Detail View: Rylands Collection: Short Ayres or Songs for three Voyces
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Image Number:
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JRL1200277
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Reference Number:
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English MS 1408
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Image Title:
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Short Ayres or Songs for three Voyces
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Parent Work Title:
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Select musicall ayres and dialogues, in three bookes
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Select musicall ayres and dialogues, in three bookes. First book, containes ayres for a voyce alone to the theorbo or basse violl. Second book, containes choice dialogues for two voyces to the theorbo or basse violl. Third book containes, short ayres or songs for three voyces, so composed, as they may either be sung by a voyce alone, to an instrument, or by two or three voyces. Composed by these severall excellent masters in musick, viz., Dr. John Wilson, Dr. Charles Colman, Mr. Henry Lawes, Mr. William Lawes, Mr. William Webb, Mr. Nicholas Lanneare, Mr. William Smegergill, alias Caesar, Mr. Edward Colman, Mr. Jeremy Saville.
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Tabley House Song Book
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Creator:
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Lawes, William, 1602-1645
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Creator Role:
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Composer
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Creator:
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Harper, Thomas, -1656
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Creator Role:
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Printer
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Creator:
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Playford, John, 1623-1686?
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Date Created:
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1653
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Publication Details:
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London : printed by T[homas]. H[arper]. for John Playford, and are to be sold at his shop, in the Inner Temple, neare the Church doore, 1653
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Page/Sheet:
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25
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Image Sequence Number:
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145
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Description:
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Untitled vocal score. First line: 'O My Clarissa! thou cruell faire, bright as the morning, and soft as the Ayre...'. Three decorated woodcut initial 'O's. Further verses follow the vocal score for the cantus. Printed in table-book format.
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Language Code:
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eng-GB
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Subject:
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Lute music--17th century
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Subject:
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Songs, English -- Early works to 1800
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Music
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Technique Used:
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Woodcut (process)
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Paper
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Item Height:
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286 mm
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Item Width:
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189 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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References:
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'Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester', Vol. 79 (2), 1997. Barry Cooper, 'Catalogue of pre-1900 music manuscripts in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester'
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Notes:
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Volume contents: 1. Lawes, Henry: Ayres and dialogues, for one, two, and three voyces, 1653; 2. Playford, John: Select musicall ayres and dialogues, 1653; 3. Tabley House Song Book, ca. 1660-1670
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2011-08-08
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Multi Page Number:
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725
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2011-09
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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