General information
Published London 1768 on subscription.
Editor: William Boyce
Size: 40cm high × 30cm wide.
Pages: 306 with additional end papers.
Contents
i
Opening inscription.
This is similar to that shown in Cathedral Music, Volume 1 (William Boyce), save for the volume number and publication date.
iii
Dedication
v-vi
Subscriber list
vii-x
Biographies
Includes biographies of the following composers:
- Christopher Tye
- William Byrd
- William Lawes
- Adrian Batten
- Matthew Locke
- Pelham Humfrey
- Michael Wise
- Robert Creighton
- Henry Purcell
- John Goldwin
- Jeremiah Clarke
- William Croft
- John Weldon
xi-xii
Contents list
1-294
Music engraving
Page
|
Composer
|
Work
|
Voicing
|
Comments
|
1
|
Henry VIII
|
O Lord, the Maker of all Things
|
SATB
|
|
5
|
Thomas Tallis
|
I call and cry to thee, O Lord
|
SAATB
|
|
10
|
Christopher Tye
|
I will exalt thee
|
SATB
|
|
14
|
Christopher Tye
|
Sing unto the Lord
|
SATB
|
|
19
|
Richard Farrant
|
Call to remembrance
|
SATB
|
|
22
|
Orlando Gibbons
|
Hide not thou thy Face
|
SATB
|
|
24
|
William Byrd
|
O Lord, turn thy wrath away
|
SATTB
|
adapted from Byrd's motet "Ne irascaris domine"
|
29
|
William Byrd
|
Bow thine ear, O Lord
|
SATTB
|
adapted from Byrd's motet "Civitas sancti tui"
|
34
|
William Byrd
|
Sing joyfully
|
SSAATB
|
|
41
|
Orlando Gibbons
|
Hosanna to the Son of David
|
SSAATB
|
|
48
|
Orlando Gibbons
|
Lift up your heads
|
SSAATB
|
|
56
|
Orlando Gibbons
|
Almighty and everlasting God
|
SATB
|
|
59
|
Orlando Gibbons
|
O clap your hands
|
SSAATTBB
|
|
65
|
Orlando Gibbons
|
God is gone up. Second Part
|
SSAATTBB
|
|
75
|
Adrian Batten
|
Hear my prayer, O God
|
SAATB
|
|
80
|
Adrian Batten
|
O praise the Lord
|
SATB
|
|
82
|
Adrian Batten
|
Deliver us, O Lord our God
|
SATB
|
|
84
|
William Child
|
Praise the Lord, O my soul
|
SATB
|
|
87
|
William Child
|
O Lord, grant the king
|
SATB
|
|
90
|
William Child
|
Sing we merrily
|
SSAATBB
|
|
102
|
Benjamin Rogers
|
Behold now, praise the Lord
|
SATB
|
|
105
|
Benjamin Rogers
|
Teach me, O Lord
|
SATB
|
|
108
|
John Blow
|
God is our hope and strength
|
SSAATTBB
|
|
117
|
John Blow
|
O God, wherefore art thou absent
|
SSATB
|
|
122
|
John Blow
|
Save me O God
|
SATB
|
|
126
|
John Blow
|
The Lord hear thee
|
SATB
|
|
130
|
John Blow
|
My God, my God, look upon me
|
SATB
|
|
135
|
Henry Aldrich
|
Out of the deep
|
SATB
|
|
140
|
Henry Aldrich
|
O give Thanks
|
SSAATB
|
|
145
|
Robert Creighton
|
I will arise
|
SATB
|
|
148
|
Henry Purcell
|
O God, thou art my God
|
SATB
|
|
154
|
Henry Purcell
|
O God, thou hast cast us out
|
SSAATB
|
|
163
|
Henry Purcell
|
O Lord God of Hosts
|
SSAATTBB
|
|
173
|
John Goldwin
|
I have set God alway before me
|
SATB
|
|
179
|
Jeremiah Clarke
|
Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem
|
SATB
|
|
183
|
William Croft
|
God is gone up with a merry noise
|
SATB
|
|
193
|
William Croft
|
Put me not to rebuke
|
SATB
|
|
202
|
John Weldon
|
In thee, O Lord
|
SATB
|
|
209
|
John Weldon
|
Hear my crying O God
|
SSATB
|
|
219
|
William Lawes
|
The Lord is my light
|
SATB
|
|
226
|
Matthew Locke
|
Lord, let me know my end
|
SSATB
|
|
235
|
Pelham Humfrey
|
Have Mercy upon me
|
ATB (SATB)
|
|
242
|
Pelham Humfrey
|
O Lord my God
|
ATB (SATB)
|
|
248
|
John Blow
|
I was in the spirit
|
ATBB (SATB)
|
|
258
|
Michael Wise
|
Prepare ye the way of the Lord
|
SSAB (SATB)
|
|
263
|
Michael Wise
|
Awake, put on thy strength
|
ATB (SATB)
|
|
270
|
Henry Purcell
|
Thy Way, O God
|
AB (SATB)
|
|
276
|
Henry Purcell
|
Be merciful
|
ATB (SATB)
|
|
285
|
Jeremiah Clarke
|
How long wilt thou forget me?
|
SATB
|
|
289
|
William Croft
|
O praise the Lord, all ye heathen
|
S (SATB)
|
|
294
|
William Croft
|
Give the king thy judgments
|
SATBB (SATBB)
|
|