Book of songs, music and poems
Item Overview
- Title
- Book of songs, music and poems
- Author
- Taitt, Robert
- Date Created
- 1676-1689
- Date
- 1676/1689
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Notes
- Description
- Seventeenth century music and commonplace manuscript by Scottish assistant schoolmaster, musician and session clerk Robert Taitt. The volume contains Scottish and English catches and airs, with their associated lyrics, collected and compiled by Taitt. The volume also contains some writings on music theory and teaching as well as passages from Samuel Butler’s Hudibras and William Geddes’ Saints recreation, in addition to other miscellaneous poetry in Latin and English.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 193 leaves
- Dimensions
- 20 x 22 cm
Keywords
- Genre
- Commonplace books--Scotland--17th century
- Resource type
- text
- Subjects
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Choral music--Scotland--Early works to 1800
Music--Scotland--Early works to 1800
Find This Item
- Repository
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- Local Identifier
- MS.1959.003
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002b3013
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- public domain
- Rights contact
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA, Phone: (310) 794-5155, Email: clark@humnet.ucla.edu