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Cantiones Sacrae Octonis Vocibus (1613): Peter PHILIPS (LXI) Ref: MB61

Edited by John Steele

This collection is a landmark in the reassessment of an important yet undervalued English composer of the late Renaissance. 31 eight-voice Cantiones Sacrae reveal the impressive technical and expressive range he achieved within a conservative idiom, and his particular mastery of music for double choir.
First published in 1992.

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Price: £96.00

Four-Part Fantasias for Viols: Alfonso FERRABOSCO THE YOUNGER (LXII) Ref: MB62

Edited by Andrew Ashbee and Bruce Bellingham

The first of three volumes presenting the surviving instrumental music of Alfonso Ferrabosco the Younger. Contrapuntally sophisticated, his fantasias were admired throughout Europe and laid the foundations for the development of 17th-century English consort music. A complete recording of the four-part fantasias is available through the New England Chapter of the Viola da Gamba Society of America.
First published in 1992.

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Price: £80.00

Anthems II: Samuel Sebastian WESLEY (LXIII) Ref: MB63

Edited by Peter Horton

This volume contains The Wilderness and Ascribe unto the Lord in versions for chorus and organ and chorus and orchestra. They form an unequalled testament to Wesley's genius as a choral composer who excelled in extending the limits of the multi-movement anthem. Orchestral material is available for rental.
First published in 1993.

Price: £86.00

Anthems III: Anthems with Strings: John BLOW (LXIV) Ref: MB64

Edited by Bruce Wood

Nine pieces are included in this third volume of anthems for voices and orchestra by John Blow. They were composed during his first decade as a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal and reveal both his indebtedness to the influence of Pelham Humfrey, and his rapid assertion of his own manner.
First published in 1993.

Price: £86.00

Consort Music: Richard MICO (LXV) Ref: MB65

Edited by Andrew Hanley

In this volume are the complete extant consort works of a Jacobean Catholic composer, rediscovered this century, who excelled in the conservative polyphonic style of the earlier consort masters.
First published in 1994.

Price: £78.00

Tudor Keyboard Music c.1520-1580 (LXVI) Ref: MB66

Edited by John Caldwell

This handsome and remarkably varied collection completes the publication in modern edition, begun in MB55, of all surviving keyboard music that can reasonably be assigned to the dates 1520-1580.
First published in 1995.

Price: £87.00

Consort Music of Five and Six Parts: John WARD (LXVII) Ref: MB67

Edited by Ian Payne

A contemporary of Gibbons and a noted madrigalist, Ward was also a prolific composer of consort music in the madrigalian style. This volume of extant instrumental works of five and six parts complements an MB edition, currently in preparation, of the four-part fantasias and ayres for two bass viols and organ.
First published in 1995.

Price: £83.00

Solomon: A Serenata: William BOYCE (LXVIII) Ref: MB68

Edited by Ian Bartlett

Scored for soprano and tenor soloists, SATB chorus and orchestra, the serenata Solomon is an outstanding example of the 18th-century pastoral genre at its most poetically rich and distinctive. At one time second only to the Messiah in popularity, it deserves equivalent notice today as a masterpiece of the English baroque and as a profuse flowering of Boyce's exceptional talents. Performing material is available for rental.
First published in 1996.

Price: £88.00

Complete Organ Music: John BLOW (LXIX) Ref: MB69

Edited by Barry Cooper

The organ voluntaries, double or cornet voluntaries and psalm-tune settings by John Blow form a substantial corpus of material - 48 pieces in all - that sheds much light on the developing keyboard style of the late 17th century. Predominantly serious and contrapuntal, they bear witness to the technical mastery of their composer and to his role as an important influence in Restoration musical life.
First published in 1996.

Price: £76.00

Consort Music of Three Parts: John JENKINS (LXX) Ref: MB70

Edited by Andrew Ashbee

Twenty-eight pieces for treble, two basses and organ, and twenty-one for two trebles and a bass, attest to the degree of mastery achieved by John Jenkins in the traditional fantasia form. His command of a fine lyric gift and wide-ranging tonal orbit are especially to be noted in the contents of this volume, which fills an important gap in our knowledge of this distinctively English instrumental repertoire.
First published in 1997.

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Price: £79.00

Nocturnes and Related Pieces: John FIELD (LXXI) Ref: MB71

Edited by Robin Langley

Amongst the most widely-disseminated and influential piano music of the early 19th century, the sixteen Nocturnes of John Field are here published together for the first time, in an edition that through careful consideration of publishers' plate numbers, Russian first editions and the composer's habits of revision reveals the number and chronology of the little-known Nocturne No. 10, and its relation to the unnumbered 'Troubadour' Nocturne H.55.
First published in 1997.

