibus consilus. Antw. 1628', annotated (incorrectly) by Havergal: '3 parts wanting'.

Mus. 913-18: upright format, 220 x 165 mm. Late C17th bindings of the 'Aldrich binding' Type 1; the spines are gold-tooled with Aldrich's monogram, small ornaments and 'MAD C VI B[ooks]'. Partial indices of contents on front flyleaves of Mus. 915 and 916 drawn up by the Aldrich Associate; the latter has been annotated by Aldrich himself: 'The Thorough-Base to this Paradise is in a distinct Folio mark'd C' (= Mus. 611). Bookplate 2 in all six volumes. Index of contents by Malchair on front flyleaf of Mus. 913. C19th shelfmarks: K.6.6-11.

Mus. 611: upright format, 345 x 220 mm. Late C17th binding of the 'Aldrich binding' Type 1; gold-tooled 'C' on the spine. Shelfmark 'P.16' on front flyleaf. Bookplate 2. C19th shelfmark: I.8.12.

Microfilms: The printed music of Christ Church, Oxford, reels 37, 58 and 59.
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For another copy (incomplete) of tract 3, see Mus. 1288; for a different edition (but with the same publication date), see Mus. 1289.
For another copy (incomplete) of tract 4, see Mus. 1287.