Shelfmark
Ibb5.5.09(01)
Author
Uniform title
[Masses, voices (4)]
Title
Missa ad quatuor voces inequales / auctore Gulielmo Byrd ; ediderunt Gulielmus Smith Rockstro et Gulielmus Barclay Squire.
Edition
Novello's original octavo edition.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London ; New York : Novello, Ewer & Co., [ca. 1890]
Physical description
1 score (iv, 65 p.) ; 27 cm.
Series statement
(Novello's original octavo edition)
Language
Latin words, with introduction in English.
Language
Staff notation.
Note
For mixed chorus (SATB), unaccompanied.
Note
Preface by William Smyth Rockstro and William Barclay Squire, dated 1890.
Note
"Price Two Shillings and Sixpence"--T.p.
Note
Date of publication based on publisher's plate number.
Provenance
Black ink stamp of Rackley Library on the front flyleaf.
Provenance
Ms. annotation in black ink on the front pastedown reading "Vol. No. 24", and "A4" in pencil on the front flyleaf.
Binding
19th century vellum binding; gilt title "Byrd's Mass & other vocal music à capella" and gilt bands within a brownish-red label on spine; red edges; blank endpapers.
Copy-specific note
Bound with other choral works by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Orlando Gibbons, John Wilbye, and several issues of "The Bach Choir Magazine", and some issues of "Robert Cocks & Co.'s Hand-book of glees, catches, canons, madrigals, part-songs, & c."
Subject
Masses, Unaccompanied.
Subject
Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 4 parts), Unaccompanied.
Genre/Form
Scores.
Genre/Form
Masses.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Rockstro, W. S., 1823 - 1895 editor.
Added entry--name
Novello, Ewer & Co. publisher.
Added entry--name
Rackley Library former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Added entry--place
United States New York.
Language code
lat eng
Identifier
B54114