A Contratenor partbook from a set originally of five or six volumes. Albert 2019 demonstrates - relying on the original cover and flyleaves of the Bassus partbook, GB-Cjc MS 234 - that it and the present volume were compiled between 1523—5 in Rumburgh, Suffolk, for Launcelot Wharton, the prior of a small religious house there of no more than three members. The complexity of the pieces would therefore require external assistance to perform, indicating either that the books were simply a private collection or that, as Middleton-Stewart 2001 suggests (p. 175), they were performed at nearby Mettingham College.
| Archive | University Library, Cambridge, England (GB-Cu) |
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| Shelfmark | Dd.13.27 [Contratenor] |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Format | portrait |
| Measurements | 323 x 228 mm` |
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| Contents | Contains 37 compositions from 8 composers. |
General Description
Binding
Modern covers of brown cardboard and cloth. There is no trace of the original binding, although it is likely to have been limp vellum, matching the Contratenor book.
Notation
black void mensural; diamond noteheads with numerous ligatures
Date
DaveyH
Foliation
ii + 16 + ii + 18 + iii. Modern pencil foliation
Decoration
Red titles, painted mainly strapwork initials with drawing-pen elaboration and some grotesques.
Surface
ii paper + 16 parchment + ii paper + 18 parchment + iii paper
DIAMM Note
Digitized by Cambridge University Library
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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5 Masses, 1 Magnificat, 1 Te Deum, 10 motets = 17
Ashwell-1, Aston-2, Davy-2, Fayrfax-6, Lovell-1, Pasche-1, Prowett-2, Taverner-2
1 parchment partbook of an original 5 or 6 (T-ii paper + 16 parchment + ii paper + 18 parchment + iii paper folios), 323 x 228; the bassus is CambriJ K.31. Modern pencil foliation. Modern covers of brown cardboard and cloth. Red titles, painted initials.
Ca. 1525-30 (DaveyH). Copied in England.
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Albert, Rachel. 2019. Finding the Functions of Music Books in England in the late 15th and early 16th Centuries: The Ritson MS and the Wharton Partbooks. University of Manchester, Ph.D. Pages: passim (111-2 for date & origins).
Binski, Paul, and Patrick Zutshi. 2011. Western Illuminated Manuscripts: A Catalogue of the Collection in Cambridge University Library. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pages: 262(no. 287). Notes: physical description.
Middleton-Stewart, Judith. 2001 (rev. ed.). Inward Purity and Outward Splendour: Death and Remembrance in the Deanery of Dunwich, Suffolk, 1370-1547. Botdell Press. 9780851158204. Pages: 175. Notes: discusses performance possibilities for the music.
Curtis, Gareth R K, and Andrew B Wathey. 1994. Fifteenth-Century English Liturgical Music: A List of the Surviving Repertory. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 27: 1-69.
Kirsch, Winfried. 1966. Die Quellen der mehrstimmigen Magnificat- und Te Deum-Vertonungen bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts. Tutzing. Pages: 130.
Warrem, Edwin B (editor). 1959-66. Robert Fayrfax (ca. 1464-1521): Collected Works. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 17. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: I, i; II,86ff; I, II, passim.
Stevens, Denis W. 1959. The Manuscript Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. Ms. 5. 1. 15. Musica Disciplina, 13: 155-67. Pages: 161.
Fellowes, Edmund H (editor). 1923-48. Tudor Church Music. London, Oxford et al. Pages: I, 1.
Davey, Henry. 1921. History of English Music. London. Pages: 85-6.
Frere, Walter Howard. 1894-1932, repr. Hildesheim, 1967. Bibliotheca Musico-Liturgica: A Descriptive Handlist of the Musical and Latin-Liturgical Mss. of the Middle Ages Preserved in the Libraries of Great Britain and Ireland. 2 vols. London: The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society. Pages: II,118,#858.
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Prof Nick Sandon
Wednesday, 7 November, 2018
Voice identification corrected from 'tenor' to 'contratenor'.
James Burke, 2015
Monday, 23 January, 2017
NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Binding Note; Notation Note; Date Note; Foliation Note; Foliation Note; Decoration Note; Surface Note
Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
Monday, 23 January, 2017
NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description