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61-6, no. 4
There is nothing much to report here, except these are the only instances (ff.
7v and 39v) of consorts duplicated in two surviving Myriell sources—albeit
neither complete. Also another attribution of Alte Parole to Joseph rather than
Thomas Lupo increases doubts as to the true authorship. 33
Mus. 44, a score book, came into the hands of Benjamin Cosyn and some
parts were added by him. 34 Myriell’s contribution includes the following:
Folio Composer Title VdGS No. Leather books
1v [T. Lupo] Fantasia 5 a 5 83
4r [T. Lupo] [Fantasia] 11 a 5 84
8r [T. Lupo] [Fantasia] 14 a 5 85
11r [T. Lupo] [Fantasia] 12 a 5 86
13v Ward Fantasia 3 a 5 59
17v Ward Fantasia 9 a 5 60
21v Coprario Per fa una 31 a 5 69
24v Coprario Fuggi 38 a 5 70
27v Coprario [Gittene Ninfe] 34 a 5 110
30v Coprario Io piango 5 a 5 68
34v W. White [Fantasia] 3 a 5 26
37v W. White [Fantasia] 2 a 5 27
40v Ward [Fantasia] 2 a 5 54
43r Ward [Fantasia] 5 a 5 56
105v W. White Pavan 2 a 6 156
107v Ward Fantasia 3 a 6 164
110v Ward Fantasia 7 a 6 168
113v [T. Lupo] Fantasia 1 a 6 180
The only additional non-instrumental items are two madrigals (by Marenzio
and Monteverdi respectively) and an anthem by Milton on ff. 47v-52v. It
would appear that the consorts all derive from a lost ‘le[ather] boo:’ [book or
books], as does Lupo’s fantasia VdGS no. 2 and Alte Parole in Mus. 67. This
seems to be a set of associated partbooks, clearly a large collection of five- and
six-part music at least, with some evidence that the contents were grouped by
composer:
No. Composer Genre VdGS L’Estrange Browne Merro Barnard Score
No. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e)
26 W. White Fantasia 3 a 5 2 A Dru 1 Yes
27 W. White Fantasia 2 a 5 3 A Dru Yes
36 T. Lupo Fantasia 2 a 5 4
38 J./T. Lupo Fantasia 9 a 5
54 Ward Fantasia 2 a 5 5 B Yes
56 Ward Fantasia 5 a 5 10 B Yes
58 Ward Fantasia 3 a 5 6 B Yes
60 Ward Fantasia 9 a 5 12 B Yes
68 Coprario Fantasia 5 a 5 ‘15’ B I/11 Yes
69 Coprario Fantasia 31 a 5 1145/p.88 Yes
70 Coprario Fantasia 38 a 5 1145/p.99 II/13 Yes
83 T. Lupo Fantasia 5 a 5 1
33 See also below, pp. 12-13. ‘Thomas’ is crossed out and ‘Joseph’ substituted in Mus. 67.
34 Pamela Willetts, ‘Benjamin Cosyn: Sources and circumstances’, in Sundry Sorts of Music Books,
British Library, 1993, 129-45.