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Chamber Music I: Matthew LOCKE (XXXI) Ref: MB31

Edited by Michael Tilmouth

No comprehensive collection of British music would be complete without reference to the outstanding achievement of Matthew Locke, most idiosyncratic and arguably the most original of Restoration composers before Purcell. This first of two chamber music volumes contains duos for two bass viols, the consort of two viols, the Little Consort and the Flat Consort of rugged chromatic music.
First published in 1971, reprinted with corrections 1975.

Price: £67.00

Chamber Music II: Matthew LOCKE (XXXII) Ref: MB32

Edited by Michael Tilmouth

The Broken Consort: Part 1; the Broken Consort: Part 2; the Consort of Four Parts and two six-part canons continue the collections of Matthew Locke's chamber music in the Musica Britannica edition.
First published in 1972, reprinted with corrections 1977.

Price: £67.00

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1. Fantasia-Suites: William LAWES (LX) (Ref: MB60)

2. Consort Music: William LAWES (XXI) (Ref: MB21)

English Songs 1625-1660 (XXXIII) Ref: MB33

Edited by Ian Spink

A collection of songs by English composers of the generation following the lute-song writers, with music of the Stuart court forming an important element. This corpus of work is of interest for its typically English compromise with the new European styles of declamation and recitative.
First published in 1971, revised 1977.

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Price: £82.00

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1. Dowland, John: A Pilgrimes Solace (1612) and Three Songs from A Musicall Banquet (Ref: LS4)

2. Dowland, John: The Third Booke of Songs (1603) (Ref: LS3)

3. Dowland, John: The Second Book of Songs (1600) (Ref: LS2)

Complete Church Music I: Pelham HUMFREY (XXXIV) Ref: MB34

Edited by Peter Dennison

Spanning the years 1663-1674, Humfrey's output provides a most significant legacy from the Restoration period. The 12 verse anthems in this volume show the evolution of a distinctively English baroque style through a mixture of continental influences. String parts for 'Have mercy upon me O God' and 'Lift up your heads' are available through the Made-to-Order Service.
First published in 1972, reprinted with corrections 1985.

Price: £67.00

Complete Church Music II: Pelham HUMFREY (XXXV) Ref: MB35

Edited by Peter Dennison

This volume contains six verse anthems, the Service in E minor (Humfrey's only surviving such setting), and the simple 'Church Chant' in C major, perhaps his best known liturgical work.
First published in 1972, revised 1985.

Price: £67.00

Early Tudor Songs & Carols (XXXVI) Ref: MB36

Edited by John Stevens

Previously unpublished secular songs from the Ritson Manuscript and the Fayrfax Manuscript form the substance of this volume, which complements MB18 to offer a fairly comprehensive picture of English vernacular polyphony in the century before the Reformation.
First published in 1975.

Price: £82.00

Selected Piano and Chamber Music: Sterndale BENNETT (XXXVII) Ref: MB37

Edited by Geoffrey Bush

A Piano Sonata, a Suite de Pièces, a Chamber Trio for violin, cello and piano and a Sonata-Duo for cello and piano bear witness to the underrated skills of this Victorian composer and administrator who was an important precursor of the British musical renaissance.
First published in 1972, reprinted with corrections 1985.

Price: £82.00

Anthems and Motets: Matthew LOCKE (XXXVIII) Ref: MB38

Edited by Peter le Huray

Locke's tour de force, 'Be thou exalted Lord', much admired by Samuel Pepys, is included here with nine other English anthems and six Latin motets to make a complete edition of the composer's works on sacred texts for four or more voices. String parts for four of the motets are available through the Made-to-Order Service.
First published in 1976, reprinted with corrections 1986.

Price: £82.00

Consort Music of Six Parts: John JENKINS (XXXIX) Ref: MB39

Edited by Donald Peart

Complementary to MB26, these six-part fantazias, pavines, fancies and In Nomines - all except one in minor keys - show Jenkins' profound technical mastery of the consort idiom extended to the handling of larger forces.
First published in 1977, reprinted with corrections 1993.

Price: £62.00

Music for Mixed Consort (XL) Ref: MB40

Edited by Warwick Edwards

15 pieces from the Walsingham Consort Book of 1588 and 19 pieces from Matthew Holmes's Consort Books, c.1575 represent music for mixed consort, a colourful and eclectic genre that played an important role in Elizabethan and Jacobean secular music-making.
First published in 1977, reprinted with corrections 1985.

