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Coprario, John: Fantasia-Suites 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

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1. Consort Music: Thomas TOMKINS (LIX) (Ref: MB59)

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

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

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

Elizabethan Consort Music: Sixteen "In Nomines" Ref: Y225

Edited by Paul Doe.
Set of String Parts corresponding with selected pieces from Musica Britannica Volumes 44 and 45.

1 In nomine. MB44, 13. ANON
2 In nomine I. MB45, 131. John BALDWIN
3 In nomine. MB44, 14. BREWSTER
4 In nomine II. MB45, 132. BREWSTER
5 In nomine. MB45, 133. John BUCK
6 In nomine. MB45, 134. [Robert?] GOLDER
7 In nomine I. MB44, 18. Robert PARSONS
8 In nomine II. MB44, 19. Robert PARSONS
9 In nomine I. MB44, 20. POYNT
10 In nomine . MB44, 21. Thomas PRESTON
11 In nomine I. MB44, 22. Henry STONINGS
12 In nomine I. MB44, 23. Thomas TALLIS
13 In nomine II . MB44, 24. Thomas TALLIS
14 In nomine . MB44, 25. John TAVERNER
15 In nomine . MB44, 26. John THORNE [?]
16 In nomine . MB44, 31. William WHYTBROKE

Price: £20.00

Ferrabosco the Younger, Alfonso: Consort Music of 5 and 6 parts 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 are now available below. 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

Ferrabosco the Younger, Alfonso: Consort Music of Five Parts Ref: H443

Set of String Parts
Edited by Christopher Field and David Pinto. Score available in Musica Britannica Volume 81 (MB81).

Price: £25.50

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1. Ferrabosco the Younger, Alfonso: Four-part Fantasias (Ref: H350)

2. Fantasia a 6 (Viols 2Tr 2T 2B) (Ref: BY1426)

3. Fantasia a 4 (Viols Tr 2T B) (Ref: BY1415)

Ferrabosco the Younger, Alfonso: Four-Part Fantasias for Viols 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.

Price: £80.00

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1. Jenkins, John: Fantasia-Suites. (Nos. 6-9) Treble Viol (or Violin), two Bass Viols and Organ (Ref: Y278)

2. Jenkins, John: Fantasia-Suites. (Nos. 1-5) Treble Viol (or Violin), two Bass Viols and Organ (Ref: Y277)

3. Ferrabosco the Younger, Alfonso: Four-part Fantasias (Ref: H350)

Ferrabosco the Younger, Alfonso: Four-part Fantasias Ref: H350

Set of String Parts
Edited by Andrew Ashbee and Bruce Bellingham. Score available in Musica Britannica Volume 62 (MB62).

Price: £21.00

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

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3. Fantasia a 6 (Viols 2Tr 2T 2B) (Ref: BY1426)

Gibbons, Orlando: Consort Music 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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Henry VIII: Thirty-five Compositions Ref: E1801

The complete secular works of King Henry VIII consisting of partsongs and instrumental consorts.
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Price: £4.75

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1. Dowland, John: Fifty Songs. Book 1. Low Voice (Ref: X5B)

Jacobean Consort Music (IX) Ref: MB9

Edited by William Coates & Thurston Dart

A rich anthology of fantasias and dances for 'whole' consorts of two to six parts, by 34 composers from Adson to Wilbye - and Anon. There is also a substantial section containing music for strings and keyboards, and another of music for division viol and lyra viol.
First published in 1955, revised 1962 and reprinted with corrections 1971. Further reprint 1977.

Price: £82.00

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1. No Song, No Supper: Stephen STORACE (XVI) (Ref: MB16)

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

Set of Parts
Edited by William Coates and Thurston Dart. Score available in Musica Britannica Volume 9 (MB9).

Price: £7.75

Jenkins, John: Consort Music in Four Parts Ref: MB26

Edited by Andrew Ashbee

The volume includes airs and suites for two trebles, two basses and organ, and four-part fantasias and airs. Jenkins was a renowned composer in his own time, and his life and works forged a historical link between the glory of Jacobean consort music and its culmination in the music of Purcell.
First published in 1969, revised 1975.

Price: £76.00

Jenkins, John: Consort Music of Six Parts 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

Jenkins, John: Consort Music of Three Parts 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

Jenkins, John: Fantasia-Suites I 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

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2. Jenkins, John: Three-part Fantasias. Set 2. Two Treble Viols (or Violins) and Bass Viol (Ref: H397)

3. Tomkins, Thomas: The Complete Consort Music. Set II for four, five and six Viols (Ref: H344)

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Jenkins, John: Fantasia-Suites II 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

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Jenkins, John: Fantasia-Air Sets. Two Treble Viols (or Violins), Bass Viol and Organ Ref: H433

Set of String Parts.

