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MUSIC - JOHN WILBYE
The Second Set of Madrigales to 3.4.5. Parts, apt Both for Voyals and Voyces. Newly Composed, 5 parts (of 6, without "Quintus"), Thomas Este alias Snodham, for John Browne, 1609

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MUSIC - JOHN WILBYE

The Second Set of Madrigales to 3.4.5. Parts, apt Both for Voyals and Voyces. Newly Composed, 5 parts (of 6, without "Quintus"), 89 leaves (of 92, without title to Altus part, title and dedication to Tenor), titles to Cantus, Bassus and Sextus parts within ornamental woodcut border (the first strengthened on verso, the last defective), type-set music throughout, several large woodcut historiated initials and ornaments, dedication to Lady Arabella Stuart in 4 parts (scuffed in Altus), some leaves strengthened with old paper at fore-margins resulting in loss of a few letters, stitched in marbled wrappers, parts titles in ink on upper covers, first part with paper label "Mr. Hawkins' Hist. of Music", 2 covers detached [STC 25619a], small 4to (211 x 155mm.), Thomas Este alias Snodham, for John Browne, 1609

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SCARCE. John Wilbye's First Set of Madrigals was published in 1598, but it was in this second set that he "achieved his full stature, its thirty-four pieces adding up to the greatest of all the English madrigal volumes... Wilbye's profoundly moving setting is probably the most perceptive treatment of a text among all the English madrigals, and it is this quality above all that makes 'Draw on, sweet night' [included in the Cantus] surely the greatest of all English madrigals" (David Brown, ODNB).

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