Price: £79.00

Rosina: William SHIELD (LXXII) Ref: MB72

Edited by John Drummond

A retelling of the biblical story of Ruth in a rural north-of-England setting, Rosina was Shield's fourth opera, and was a considerable success at its premiere on the last day of December, 1782. Rosina's importance lies in its musical charm, its content (which includes borrowed and original vocal numbers), and in its status as the only English opera of the period for which orchestral parts survive. Performing material will be available for rental.
First published in 1998.

Price: £80.00

Complete Harpsichord Music: John BLOW (LXXIII) Ref: MB73

Edited by Robert Klakowich

The complete harpsichord music of John Blow is here made available for the first time, including eleven doubtful works and incipits of spurious ones. In this collection there are dances such as almands, corants, minuets, sarabands and jiggs, as well as extensive ground bass compositions that demonstrate the growth of a distinctive formal and technical idiom for the instrument.
First Published 1998. Hardback

Price: £81.00

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Italian Madrigals Englished: Thomas WATSON (LXXIV) Ref: MB74

Edited by Albert Chatterley

Published in 1590, Thomas Watson's Italian Madrigals Englished set the poet's own texts, in English, to music by Marenzio, Nanino and Striggio. Like Musica transalpina, dating from two years earlier, the collection marked an important stage in the assimilation of Italian secular styles within English music.
First Published 1999. Hardback.

Price: £84.00

Complete Keyboard Music: Peter PHILIPS (LXXV) Ref: MB75

Edited by David J Smith

The complete keyboard music of this neglected master of Italian vocal style is here collected in a single volume, making reference for the first time to all the surviving sources for this material, and including works previously considered of doubtful authenticity. The contents include intabulations of madrigals and chansons, fantasias, and dances.
First Published 1999. Hardback.

Price: £88.00

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Semele: John ECCLES (LXXVI) Ref: MB76

Edited by Richard Platt

An all-sung English opera that was completed in 1707 but which received its first London production only in 1972, Semele remains one of the great 'might have beens' of British music. Had it taken the stage as planned it could well have affected the development of English opera by showing that a native form, in spirit Purcellian and English rather than Italian, was indeed perfectly viable during the 18th century. Performing material available for rental.
First Published 2000. Hardback.

Price: £85.00

Symphony in G minor: Cipriani POTTER (LXXVII) Ref: MB77

Edited by Julian Rushton

Potter's Tenth Symphony was probably the most frequently performed of all his orchestral pieces, and this edition is believed to be the first of his symphonic works ever printed in full score. Potter, who was praised by Wagner for his contrapuntal skill, was Principal of the Royal Academy of Music from 1832 to 1859, and he was also notable for introducing the music of Beethoven to English audiences. Orchestral material available for rental.
First Published 2001. Hardback.

Price: £84.00

Fantasia-Suites I: John JENKINS (LXXVIII) Ref: MB78

Edited by Andrew Ashbee

Ten fantasia-suites, for two treble viols, bass viol and organ, written early in the composer’s career, and fifteen fantasia-air sets, probably late productions, add to the significant corpus of music for viol consort by this outstanding seventeenth-century composer who inherited and expanded the tradition of instrumental fantasias handed down from Coprario and Lawes. Recordings of the fifteen fantasia-air sets, performed by the Locke Consort, are available on the Channel Classics label (www.channelclassics.nl), CD number CCS 17698, distributed in the UK by Koch International.
First published in 2001. Hardback

Price: £86.00

Anthems IV: Anthems with Instruments: John BLOW (LXXIX) Ref: MB79

Edited by Bruce Wood

This fourth volume of choral music by John Blow completes the publication of his symphony anthems, also contained in volumes VII, L and LXIV, in the Musica Britannica edition. Besides the remaining Chapel Royal anthems, only two of which have previously appeared elsewhere, two occasional works, both hitherto unpublished, are also included.
First published in 2002. Hardback

Price: £90.00

Sonatas for Violin and Pianoforte: Hubert PARRY (LXXX) Ref: MB80

Edited by Jeremy Dibble

A key figure in the so-called English Musical Renaissance, Parry was a considerable composer of chamber music. His three violin sonatas, the first of which, in d minor, is here published for the first time, along with the Fantasie-sonata and Sonata in D major, date from the 1870s and 80s, and are contemporary with his four symphonies and setting of Milton's Blest Pair of Sirens . They are fine additions to the string repertoire and will be greeted enthusiastically by violinists seeking new material for recitals. Performing editions of each sonata are available separately.
First published in 2003. Hardback

Price: £75.00

Ferrabosco: Consort Music of 5 and 6 parts: Alfonso FERRABOSCO THE YOUNGER (LXXXI) Ref: MB81

Edited by Christopher Field and David Pinto

The rich store of music in this volume includes the In Nomine 'Through All Parts', the 'Dovehouse Pavan', the four- and five-part hexachord compositions with their radical and exploratory modulations, Ben Jonson's A Hymn to God the Father in a four-note ostinato setting, tuneful almains, and the four-part version of 'On the Hexachord'.

