Bettina Hoffmann
Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba
Gregorie (Gregorye, Gregory), Thomas
81 pieces (preludes, pavins, almains, corantos, ayres, sarabandes, jigs, maskes etc.) for 1 and for 2 lyra viols
manuscript/print
mss: GB-Ob Mus.Sch. D.221 (70 pieces, 1 part); GB-Ob Mus.Sch. D.247 Merro (14 pieces for 1 lv); IRL-Dm ms. Z3.4.13 (12 pieces for 2 lv, 1 part only); GB-Ob Mus.Sch. D.245-246 Merro (6 pieces for 2 lv); US-LAuc ms. M.286 M4 L 992 Mansell (6 pieces for 1 lv), GB-Lam ms. 600 Browne (olim GB-Lspencer) (5 pieces for 1 lv); GB-Mp BRm 832 Vu 51 Manchester (3 pieces for 1 lv); GB-CHEr ms. DLT/B 31 Leycester (3 pieces for 1 lv); GB-Lbl Add.ms. 10444 Lestrange (2 pieces for 2 vg, standard notation); GB-Cu Add ms 9284, olim Robert Spencer private collection (1 piece: no. 2, only one part preserved); S-Ns Finspång 9096.3 (1 piece)
1 piece for 1 lv published in John Playford, Musick’s Recreation (Recreation-1652/55)
GB-Ob Merro 245, GB-Ob Merro 246, GB-Ob Merro 247
Musick’s Recreation: Early English Books Online
Cornetto-Verlag ( Musick’s Recreation 1652); Adams ( Musick’s Recreation ); Peacock Press 2003 (Manchester Viol Book)
In IRL-Dm ms. Z3.4.13 some of these pieces are attributed to Ives and to Johnson, some are only dubiously attributed to Gregorie (see Cunningham, JVdGSGB, 2009, vol. 3/1).
ms. Merro : ID 800271631
http://vdgs.org.uk/thematic/G.pdf
ms GB-Cu 9284: index Violanet
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