Edited by Andrew Ashbee. The organ part is available in Musica Britannica Volume 78 (MB78).

Price: £28.50

Jenkins, John: Fantasia-Suites. Two Treble Viols (or Violins), Bass Viol and Organ Ref: H432

Set of String Parts.

Edited by Andrew Ashbee. The organ part is available in Musica Britannica Volume 78 (MB78).

Price: £23.00

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

2. Jenkins, John: Three-part Fantasias. Set 2. Two Treble Viols (or Violins) and Bass Viol (Ref: H397)

3. Tomkins, Thomas: The Complete Consort Music. Set II for four, five and six Viols (Ref: H344)

Jenkins, John: Fantasia-Suites. Two Treble Viols (or Violins), two Basses (Viols) and Organ Ref: Y218

Set of String Parts.

Edited by Andrew Ashbee. The organ part is available in Musica Britannica Volume 26 (MB26).

Price: £20.00

Jenkins, John: Fantasia-Suites. (Nos. 1-5) Treble Viol (or Violin), two Bass Viols and Organ Ref: Y277

Set of String Parts.

Edited by Andrew Ashbee. The organ part is available in Musica Britannica Volume 90 (MB90).

Price: £23.00

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1. Jenkins, John: Fantasia-Suites. (Nos. 6-9) Treble Viol (or Violin), two Bass Viols and Organ (Ref: Y278)

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

3. Jenkins, John: Three-part Fantasias. Set 1. Treble Viol (or Violin), Two Bass Viols and Organ (Ref: H396)

Jenkins, John: Fantasia-Suites. (Nos. 6-9) Treble Viol (or Violin), two Bass Viols and Organ Ref: Y278

Set of String Parts.

Edited by Andrew Ashbee. The organ part is available in Musica Britannica Volume 90 (MB90).

Price: £23.00

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1. Jenkins, John: Fantasia-Suites. (Nos. 1-5) Treble Viol (or Violin), two Bass Viols and Organ (Ref: Y277)

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

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

Jenkins, John: Three-part Fantasias. Set 1. Treble Viol (or Violin), Two Bass Viols and Organ Ref: H396

Set of String Parts
Edited by Andrew Ashbee. The organ part is available in Musica Britannica Volume 70 (MB70).

Price: £22.50

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1. Jenkins, John: Fantasia-Suites. (Nos. 6-9) Treble Viol (or Violin), two Bass Viols and Organ (Ref: Y278)

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Jenkins, John: Thirty-two Airs. Two Treble Viols (or Violins), two Basses (Viols) and Organ Ref: Y242

Set of String Parts.

Edited by Andrew Ashbee. The organ part is available in Musica Britannica Volume 26 (MB26).

In the output of the long-lived 17th-century composer John Jenkins, the 32 'Ayres' for two trebles, two basses and organ have a special place. They were probably composed during the English Civil War, while the composer was in East Anglia, and his royalist patrons were subject to harassment by Parliamentarian forces. Though one of the pieces, 'Newark Siege', is a rare instance of programmatic music in Jenkins's output, the pieces in general are far removed from the lightweight dance idioms of the time, being full of contrapuntal interplay inspired perhaps by the consort airs of the court composer William Lawes.

The four parts retain original note values, and correspond to the edition in Musica Britannica MB36, though the bass parts have alto clefs for the higher passages. The organ part, not included with the instrumental material, is played from full score in the parent volume.

Price: £24.50

Jenkins, John: Three-part Fantasias. Set 2. Two Treble Viols (or Violins) and Bass Viol Ref: H397

Set of String Parts
Edited by Andrew Ashbee. Score available in Musica Britannica Volume 70 (MB70).

Price: £22.50

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

2. Jenkins, John: Fantasia-Suites. Two Treble Viols (or Violins), Bass Viol and Organ (Ref: H432)

3. Tomkins, Thomas: The Complete Consort Music. Set II for four, five and six Viols (Ref: H344)

Lawes, William: Consort Music Ref: MB21

Edited by Murray Lefkowitz

In the history and development of 17th-century English music, Lawes occupied a central position between the emergence of a distinctive instrumental style and its culmination in the works of Purcell.
First published in 1963, revised 1971 and reprinted with corrections 1978.

