Bettina Hoffmann
Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba
Ferrabosco, Alfonso II
[34] Lessons for 1. 2. and 3. Viols
print/manuscript
London, Thomas Snodham for John Browne
print: GB-Lbl
ms. copies: GB-Mp BRm 832 Vu 51 Manchester (5 pieces); GB-Lbl Harley ms. 7578 (1 piece); GB-Lam ms. 600 Browne (olim GB-Lspencer) (1 piece); US-LAuc ms. M.286 M4 L 992 Mansell (2 pieces); GB-Ob ms.mus.sch. D.245-247 Merro (21 pieces, of which 3 not included in the printed edition); GB-Och ms. 531-532 (1 piece); IRL-Dm ms. Z3.4.13 (3 pieces); GB-Cu Dd 5.20 (3 pieces); GB-Och ms. 439 (1 piece); IRL-Dtc ms. 408/1 (olim D.1.21/I) William Ballet (4 pieces); GB-Lbl Add.ms. 17795 (3 pieces); D-B mus ms. autogr. Hove 1 (1 piece)
VdGSGB Suppl. Publications (2 pieces); Facsimile New York; Peacock Press 2003 (Manchester Viol Book); VDGSA (Manchester Viol Book); Oriana Music (Ballet Lutebook)
Each lesson consists of two movements ( Alman/Coranto, Galliard/Coranto, Pavan/Coranto etc).
For a detailed discussion of attributions and concordances between the printed version and the manuscript sources see Dodd, Gordon, and Ashbee, Andrew, Thematic Index of Music for Viols, London, Viola da Gamba Society of Great Britain.
A/I: F 257, ID 990017534
ms. Merro : ID 800271631
http://vdgs.org.uk/thematic/F.pdf
(also http://www.vdgs.org.uk/tab/Ferrabosco1609.pdf
and http://www.vdgs.org.uk/tab/IRL-Dtc%20MS%20408-1.pdf)
Andrew Ashbee, John Merro’s Manuscripts Revisited, «The Viola da Gamba Society Journal», 2013, vol 7, pp 1-19. http://vdgs.org.uk/journal/Vol-07.pdf
John Cunningham, Lyra Viol Ecclesiastica: A Neglected Manuscript Source in Archbishop Marsh’s Library, Dublin, «The Viola da Gamba Society Journal», 2009, vol. 3/1, pp. 1-54. http://vdgs.org.uk/journal/Vol-03-1.pdf
François-Pierre Goy, Unknown pieces for Lyra-viol in Joachim van den Hove's autograph manuscript (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Preussiscer Kulturbesitz (D-B) Mus. MS. autogr. Hove 1, 1615), in: Jan W.J. Burgers, Tim Crawford and Matthew Spring (ed.), The Lute in the Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century. Proceedings of the International Lute Symposium Utrecht, 30 August 2013 , Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016, pp. 172-182.
