Collected vocal music
Recent researches in the music of the Baroque Era, v. 122, v. 123, v. 120, v. 121, 120-123
Scores
4 volumes (xxxvi, 91 : facsimiles ; 31 cm xxxv, 197 ; xxxiv, 240 ; xxxi, 76 pages).
9780895795137, 9780895795144, 9780895795182, 9780895795205, 0895795132, 0895795140, 0895795183, 0895795205
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pt. 1. Solo songs
pt. 2. Dialogues, partsongs, and catches
pt. 3. Sacred music
pt. 4. Masques
Pt. 1 contains 58 songs for soloist. Pt. 2, 14 dialogues for 2-3 voices, 10 part songs for 2-3 voices, 10 works for soloist and 2-part chorus and 34 catches for 3-4 voices. Pt. 3 contains anthems, sacred songs, psalm settings, motets and sacred canons for 1-5 voices. Pt. 4, 5 masques for mixed voices, strings and continuo. All items except for the catches have partially figured unrealized continuo
Librettists include Sir John Suckling, Thomas Carew, James Shirley, Sir William Davenant, Sir William Berkeley, John Ford, William Cartwright, Thomas Cary, Henry Glapthorne, Sr. He. Moody, James Shirley, Robert Herrick, Edmund Waller, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Thomas Middleton, Sir John Denham, Ben Jonson, Jasper Mayne, Richard Lovelace, Andrew Marvell, John Tatham, Sir Robert Ayton, Thomas Randolph, Richard Brome, Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins, and anonymous sources
Preface, historical notes and critical report in each volume in English
English or Latin words, also printed as text with English translations from the Latin