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Library of Congress, Music Division

  • M1490 M535 A5

    An oblong octavo book of roundels, in a formal Scottish hand with some rubrication, 152 pages, in near-contemporary calf elaborately gilt, with clasps.

    With a title-page Ane buck off roundells...Collected and notted by dauid meluill. 1612, the compiler David Melvill, of Aberdeen, being the brother of James Melvill (1556-1614), Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages.

    1612.

    The binding bearing the name of Robert Ogilvie in gilt. Later owned by Lord Ashburnham. Recorded in 1916 as owned by Michael Tomkinson, of Franche Hall, Kidderminster. Recorded in 1958 as being somewhere in Australia.

    This MS edited as The Melvill Book of Roundels, ed. Granville Bantock and H. Orsmond Anderton (Roxburghe Club, London, 1916).

    • SiP 118 68. Roundell

      Copy of the first stanza, in a musical setting.

      Edited from this MS in the 1916 edition, No. 68, pp. 27, 139-41. Discussed in John P. Cutts, Dametas' Song in Sidney's Arcadia, RN, 11 (1958), 183-8. Recorded in Ringler, p. 567, and in Robertson, p. 427.

      Ringler, p. 13. Robertson, p. 51. this setting first published in Thomas Ravenscroft, Pammelia (London, 1609).

      Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book I, No. 5 ('Now thanked be the great God Pan')
    • SuH 22 8 Song

      Copy of a ten-stanza version, in a musical setting.

      Edited from this MS in the 1916 edition, pp. 47-8, 199-200. Recorded in Mumford, p. 12, and in Rollins, II, 313.

      First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 28, pp. 80-2. Jones, pp. 14-16.

      Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, 'If care do cause men cry, why do not I complaine?'
    • B&F 211 No. 33

      II, 432: Troule the blacke bowle to mee. Edited in The Melvill Book of Roundels, ed. Granville Bantock and H. Orsmond Anderton (London, 1916), pp. 13, 52-3.

      Quoted in The Knight of the Burning Pestle. Bowers, II, 432. The Melvill Book of Roundels, ed. Granville Bantock and H. Orsmond Anderton (London, 1916), pp. 13, 52-3.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Song ('Troule the blacke bowle to mee')

  • ML 96 .P89

    Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed The Epicure by Mr Cowley, subscribed Mr Purcell, on all four pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

    Late 17th century.
    • CoA 34
      No description or publication history available.

      First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 56. Sparrow, p. 56.

      Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in The Banquet of Musick (London, 1692). Works of Henry Purcell, XXII (London, 1922), pp. 100-3.

      Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. IX. Another ('Underneath this Myrtle shade')

  • PR 1105.R7, 1916c

    A music MS.

    17th century?.
    • B&F 209 [unspecified page number]

      Copy, in a musical setting.

      Quoted in The Knight of the Burning Pestle. Bowers, II, 432. The Melvill Book of Roundels, ed. Granville Bantock and H. Orsmond Anderton (London, 1916), pp. 13, 52-3.

      Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Song ('Troule the blacke bowle to mee')

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