Collection of catches and glees, mainly of the 17th-18th cent., probably from printed editions
Collection of catches and glees, mainly of the 17th-18th cent., copied by B. Brown between May and August 1829 (see dates at the end of some items), most probably from printed sources. The glees are in a separate section (pp. 129-170) with the volume reversed.
- (p. 5) Henry Purcell: My lady's coachman John. [Z. 260]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 5) Henry Purcell: As Roger last night. [Z. 242]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 6) Henry Purcell: The miller's daughter riding to the fair. [Z. 277]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 6) Michael Wise: When Judith had laid Holofernes in bed. For 3 voices;
- (p. 7) Henry Harington: Jack thou'rt a toper. For 3 voices;
- (p. 7) [Edmund Nelham]: Thus saith the preacher. For 3 voices;
- (p. 8) Jeremiah Clarke: Here's a health to the King. For 3 voices;
- (p. 8) [Thomas Ravenscroft]: What care had I to marry a shrew. For 3 voices;
- (p. 9) Luffman Atterbury: Joan said to John. For 3 voices;
- (p. 10) Adrian Willaert: Amen Allelujah. 'Canon 4 in 2 by inversion'. For 4 voices;
- (p. 10) Charles King: O Absalom my son. For 3 voices;
- (p. 11) Maurice Greene: Mortals learn your lives to measure. For 3 voices;
- (p. 11) Maurice Greene: On the poor confin'd debtors. For 3 voices;
- (p. 12) Maurice Greene: Hail green fields. For 3 voices;
- (p. 12) William Boyce: Long live King George. For 4 voices;
- (p. 13) [Henry Carey]: Curs'd be the wretch that bought and sold. For 3 voices;
- (p. 13) Edmund Gregory: Let us be merry in our old cloaths. For 4 voices;
- (p. 13) William Hayes: Poor Johnny's dead. For 3 voices;
- (p. 14) John Travers: Doubtless the pleasure is as great. For 3 voices;
- (p. 14) [John Travers]: Life is a jest. For 4 voices;
- (p. 14) Weedon [=?John Weldon]: By pipe and tot. For 4 voices;
- (pp. 14-15) Weedon [=?John Weldon]: O be joyful in the Lord all ye lands. 'Canon in the 4th and 8th below'. For 3 voices;
- (p. 15) Jhn [= ?Joseph or Jacob Cubitt] Pring: Did Celia's person and her mind agree. For 4 voices;
- (p. 15) [Anon.]: Noyons dans ce bon vin. For 3 voices;
- (p. 16) Joseph Baildon: Ye heav'ns, if innocence deserves your care. 'For 3 ladies';
- (p. 16) Charles Burney: Jack and Jill went up a hill. For 4 voices;
- (p. 16) [Antonio Caldara?]: Alza te il fiasco [Alzate il fiasco]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 17) Henry Purcell: Pox on you for a fop. [Z. 268]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 18) Henry Purcell: Now we are met. [Z. 262]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 18) John Eccles: Confusion to the pow'r of Cupid. For 3 voices;
- (p. 19) John Blow: How shall we speak. For 3 voices;
- (p. 19) Henry Purcell: Once in our lives. [Z. 264]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 19) Edmund Nelham: Jack, come hither Jack. For 3 voices;
- (p. 20) Henry Purcell: Since time so kind to us does prove. [Z. 272]. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 20-21) Henry Purcell: Sum up all the delights. [Z. 275]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 21) William Child: If any so wise is. For 3 voices;
- (p. 22) Henry Purcell: He that drinks is immortal. [Z. 254]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 22) Henry Purcell: I gave her cakes. [Z. 256]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 23) Henry Purcell: Is Charleroys' siege come too. [Z. 257]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 23) Henry Purcell: One industrious insect. 'A rebus on Mr. Anthony Hall, Mermaid Tavern, Oxford'. [Z. 266]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 24) Jean Claude Gillier: Crown the glass. For 3 voices;
- (p. 24) B. Brown: Full bags a brisk bottle. For 3 voices;
