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Description: | The manuscript music collection comprises mainly choral music copied for reference and for performance by the Minster choir and compositions by Minster musicians.
A large part of the collection was in the library by c. 1780 when a short (and incomplete) catalogue was made by William Mason. The provenance for most of these items remains unclear. The music collection was kept mainly in the choir until 1829, when it sustained much damage during the fire. Other music manuscripts were probably kept separately by the Vicars Choral, in the Bedern Chapel.
Some of the more important collections of music manuscripts are the Gostling partbooks, owned by John Gostling and copied by Stephen Bing; a gift of music manuscripts, including copies of anthems by Handel, made by the Sharp family following the fire in 1829; a substantial collection of music copied or collected by William Priestley, founder member & president of Halifax Choral Society; small collections formerly owned by Archbishop Matthew Hutton and William Knight, vicar-choral and subchanter.; Catalogue
David Griffiths, A Catalogue of the Music Manuscripts in York Minster Library (1981). | Format: | Music scores | Temporal: | 1550 2000 | Source: | Backstage | Address: | Deans Park, York,,
YO1 7JQ | Identifier: | www.backstage.ac.uk/records/collection/c | Format: | Music scores |
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