St. Gregory and the Gregorian Music Part 3

The Right Hon. THE VISCOUNT HALIFAX.

The Very Rev. VERNON STALEY.

H. ELLIS WOOLDRIDGE, Esq.

COUNCIL.

Rev. MAURICE BELL.

W. J. BIRKBECK, Esq.

Rev. A. E. BRIGGS.

R. A. BRIGGS, Esq.

SOMERS CLARKE, Esq.

WAKELING DRY, Esq.

Rev. W. HOWARD FRERE.

A. HUGHES-HUGHES, Esq.

J. T. MICKLETHWAITE, Esq.

Rev. E. J. NORRIS.

Rev. G. H. PALMER.

A. H. D. PRENDERGAST, Esq.

ATHELSTAN RILEY, Esq.

J. RUSSELL, Esq.

PERCY E. SANKEY, Esq.

Rev. H. URLING SMITH.

Rev. G. R. WOODWARD.

E. G. P. WYATT, Esq.

AUDITORS.

_MESSRS. GERARD VAN DE LINDE & SON._

HON. TREASURER.

_E. G. P. WYATT, ESQ._

HON. SECRETARY.

_PERCY. E. SANKEY, ESQ., 44 Russell Square, London. W.C._

The Plainsong & Mediaeval Music Society.

The Society is founded for purely antiquarian purposes with the following objects:--

1. To be a centre of information in England for students of Plainsong and Mediaeval Music, and a means of communication between them and those of other countries.

2. To publish fac-similes of important MSS., translations of foreign works on the subject, adaptations of the Plainsong to the English Use, and such other works as may be desirable.

3. To form a catalogue of all Plainsong and Measured Music in England, dating not later than the middle of the sixteenth century.

4. To form a throughly proficient Choir of limited numbers, with which to give ill.u.s.trations of Plainsong and Mediaeval Music.

The subscription for Members is 1 per annum, ent.i.tling them to all publications _gratis_. Clergymen and Organists are eligible for election as a.s.sociates, at a Subscription of 2/6 per annum, which will ent.i.tle them to the annual publications at a reduced price.

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To be sent to the Hon. Secretary, P. E. Sankey, Esq, 44 Russell Square, London. W. C.

PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY.

Price.

THE MUSICAL NOTATION OF THE MIDDLE AGES (_out of print_) ...

SONGS & MADRIGALS OF THE 15th CENTURY, containing 14 specimens, with _fac-similes_ and rules for translating the music into modern notation (Quaritch) 1.6.

GRADUALE SARISBURIENSE, a _fac-simile_ of a 13th Century English Gradual, with an introduction giving a history of the development of the _Graduale_ from the _Antiphonale Missarum_ of St. Gregory, with elaborate Indexes to the Offices, Graduals, etc., and to works on Liturgiology. The volume contains 102 pages of Text and 293 pages of Collotypes, and represents the most important part of the Ecclesiastical Music of the Middle Ages (Quaritch) 4.2.

ANTIPHONALE SARISBURIENSE, a _fac-simile_ of a 13th Century English Antiphoner. This work, when complete, will be uniform with the _Graduale Sarisburiense_, and will contain over 700 pages of Collotypes. It is being published in yearly parts. Parts I, II, III & IV, now ready with portfolio, price 4.2.

THE SARUM GRADUAL, being the introduction to the GRADUALE SARISBURIENSE with four _fac-simile pages_ (Quaritch) 15/9

EARLY ENGLISH HARMONY, from the 10th to the 15th Century. Vol I., containing 60 Collotype Plates of music by composers from St. Dunstan down to John Dunstable (Quaritch) 1.6.

_The above works are folio and on thick paper._

MADRIGALS OF THE 15th CENTURY, containing six Madrigals in modern notation, _quarto_ (Novello) (_out of print_) ...

BIBLIOTHECA MUSICO-LITURGICA, a descriptive hand-list of the Musical and Latin Liturgical MSS. of the middle Ages preserved in English libraries. _Fascicle_ I. and _Fascicle_ II., making Vol. I., _quarto_, 164 pp. with 13 _facsimiles_ (Quaritch) 1.5.6.