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- c 1718-c 1728 (Creation)
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1 vol., 26 x 37 cm
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Anthems by Blow, Bowman, Croft, Fuller, Grano, Greene, Purcell, Tudway, and Weldon; Service music by Aldrich, Blow, Child, Gibbons, Purcell, Rogers, Tallis, and Tudway. It includes pre-publication copies of works by Croft and Greene.
The services are bound from the back of the volume. The original index for the back is now pasted inside the back cover, with a printed form 'In Commendatione Fundatorum'.
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Anthems
p. 4: Dr Croft, ['I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord'] (opening is missing)
p. 11: Dr Croft, 'Praise the Lord O my soul'
p. 19: Dr Crofts, ['Out of the deep']
p. 26: Dr Blow, 'And I heard a great voice'
p. 31: Dr Blow, 'I beheld and lo'
p. 37: Dr Crofts, 'Praise the Lord O my soul'
p. 43: [Croft], 'The Lord is my strength'
p. 51: Dr Croft, '3 voc Psalm the 88th'
p. 56: Dr Tudway, 'I will sing unto the Lord'
p. 61: Mr Purcell, 'Praise the Lord O my soul'
p. 67: [Tudway], 'Sing we merrily'
p. 71: Mr Green, 'Hear my prayer'
p. 75: Dr Tudway, 'I am the resurrection'
p. 77: Mr Greene, 'O Lord give ear unto my prayer'
p. 83: [Weldon], ['Ponder my words O Lord']
p. 89: Mr Robert Fuller, 'I will alway give thanks'
p. 101: [Grano], '[O praise God in his holiness'] (also p. 131)
p. 113: [Croft], 'Sing unto God O ye kingdoms' (also p. 176)
p. 123: ——, [Chorus fragment in D major]
p. 125: Dr Croft, 'Psalm 139' (incomplete)
p. 126: Mr Weldon, 'Blessed be the Lord my strength'
p. 131: John Baptist Grano, 'An Abstract, or Organ Part of an Instrumental Anthem' (also p. 101)
p. 147: [Purcell], 'The Lord is king' (incomplete)
p. 155: Mr Green, 'My soul truly waiteth'
p. 163: Dr Croft, 'Lord what love'
p. 171: John Bowman, 'The Lord is my light and my salvation'
p. 176: [Croft], ['Sing unto God O ye kingdoms'] (also p. 113)
p. 177: Dr Blow, 'Turn thee unto me O God'
p. 180: Dr Croft, [unidentified]
p. 186: [Greene], 'O God thou art my God'
p. 194: Mr Weldon, 'I will lift up mine eyes'
p. 200: Mr Weldon, 'O Lord rebuke me not'
p. 203: Mr Purcell, 'My song shall be allways' (incomplete)
p. 210: ——, [end of unidentified work]
p. 211: Mr Green, 'Rejoice in the Lord'
Services
p. 1: Dr Tudway, 'Magnificat'
p. 3: Dr Tudway, 'Nunc dimittis'
p. 5: Mr Purcell, 'Magnificat'
p. 7: Mr Purcell, ['Nunc dimittis']
p. 9: Dr Blow, 'Cantate Domino'
p. 12: Dr Blow, 'Deus misereatur'
p. 15: Dr Aldritch, 'Cantate Domino'
p. 17: Dr Aldritch, 'Deus misereatur'
p. 19: Dr Rogers, 'Magnificat'
p. 21: [Rogers], 'Nunc dimittis'
p. 23: [Child], 'Magnificat'
p. 25: [Child], 'Nunc dimittis' (incomplete)
p. 27: Mr Tallis, 'Te Deum'
p. 31: Mr Orlando Gibbons, 'Te Deum'
p. 34: Mr Gibbons, 'Magnificat'
p. 35: [Gibbons], 'Nunc dimittis'
p. 37: Dr Aldritch, 'Te Deum'
p. 41: Dr Child, 'Te Deum'
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Reference to payments for copying 1720-21 and 1728 are noted in the MS, so partly in the hand of John Bowman (organist of Trinty College 1717-30):
To Bowman for pricking 13 Anthems and 7 services £2-10-0 (Senior Bursar's Book, 1721)
Given Mr Grano for an Anthem perform'd in our Chapel £5-5-0 (Senior Bursar's Book, 1724)
To Bowman for writing Six Anthems £0-15-0* (Senior Bursar's Book, 1728)
Dr John Hacket (1671-1745), mentioned on p. 169, was Senior Bursar at Trinity 1726-1733.
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In a modern binding. The original binding (now lost) bore the date 1718.
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- Blow, John (? 1648-1708), musician and composer (Subject)
- Croft, William (? 1678-1727), organist and composer (Subject)
- Grano, John Baptist (after 1692 - before 1748), composer, trumpeter and flautist (Subject)
- Greene, Maurice (1696-1755), organist and composer (Subject)
- Purcell, Henry (1659-1695), organist and composer (Subject)
- Tudway, Thomas (c 1656-1726), organist and composer (Subject)
- Weldon, John (1677-1736), organist and composer (Subject)
- Aldrich, Henry (1648-1710), Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (Subject)
- Child, William (1607-1697), composer and organist (Subject)
- Gibbons, Orlando (? 1583-1625), keyboard player and composer (Subject)
- Rogers, Benjamin (1614-1698), organist and composer (Subject)
- Tallis, Thomas (c 1505-1585), musician and composer (Subject)
- Bowman, John (fl 1717-1731), organist (Subject)