Price: £82.00

Confitebor tibi, Domine: Samuel WESLEY (XLI) Ref: MB41

Edited by John Marsh

A setting of the 110th Psalm for SATB soli, chorus and orchestra, lasting over an hour. This volume makes available a key work in the output of this unworthily neglected 19th-century composer, and offers a major addition to the English choral repertoire. Performing material is available for rental.
First published in 1978.

Price: £82.00

The Judgment of Paris: Thomas ARNE (XLII) Ref: MB42

Edited by Ian Spink

Composed in 1740, this is a fascinating late example of the English masque tradition, and a relatively early work by a composer who began to occupy a central role in the life of London's musical theatre at about the time when Handel was abandoning Italian opera in favour of oratorio. Performing material is available for rental.
First published in 1978.

Price: £67.00

English Songs 1800-1860 (XLIII) Ref: MB43

Edited by Geoffrey Bush & Nicholas Temperley

A representative survey of the best of English art songs dating from the Georgian and early Victorian period. The anthology contains neglected material by Attwood, Balfe, Barnett, Hatton, Loder, Pierson, Pinto, Samuel and S S Wesley and others.
First published in 1979.

Price: £82.00

Elizabethan Consort Music I (XLIV) Ref: MB44

Edited by Paul Doe

With MB45 this volume completes the publication of extant In Nomines and related pieces used for consort performance in the reign of Elizabeth 1 - excluding the music of William Byrd and works by Scottish composers collected in MB15.
First published in 1979.

Price: £88.00

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1. Jacobean Consort Music (IX) (Ref: MB9)

2. Elizabethan Consort Music II (XLV) (Ref: MB45)

3. Jacobean Consort Music: Five Fantasias and Two Dances of Three Parts. Treble, Tenor and Bass Viols (Ref: H132)

Elizabethan Consort Music II (XLV) Ref: MB45

Edited by Paul Doe

Five-part consorts by Christopher Tye form a substantial corpus of the works collected in this volume, and appear alongside pieces by Anon, Blanks, Harding, Mundy, Weelkes, Woodson and others.
First published in 1988.

Price: £82.00

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1. Jacobean Consort Music (IX) (Ref: MB9)

2. Elizabethan Consort Music I (XLIV) (Ref: MB44)

3. Jacobean Consort Music: Five Fantasias and Two Dances of Three Parts. Treble, Tenor and Bass Viols (Ref: H132)

Fantasia-Suites: John COPRARIO (XLVI) Ref: MB46

Edited by Richard Charteris

Probably written for Charles I when Prince of Wales, Coprario's fantasia suites -16 for viol, bass viol and organ, eight for two violins, bass viol and organ - established a texture that was developed without interruption in the works of Lawes, Jenkins, Gibbons and Locke and culminated in Purcell's 12 Sonatas of 1683.
First published in 1980.

Price: £88.00

Alfred: Thomas ARNE (XLVII) Ref: MB47

Edited by Alexander Scott

Described as an 'English opera' Alfred was first performed in 1740 at Cliveden, the residence of Frederick, Prince of Wales. It is remembered today as the source of the patriotic song 'Rule Britannia'. Performing material for extended excerpts is available for rental.
First published in 1981.

Price: £82.00

Consort Music: Orlando GIBBONS (XLVIII) Ref: MB48

Edited by John Harper

33 free fantasias dominate this collection, which also includes four In Nomines, four dances and variations on 'Go from my window'. This volume gathers together the complete surviving corpus of consort music by one of the genre's greatest masters.
First published in 1982.

Price: £77.00

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1. Fantasia-Suites: William LAWES (LX) (Ref: MB60)

Songs: Hubert PARRY (XLIX) Ref: MB49

Edited by Geoffrey Bush

This is a representative collection of solo songs by a seminal figure in the English Musical Renaissance. 36 items selected from the English Lyrics show a fine sense of word setting and poetic subtlety, with texts by Sir Philip Sidney, Shelley, Scott, Lovelace, Beddoes, Byron, Keats, Sir John Suckling, Julian Sturgis, Beaumont and Fletcher, Meredith, Haywood, Herrick, Thomas Lodge and Rossetti. The four Shakespeare Sonnets are also included.
First published in 1982.