A set of string parts for the five-part pieces (Cat. No. H443) are now available. Compatible parts for the six-part pieces edited by David Pinto are already published and are available from Corda Music Publications, 183 Beech Road, St Albans, Herts AL3 5AN. Telephone and Fax No. 01727 852752. E-mail: music@cordamus.demon.co.uk. Website: www.cordamusic.co.uk.

First published in 2004. Hardback.

Price: £95.00

Phoebe: Maurice GREENE (LXXXII) Ref: MB82

Edited by H Diack Johnstone

Like its predecessor Florimel, Phoebe (1743), the second of Maurice Greene’s two operas, sets a libretto by John Hoadly. Probably written for performance at the Apollo Society, founded by Greene himself in 1733, this three-act opera, for four soloists and chorus, is a beautiful example of the English pastoral-masque genre, both musically and dramatically in the tradition of Handel’s Acis and Galatea.
Performing material is available for rental.
First published in 2004. Hardback.

Price: £85.00

Consort Music of Four Parts: John WARD (LXXXIII) Ref: MB83

Edited by Ian Payne

John Ward's music for four viols shows less consistency of style than his work for five- or six-part consort. The
smooth madrigalian lines of the six Oxford fantasias most clearly approach the accomplishment of his characteristic pieces for larger ensembles. The Paris fantasias, which with the In nomines also included in the collection feature uniquely in a single source in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, are more variable in texture and idiom. The volume also includes six ayres for two bass viols and organ, brief, tuneful compositions in dance-like rhythm redolent of the almain.
First published in 2005. Hardback

Price: £77.00

Complete Keyboard Music: Thomas ROSEINGRAVE (LXXXIV) Ref: MB84

Edited by H Diack Johnstone and Richard Platt

While studying in Italy Thomas Roseingrave became a disciple of Domenico Scarlatti, but in his own keyboard music he developed a personal gift for bold harmonies and modulations into a style that confounded his contemporaries and retains its novelty to this day. He was the first organist of St George's, Hanover Square, until mental illness overshadowed his professional life. His keyboard music remains among the most intriguing oeuvres of any 18th-century British composer.
First published in 2006. Hardback

Price: £84.00

Eighteenth-Century Psalmody (LXXXV) Ref: MB85

Edited by Nicholas Temperley and Sally Drage

The contents of this volume give a comprehensive accountof the great variety of musical forms used in parish church and Nonconformist worship in the 18th century. Each ofthe 103 pieces has been chosen because the editors believe it to be both rewarding to perform and to listen to. At the same time, they have sought to represent every important development in English psalmody during this period of profound social and artistic change.
First published in 2007. Hardback

Price: £99.00

Gli Equivoci: Stephen STORACE (LXXXVI) Ref: MB86

Edited by Richard Platt

This is the first published version of a major comic opera written in 1786 for Vienna’s Burgtheater, to a da Ponte libretto adapted from Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. A pupil of Mozart, Stephen Storace was a major figure in English opera of the late 18th century, and Gli equivoci is a unique testament to his versatility and promise. The work is issued in a reduction for voices and keyboard, with an English singing translation. The full score and performing material are in preparation.
First published in 2008. Hardback

Price: £99.00

Motets for One, Two or Three Voices and Basso Continuo: Richard DERING (LXXXVII) Ref: MB87

Edited by Jonathan Wainwright

The music of Dering forms a lively commentary on the complex artistic interchange between England and the continent in the early seventeenth century, and the picture is extended with this collection of small-scale settings of Latin texts with continuo accompaniment. Performed both in the chapel of Queen Henrietta Maria and in the residential quarters of Oliver Cromwell, these pieces were clearly much in demand for intimate devotional observances. Motets from printed and manuscript sources are included, as well as incomplete works plausibly attributed to the composer.
First published in 2008. Hardback

