GB-Lbl Add. MS 30513 (Mulliner Book)

British Library, London, England

keyboard MS: 1545-1570

Archive British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl)
Shelfmark Add. MS 30513 (Mulliner Book)
Surface Paper
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  • keyboard
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  • England
Contents Contains 134 compositions, 102 from 21 composers, 32 are anonymous.
General Description

A musical commonplace book, compiled by Thomas Mulliner. It contans 121 keyboard works, over half of which are based on liturgical chants, with the remainder transcriptions of polyphonic sacred and secular works, with two dances. The book includes the earliest extant cittern music. Sixteen composers are named, including Tallis, Redford, Blitheman, Taverner and Tye. It was given to the British Museum in 1877.

The BL online catalogue gives the following summary description:

Collection of music for the virginals, by Thomas Mulliner, master of St. Paul's Choir, London. Among the composers are:- Thomas Tallis, Nicholas Carleton, - Allwood, Richard Farrant, - Blytheman, William Shelbye, Christopher Tye, and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. The staves consist of 12, 8, 7 and 6 lines. On ff. 2, 8, 51, 110, 116 are memoranda by John Stafford Smith, organist of the Chapel Royal, circ. 1800. Paper; ff. 129. Temp. Hen. VIII. Obl. Quarto.

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‡ denotes primary source study

Flynn, Jane. 2008. Thomas Mulliner: an Apprentice of John Heywood? Young Choristers, 650-1700, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music, vol. 7. edited by Jane Flynn, 173-194. Boydell Press.

Flynn, Jane. 1993. A Reconsideration of the Mulliner Book (British Library Add. Ms 30513): Music Education in Sixteenth-Century England . Duke University, Ph.D. diss.

Edwards, Warwick. 1974. Instrumental Consorts in England from the Accession of Henry VIII to the Commonwealth. Cambridge University,, Ph.D. dissertation. Notes: contains detailed disussion of MS.

Haar, James (editor). 1964-. Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance.  New Haven [Later: Madison; Later: Middleton, Wisconsin]: A-R Editions, Inc. Pages: vol. 3 (1967). Notes: eds of all the Tye In nomines of this MS.

Noble, Jeremy. 1955. La Répertoire Instrumental Anglais: 1550-1585. La Musique Instrumentale de la Renaissance, 91-114. Paris. Notes: contains disussion of MS and concordances of pieces.

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