Bettina Hoffmann
Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba
Lawes, William
43 pieces for lyra viol
manuscript/print
mss.: A-ETgoëss B (2 pieces); GB-CHEr ms. DLT/B 31 Leycester (3 pieces); GB-Lam ms. 600 Browne (olim GB-Lspencer) (2 pieces); GB-Lbl Add. 31432 (autograph, 3 pieces); GB-Lbl Add.ms. 59869 Cartwright (7 pieces); GB-Lbl add. 63852 Griffith Boynton (1 piece); GB-Lbl ms. mus. 249 (2 pieces); GB-Mp BRm 832 Vu 51 Manchester (6 pieces, of which 3 not attributed with certainty); GB-Ob ms.mus.sch. D.245-246 Merro (2 pieces); GB-Ob ms.mus.sch. F.575 (2 pieces); IRL-Dm ms. Z3.4.13 (1 piece, a 2nd part is probably lost); IRL-Dm ms. Z3.5.13 Narcissus Marsh (8 pieces)
9 pieces published in John Playford, Musick’s Recreation (Recreation-1652/55, Recreation-1661)
GB-Ob Merro 245, GB-Ob Merro 246, GB-Ob Merro 247
Musick’s Recreation: Early English Books Online
ms. Goëss: Tree Edition, Goess B.pdf
Cunningham, PhD thesis, 2007, vol. 2, pp. 390-405, 432-470 (all 43 pieces); Tree Edition (ms. Goëss); Boethius Press (Narcissus Marsh’s Lyra Viol Book); Peacock Press 2003 (Manchester Viol Book); Cornetto-Verlag ( Musick’s Recreation 1652); Adams (Musick’s Recreation, Leycester, Lbl ms. mus. 249)
GB-Lbl Add.ms. 59869 Cartwright: ID 806251652
GB-Lbl add. 63852 Griffith Boynton : ID 806252117
GB-Ob mss. Merro : ID 800271631
http://vdgs.org.uk/thematic/La.pdf (Lawes-23-26)
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
Robert Smith, British Library MS Mus 249, «The Viola da Gamba Society Journal», vol. VII, 2013, pp. 20-44.
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
Annette Otterstedt, Die Englische Lyra-Viol. Instrument und Technik, Kassel, Bärenreiter, 1989
