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Choirbooks.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: General term for books used in church services containing the chants of the Latin liturgy.

Found in 46 Collections and/or Records:

Choirbooks of St Mary’s Episcopal Church, Dalkeith., 18th century-1912.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21797-21826
Scope and Contents Although incomplete, the collection shows the very wide range of music which this small church, under the patronage of the Duke of Buccleuch, was able to perform. The music is of the standard English cathedral repertoire, consisting of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century services and anthems, with the works of Handel, Boyce and Maurice Greene predominating, but including a few earlier anthems, notably by Gibbons and Purcell. The collection was begun soon after the foundation of the church in...
Dates: 18th century-1912.

Choirbooks of St Mary’s Episcopal Church, Dalkeith: Anthems., [1851, or after]-1888.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21797-21813
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Although incomplete, the collection shows the very wide range of music which this small church, under the patronage of the Duke of Buccleuch, was able to perform. The music is of the standard English cathedral repertoire, consisting of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century services and anthems, with the works of Handel, Boyce and Maurice Greene predominating, but including a few earlier anthems, notably by Gibbons and Purcell. The collection was begun soon after the foundation of the church in...
Dates: [1851, or after]-1888.

Choirbooks of St Mary’s Episcopal Church, Dalkeith: Anthems, volume 1., [1857, or after.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21797-21804
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Although incomplete, the collection shows the very wide range of music which this small church, under the patronage of the Duke of Buccleuch, was able to perform. The music is of the standard English cathedral repertoire, consisting of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century services and anthems, with the works of Handel, Boyce and Maurice Greene predominating, but including a few earlier anthems, notably by Gibbons and Purcell. The collection was begun soon after the foundation of the church in...
Dates: [1857, or after.]

Choirbooks of St Mary’s Episcopal Church, Dalkeith: Anthems, volume 2., [1851, or after]-?1888.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21805-21809
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Although incomplete, the collection shows the very wide range of music which this small church, under the patronage of the Duke of Buccleuch, was able to perform. The music is of the standard English cathedral repertoire, consisting of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century services and anthems, with the works of Handel, Boyce and Maurice Greene predominating, but including a few earlier anthems, notably by Gibbons and Purcell. The collection was begun soon after the foundation of the church in...
Dates: [1851, or after]-?1888.

Choirbooks of St Mary’s Episcopal Church, Dalkeith: Anthems, volume 3., 1861-1880.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21810-21813
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Although incomplete, the collection shows the very wide range of music which this small church, under the patronage of the Duke of Buccleuch, was able to perform. The music is of the standard English cathedral repertoire, consisting of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century services and anthems, with the works of Handel, Boyce and Maurice Greene predominating, but including a few earlier anthems, notably by Gibbons and Purcell. The collection was begun soon after the foundation of the church in...
Dates: 1861-1880.

Choirbooks of St Mary’s Episcopal Church, Dalkeith: Organ music., 2nd half of 19th century-1912.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21822-21826
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Although incomplete, the collection shows the very wide range of music which this small church, under the patronage of the Duke of Buccleuch, was able to perform. The music is of the standard English cathedral repertoire, consisting of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century services and anthems, with the works of Handel, Boyce and Maurice Greene predominating, but including a few earlier anthems, notably by Gibbons and Purcell. The collection was begun soon after the foundation of the church in...
Dates: 2nd half of 19th century-1912.

Choirbooks of St Mary’s Episcopal Church, Dalkeith: Services., 1854-1893.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21814-21821
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Although incomplete, the collection shows the very wide range of music which this small church, under the patronage of the Duke of Buccleuch, was able to perform. The music is of the standard English cathedral repertoire, consisting of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century services and anthems, with the works of Handel, Boyce and Maurice Greene predominating, but including a few earlier anthems, notably by Gibbons and Purcell. The collection was begun soon after the foundation of the church in...
Dates: 1854-1893.

Choirbooks of St Mary’s Episcopal Church, Dalkeith: Services, volume 1., 1854-1893.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21814-21819
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Although incomplete, the collection shows the very wide range of music which this small church, under the patronage of the Duke of Buccleuch, was able to perform. The music is of the standard English cathedral repertoire, consisting of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century services and anthems, with the works of Handel, Boyce and Maurice Greene predominating, but including a few earlier anthems, notably by Gibbons and Purcell. The collection was begun soon after the foundation of the church in...
Dates: 1854-1893.

Gradual of Dominican use, Italy., 1st half of 16th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.25242
Scope and Contents A large choirbook containing the Sanctorale (folio 1), the Temporale from Christmas Eve to Corpus Christi (folio 75), 'In consecratione ecclesiae' (folio 136) and the Creed (folio 139). The Sanctorale includes offices for the feasts of Saints Peter Martyr, Antonino, Archbishop of Florence (canonised in 1523), Catherine of Sienna, Dominic (translation and feast), Vincent Ferrer, and Thomas Aquinas. The manuscript is illuminated throughout with large red and blue initials on penwork...
Dates: 1st half of 16th century.

Photostats of folios 108 recto and 109 verso of the Carver Choir Book, Adv.MS.5.1.15, captured in an attempt to determine the contents of folios 108 verso and 109 recto which are joined together in the original., 16th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.8494, folios 40-42
Scope and Contents

Folio 42 is an image of the joined folios captured using a strong light that has been shone through the folios. It shows the content of folio 108 verso superimposed over that of 109 recto. See D Stevens in ‘Musica Disciplina’, volume xiii, page 156 note.

Dates: 16th century.

'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