Title A collection of songs and madrigals / by English composers of the close of the fifteenth century ; prepared for the members of the Plainsong and Mediæval Music Society.

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London : B. Quaritch, 1891.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Talbott Locked Case	M1497 .C655	Lib Use Only	Ask Librarian for access

Description	xviii pages, 1 score (10, 31 pages) ; 38 cm
	score
Note	The songs are for unspecified voice (tenor?) with added piano accompaniment; the madrigals are for 2-3 voices with "compressed score".
	Includes 8 sheets of music in ancient notation in portfolio.
	Sections of introduction are variously signed "C.W.P. (i.e. C.W. Pearce), "H.B.B." (i.e. H.B. Briggs), and "A.H.-H." (i.e. A. Hughes-Hughes)
	"The accompaniments to the songs have been written specially for this work by Dr. C.W. Pearce"--Preface
	From British Museum manuscript no. 58 of the Appendix to the Royal MSS., Addition Manuscript 5465, and Additional Manuscript 31,922.
Contents	Songs. Kitt hath lost her kye ; Alone I live / Dr. Cooper ; To live alone / John Cole ; In May, that lusty season / Thos. Farthing ; The little pretty nightingale ; Though that she cannot redress ; Ah! the sighs / W. Cornish, jr. -- Madrigals. Jolly Rutterkin / W. Cornish, jr. ; Margaret Meek / Browne ; This day day dawns ; The farther I go / William Newark ; I love, loved, and loved would I be / Robert Fairfax ; I love, I love, and whom love ye / Thomas Phillips ; If love now reigned [instrumental] / King Henry VIII.
Local Note	300 copies printed, of which this is no. 165.
Language	Words in modern English; "Original text of the songs": p. xvii-xviii.
Subject	Songs with piano.
	Songs with piano.
Genre/Form	Songs with piano.
Subject	Madrigals, English.
	Madrigals, English.
	Music -- England -- 15th century.
	Music.
	England.
Chronological Term	15th century
Subject	Music -- England -- 15th century -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form	Scores.
	Scores.
Added Author	Pearce, Charles William, 1856-1928, editor.
	Briggs, H. B. (Henry Bremridge), -1901, editor.
	Hughes-Hughes, Augustus, 1857-1942, editor.
	Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society (Great Britain)
Note	Half-title and binder's title: Songs and madrigals of the fifteenth century
Added Title	Madrigals of the fifteenth century

Title A collection of songs and madrigals / by English composers of the close of the fifteenth century ; prepared for the members of the Plainsong and Mediæval Music Society.

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