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Masses. Musical compositions.

 Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: A musical setting of parts of the liturgy used in the Mass. Source: 'Concise Oxford English dictionary', 11th edition (Oxford, 2004).

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

'Festival Mass for full orchestra & chorus; a study in instrumentation, composed by William Wallace' (born 1860), in his autograph.

 File
Identifier: MS.3089
Scope and Contents

The composer gives a history (folio xiii) of the work, which was composed in 1886-1887 and, in part, scored in 1888 (see dates on various folios). Some parts are incomplete.

Interspersed with the music are unruled leaves, bearing illuminations, manuscript notes of the composer, etc., on folios i-ii, viii, x-xiii, xxv, xxvii verso, xxviii verso, xxxix, xliii, xlvii, li.

Dates: 1886-1888.

Late 13th-century manuscript known as the 'Sprouston Breviary'.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.13B
Scope and Contents This manuscript was produced in Scotland in the late 13th century, probably sometime between 1285 and 1300 according to Hair and Knott. Borland, Frere and McRoberts have suggested that it may be of the early 14th century, but most scholars agree that it was written sometime around 1300. The manuscript contains musical services as well as the text of Church services according to the Use of Sarum. The work is written in littera textualis in double columns of unequal length....
Dates: Late 13th century.

Manuscript known as the 'Herdmanstoun Antiphonal', or 'Herdmanstoun Breviary'.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.13A
Scope and Contents Manuscript known traditionally as the Herdmanstoun Breviary, but more correctly described as an Antiphonal. It was written in the north of England, possibly Northumberland, but later taken to Scotland and altered. It has been suggested by Höhler that the manuscript was possibly written for the college of canons founded at Chester-le-Street by Bishop Anthony Bek of Durham. Bannister speculates that the volume may have been brought to Scotland during the reign of David II (1329-1371). ...
Dates: Circa 1300

'The Carver Choirbook', a sixteenth-century manuscript also known as the 'Scone Antiphonary'.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.1.15
Scope and Contents Choirbook produced in Scotland containing polyphonic settings for Masses, Magnificats, motets, with other various fragments. The manuscript contains works by Carver himself and by other composers of the period, including Dufay, Nesbett, Lambe, Cornysh (Senior), and Fayrfax. The volume was previously thought to have been copied by Carver at the Abbey of Scone, but scholars now agree that it was probably written at the Chapel Royal at Stirling. Not all of the compositions are complete and the...
Dates: 16th century