Cathedral music : being a collection in score of the most valuable and useful compositions for that service, by the several English masters of the last two hundred years / the whole selected and carefully revis'd by the late Dr. William Boyce ....

Record ID: 
71118
Accession number: 
PMC 221-23
Title: 
Cathedral music : being a collection in score of the most valuable and useful compositions for that service, by the several English masters of the last two hundred years / the whole selected and carefully revis'd by the late Dr. William Boyce ....
Published: 
London : Printed for John Ashley, 1788.
Edition: 

2d ed.

Notes: 

For 1-8 voices, with figured bass.
Vol. 1. Engraved portrait of the editor: facing t.p.; Preface: p. iii-iv; biographical notes on the composers: p. vii-x.
Vol. 2. Dedication to the King: p. [iii]; biographical notes on the composers: p. vii-[x].
Vol. 3. Dedication to the King: p. [iii]; "When I first undertook this work" (editor's note): p. v-vi; biographical notes on the composers: p. ix-x.
Contains morning and evening services, full and verse anthems, and other liturgical works by Aldrich, Batten, Bevin, Blow, Bull, Byrd, Child, Clarke, Creighton, Croft, Richard Farrant, Gibbons, Goldwin, Henry VIII, Humpfrey, William Lawes, Locke, Thomas or William Morley, Henry Purcell, Rogers, Tallis, William Turner, Tye, Weldon, and Wise.

Associated names: 

Boyce, William, 1711-1779, editor.
Ashley, John, publisher.