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A New Source of Restoration Keyboard Music

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Peter Holman
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Restoration keyboard music has been well served in recent years by modern editions, source studies and thematic catalogues. Thus it is all the more surprising that Brussels Conservatoire MS XY 15139, a large manuscript from the early eighteenth century containing unique pieces by John Blow and William Croft as well as a number of early copies of music by Henry Purcell, has almost entirely escaped notice. It seems that the only references to it in the scholarly literature to date have been a brief description by Margaret Reimann in her article on the Kortkamp family in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, and my edition of two Croft suites in the 1982 revision of that composer's Complete Harpsichord Works.

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Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle , Volume 20 , 1987 , pp. 53 - 57
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Copyright © Royal Musical Association, 1987

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1 It is not mentioned, for instance, in John Caldwell's English Keyboard Music before the Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 1973), and it does not appear in the thematic catalogues of music by Blow, Clarke and Purcell (see the works cited in the table of abbreviations as Shaw, Taylor and Z).Google Scholar

2 vii, col. 1635; see the work cited in the table of abbreviations as Croft. I am most grateful to Maria Boxall, Dr Barry Cooper, Howard Ferguson, Dr Nigel Fortune, Brian Hodge, Dr H. Diack Johnstone and Dr H. Watkins Shaw for providing me with information about the manuscript.Google Scholar

3 Misdated 1678 by Margarete Reimann in MGG.Google Scholar

4 Alfred Wotquenne, Catalogue de la Bibliothèque du Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles (Brussels, 1912, repr. 1980), iv, 309.Google Scholar

5 Courtship A-la-mode (1700), The Funeral (1702), The Twin-Rivals (1703) and The Lying Lover (1704); see Curtis A. Price Music in the Restoration Theatre (Ann Arbor, 1979), 157–8, 171, 197–8, 228–9.Google Scholar

6 The London Stage, i, 1600–1700, ed. William Van Lennep (Carbondale, 1965), 488.Google Scholar

7 Van Lennep, op.cit., 490–2; Henri and Barbara van der Zee, William and Mary (London, 1973, repr. 1975), 435–6.Google Scholar