Text set / Quatuor /by Banister. [Vol. 4]

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Title: Quatuor /by Banister. [Vol. 4]
Alternative Title: Suites d'airs et ouvertures du Sieur Banister, a 4 parties.
Violino: Imo.
Basso cont.
Tenor.
Violino: IIdo.
Creator: Banister, John, approximately 1663-approximately 1725.
Barrett, John, approximately 1676-1719.
Clarke, Jeremiah, 1669?-1707.
Finger, Godfrey, approximately 1660-1730.
Keller, Gottfried, -1704.
King, Robert, active 1676-1728.
Paisible, James, 1656?-1721.
Contributor: Finney, Theodore M. (Theodore Mitchell), 1902-1978, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1690]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Title from cover of all four volumes. Instrumental part books dating from the late 17th century, containing music by a variety of composers.
Scope/Content: A set of four instrumental part books collecting pieces of theater music by various composers, such as Henry Purcell, John Banister the younger and Godfrey Finger, and dating from approximately 1690. Volumes are labeled "Violino: Imo, " "Violino: IIdo, " "Tenor" and "Basso cont:." A detailed description of the identifiable pieces was published by former owner and music scholar Theodore M. Finney and suggests that there appears to be a close relationship between these volumes and Thomas Britton.
Citation/Reference: Described in: Finney, T.M. A group of English manuscript volumes at the University of Pittsburgh. (In Essays in musicology in honor of Dragan Plamenac on his 70th birthday), p. 29-35.
Condition: Bound in early paneled sheep, rule in gilt with floral corners; gilt spine; titling in gilt on cover.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Musical works
Part books
Bookplates (Provenance)
Extent: 4 v. (128 p. each) ;22 x 29 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1531p
MS.1970.001, vol. 4
Language: English
eng
Place: England
Provenance: Bookplates on front paste-down endpaper from the private music library of Theodore M. Finney, and are individually numbered Fi 9- Fi 12.|"John" inscribed in an early hand on preliminary blanks of v. 1.
Location: CLUW

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