- (p. 25) Garrett Colley Wellesley, Earl of Mornington: John Knox loves his pipe. For 3 voices;
- (p. 26) [J. B]. Marella: Jack thou'rt a. 'Catch of catches, gain'd a prize'. For 3 voices;
- (p. 27) Henry Harington: I cannot sing this catch. 'Laughing catch'. For 3 voices;
- (p. 27) [Anon. - Ravenscroft?]: My dame has in her hut at home. For 3 voices;
- (p. 27) Samuel Arnold: Such a liar is Tom. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 28-29) Thomas Arne: The maid's with child. For 3 voices;
- (p. 29) Jeremiah Clarke: In drinking full bumpers. For 3 voices;
- (p. 30) Henry Purcell: Under this stone lies Gabriel John. 'An old epitaph'. [Z. 286]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 30) Henry Purcell [?]: All into service. Not in Zimmerman. For 3 voices;
- (p. 30) Henry Purcell: Let's live good honest lives. Also attrib. to William Cranford. [Z. D102]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 31) [Thomas Holmes]: Have you observ'd the wench in the street. For 3 voices;
- (p. 31) Henry Purcell: If all be true that I do think. [Z. 255]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 32) Henry Purcell: Bring the bowl and cool Nantz. [Z. 243]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 32) Henry Purcell: Prithee be not so sad. [Z. 269]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 33) Henry Purcell: Wine in a morning makes us frolic. [Z. 289]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 34) Richard Brown: Come boy, light a faggot. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 34-35) Henry Purcell: Come let us drink. [Z. 245]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 35) Henry Purcell: The surrender of Lim'rick. [Z. 278]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 36) Garrett Colley Wellesley, Earl of Mornington: Says Sue to Prue on a summer's day. For 3 voices;
- (p. 36) [Anon.]: Hic jacet Tom Short Hose. For 3 voices. The usual text is: Hic jacet John Short Hose;
- (p. 37) Henry Purcell: Who comes there? Stand! [Z. 288]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 37) Edmund Nelham: Cuckow good neighbour help us. For 3 voices;
- (p. 38) Henry Purcell: Soldier, take off thy wine. [Z. 274]. For 4 voices;
- (p. 38) Henry Purcell: The Macedon youth left behind. [Z. 276]. For 4 voices;
- (p. 39) [William Byrd]: O hold your hands or loose your lands. For 4 voices;
- (p. 39) Henry Purcell: Young John the gard'ner. [Z. 292]. For 4 voices;
- (p. 40) Henry Purcell: Under a green elm lies Luke Shepherd's helm. [Z. 285]. For 4 voices;
- (p. 40) Henry Purcell: 'Tis too late for a coach. [Z. 280]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 41) [Anon.]: A fid'ler and fudler are always together. For 3 voices;
- (p. 41) George Day: Come drink about Tom. 'Catch on good claret'. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 42-43) John Blow: Ring the bells and the glasses pull away. 'On the King coming home'. For 3 voices;
- (p. 43) Henry Purcell: Let us drink to the blades. [Z. 259]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 43) Edmund Nelham: Take a pound of butter. For 4 voices;
- (p. 44) Henry Purcell: Here's that will challenge all the fair. [Z. 253]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 44) [Henry Purcell?/John Blow?/Francis Forcer?]: Tis women make us love [Z. 281]. For 4 voices. [Variously attributed in other sources];
- (p. 45) Henry Purcell: Drink on till night be spent. [Z. 248]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 45) Edmund Nelham: Tobacco's but a vapour. For 4 voices;
- (p. 46) Henry Purcell: Pale faces stand by. [Z. 267]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 46) Edmund Nelham: The wily fox with his many wily mocks. For 3 voices;
- (p. 47) [William Byrd]: Hey ho to the greenwood. 'Canon three in one'. For 3 voices;
