IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 131141 accession number: MU 1327 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 1 score ([2], 36, 33, [1] p.) ; 30 cm. object type: London, Printed by T.H. for John Playford, and are to be sold at his Shop, in the Inner Temple, near the Church doore, 1653. object type: References: RISM B/I, 1653 Wing, W2911 Day & Murrie. Songbooks, 6 object type: 80 songs for 1-3 voices and continuo (unfigured bass). Caption on p. 1 (2nd sequence): "The second booke, containing pastorall dialogues for two voyces to sing to an instrument."; caption on p. 17 (2nd sequence): "The third booke, containing short ayres or songs for three voyces: which may be sung either by a voyce alone, or by two or three voyces." Index and advertisements: final page. Title within a border of type ornaments; device on t.p. two crossed instruments (bass viol and theorbo). Signatures: [A]¹ B-K² Aa-Hh² Ii¹. The three-part songs are printed in table-book format; the others in score. The music is printed from moveable type. object type: Composed by these severall excellent masters in musick, viz. Dr. John Wilson, Dr. Charles Colman, Mr. Henry Lawes, Mr. William Lawes, Mr. William Webb. Mr. Nicholas Lanneare, Mr. William Smegergill alias Caesar, Mr. Edward Colman, Mr. Jeremy Savile.. title: Select musicall ayres and dialogues, in three bookes. First book, containes ayres for a voyce alone to the theorbo, or basse violl. Second book, containes choice dialogues for two voyces to the theorbo or basse violl. Third book, containes short ayres or songs for three voyces , so composed, as they may either be sung by a voyce alone, to an instrument, or by two or three voyces. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/131141 PEOPLE ------------------- Gostling, William Charrington, John TECHNIQUES ---------- printing CATEGORIES ------ category: printed music category: archive document DATING ------ creation date: 1653 - 1653 creation date earliest: 1653 creation date latest: 1653 CREATORS -------- maker: Playford, John maker: Playford, John maker: Wilson, John, 1595-1674 maker: Colman, Charles, ca.1605-1664 maker: Lawes, Henry, 1596-1662 maker: Lawes, William, 1602-1645 maker: Webb, William, c1600-1657 maker: Lanneare, Nicholas, 1588-1666 maker: Smegergill, William maker: Colman, Edward, 1622-1669 maker: Savile, Jeremy maker: Harper, Thomas, d. 1656