Dow Partbooks
The Dow Partbooks (Christ Church, Mus. MSS 984–988) are a collection of five partbooks compiled by Robert Dow in Oxford around 1581–88. The collection includes mostly choral but also some instrumental pieces. At the end is an instrumental La gamba and a canon, both a 3 and apparently copied from Vincenzo Ruffo's book printed in Milan in 1564.
The partbooks are an important source for Tudor music, and the sole known source for some of the pieces. Robert Dow was a trained calligrapher and the books are unusually easy to read among manuscripts of the Tudor period.
Contents
| No. | Title | Composer | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Lamentations. Heth. Peccatum peccavit | White, RobertRobert White | (Heth, Teth, Iod, Caph, Lamed, Mem) |
| 2. | Miserere mei Deus | White, RobertRobert White | |
| 3. | Christe qui lux es et dies, I | White, RobertRobert White | |
| 4. | Christe qui lux es et dies, II | White, RobertRobert White | |
| 5. | Christe qui lux es et dies, III | White, RobertRobert White | |
| 6. | Manus tuae fecerunt me | White, RobertRobert White | |
| 7. | Portio mea, Domine | White, RobertRobert White | |
| 8. | Justus es, Domine | White, RobertRobert White | |
| 9a. | Ne irascaris, Domine (Part 1) | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 9b. | Civitas sancti tui (Part 2) | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 10. | O Domine, adjuva me | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 11a. | Tribulationes civitatum (Part 1) | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 11b. | Timor et hebetudo (Part 2) | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 11c. | Nos enim pro peccatis (Part 3) | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 12. | Domine, exaudi orationem | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 13. | Domine, praestolamur | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 14. | Ad te clamamus | Tye, ChristopherChristopher Tye | |
| 15. | Omnes gentes, plaudite manibus | Tye, ChristopherChristopher Tye | |
| 16. | Esurientes implevit bonis | Sheppard, JohnJohn Sheppard | |
| 17. | Angelus ad pastores ait | Lasso, Orlando diOrlando di Lasso | |
| 18. | Veni in hortum meum | Lasso, Orlando diOrlando di Lasso | |
| 19. | O salutaris hostia | Tallis, ThomasThomas Tallis | |
| 20. | Salvator mundi, I | Tallis, ThomasThomas Tallis | |
| 21. | Candidi facti sunt | Tallis, ThomasThomas Tallis | |
| 22. | Dum transisset Sabbatum | Johnson, RobertRobert Johnson | |
| 23. | Exaudiat te, Dominus | White, RobertRobert White | |
| 24. | Tribulationem et dolorem inveni | Ferrabosco, AlfonsoAlfonso Ferrabosco | |
| 25. | Non me vincat, Deus meus | Strogers, NicholasNicholas Strogers | |
| 26. | Dum transisset Sabbatum, I | Taverner, JohnJohn Taverner | |
| 27a. | Tribulatio proxima est (Part 1) | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 27b. | Contumelias et terrores (Part 2) | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 28. | Appropinquet deprecatio mea | White, RobertRobert White | |
| 29. | Christus resurgens | Tailer, JohnJohn Tailer | |
| 30a. | O quam gloriosum est regnum (Part 1) | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 30b. | Benedictio et claritas (Part 2) | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 31a. | Tristitia et anxietas (Part 1) | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 31b. | Sed tu, Domine (Part 2) | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 32. | Apparebit in finem | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 33. | Audivi vocem de caelo | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 34. | In resurrectione tua | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 35. | Retribue servo tuo | Parsons, RobertRobert Parsons | |
| 36. | Fac cum servo tuo | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 37. | Sive vigilem | Mundy, WilliamWilliam Mundy | |
| 38. | Christe qui lux es et dies, IV | White, RobertRobert White | |
| 39a. | Deus venerunt gentes (Part 1) | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 39b. | Posuerunt morticinia (Part 2) | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 40. | Domine, tu jurasti | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 41. | Exsurge, quare obdormis | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 42. | O sacrum convivium | Tallis, ThomasThomas Tallis | |
| 43. | Salvator mundi, II | Tallis, ThomasThomas Tallis | |
| 44. | Effuderunt sanguinem (Part 3 of No.39) | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 45. | Christe qui lux es et dies | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 46. | Laetentur caeli | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 47. | Facti sumus opprobrium (Part 4 of No.39) | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 48. | Ave Maria | Parsons, RobertRobert Parsons | |
| 49. | Dum transisset Sabbatum | Roose | |
| 50. | Decantabat populus | Anonymous | |
| 51. | Mirabile mysterium | Ferrabosco, AlfonsoAlfonso Ferrabosco | |
| 52. | Miserere mei, Deus | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 53. | O bone Jesu | Parsons, RobertRobert Parsons | |
| 54. | Vestigia mea dirige | Giles, NathanielNathaniel Giles | |
| 55. | Lord, who shall dwell | White, RobertRobert White | |
| 56. | The Lord bless us and keep us | White, RobertRobert White | |
| 57. | O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 58. | Prevent us, O Lord | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 59. | How long shall mine enemies | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 60. | O that most rare breast (Part 1) | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 61. | For thee both kings (Part 2) | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 62. | The doleful debt (Part 3) | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 63. | Come to me, grief, for ever | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 64. | In fields abroad | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 65. | Where fancy fond | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 66. | Susanna fair (1588) | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 67. | While Phoebus used to dwell | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 68. | Why do I use my paper, ink and pen? | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 69. | La virginella | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 70. | I joy not in no earthly bliss | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 71. | Ah, golden hairs | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 72. | Lord, in thy wrath reprove me not | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 73. | Care for thy soul | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 74. | Browning | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | (instrumental) |
