13 items at front of volume (with one fragment), 21 written from back. Openings numbered discretely from both ends., Anonymous MS., Copy of tenor parts, evidently by a singer for choir use. Composers include: Daniel Roseingrave (1650-1727); John Blow (1649-1708); Robert Creyghton (1639-1734); Henry Hall ([1655]-1707); Anthony Walkeley (1672-1718); Jeremiah Clarke ([1673]-1707); William Pennycourt; John Jackson (d.1688)., Numerous blanks unscanned., Pagination supplied by cataloger., and With incomplete index.
Subject (Name):
Blow, John, d. 1708, Clarke, Jeremiah, 1669?-1707, Creighton, Robert, ca. 1639-1734, Hall, Henry, ca. 1656-1707, Jackson, John, d. 1688, and Roseingrave, Daniel, d. 1727
Subject (Topic):
Anthems, Morning service music, and Sacred vocal music
Consisting of a collection of musical extracts and verse, mostly French, Italian, Scottish, and English ballads, with a very early version of the British national anthem [ca. 1745] beginning: God save Great George our King.
Description:
40 pages of red ruled blanks at end unscanned., Anonymous MS., and Bookplate of Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, (1763-1827) son of George III.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Kings and rulers --Songs and music
Subject (Name):
Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843, provenance
Subject (Topic):
Anthems, National songs --Great Britain, Songs--Early works to 1800, and Songs--Texts--Early works to 1800