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Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba

author

Lawes, William

1602-1645

work information

7 pieces sett to the Organ & two Division base violls (Pavan and 2 Airs in G minor, Pavan, Alman, Air, Coranto in C major; all movements with divisions)

manuscript/print

scoring

2 vb + org (gr)

where

source

GB-Ob ms.mus.sch. B.2 (score, autograph); GB-Ob ms.mus.sch. D.238-240 (parts, autograph); GB-Ob ms.mus.sch. D.229 (organ part, autograph)

Concordant pieces:

GB-Ob ms.mus.sch. D.233/234/236 (3 pieces); GB-Ob ms.mus.sch. E.451 (1 piece, only bc); GB-Ob ms.mus.sch. E.431-436 (2 pieces); GB-Ob ms.mus.sch. F.568-569 (2 pieces); GB-Lbl Add.ms. 40657-40661 (1 Air); GB-Lbl Add.ms. 18940-18944 (1 Air); GB-Och ms. 367-370 (2 pieces); GB-W ms. Vicar’s Choral 5-6 (1 piece, only bc)

1 Air published in Court-ayres: or pavins, almaines, corants, and sarabands, of two parts, treble and basse, for viols or violins. Which may be performed in consort to the theorbo lute, or virginalls, London, John Playford, 1655, in GB-Lbl, GB-Ob (incomplete), US-CA (incomplete)

modern edition(s)

Cunningham, PhD thesis, 2007, vol. 2 (all 7 pieces); Musica Britannica XXI (2 brani); Universal ed.; VdGSGB Suppl. Publications, Dovehouse

further information

RISM

GB-Ob D.238-240: ID 800273324

GB-Ob D.229: ID 800273359

Thematic index

http://vdgs.org.uk/thematic/La.pdf (Lawes-9)

bibliography

John Patrick Cunningham, Music for the privy chamber: studies in the consort music of William Lawes (1602-45). PhD thesis, University of Leeds, 2007.

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