- (p. 48) Michael Wise: From twenty to thirty. For 4 voices;
- (p. 48) Henry Purcell: Would you know how we meet. 'Words by Mr. Otway'. [Z. 290]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 49) Henry Purcell: Room for th'express. [Z. 270]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 49) Henry Purcell: Here's a health, pray let it pass about. [Z. 252]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 50) William Byrd, attrib.: Come drink to me. For 4 voices;
- (p. 51) Mr. Creed: I hate dissembling courtiers. For 3 voices;
- (p. 51) Henry Hall: Oil and vinegar are two pretty things. For 3 voices;
- (p. 52) Henry Purcell, attrib.: I cannot get up. Not in Zimmerman. For 3 voices;
- (p. 52) William Hayes: When England shall be out of debt. For 3 voices;
- (p. 53) [Anon.]: The longitude mist on Miston. For 3 voices. Not the glee setting by B. Cooke;
- (p. 53) [Anon.]: Long live our King. For 3 voices;
- (p. 54) Simon Ives: Boy go down and fill the other quart. For 3 voices;
- (p. 55) William Cranford: Jack, Sam and Dick, meeting at the White Hart. For 3 voices;
- (p. 56) William Cranford: Some ages in story. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 56-57) John Smith [also attrib. to Henry Smith]: The silver swan, who living had no note. For 3 voices;
- (p. 57) Henry Purcell: To all lovers of music. [Z. 282]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 58) William Cranford: This ale, my bonny lad. 'For three basses';
- (p. 58) Edmund Nelham: Follow me my jovial boys. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 58-59) Henry Purcell: Of all the instruments that are. [Z. 263]. For 3 voices;
- (p. 59) John Cobb: These are the cries of London Town. For 4 voices;
- (p. 60) [Anon.]: Some say that Signor Bononcini. For 3 voices. [Words derived from John Byrom's epigram];
- (pp. 60-61) John Eccles: Hark Harry, tis late. For 3 voices;
- (p. 61) William Cranford: Come hither Tom and make up three. For 3 voices;
- (p. 61) William Hayes: Gut eats all day. 'Epigram by Ben Johnson'. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 62-63) Henry Aldrich: Good indeed the herb's good weed. For 4 voices;
- (p. 63) John Blow: God preserve his majesty. 'The Kings health'. For 4 voices;
- (p. 63) [Anon.]: Your merry poets old boys. For 3 voices;
- (p. 64) William Hayes: Wilt thou lend me thy mare. For 4 voices;
- (pp. 64-65) William Hayes: The hammer was up. For 4 voices;
- (p. 65) William Hayes: Hum drum sits my old daddy at home. 'The young rake'. For 3 voices;
- (p. 66) William Hayes: As they tramp up and down. 'Cries at Oxford races'. For 5 voices;
- (p. 67) William Hayes: Why neighbours, why this noise and strife. 'The tailor, his wife, and neighbour'. For 3 voices;
- (p. 67) [Henry Harington]: Look neighbours look. For 3 voices;
- (p. 68) [Lord Mornington (Garrett Colley Wellesley)]: As Roger was sitting one ev'ning with Nan. For 3 voices;
- (p. 69) John Wall Callcott: Have you Sir John Hawkins' hist'ry. 'Gain'd a prize 1789'. For 3 voices;
- (p. 70) John Stafford Smith: Sir you're a rascal. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 70-71) John Wall Callcott: A beauteous fair has stole my heart. For 3 voices;
- (p. 71) [Anon.]: A southerly wind and a cloudy sky. For 3 voices;
- (p. 72) Samuel Webbe (1740-1816): Would you know my Celia's charms. For 4 voices;
- (pp. 72-73) [Anon.]: While Adam slept. For 4 voices;
- (p. 73) Luffman Atterbury: Hodge told Sue he lov'd her. For 3 voices;
- (p. 73) William Hayes: Chairs to mend. For 3 voices;
- (p. 74) Garrett Colley Wellesley, Earl of Mornington: Twas you Sir, I tell you nothing new Sir. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 74-75): Luffman Atterbury: You must go, for John Rogers. For 3 voices;
