Bettina Hoffmann
Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba
Ferrabosco, Alfonso II
Lessons for 1. 2. and 3. Viols
(53 pieces for solo lyra viol, 12 pieces for 2 lyra viols, 2 pieces for 3 lyra viols)
print/manuscript
London, Thomas Snodham for John Browne
print: GB-Lbl
ms. copies: D-B mus ms. autogr. Hove 1 (1 piece); GB-Cu Dd 5.20 Holmes (3 pieces); GB-Lam ms. 600 Browne (olim GB-Lspencer) (1 piece); GB-Lbl Add.ms. 17795 (3 pieces); GB-Lbl Harley ms. 7578 (1 piece); GB-Mp BRm 832 Vu 51 Manchester (5 pieces); GB-Ob ms.mus.sch. D.245-247 Merro (21 pieces, of which 3 not included in the printed edition); GB-Och ms. 531-532 (1 piece); GB-Och ms. 439 (1 piece); IRL-Dm ms. Z3.4.13 (3 pieces); IRL-Dtc ms. 408/1 (olim D.1.21/I) William Ballet (4 pieces); US-LAuc ms. M.286 M4 L 992 Mansell (2 pieces)
print:
www.newtunings.com
Early English Books Online
manuscripts:
GB-Lbl Harley 7578
GB-Mp Manchester
GB-Ob Merro 245, GB-Ob Merro 246, GB-Ob Merro 247
VdGSGB Suppl. Publications (2 pieces); Facsimile New York; Peacock Press 2003 (Manchester Viol Book); VDGSA (Manchester Viol Book); Oriana Music (Ballet Lutebook)
The pieces are mostly organised in pairs (Alman+Coranto, Galliard+Coranto, Pavan+Coranto etc).
For a detailed list of concordances between the printed version and the manuscript sources see Index of Music for Viols.
A/I: F 257, ID 990017534
ms. Merro : ID 800271631
Index of content, with concordances
Andrew Ashbee, John Merro’s Manuscripts Revisited, «The Viola da Gamba Society Journal», 2013, vol 7, pp 1-19. http://vdgs.org.uk/journal/Vol-07.pdf
John Cunningham, Lyra Viol Ecclesiastica: A Neglected Manuscript Source in Archbishop Marsh’s Library, Dublin, «The Viola da Gamba Society Journal», 2009, vol. 3/1, pp. 1-54. http://vdgs.org.uk/journal/Vol-03-1.pdf
François-Pierre Goy, Unknown pieces for Lyra-viol in Joachim van den Hove's autograph manuscript (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Preussiscer Kulturbesitz (D-B) Mus. MS. autogr. Hove 1, 1615), in: Jan W.J. Burgers, Tim Crawford and Matthew Spring (ed.), The Lute in the Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century. Proceedings of the International Lute Symposium Utrecht, 30 August 2013 , Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016, pp. 172-182.
