Item 4 - Bass cantoris partbook

1 vol., 30 x 19 cm

Verse anthems by Aldrich, Batten, Blow, Bowman, Clarke, Creighton, Croft, Fuller, Gibbons, Goldwin, Grano, Greene, Hall, Hawkins, Humfrey, J. Jackson, Norris, Purcell, Quarles, Tucker, Tudway, Weldon, Williams, and Wise, with five anthems by unidentified composers.

Closely related to the Tenor decani partbook and Tenor cantoris partbook which make up Add. MS a. 665/2 and 3. Three anthems do not appear in those partbooks.

An original index is pasted on the inside front cover. p. 137 contains an insertion passage of three bars from Psalm 150, not relatable to any piece in the manuscript. P. 144 contains three anonymous double chants in pencil, added later. P. 155 is headed 'Deliver my soul O Lord by Mr Hawkins Ely' but no music has been copied. The manuscript was likely copied before 1730.

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p. 4: Mr Hall, 'By the waters of Babilon'
p. 7: [Tudway], 'Ecclus:44 Let us now praise worthy men' (incomplete)
p. 7: Mr Tudway, ' My God, my God'
p. 9: Mr Purcell, 'My song shall be alway' (incomplete)
p. 10: Dr Blow, 'Lord how are they encresed'
p. 11: Mr Wise, 'The ways of Sion do mourn'
p. 13: [Purcell], 'Be mercifull unto me O God'
p. 17: Dr Blow, 'Turn thee unto me O Lord'
p. 18: [Bowman], 'Give the King thy judgements'
p. 19: ——, 'The Lord is my light'
p. 21: [Wise]: 'The Prodigall' ('I will arise')
p. 21: [Quarles], 'Psalme 139'
p. 22: [Hawkins], 'Arise O Lord'
p. 23: Mr Humphreys, 'Lord, teach us to number our dayes'
p. 24: [Purcell], 'Behold I bring you glad tidings'
p. 26: Dr Blow, 'O Lord I have sinned'
p. 28: Mr Purcell, 'I was glad' (incomplete)
p. 31: [Wise], 'The Lord is my shepherd'
p. 31: [Bowman], 'Sing unto the Lord'
p. 32: [Tudway], 'A Commemoration Anthem for Benefactors' ['Let us now praise worthy men']
p. 34: Mr Wise, 'I will sing a new song'
p. 36: Dr Blow, 'And I heard a great voyce'
p. 39: Mr Humpherys, 'O Lord my God'
p. 41: Mr H. Purcell, 'My song shall be alway'
p. 47: [Wise], 'Awake Awake Isaiah'
p. 50: Mr Tucker, 'I will magnify the O God my King'
p. 52: Tho. Tudway, 'Sing we merrily'
p. 54: Mr Wise, 'How are the mightie fallen'
p. 55: [Gibbons], 'Behold, thou hast made my days'
p. 57: [Fuller], 'Thy mercy O Lord'
p. 58: Mr Hawkins, 'Turn thou thy face O Lord from my sins'
p. 58: Mr Norris, 'Blessed are those that are undefiled'
p. 60: Dr Aldrich, 'The Lord is King'
p. 61: Dr Blow, 'O sing unto God'
p. 65: Dr Blow, 'Turn us again' (Not in MSS a/665/2-3)
p. 68: Dr Blow, 'We will rejoyce; A Thanksgiving Anthem for discovery of the Plot in 97' (Not in MS a/665/3)
p. 71: [Purcell], 'Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord'
p. 74: Dr Blow, 'I waited patiently'
p. 75: Mr Purcell, 'They that go down'
p. 79: Dr Blow, 'Bring unto the Lord'
p. 80: Mr Tucker, 'Wherewithal'
p. 81: Mr Humphrys, 'Like as the hart'
p. 82: Humfreys, 'O be joyfull'
p. 84: [Wise], 'Awake up my glory'
p. 84: [Wise], 'I will cry unto God'
p. 85: [J. Jackson], 'The Lord said unto my Lord'
p. 85: Mr Tudway, 'Behold, God is my salvation'
p. 89: Dr Aldrich, 'Give the King thy judgments O Lord'
p. 94: Mr Purcell, 'O give thanks'
p. 98: Mr Crofts, 'The Lord is king'
p. 100: [Weldon], 'Ponder my words O Lord' (Not in MSS a/665/2-3)
p. 103: Mr Clarke, 'I will love thee O Lord'
p. 104: Dr Blow, 'The Lord is my shepherd'
p. 107: Dr Tudway, 'I will sing unto the Lord'
p. 111: Mr Golding, 'O praise God in his holiness'
p. 111: Dr Blow, 'I beheld and lo, a great multitude'
p. 114: [Wise], 'Thou O God art praised in Sion' (Not in MSS a/665/2-3)
p. 116: Mr Humphrys, 'Rejoice in the Lord'
p. 117: Dr Aldrich, 'O Lord I have heard thy voice'
p. 123: Mr Purcell, 'Thy way O God is holy'
p. 123: Mr Williams, 'O clap your hands'
p. 124: Dr Crofts, 'The Lord is my strength'
p. 130: Dr Croft, 'Praise the Lord, O my soul'
p. 131: Mr Purcell, 'The Lord is King'
p. 132: Mr Purcell, 'Praise the Lord, O my soul'
p. 137: ——, [Fragment of Psalm 150]
p. 138: Mr Greene, 'Hear my prayer, O God'
p. 139: Mr Greene, 'O Lord, give ear unto my prayer'
p. 140: Robt. Fuller, 'I will alway give thanks'
p. 141: Mr Norris, 'In Jury is God known' (a tone lower than in MSS a/665/2-3)
p. 142: ——, Psalm 119 (versification of Psalm 119's opening, text is on p. 143)
p. [144]: ——, [3 Double chants] (in pencil)
p. [155]: ['Deliver my soul O Lord by Mr Hawkins Ely'' (incomplete)

Back:
p. 3: [Aldrich], 'Out of the deep' (incomplete)
p. 3: Dr Creyghton, 'O praise God in his holiness'
p. 5: ——, 'O clap your hands'
p. 6: Mr Henry Purcell, 'Part of the burial Anthem'
p. 7: [Grano], 'O praise God in his holiness'
p. [8]: Mr Batten, 'Hear my prayer O God'
p. [10]: Dr Crofts, 'We will rejoice in thy salvation'
p. [13]: Tudway. 'I am the resurrection'
p. [14]: Dr Blow, 'My God my God'

Robert Creighton was Fellow then Professor of Greek 1652-1679, Charles Quarles was organist 1688-1717, John Bowman was organist 1717-1730, Robert Fuller was master of the choristers from 1717; Tudway and Hawkins were also Cambridge men.

In a modern binding.

Eight anthems and one fragment have been bound from the back and separately numbered.