- (p. 75) John Hilton: Come follow me. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 76-77) Thomas Arne: I'll back the mealy grey. 'The cock match'. For 4 voices;
- (p. 77) Henry Purcell [really by Henry Aldrich]: Hark the bonny Christchurch bells. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 78-79) Thomas Arne: Dear Jenny, I love you. 'The bustle. Gain'd a prize 1768'. For 3 voices;
- (p. 79) Thomas Arne: Buz quoth the blue fly. For 4 voices;
- (p. 80) John Stevenson: Come buy my cherries. For 4 voices;
- (pp. 80-81) Samuel Webbe (1740-1816): Begone ev'ry doubt. 'Jupiter and Semele'. For 3 voices;
- (p. 82) Samuel Webbe (1740-1816): To the old long life and treasure. For 3 voices;
- (p. 83) Joseph Baildon: Master Tommy marry. For 4 voices;
- (pp. 84-85) Joseph Baildon: When is it best, said John to Joan. 'On a dram'. For 4 voices;
- (p. 85) Henry Harington: Sister I say, dost thou affection. 'The Quakers wedding'. For 3 voices;
- (p. 85) Henry Harington: Tis hum drum, tis mum mum. 'Yawning catch'. For 3 voices;
- (p. 86) Joseph Baildon: Adam catch'd Eve by the furbelou. For 3 voices;
- (p. 86) Samuel Webbe (1740-1816): Come Roger and Nell. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 86-87) [Anon.]: At the Cross Keys you may have what you please. For 3 voices;
- (p. 87) Henry Harington: Hark, sing, my lord's come in. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 88-89) John Wall Callcott: Ah, how Sophia can you leave. For 3 voices;
- (p. 89) [Anon.]: Sweet Miss Pine, pray how do you. For 3 voices;
- (p. 90) Nicholson: O my good friends, Lord, what do you think. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 91-92) Samuel Webbe (1740-1816); Mister, will you do us the favor. For 3 voices;
- (p. 92) Edmund Thomas Warren-Horne: To our musical club. For 3 voices;
- (p. 93) Joseph Baildon: Mr. Speaker, tho tis late. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 94-95) Stephen Paxton: Ye muses inspire me. 'Gain'd a prize medal 1783'. For 3 voices;
- (p. 95) Henry Harington: Twine gentle evergreens. 'Epitaph'. For 3 voices;
- (p. 96) George Berg: Sirs, the Serpentine River is coming upstairs. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 96-97) Benjamin Cuzens: Says Phillis to Chloe. For 3 voices;
- (p. 97) John Jenkins: A boat, haste to the ferry. For 3 voices;
- (p. 97) [Bromley?]: Mercy and truth have met together. For 3 voices;
- (p. 98) Thomas Brewer: Tis Amarillis walking all alone. For 3 voices;
- (p. 98) William Hayes: You beat your pate. For 3 voices;
- (p. 99) [Anon.]: Now God be with Old Simeon. For 3 voices;
- (p. 99) William Hayes: When Chloe's kind, my heart feels gay. For 3 voices;
- (p. 100) George Berg: How happy are we. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 100-101) [William Hayes]: Haste ye soft gales to my relief. For 3 voices;
- (p. 101) [Henry Harington]: How great is the pleasure. For 3 voices;
- (p. 101) [S. Leach?]: Go gentle breezes. For 3 voices;
- (p. 102) [Felice Giardini]: O beauteous eyes discover. For 3 voices;
- (p. 102) John Hilton: Come hither boy. For 3 voices;
- (p. 102) [Anon.]: Do, re, mi, fa. For 4 voices;
- (p. 103) [Edmund Nelham]: Have you any work for a tinker, mistress. For 3 voices;
- (p. 103) Edmund Gregory: Fill a brimming glass. For 3 voices;
- (p. 104) Luffman Atterbury: Sweet enslaver, can you tell. For 3 voices;
- (p. 104) William Hayes: Phillis, my fairest. For 3 voices;
- (p. 105) [George Holmes]: Come pull away boys. For 3 voices;
- (p. 106) Simon Ives: Come honest friends and jovial boys. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 106-107) James Nares: Wilt thou lend me thy mare. For 3 voices;
- (p. 107) [Maurice Greene]: How soft the delights. For 3 voices;
- (p. 108) George Berg: Let us drink and be merry. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 108-109) 'Alter'd from Mons. L'Clerc': Rural sports are sweeter far. For 4 voices;
