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Seventy-one Italian and Latin songs for 5, and forty-nine for 6 voices

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MSS. Mus. f. 1-6

Summary

Seventy-one Italian and Latin songs for 5, and forty-nine for 6 voices (the 'Cantus', 'Quintus', 'Altus', 'Sextus', 'Tenor' and 'Bassus' parts, each in a separate book). The authors' names are:

Bona, Valerio

Byrde, William (many)

Croce, Johannes

Fabritio, Albino

Felis, Stephanas

Ferabosco, Alfonso

Ferretti, Giovanni

Gastoldi, Giovanni Giacomo

Lupo, Tommaso

Marenzio, Luca

Massaini, Tiburto

Mel, Rinaldi del

Monte, Philippus de

Morley, Thomas

Paradiso, Rinaldi

Pevernage, Andrè

Phillips, Peter

Stabile, Annibal

Vecchi, Horatio

Victorio, Ltidovicus de

Violante, Giovanni Francesco

Wilbye, John.

There are full lists in each volume, but there is no Sextus part of the songs for 5 voices. Notes in the volumes testify that Thomas Hamond of Cressners in Hawkedon (co. Suffolk) copied these volumes in 1631, chiefly from George Kirby's black books, which were sold after Kirby's death to sir John Holland in 1634. As late as 1661 the present volumes were still in their writer's possession.

Fragments of court rolls of Wethersfield (co. Essex) in 1606-1607 are in MSS. Mus. f. 1-2, 4-5.

At MS. Mus. f. 3 (fol. 95) and MS. Mus. f. 6 (fol. 2V) is a letter from John Paschall to (Thomas ?) Hammond, 5 Dec. 1622.