Miscellany of catches, glees and rounds [manuscript], ca. 1625.

iii, 38 leaves of ms. music ; 16 x 20 cm (Obl. 8vo.)

Collection of catches, glees and rounds by British composers including: John Hilton, Thomas Ford, Edmund Nelham, Thomas Brewer, William Lawes, Thomas Ravenscroft, William Webb and Mr. White. Each work consists of a single vocal line that was used by all voices, though entering successively. Of the pieces that do not specify their total number of parts, those that have concordances require three or four voices. Includes earliest source for the four-voice round that closes As you like it (leaf 17).

Folger card catalog title: A commonplace book of catches, glees and rounds.
Leaves 20-36 blank.
Songs listed in the Folger index of first lines of poems.
A loose leaf formerly inserted between the first and second front fly-leaves is now cataloged separately as V.a.413.
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Most of the songs in this volume appear sometimes in a slightly variant form, in the successive editions of John Hilton's Catch that catch can, 1652-1667.

In original vellum wrappers.

Purchased in October 1919 by Henry Clary Folger from London dealer Bernard Quaritch, catalogue no. 355, lot 69.

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006. "Noyses, sounds, and sweet aires" (catalog entry 29)

Charteris, R. Annotated catalogue of the music manuscripts in the Folger, 93
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 2076.1

V.a.409

cs2076.1