Shelfmark
CS.1341.08(01) - CS.1341.11
Title
Cathedral music : being a collection of the most valuable and useful compositions for that service / by the several English masters of the last two hundred years ; the whole selected and carefully revised by the late William Boyce, organist and composer to the Royal Chapels, and Master of His Majesty's Band of Musicians ; the present edition has been carefully revised by Vincent Novello.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Sacred Music Warehouse, Novello, Ewer & Co., Music Sellers (by appointment) to Her Majesty. 1, Berners Street (W.), and 35, Poultry (E.C.), [ca. 1870]
Physical description
4 parts (4 v.) ; 39 cm.
Language
English words.
Language
Staff notation.
Note
Publication date inferred from external library catalogues.
Note
Dedicated to Queen Victoria.
Note
At foot of each plate: "Boyce's Cathedral Music (Novello's Edn.)" followed by the voice part designation.
Note
Contains services, chants, and anthems by Thomas Tallis, Thomas Morley, Richard Farrant, Elway Bevin, Orlando Gibbons, William Child, Benjamin Rogers, John Blow, Henry Aldrich, Christopher Tye, William Byrd, William Lawes, Adrian Batten, Matthew Locke, Pelham Humfrey, Michael Wise, Robert Creighton, Henry Purcell, John Goldwin, Jeremiah Clarke, William Croft, John Weldon, John Bull, and William Turner.
Note
Each vol. has a separate title page and pagination.
Note
Pagination: Treble (162 p.), Alto (176 p.), Tenor (164 p.), Bass (166 p.).
Formatted contents note
Contents: Vol. 1: Treble -- Vol. 2: Alto -- Vol. 3: Tenor -- Vol. 4: Bass.
Provenance
Contains occasional ms. musical annotations and corrections in pencil throughout the score.
Provenance
Vols. 2 and 4: Blue ink stamp on the title page: "Dyson Music Seller to the Queen. Pianoforte Warehouse. Thames St. Windsor".
Binding
Vol. 1: 19th century full reverse calf binding; blind-tooled concentric rectangular floral borders on both covers forming a frame-like pattern; upper cover black-stamped with "Eton College"; blank endpapers.
Binding
Vol. 2: 19th century half reverse calf binding over dark blue morocco covers; blind-tooled double fillets along leather edges on covers; brown-reddish sprinkled edges; blank endpapers; binder's label on front pastedown: "Spottiswoode & Co., Ltd., Binders".
Binding
Vol. 3: 19th century half reverse calf binding over dark blue morocco covers; blind-tooled ornamental border along leather edges on covers; gilt titling "Eton-Boyce" on front cover; brown-reddish sprinkled edges; blank endpapers.
Binding
Vol. 4: 19th century full brown reverse calf binding; black-stamped armorial centrepiece of Eton College on upper boards; four raised bands on spine, decorated with black fillets; gilt titling within red and brown leather spine labels bordered by gilt fillets, reading "Cathedral [gilt] Music [White]", and the other "Boyce. Bass"; brown-reddish sprinkled edges; blue marbled endpapers.
Copy-specific note
Vol. 1: Imperfect, preliminary matters wanting.
Copy-specific note
Vol. 1 bound with: "The separate vocal parts, to Dr. Maurice Greene's, Forty Select Anthems. Vol.", published by "Novello, Ewer & Co.", [ca. 1855], 75 p.
Subject
Anthems English.
Subject
Church music England.
Subject
Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with organ Parts.
Genre/Form
Parts (Music)
Genre/Form
Anthems.
Genre/Form
Chants.
Added entry--name
Boyce, William, 1711 - 1779 editor.
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Aldrich, Henry, 1647 - 1710 composer.
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Batten, Adrian composer.
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Bevin, Elway, approximately 1554 - 1638 composer.
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Blow, John, ? - d. 1708 composer.
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Byrd, William, 1539 or 1540 - 1623 composer.
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Child, William, 1606? - 1697 composer.
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Clarke, Jeremiah, 1669? - 1707 composer.
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Croft, William, 1678 - 1727 composer.
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Farrant, Richard, ? - 1580 composer.
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Gibbons, Orlando, 1583 - 1625 composer.
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Henry, 1491 - 1547 composer.
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Humfrey, Pelham, 1647 - 1674 composer.
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Lawes, William, 1602 - 1645 composer.
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Locke, Matthew, 1621 or 1622 - 1677 composer.
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Morley, Thomas, 1557 - 1603? composer.
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Purcell, Henry, 1659 - 1695 composer.
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Rogers, Benjamin, 1614 - 1698 composer.
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Tye, Christopher, 1497? - 1752 composer.
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Weldon, John, 1676 - 1736 composer.
Added entry--name
Wise, Michael, 1646? - 1687 composer.
Added entry--name
Victoria, 1819 - 1901 dedicatee.
Added entry--name
Turner, William, 1651 - 1740 composer.
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Bull, John, ? - 1628 composer.
Added entry--name
Novello, Vincent, 1781 - 1861 editor.
Added entry--name
Novello, Ewer & Co. publisher.
Added entry--name
Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd. binder.
Added entry--name
Dyson & Sons bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B54263