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Abstract

[Taken from ‘Summary’] The main part of the dissertation is concerned with a
detailed investigation of all known sources which contain consort music
estimated to have been written during the period 1550 to 1600 approximately. 
These are over eighty in number (mainly manuscripts) and range in date from
c1570 to the mid-seventeenth century .  A second volume is devoted to a thematic
catalogue in which the entire repertory, listed under individual sources in
Volume One, is collected together and classified. 

Table of Contents to Volume 1

PLATES

EXPLANATORY NOTE

PREFACE

I THE REPERTORY

Introduction

Textless polyphonic music

Dance music for unspecified groups of instruments

Music for mixed consort

II SOME CONTEMPORARY TERMS

Consort

Broken and whole consorts

Broken music

Appendix

III INSTRUMENTATION

The nature of the problem

The ‘consorts of broken musicke’

The performance of textless polyphonic music

IV THE EARLIEST SOURCES

British Museum, MS Add.  30513

British Museum, MS Add.  31390

Tenbury, St. Michael’s College, MS 1464

Cambridge, King’s College, Rowe Music Library, MS 316

British Museum, MS Add.  4900

V SOURCES COMPILED FROM 1580 TO 1590

Oxford, Christ Church, MSS MUS.  984-8

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Mus. Sch. E.423

British Museum, MS Add.  47844

British Museum, MSS Add.  30480-4

Tenbury, St. Michael’s College, MS 389

British Museum, MS Add.  32377

British Museum, MS Add.  22597

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MSS Mus.e.1-5

British Museum, MS Harley 7578

VI SOURCES COMPILED FROM 1590 TO 1600

Thomas Whythorne, Duos, London, 1590

British Museum, Royal Music Library, MS 24.d.2

Oxford, Christ Church, MSS MUS.  979-83

Thomas Morley, The first booke of canzonets to
two voyces, London, 1595

Washington, Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.408

British Museum, MS Add.  30485

Note on ‘the Bull manuscript’

VII THE PASTON MANUSCRIPTS

Tenbury, St. Michael’s College, MSS 341-4

Chelmsford, Essex County Record Office, MS D/DP Z 6/1

Chelmsford, Essex County Record Office, MS D/DP Z 6/2

British Museum, MS Add.  29246

Tenbury, St. Michael’s College, MSS 354-8

Tenbury, St. Michael’s College, MSS 369-73

British Museum, MSS Add.  29401-5

Washington, Folger Shakespeare Library, MSS V.a.405-7

London, Royal College of Music, MS 2036

British Museum, MSS Add.  41156-8

British Museum, MS Add.  34049

Tenbury, St. Michael’s College, MSS 379-84

Commentary on the Paston Manuscripts

VIII JACOBEAN SOURCES

British Museum, MSS Add.  34800A-C

British Museum, MSS Add.  18936-9

Dublin, Trinity College, Press B.1.32

William Byrd, Psalmes, Songs, and Sonets,
London, 1611

British Museum, MSS Add.  37402-6

British Museum, MS Add.  29427

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MSS Mus. Sch. D.212-6

London, Royal College of Music, MS 2049

British Museum, MSS Add.  17786-91

British Museum, MS Add.  29996

New York Public Library, MS Drexel 4302

Oxford, Christ Church, MSS MUS.  423-8

Oxford, Christ Church, MSS MUS.  463-7

Tenbury, St. Michael’s College, MS 1018

New Haven, Conn., Yale University, The Library of the School of
Music, Filmer Manuscripts A.11[a-e]