Wemyss

DATE: 1643-4

Page measurements: 220 x 170 mm

Pedagogical book in upright folio format. Although it falls outside the date-limits of this study, this book is included because it contains some music in v.t. It is bound in a parchment wrapper, and the watermarks are dated 1642. The book is signed by Margaret Wemyss (1630-49), and probably compiled by her and other scribes. Spring discusses the book in Spring 1987A, but hisrevision of the work in LSJ xxvii is more detailed. He suggests that the first 17 songs were entered by an adult, possibly a teacher, but doesnot elaborate. The book is in five sections: 17 songs by Campion and Morley; 8 poems; 28 lute pieces in a single handfor a 10-course lute in v.t. except for four pieces attributed to Gaultier;61 lute pieces in at least two different hands for 10- and 12-course lute in transitional tunings; 19 poems, copied using the book inverted from the back, numbered and following on from the numbering of the first group.

Very few of the Wemyss pieces are concordant with the major English v.t. sources, and most of the concordances are with contemporary Scottish manuscript and printed sources or with foreign books. Only the music in the first (v.t.) group is listed here and only those concordances relevant this study are listed below, as Spring has given a detailed inventory with his description of the provenance of the source in LSJ.

Bibliography: Spring 1987A

Spring 1987B

folio	original ascription	title	composer	cons. & cogs.
17-18	The day dau[n]s in themorning	The Day Dawns in the Morning		Straloch 2-3
18v-19/1	tom of badlamad	Gray's Inn Maske/Mad Tom of Bedlam		Trinity 137 ML 29/2 Board 31v/1 and 44/4-44v/1 cf: GB-Lbl Add.Ms.10444 44
19/2-19v/1	Ane Currant	Courant
19v/2	The giuens coraant.	Brett's Courant		Dd.9.33 58/3 Dd.5.78.3 74v/1 Dd.9.3342v/1 Trinity 126-125/1 Rowallan 3 Besard 1603 153v/2 [first strain only] Montbuysson 25v Fuhrmann 1615 174/1 Beckmann 3v-4 Dusiacki 4v Dolmetsch 22v-23 Werl 91v de Bellis 39 ML 3v/1 Valerius 1626 52v-53v
20/1	bauckingame gost.	Buckingham's Ghost
20/2-20v/1	though your strangness	Though your Strangeness	Robert Jones
20v/2	Ane mask	Masque
20v/3-21/1	ballett	Ballet
21/2-21v/1	Shiphard Sau you not	Shepherd Saw Thou Not		Straloch 1/2
21v/2-22/1	Ane curant	Courant
22/2	corantt	Courant
22/3-22v/1	curantt	Courant
22v/2-23/1	Sinkpays	Sinkapace Galliard		cf:Stobaeus 44/2 Marsh 126 408/2 95/2 Vilnius 25/3 and 58/1 Willoughby 90v Dlugoraj 189 Mulliner 126v-127
23/2	Saraband	Saraband
23/3-24/1	The Spanish pauin.	Spanish Pavan	Francis Pilkington	31392 25v Sampson 3v/2 Welde 1 Dallis 162 Dd.4.22 3 Dd.9.33 82v-83 Dd.2.11 66v/2 Nn.6.36 23v Dallis 162 Robinson 1603 22v-23 408/2 112/1 Mynshall 5/2-5v/1 Wickhambrook 14v-15/1 Cosens 20v-21 Folger 1v-2 (frgmt) Pickeringe 11/2 & 11v-12 (dt pts) Dd.3.18 14v-15/1 (dt) cf: Thysius 142/2 Stobaeus 22v/2 Dolmetsch 23v-25 and 25v-26 Valerius1626 258-260 Vallet1615 57 Vallet1616 6/2 Vilnius 27
24/2	I left my tru loue	I Left my True Love
24v/1	Port Robart	Port Robart		Straloch 5-6
24v/2	hulie and farie	Holy and Fairly
25/1	You miner beautis of the night	You Minor Beauties of the Night
25/2	I newer kew I loued the	I Never Knew I Loved Thee		Rowallan 26-7
25v/1	The quins Mask	The Queen'sMaske
25v/2	gautirs corant / Thir last thir is on the old tune sharp	Courant	Gauthier
26/1	Gautr hiss Courante	Courant	Gauthier	Trinity 114 Board 34/3
26/2	Gautrs Saraband	Gautier's Saraband	Gauthier
26v/1	Saraband du guteir	Saraband	Gauthier
26v/2	my lady binnes lilt	My Lady Binny's Lilt		Wemyss 45-45v Mathew 1652 23-4
27/1	god be with my bone lowe	God be with my Bonny Love
27/2	corbe and the pget	Corbe and the Pyget

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