[Letter from William Bates]Author(s): William BatesSource: Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Spring, 1982), p. 202Published by: University of California Press on behalf of the American Musicological SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/831296 .

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202 JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY

(3) , MS M 286 M4 L992. Known as the John Mansell Lyra Viol Book.

The Clark Library acquired this volume from Theodore Finney's col- lection over ten years ago. Though listed in the musical manuscript file as a "Lyra Viol Tablature Book," the manuscript contains, on fol. 24v, a short setting of the popular Elizabe- than tune "Go From My Window" for six-course lute. The manuscript is dated ca. i650, but the lute piece is from an earlier date. Fol. 38v con- tains a useful table of viol ornaments.

VICTOR A. COELHO

University of California, Los Angeles

To the Editor of the JOURNAL

THE UNDERSIGNED are currently pre- paring a detailed catalogue of all extant Italian Vesper music pub- lished between 1540 and 1725. Espe- cially difficult to locate are isolated settings of Vesper psalms (with dox- ologies) and Magnificats in publica- tions of Motetti, Concerti ecclesiastici, Sacri concenti etc. where the Vesper items are not identified on the title page.

We would be most appreciative if scholars who have studied such printed Italian collections and are aware of Vesper compositions not named in title pages would call them to our attention.

JAMES ARMSTRONG

Colby College

JEFFREY KURTZMAN Rice University

To the Editor of the JOURNAL

I AM PREPARING a study of the passa- caglia and ciaccona in keyboard mu-

sic of the Baroque period and would appreciate any information concern- ing either photocopies or modern editions of the following composi- tions:

Passacaglia J. B. S. (in MS 527-- now lost-formerly in the library of the Hochschule fiir Musikerziehung und Kirchenmusik, Berlin)

Johann Schmid[t], keyboard suite (unnumbered MS-now lost-for- merly in the same library).

WILLIAM BATES

University of South Carolina

To the Editor of the JOURNAL

IN MY ARTICLE "Tonal Types and Modal Categories in Renaissance Po- lyphony," this JOURNAL, XXXIV (198 I), there lurks among however many whimsicalities of interpreta- tion one slovenly if inconsequential slip in an identification. In my Table 8-A (p. 460) I referred to Lasso's Sacrae cantiones of 1562 as though they had been published in Munich, and in July of the year in question. Although the pieces certainly origi- nated in Munich-Horst Leucht- mann, in Orlando di Lasso: sein Leben (Wiesbaden, 1976), quite properly wrote "Aus Miinchen widmet Lasso unter dem i. Juni 1562 Herzog Al- brecht V. von Bayern Motetten" (p. 47)--the actual imprint is Niirnberg, not Munich, and the dedication too is datelined Niirnberg--and I June, not I July. (The Venetian reprint of the same year by Gardano carries over the dedication in toto, including the Niirnberg place reference, and only the date is changed, to I No- vember.)

HAROLD S. POWERS

Princeton University

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