Music in Scottish Castles and Country Houses

Music in Scottish Castles and Country Houses
Catalogued and surveyed by Dr Roger B. Williams MBE
Hon. Music Advisor to NTS



Master Index – Single Item Selection

BUC : The British Union-Catalogue of Early Music
CPM : Catalogue of Printed Music in the British Library to 1980

Monday 6th October 2025

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Fyvie FLC-19  RBW 1454

Medulla Musicae; | Being a | Choice Collection of Airs, | viz, | Allemands, Sarabands, Gavotts, Jiggs, | Minuets, & other valuable Pieces, | Extracted from the | Works of the most Celebrated Masters. | viz, | Corelli, | Bomporti, | Torelli, | Tibaldi, | Albinoni, | Bononcini, | Pepusch, | St. Helene &c. | In Two Volumes, Treble & Bass, | The Bass Figur'd for the Harpsichord, | A Work of this Kind never before attempted, | Colligit R.M. Philomusicus, | Vol.1. | Songs, first & second Pack of | Musical Cards, Mr. Handel's Operas. viz, Julius Caesar, | Tamerlane, Rodelinda, Scipio, Alexander &c.
[1727?]    London Engrav'd & Printed at Cluer's Printing Office on Bow Chuh. Yard & Sold there, & by B. Creak at the Bible in Jermyn Street, St. James's. Where may be had ye first & Second Pack et Volumes of Opera

pp.1-124  (Each item has an inked no. added from 1 to 135, with "Bessie Bell"; "The Last Time I came o'er the Moor"; and "The Banks of Spey" (this a few pages further on and written upside down) all added in MS in this copy with treble and bass parts but no figuring)  

'R.M. Philomusicus' is almost certainly Richard Meares, one of the most important music publishers in London at the time.

Short Title  > Medulla musicae, vol. 1: songs
Cmp/Arr  > George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Auth/Ed  > Meares, Richard (1647-1725)
Pr/Pub/Bks  > T. Cluer   |   B. Creak