| 75. | Browning | Woodcock, ClementClement Woodcock | (instrumental) |
| 76. | Miserere | Mallorie | (instrumental) |
| 77. | Ascendo ad Patrem | Maillard, JeanJean Maillard | attrib. Tye in MS |
| 78. | Rubem quem | Tye, ChristopherChristopher Tye | (instrumental) |
| 79. | Susanne un jour | Lasso, Orlando diOrlando di Lasso | |
| 80. | Madonna somm'accorto | Fogliano, GiacomoGiacomo Fogliano | attrib. Tye in MS |
| 81. | Pour vous aymer | Wilder, Philippe vanPhilippe van Wilder | |
| 82. | De la court (Part 1) | Parsons, RobertRobert Parsons | (instrumental) |
| 83. | De la court (Part 2) | Parsons, RobertRobert Parsons | (instrumental) |
| 84. | Je fille quand Dieu | Wilder, Philippe vanPhilippe van Wilder | |
| 85. | In nomine | Parsons, RobertRobert Parsons | (instrumental) |
| 86. | In nomine, V | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | (instrumental) |
| 87. | In nomine, I | Strogers, NicholasNicholas Strogers | (instrumental) |
| 88. | In nomine, III | Strogers, NicholasNicholas Strogers | (instrumental) |
| 89. | In nomine, II | Strogers, NicholasNicholas Strogers | (instrumental) |
| 90. | In nomine | Bull, JohnJohn Bull | (instrumental) |
| 91. | In nomine | White, RobertRobert White | (instrumental) |
| 92. | In nomine "Follow me" | Tye, ChristopherChristopher Tye | (instrumental) |
| 93. | In nomine, I | Woodcock, ClementClement Woodcock | (instrumental) |
| 94. | If that a sinner's sighs | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 95. | If women could be fair | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 96. | Prostrate, O Lord, I lie | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 97. | Even from the depth unto the Lord | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 98. | When I was otherwise than now I am | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 99. | In nomine, I | Brewster | (instrumental) |
| 100. | O God, wherefore art thou absent | Anonymous | |
| 101. | When I look back | Parsons, RobertRobert Parsons | in Tenor partbook only (Mus. 986) |
| 102. | Come Holy Ghost / In nomine | Anonymous | |
| 103. | O Lord of whom I do depend / In nomine | Anonymous | |
| 104. | O Lord, turn not away thy face / In nomine | Anonymous | |
| 105. | When May is in his prime (Part 1) | Anonymous | |
| 106. | May makes the cheerful hive (Part 2) | Anonymous | |
| 107. | All ye that live on earth (Part 3) | Anonymous | |
| 108. | Ah, alas, you salt sea gods (Part 1) | Farrant, RichardRichard Farrant | |
| 109. | You gods that guide (Part 2) | Farrant, RichardRichard Farrant | |
| 110. | A doleful deadly pang | Strogers, NicholasNicholas Strogers | |
| 111. | My little sweet darling | Anonymous | |
| 112. | Ah, silly poor Joas | Anonymous | |
| 113. | In terrors trapped | Anonymous | |
| 114. | The saint I serve | Anonymous | |
| 115. | How can the tree but waste | Anonymous | |
| 116. | Alas, alack, my heart is woe | Anonymous | |
| 117. | Lulla, lullaby, my sweet little baby (Refrain) | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 118. | Be still, my blessed babe (Verse) | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 119. | O Lord, how vain | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 120. | My mind to me a kingdom is | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 121. | Who likes to love | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 122. | Enforced by love | Parsons, RobertRobert Parsons | |
| 123. | Mistrust not truth | Anonymous | |
| 124. | The day delayed | Anonymous | |
| 125. | Come tread the paths (Part 1) | Anonymous | |
| 126. | Farewell, my lords (Part 2) | Anonymous | |
| 127. | Triumph with pleasant melody (Part 1) | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 128. | What unacquainted cheerful voice (Part 2) | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 129. | My faults, O Christ (Part 3) | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 130. | Blessed is he that fears the Lord | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 131. | Blame I confess | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 132. | O Lord, within thy tabernacle | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 133. | How shall a young man | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 134. | Though Amaryllis dance in green | Byrd, WilliamWilliam Byrd | |
| 135. | La gamba | Ruffo, VincenzoVincenzo Ruffo | (instrumental, Mss. 984-6 only) attrib. "Francesco Mocheni" in MS. |
| 136. | Trinitas in unitate | Ruffo, VincenzoVincenzo Ruffo | in Baritone partbook only (Ms. 987) |
| 137. | Hey down, sing ye now after me | Anonymous | in Bass partbook only (Ms. 988) |
- N.B. pieces are numbered sequentially in the table above, rather than following the numbering of the MS, which contains some errors and is inconsistent between the partbooks.
Bibliography
- The Dow Partbooks, Oxford, Christ Church Mus. 984-988: facsimile with introduction by John Milsom (Oxford: DIAMM Publications, 2010)
- D. Mateer: Oxford, Christ Church Music MSS 984–8; an Index and Commentary, RMARC, no.20 (1986–7), 1–18
External links
- High quality, fully zoomable images of the Dow Partbooks are available at the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM) (free registration required):
- Free scores from the Dow Partbooks in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
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