Price: £62.00

Lawes, William: Fantasia-Suites 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.

Price: £80.00

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1. Lawes, William: Fantasia-Suites. Set 2. Two Violins, Bass Viol and Organ (Ref: H347)

2. Lawes, William: Fantasia-Suites. Set 1. Violin, Bass Viol and Organ (Ref: H346)

Lawes, William: Fantasia-Suites. Set 1. Violin, Bass Viol and Organ Ref: H346

Set of String Parts
Edited by David Pinto. The organ part is available in Musica Britannica Volume 60 (MB60).

Price: £15.00

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1. Lawes, William: Fantasia-Suites. Set 2. Two Violins, Bass Viol and Organ (Ref: H347)

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

3. Arne, Thomas: Lyric Harmony. 2 volumes (1745 - 46) (Ref: LF2)

Lawes, William: Fantasia-Suites. Set 2. Two Violins, Bass Viol and Organ Ref: H347

Set of String Parts
Edited by David Pinto. The organ part is available in Musica Britannica Volume 60 (MB60).

Price: £17.50

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1. Lawes, William: Fantasia-Suites. Set 1. Violin, Bass Viol and Organ (Ref: H346)

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

3. Arne, Thomas: Lyric Harmony. 2 volumes (1745 - 46) (Ref: LF2)

Locke, Matthew: Chamber Music I 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

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1. Consort Music: Thomas TOMKINS (LIX) (Ref: MB59)

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

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

Locke, Matthew: Chamber Music II 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. Chamber Music I: Matthew LOCKE (XXXI) (Ref: MB31)

Locke, Matthew: The Little Consort. Suites 1-5. For Treble and Bass Viols with Harpsichord or Theorbos Ref: H282

Score and Parts
Edited by Michael Tilmouth. From Musica Britannica Volume 31 (MB31).

Price: £15.25

Locke, Matthew: The Little Consort. Suites 6-10. For Treble, Tenor and Bass Viols with Harpsichord or Theorbos Ref: H306

Score and Parts
Edited by Michael Tilmouth. From Musica Britannica Volume 31 (MB31).

Price: £15.25

Mico, Richard: Consort Music 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

Mico, Richard: Consort Music. Set I for four Viols Ref: H359

Set of Parts
Edited by Andrew Hanley. Score available in Musica Britannica Volume 65 (MB65).

Price: £22.50

Mico, Richard: Consort Music. Set II for two, three and five Viols Ref: H360

Set of Parts
Edited by Andrew Hanley. Score available in Musica Britannica Volume 65 (MB65).

Price: £22.50

Music at the Court of Henry VIII (XVIII) Ref: MB18

Edited by John Stevens

A popular volume of secular pieces, transcribed from the collection known as Henry VIII's Book, that captures the diverse musical life to be sampled at the court of England's most fascinating monarch.
First published in 1962, revised 1969, and reprinted 1973, 1978.

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Price: £55.00

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

Tomkins, Thomas: Consort Music 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.

Price: £80.00

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Tomkins, Thomas: The Complete Consort Music. Set I for three Viols Ref: H343

Set of Parts
Edited by John Irving. Score available in Musica Britannica Volume 59 (MB59).

Price: £17.50

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

2. Jenkins, John: Fantasia-Suites. Two Treble Viols (or Violins), Bass Viol and Organ (Ref: H432)

3. Jenkins, John: Three-part Fantasias. Set 2. Two Treble Viols (or Violins) and Bass Viol (Ref: H397)

Tomkins, Thomas: The Complete Consort Music. Set II for four, five and six Viols Ref: H344

Set of Parts
Edited by John Irving. Score available in Musica Britannica Volume 59 (MB59).

Price: £30.00

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

2. Jenkins, John: Fantasia-Suites. Two Treble Viols (or Violins), Bass Viol and Organ (Ref: H432)

3. Jenkins, John: Three-part Fantasias. Set 2. Two Treble Viols (or Violins) and Bass Viol (Ref: H397)

Ward, John: Consort Music of Five and Six Parts 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

Ward, John: Consort Music for five and six Viols Ref: H368

Set of Parts
Edited by Ian Payne. Score available in Musica Britannica Volume 67 (MB67).

Price: £30.00

Ward, John: Consort Music of Four Parts 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

Ward, John: Oxford Fantasias/Two-part Ayres Ref: Y221

Set of Parts
Edited by Ian Payne. Score available in Musica Britannica Volume 83 (MB83).

Price: £24.50

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