Ten Select Voluntaries for the Organ ... Book IIId. ... Price 5s
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- London: Printed and Sold by Longman and Broderip, No. 26 Cheapside, 1780
London: Printed and Sold by Longman and Broderip, No. 26 Cheapside, 1780. Oblong folio. Disbound. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] (blank), 2-29, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved.
Light pencil markings ("o," etc.) at the start of each piece.
Provenance
Noted conductor, harpsichordist and musicologist Christopher Hogwood (1941-2014).
Slightly worn; small crease to upper edge of first and last leaves; very occasional minor soiling and scattered foxing; lower portion of first three leaves detached. Rare. JISC (1 copy only, at The British Library). RISM Recueils Imprimés XVIIIe Siècle, p. 354.
Gibbons "was a leading composer of vocal, keyboard and ensemble music in early 17th-century England." John Harper and Peter Le Huray in Grove Music Online
Blow was an English composer, organist and teacher. "By his mid-20s he had become the foremost musician in England, and in later years he was the elder statesman of the Restoration school, whose chief luminary was Henry Purcell." Bruce Wood in Grove Music Online
Purcell "was one of the most important 17th-century composers and one of the greatest of all English composers." Peter Holman and Robert Thompson in Grove Music Online
Greene was an English composer and organist. "Though remembered chiefly for his church music, he was also an important composer of keyboard music, songs, and extended vocal works." H. Diack Johnstone in Grove Music Online
Boyce was an English composer, organist, and editor. "Though formerly best known for some of his anthems and his editing of Cathedral Music (1760–73), the significant contribution he made to instrumental music, song, secular choral and theatre music in England is now widely recognized." Ian Bartlett and Robert J. Bruce in Grove Music Online
John Stafford Smith, an English musicologist and composer "is now chiefly remembered for his pioneering work as a musical antiquary. He began early to collect old music manuscripts and editions, and he placed his collection and his knowledge at the disposal of Sir John Hawkins, who acknowledged his debt to him in the preface to his General History of the Science and Practice of Music (1776–89). Smith transcribed and edited many of the music examples in that work. In 1779 he issued A Collection of English Songs, composed about the year 1500. Taken from MSS. of the same age, which was perhaps the first scholarly edition printed in England. He continued to build a collection of music that is priceless by today's standards, but was probably acquired at little cost. It included the Mulliner Book, the Old Hall MS (which he bought in 1813), and the copy of the Ulm Gesangbuch (1538) formerly owned by J.S. Bach and presented to Smith by C.P.E. Bach at Hamburg in 1772. ... Smith was much more than a mere collector; in Young's words, he was ‘virtually the first English musicologist’. One might go further and say he was the first musicologist of any nationality, since England was in the forefront of musical antiquarianism." Nicholas Temperley in Grove Music Online.
Light pencil markings ("o," etc.) at the start of each piece.
Provenance
Noted conductor, harpsichordist and musicologist Christopher Hogwood (1941-2014).
Slightly worn; small crease to upper edge of first and last leaves; very occasional minor soiling and scattered foxing; lower portion of first three leaves detached. Rare. JISC (1 copy only, at The British Library). RISM Recueils Imprimés XVIIIe Siècle, p. 354.
Gibbons "was a leading composer of vocal, keyboard and ensemble music in early 17th-century England." John Harper and Peter Le Huray in Grove Music Online
Blow was an English composer, organist and teacher. "By his mid-20s he had become the foremost musician in England, and in later years he was the elder statesman of the Restoration school, whose chief luminary was Henry Purcell." Bruce Wood in Grove Music Online
Purcell "was one of the most important 17th-century composers and one of the greatest of all English composers." Peter Holman and Robert Thompson in Grove Music Online
Greene was an English composer and organist. "Though remembered chiefly for his church music, he was also an important composer of keyboard music, songs, and extended vocal works." H. Diack Johnstone in Grove Music Online
Boyce was an English composer, organist, and editor. "Though formerly best known for some of his anthems and his editing of Cathedral Music (1760–73), the significant contribution he made to instrumental music, song, secular choral and theatre music in England is now widely recognized." Ian Bartlett and Robert J. Bruce in Grove Music Online
John Stafford Smith, an English musicologist and composer "is now chiefly remembered for his pioneering work as a musical antiquary. He began early to collect old music manuscripts and editions, and he placed his collection and his knowledge at the disposal of Sir John Hawkins, who acknowledged his debt to him in the preface to his General History of the Science and Practice of Music (1776–89). Smith transcribed and edited many of the music examples in that work. In 1779 he issued A Collection of English Songs, composed about the year 1500. Taken from MSS. of the same age, which was perhaps the first scholarly edition printed in England. He continued to build a collection of music that is priceless by today's standards, but was probably acquired at little cost. It included the Mulliner Book, the Old Hall MS (which he bought in 1813), and the copy of the Ulm Gesangbuch (1538) formerly owned by J.S. Bach and presented to Smith by C.P.E. Bach at Hamburg in 1772. ... Smith was much more than a mere collector; in Young's words, he was ‘virtually the first English musicologist’. One might go further and say he was the first musicologist of any nationality, since England was in the forefront of musical antiquarianism." Nicholas Temperley in Grove Music Online.