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Posted By: GUEST,Julia L
13-Feb-25 - 08:57 PM
Thread Name: Thomas Ravenscroft's Deuteromelia
Subject: RE: Thomas Ravenscroft's Deuteromelia
They are all available online both as facsimile and transcribed to modern notation.

https://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ravenscroft/modern/

His early publications represented secular songs he heard around him; later work is original and more religious

From Grove's dictionary
RAVENSCROFT, Thomas, Mus.B., bom
about 1582, was a chorister of St. Paul's under
Edward Pearce, and graduated at Cambridge in
1607. In 1609 he edited and published * Pam-
melia. Musickes Miscellanic : or Mixed Varietie
of pleasant Roundelayes and delightful Catches
of 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Parts in one '—the earliest
collection of rounds, catches, and canons printed
in this country. A second impression appeared
in 1618. Later in 1609 he put forth *Deutero-
melia ; or the Second Part of Musick*s Melodie,
or melodius Miisicke of Pleasant Roundelaies ;
K. H. mirth, or Freemen's Songs and such
delightfull Catches' ; containing the catch,
' Hold thy peace, thou knave,' sung in Shake-
speare's 'Twelfth Night' In 1611 he published
'Melismata. Musicall Phansies, fitting the
Court, Citie, and Countrey Humours, to 3, 4
and 5 Voyces.' In 1614 he published 'A Briefe
Discourse of the true (but neglected) use of
Charact'ring the Degrees by their Perfection,
Imperfection, and Diminution in Mensurable
Miisicke against the Common Practise and Cus-
tome of these Times ; Examples whereof are
exprest in the Harmony of 4 Voyces Concerning
the Pleasure of 5 vsuall Recreations. 1. Hunt-
ing. 2. Hawking. 8. Dancing. 4. Drinking.
5. Enamouring ' — a vain attempt to resuscitate
an obsolete practice. The musical examples
were composed by Edward Pearce, John Bemiet,
and Ravenscroft himself. [Much of the material
is found in a MS. in the Brit. Mus. Add. MS.
19,758 (Diet, of Nat. Biog.), In 1618-22 he
was music -master at Christ's Hospital (Mus.
Times, 1905, p. 580.)] In 1621 he published
the work by which he is best known, *The
Whole Booke of Psalmes ; With the Hymnes
Evangelicall and Spirituall. Composed into four
parts by Sundry Authors with several! Tunes as
have been and are usually sung in England,
Scotland, Wales, Germany, Italy, France, and
the Netherlands.' Another edition was pub-
lished in 1683. Four anthems or motets by
Ravenscroft are among the MSS. in the library
of Christ Church, Oxford. [For other music by
him see the Quellen-Lexikon.'] The date of his
death is not known. It is said by some to
have been about 1630, and by others about
1635. w. H. u.