The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Thomas Ravenscroft (1591/2 - 1635)
Musician, theorist, and composer of rounds and catches known for compiling collections of British folk music. Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/23172 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Ravenscroft Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - The whole Booke of Psalmes with the Hymnes Evangelicall and Songs Spirituall. Composed into four parts by sundry authors, to such severall tunes, as have been, and are generally sung in England, Scotland, Wales, Germany, Italy, France, and the Netherlands: never as yet before in one volume published… Newly corrected and enlarged by Thomas Ravenscroft Bachelar of Musicke. Printed at London, for the Company of Stationers.References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)
1633 .
The whole Book ofPsalms , with the Hymns Evangelical, and Songs
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ritual; composed into four Parts, with such Tunes as are usually sung inEng
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Scotland , Wales , Germany , Italy , France , and the Netherlands , &c.
ritual; composed into four Parts, with such Tunes as are usually sung in
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byTho. Ravenscroft Batchellor of Musick, 8°.
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