Price: £82.00

Anthems II: Anthems with Orchestra: John BLOW (L) Ref: MB50

Edited by Bruce Wood

Seven more anthems by this most influential of Restoration composers; five date from the closing years of Charles II's reign, and two from the reign of William III. Orchestral material for four of the anthems is available for rental.
First published in 1984.

Price: £82.00

Dramatic Music (including Psyche): Matthew LOCKE (LI) Ref: MB51

Edited by Michael Tilmouth

A collection that highlights Locke's pivotal role in laying the foundations of English dramatic music, combining the traditions of the Masque with the new optimistic manner of recitative. This volume also contains The Empress of Morocco and The Tempest, with the music by Humfrey, Banister, Reggio and Hart. Performing material for Psyche is available for rental.
First published in 1986.

Price: £98.00

Songs: Charles Villiers STANFORD (LII) Ref: MB52

Edited by Geoffrey Bush

Brahmsian in outlook yet flavoured with Irish flair and imagination, these songs reveal hidden aspects of a composer whose reputation, in all its diversity, is still to be fully revalued. One complete song-cycle, A Fire of Turf, is included, together with Three Ditties of Olden Times. Three Songs to Poems by Robert Bridges, Songs of Faith Set II, The Clown's Songs from Twelfth Night and 20 other individual songs.
First published in 1986.

Price: £92.00

Collected English Lutenist Partsongs I (LIII) Ref: MB53

Edited by David Greer

70 partsongs by Michael Cavendish, Robert Jones, Francis Pilkington and John Bartlett are presented in four-part score with lute tablature and transcription.
First published in 1987.

Price: £86.00

Collected English Lutenist Partsongs II (LIV) Ref: MB54

Edited by David Greer

77 partsongs by John Danyel, Thomas Ford, Robert Jones, Thomas Campion and John Attey are presented in four-part score with lute tablature and transcription.
First published in 1989.

Price: £86.00

Elizabethan Keyboard Music (LV) Ref: MB55

Edited by Alan Brown

In conjunction with MB66, this volume draws on manuscript sources of Tudor keyboard music to create a comprehensive edition of all the material which has not yet found a place in the series, or in comparable library editions.
First published in 1989.

Price: £86.00

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1. Keyboard Music: Thomas TOMKINS (V) (Ref: MB5)

2. Keyboard Music: Giles FARNABY (XXIV) (Ref: MB24)

3. Keyboard Music: Orlando GIBBONS (XX) (Ref: MB20)

Songs 1860-1900 (LVI) Ref: MB56

Edited by Geoffrey Bush

A fascinating collection that casts new light upon an undervalued 19th-century genre. Women composers Maude Valérie White and Liza Lehmann feature prominently. Of special interest is a selection of songs from Arthur Somervell's Tennyson cycle of Maude.
First published in 1989.

Price: £86.00

Anthems I: Samuel Sebastian WESLEY (LVII) Ref: MB57

Edited by Peter Horton

11 anthems by this vigorous reformer of Victorian church music show Romantic harmony and Bachian counterpoint combined with imaginative structures. These works brought new life to a uniquely English genre that had fallen into neglect at the time of their composition.
First published in 1990.

Price: £96.00

Ode on St Cecilia's Day and Anthem: Hearken unto me: Maurice GREENE (LVIII) Ref: MB58

Edited by H Diack Johnstone

Two pieces with a distinctly Cambridge connection, the Ode being composed for the opening of James Gibbs' University Senate House in 1730, the anthem intended for performance in King's College Chapel on 25th March - Founder's Day - 1728. Performing material is available for rental.
First published in 1991.

Price: £80.00

Consort Music: Thomas TOMKINS (LIX) Ref: MB59

Edited by John Irving

Though best known for his cathedral services and anthems, Tomkins was also an assiduous composer of music for viol consort; this volume makes available for the first time a collected critical edition of his work in this genre.
First published in 1991.

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Price: £80.00

Fantasia-Suites: William LAWES (LX) Ref: MB60

Edited by David Pinto

The complete fantasia-suites for one and two violins, bass viol and organ by this Royalist composer whose influence on Jenkins, Locke and Purcell was considerable, especially in the area of instrumental and dramatic music.
First published in 1991.

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Price: £80.00

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1. Consort Music: Orlando GIBBONS (XLVIII) (Ref: MB48)

2. Chamber Music II: Matthew LOCKE (XXXII) (Ref: MB32)

3. Consort Music: William LAWES (XXI) (Ref: MB21)

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