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Mus. 360

Manuscript. Vocal exercises, treble voice-parts, and rudiments for singers, compiled by various copyists, including Richard Goodson Sr, with a later addition by Richard Goodson Jr. English, c. 1700 and later.

The list of contents below includes only pieces copied at the front of the volume (ff. 1r-10r). The rear of the volume (ff. 38v-34r) and the inside lower cover have been used for copying additional scales, vocal exercises, and jottings of rudimentary music theory. At least 4 copyists, as follows:

item 1: chorister?
items 2-7, and most material at rear of volume: unidentified.
items 8-9: Richard Goodson Sr.
item 10: Richard Goodson Jr.

Table of titles and composers as shown in the manuscript. Display in modern form.

1		Witt and face you still perfection have	f. 1^r
2	[John Eccles]	A soldier And A saylor	ff. 1^v-2^r
3		What shall I doe	ff. 2^v-3^r
4	[Henry Purcell]	They tell us that you mighty Powers [from 'The Indian Queen', Z.630(19)]	ff. 3^v-4^r
5		If you men like Turtles wou'd not stray	f. 4^v
6	[Daniel Purcell]	Shepherds tune your Pipes	ff. 4^v-5^r
7		When Cynthia did by various ways	ff. 5^v-6^r
8	[Henry Purcell]	Genius of England [from 'Don Quixote'; Z.578(7b)]	ff. 6^v-8^r
9	[Henry Purcell]	From Rosie Bowr's [opening only; from 'Don Quixote'; Z.578(9a)]	f. 8^v
10	[Richard Goodson (ii)?]	[opening of four-voice fugue in D major, in open score]	ff. 9^v-10^r

Oblong format, 200 x 97 mm. 38 surviving folios; leaves have been excised from the front and rear of the volume, and from within the textblock. Foliation is in modern pencil, and was adjusted in July 2001; microfilms made before that date will not show the adjustments. Unused ruled staves on ff. 9r and 11v-33v. Contemporary binding of brown leather over boards, gold-tooled with fillets and small ornaments. No early bookplate. 19th-century shelfmark: I.4.72.

Provenance: not listed in any of the 18th-century catalogues, but presumably from the Goodson bequest, and possibly used for the training of boy choristers.

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 11.