- (p. 109) Samuel Howard: Jean vows to hearten tim'rous youth. For 4 voices;
- (pp. 110-111) Samuel Webbe (1740-1816): Tis time sure to call for the coffee. For 3 voices;
- (p. 111) George Berg: Not a day more than thirty. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 112-113) Thomas Arne: Hark you my dear. 'The street intrigue'. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 114-116) Thomas Arne: Do, re, mi, fa, sol, la. 'The singing club'. For 5 voices;
- (pp. 116-117) Samuel Webbe (1740-1816): Let's be merry and banish care. For 3 voices;
- (p. 117) Samuel Webbe (1740-1816): Here rests my wife. 'Epitaph' For 3 voices;
- (pp. 118-120) Samuel Webbe (1740-1816): See the jolly god appears. For 4 voices;
- (p. 120) J. B. Marella: Half an hour past twelve o' clock. For 4 voices;
- (pp. 120-121) Edmund Thomas Warren-Horne: To our musical club. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 121-123) Joseph Baildon: Cried Strephon panting in dear Chloe's arms. For 3 voices;
- (p. 124) Luffman Atterbury: One a penny, two a penny. For 3 voices;
- (p. 125) William Hayes: O Lord, how glorious are thy works. 'Canon 3 in 1'. For 3 voices;
- (p. 126) William Hayes: Hear my pray'r, O Lord. 'Canon six in one'. For 6 voices;
- (pp. 170-166 rev.) Samuel Webbe (1740-1816): Hail star of Brunswick. For 4 voices.
- (pp. 165-162 rev.) John Danby: The fairest flow'rs. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 161-159 rev.) Benjamin Cooke: Hark the lark. For 4 voices;
- (p. 159 rev.) [Henry Harington]: Look neighbours, look. 'Old Thomas Day'. Catch. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 158-157 rev.) [Stephen Storace], 'Harmonized by Harrison': Peaceful slumb'ring on the ocean. 'Lullaby'. For 4 voices;
- (pp. 156-154 rev.) Richard J. S. Stevens: Prithee foolish boy. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 154-150 rev.) Luffman Atterbury: Who like Bacchus. For 3 voices;
- (p. 150) Henry Harington: Give me the sweet delights of love. 'The delights of love'. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 149-147 rev.) John Danby: Fair Flora seeks the flow'r ground. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 147-143 rev.) William Horsley: See the chariot at hand. For 4 voices;
- (pp. 143-140 rev.) Michael East: How merrily we live. For 3 voices;
- (pp. 139-138 rev.) Thomas Ford: Since first I saw your face. For 4 voices;
- (pp. 138-135 rev.) John Clarke-Whitfeld: Turn holy father. For 4 voices, with piano acc.;
- (pp. 135-130 rev.) John Wall Callcott: Peace to the souls of the heroes. For 3 voices;
- (p. 129 rev.) Benjamin Cooke. In paper case. For 4 voices. Incomplete.
Dates
- Creation: May-Aug 1829
Extent
172 pages
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark, e.g. MS. Mus. d. 296, pp. 1-2].
Shelfmark:
MS. Mus. d. 296
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 16042
Abstract
Collection of catches and glees by several composers. Mainly of the 17th-18th centuries. Copied by B. Brown between May and August 1829.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical details unknown.
Custodial History
'B. Brown' on upper board label. Former shelfmark (Faculty of Music Library): [B. Brown] (Misc. 8).
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred from the Faculty of Music Library, 1995.
Physical Facet
172 pages; 12 staves to a page. Watermark: JM&M. Binding: half calf with marbled paper covered boards (spine renewed). Binding: half calf with marbled paper covered boards (spine renewed).
Dimensions
Oblong folio (240 × 300 mm)
Subject
- Title
- Collection of catches and glees, mainly of the 17th-18th cent.
- Status
- Published
- Date
- EAD version 2019 by Hannah Jordan and Margaret Czepiel
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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