Venus and Adonis: A Masque (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Venus and Adonis: A Masque

Another sign used for some sort of shake is (y). It is frequently met with in ms. Music of the period more generally accompanied by dots (y or X). I have not seen an explanation of this sign showing exactly which of the numerous kinds of shake in use at the time is intended; but perhaps this is a matter of -no great importance, so long as some kind of shake is introduced.

The time-signatures in this edition are those employed in the mss.

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Excerpt from Venus and Adonis: A Masque

I have to note a mistake which I made in the Introduction to No. 23, Old English Edition, with regard to the date of a work by Dr. Blow. I suggested that the right date for the New Year's Song, My trembling song awake, should be 1685-6. As a matter of fact the words are by Thomas Flatman, and are printed in his collected works, where the poem is called A Song on New Year's Day before the King Car. 2. Set by Dr. Blowe This Ode was edited by Dr. Mann for performance at the Conference of the Incorporated Society of Musicians at Llandudno in 1901 I am indebted to him for the correction of this mistake.

I take this opportunity of expressing my thanks to the Very Rev. The Dean of Westminster, for giving me permission to collate from the West minster Abbey ms. Of Blow's Masque, with a view to its publication: to the Rev. Theo. Greatorex, Librarian to the Abbey, for giving me access to the ms.: to Professor Yorke Powell, Librarian of Christ Church, Oxford and to Mr. W. Barclay Squire, who drew my attention to the Masque, and has given me information with regard to the mss.

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