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<p style='text-align: justify;'>A <i>Tudor part book</i>, which contains the music for one voice over a range of pieces, here, the tenor. It was possibly created in East Anglia for the private chapel of Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre. It would originally have formed part of a set of five or perhaps six for individual voices. The accompanying bass part is found in Cambridge, St John's College MS 234, but the others are lost.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Both part books comprise, for their respective voices, the music for 10 individual motets by a range of Tudor composers; three by Robert Fayrfax, two by Stephen Prowett and two by John Taverner, and one by each of H. Davy, Lovell, and Hugh Austen or Aston. There is also a Stabat Mater by Richard Davy, and a Magnificat by Fayrfax. Lastly, the book provides five compositions for the musical accompaniment to the mass: two by Fayrfax, and one of each of Austen, William Pasche, and Thomas Ashwell, making 17 individual pieces in all.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>In the heading for Ashwell's mass, a blessing on King Herry, i.e. Henry VIII, is written, on folio <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(75);return false;'>31r</a>, and one motet preserves the name of his first and longest-lasting wife, Katherine of Aragon. Nevertheless, the presence of Taverner's music implies a date later in their marriage, which was annulled in 1533, so likely the manuscript was written between 1524 and that date.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Arthur Westwell, Queens' College, Cambridge.</p>
