Royal College of Music

MS 517

A book of vocal music by Henry Purcell. 18th century.
f. 12r, 18r
SaG 15.2: George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon Job ('In Hus, a land which near the sun's uprise')

Copy of Chapters X and XIV, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

First published in A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638). Hooper, I, 1-78.

MS 684

A music book.

Compiled largely by Thomas Hamond (d.1662), of Cressners, in the parish of Hawkedon, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

Discussed in Ian Payne, George Kirbye (c. 1565-1634): Two Important Repertories of English Secular Vocal Music Surviving Only in Manuscript, MQ, 73, No. 3 (1989), 401-16.

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RaW 132.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Farewell to false Love ('Farewell false loue, the oracle of lies')

Copy, in a musical setting.

First published, in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & songs (London, 1588). Latham, pp. 7-8. Rudick, Nos 10A (complementing Sir Thomas Heneage's verses beginning Most welcome love, thow mortall foe to lies) and 10B, pp. 11-13.

The poem based principally on a poem by Philippe Desportes: see Jonathan Gibson, French and Italian Sources for Ralegh's Farewell False Love, RES, NS 50 (May 1999), 155-65, which also cites related MSS.

MS 994

Folio MS volume of music by Henry Purcell. 18th century.
ff. 33r-56r
SeC 24: Sir Charles Sedley, On the Birth-Day of the Late Queen A Song ('Love's Goddess sure was blind this Day')

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

First published in The Gentleman's Journal (May 1692), p. 1. Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 26-7. Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in The Works of Henry Purcell, XXIV (Purcell Society, 1926), Part II, pp. 1-35.

MS 999

MS music book.
f. 61v
SaG 15.5: George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon Job ('In Hus, a land which near the sun's uprise')

Copy of Chapters X and XIV, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

18th-century.

First published in A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638). Hooper, I, 1-78.

MS 1097

Folio MS music book. Late 17th-early 18th century.
ff. 85r-112r
DrJ 190: John Dryden, A Song for St Cecilia's Day, 1687 ('From Harmony, from Heav'nly Harmony')

Copy in a musical setting by Draghi.

This MS collated in California.

First published (as a single half-sheet) in London, 1687. Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, II, 538-9. California, III, 201-3. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 185-91. The original musical score by Giovanni Baptista Draghi (c.1640-1708) discussed in Ernest Brennecke, Jr, Dryden's Odes and Draghi's Music, PMLA, 49 (1934), 1-36.

MS 1106

Folio MS music book. Late 17th century.
ff. 29r-74r
DrJ 191: John Dryden, A Song for St Cecilia's Day, 1687 ('From Harmony, from Heav'nly Harmony')

Copy in a musical setting by Draghi and possibly in his autograph (?), headed Signr. Baptists Song/On St. Cecilias Day/1687/Performd att Stationers Hall.

This MS collated in California; discussed, with facsimile example, in Brennecke, where it is described as probably either a composer's or a conductor's copy.

First published (as a single half-sheet) in London, 1687. Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, II, 538-9. California, III, 201-3. Hammond & Hopkins, III, 185-91. The original musical score by Giovanni Baptista Draghi (c.1640-1708) discussed in Ernest Brennecke, Jr, Dryden's Odes and Draghi's Music, PMLA, 49 (1934), 1-36.

MS 1119

Folio MS songbook. Late 17th century.
f. 16r
DrJ 103: John Dryden, A New Song ('Sylvia the fair, in the bloom of Fifteen')

Copy of the first stanza in a musical setting.

This MS collated in California.

First published in in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 440-1. Day, p. 72. California, III, 88-9. Hammond & Hopkins, II, 386-7.

f. 21r
DoC 16: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Advice to Lovers ('Damon, if thou wilt believe me')

Copy (words only).

First published in Banquet of Musick…The Fifth Book (London, 1691). Harris, pp. 83-4. Some texts are preceded by John Howe's song Dy wretched Damon, Dy quickly to ease her.

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OtT 11: Thomas Otway, Would you know how we meet

Copy of the song in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

Recorded in Franklin B. Zimmerman, Henry Purcell: An Analytical Catalogue (London & New York, 1963), No. 290.

A song attributed to Otway in early printed sources and possibly by him. First published, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, in The Theater of Music, The Second Book (London, 1685).