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Price: £85.00

Complete Chamber Music: William CROFT (LXXXVIII) Ref: MB88

Edited by H Diack Johnstone

Hitherto unpublished, the four trio sonatas and two fivepart sonatas by William Croft, which came to light in 1977, are among the most interesting and rewarding of English chamber works to have been written in the period between the trio sonatas of Purcell and those of Boyce and Arne. Possibly first heard at the concerts of the musical smallcoals man, Thomas Britton, they are complemented by six sonatas for two solo recorders, and three violin sonatas that are amongst the earliest printed works in this genre by an English composer.
First published in 2009. Hardback

Price: £77.00

Anthems III: Samuel Sebastian WESLEY (LXXXIX) Ref: MB89

Edited by Peter Horton

The third and final volume devoted to the anthems of S. S. Wesley completes the canon with 23 original works written in the period between his departure from Exeter Cathedral to become organist of Leeds parish church in 1842 and 1874, the likely date of his final essays in the genre. Moving towards a greater simplicity of style, with less counterpoint and dissonance, but emphasising elements of colour, timbre and texture, these works are in general conceived on a more modest scale than earlier pieces such as The Wilderness. Even so, they show the composer continuing to experiment with the Anglican verse anthem, the evolution of which had been the cornerstone of a creative achievement without equal in the history of the English cathedral tradition between Purcell and Stanford.
First published in 2010. Hardback

Price: £90.00

Fantasia-Suites II: John JENKINS (XC) Ref: MB90

Edited by Andrew Ashbee

Adding to the corpus of music by an outstanding English 17th-century composer, this collection includes the fantasia-suites for treble, two basses and organ by John Jenkins (Group III in the Viola da Gamba Society's Thematic Index of Music for Viols). Though it is impossible to date these pieces precisely, the abandonment of the galliard third movement in favour of the corant suggests a provenance later than that of the fantasia-suites in MB78. The virtuoso writing of the 'divisions' is among the most demanding of all English consort music, and each of the nine suites commences with an extended fugal section as elaborate as anything found in the composer's viol fantasies – that of the seventh being undoubtedly amongst his finest works. Also included are the 29 surviving bass parts of the Divisions for Treble and Two Basses (VDGS Nos. 1–29).
First published in 2010. Hardback

Price: £86.00

Canticles and Anthems with Orchestra: William CROFT (XCI) Ref: MB91

Edited by Donald Burrows

William Croft's career as the leading native-born composer of English church music was established in the period between the death of Purcell and the arrival of Handel in London. His education took place among musicians from Purcell's circle, and his style was modified by the influence of Handel's 'Utrecht' Te Deum and Jubilate of 1713. All the music in this volume was composed for various royal church services that took place between 1709 and 1720, in the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace and in St Paul's Cathedral. The contents include the Te Deum and Jubilate Deo, sung at the coronation of George I, and the anthems The Lord is a sun and a shield, O give thanks unto the Lord, and call upon his name, O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious, and Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous.
First published in 2011. Hardback

Price: £88.00

Orchestral Works: George BUTTERWORTH (XCII) Ref: MB92

Edited by Peter Ward Jones

In his brief career George Butterworth (1885–1916) composed only a small quantity of orchestral works, but what he wrote has never subsequently been absent from the repertoire. The two English Idylls, the Rhapsody 'A Shropshire Lad' and the idyll The Banks of Green Willow are, with the music of his friend Ralph Vaughan Williams and of Gustav Holst, among the most exquisite statements of the English folk-song idiom. This complete and authoritative collection includes an earlier version of The Banks of Green Willow, and a fragment of an Orchestral Fantasia. Work in progress in 1914 when Butterworth enlisted to serve in the Great War, it suggests the composer setting out in a bolder direction, perhaps inspired by the example of Vaughan Williams's A London Symphony.
Performing material is in preparation.

First published in 2012. Hardback

Price: £86.00

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Rounds, Canons and Songs from Printed Sources: RAVENSCROFT (XCIII) Ref: MB93

Edited by John Morehen and David Mateer

This is the first complete edition of the rounds, canons and songs from Ravenscroft's four principal publications: Pammelia, Deuteromelia, Melismata and A Briefe Discourse. Thomas Ravenscroft (c.1582–c.1635) was a collector, editor and theorist as well as a composer, whose work was esteemed in his own lifetime and is valued today for its insights into the popular music of the period. Rounds and canons in this collection are all presented in resolved form, and the variety of subjects includes drinking songs, hunting songs and four songs in West Country dialect, as well as Latin-texted material. It is hoped that performers may be inspired to breathe new life into a repertoire that sheds fascinating light on a hitherto neglected area of Elizabethan music-making.

First published in 2012. Hardback

Price: £90.00

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