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A Note on ‘Scottish Anonymous’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Isobel Woods
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The treatise entitled The Airt of Musick Collecit out of all Ancient Doctoris of Musick, British Library Additional MS 4911, known as 'Scottish Anonymous’, has long been of interest to scholars of faburden and related subjects. The importance of its evidence has been difficult to assess, however, since key questions remain unanswered, such as of what establishment this manuscript represents the musical practices and over what time-period. The matter is further clouded by the circulation of obviously erroneous dates, the background to which is discussed by Judson Maynard in his dissertation on this manuscript.

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Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle , Volume 21 , 1988, pp. 37 - 39
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Copyright © Royal Musical Association, 1988

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1 Judson Maynard, An Anonymous Scottish Treatise on Music from the Sixteenth Century, British Museum Additional Manuscript 4911, Edition and Commentary (PhD dissertation, University of Indiana, 1961), vol.1, 6–15.Google Scholar

2 A fuller discussion of this point appears in Kenneth Elliott and Frederick Rimmer, A History of Scottish Music (London, 1973), 26–7.Google Scholar

3 Maynard, vol. 1, 170.Google Scholar

4 Maynard, vol.2, 301.Google Scholar

5 The Acts of Parliament of Scotland, ed. T. Thomson (London, 1814), vol.2, 526–35.Google Scholar

6 The Acts of Parliament of Scotland, vol.3, 14–25.Google Scholar

7 Charles Rogers, History of the Chapel Royal of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1882), lxviii.Google Scholar

8 Regislrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis, ed. Cosmo Innes (Edinburgh, 1845), vol.1, lxi-lxv. Cosmo Innes found this information among the manuscript notes of Thomas Innes, with a note in the margin: 'ex autographo penes D. erskine de Dunne—Copied from the originall, this 25 Janr. 1728. “This Chapter minute was brought away in 1569 when John Erskine of Dun, superintendent of Angus, ‘purged the University’ of its Roman Catholic teachers.Google Scholar

9 Maynard, vol.1, 169.Google Scholar

10 Maynard, vol.1, 170.Google Scholar

11 John Knox, The Historie of the Reformation of Religion within the Realm of Scotland, ed. C.J. Guthrie (London, 1898), 154–5.Google Scholar

12 These events are discussed in greater detail in the Registrum Cartarum Sancti Egidii de Edinburgh, ed. David Laing (Edinburgh, 1859), xlii-xliv.Google Scholar

13 Scottish Record Office MS. RH6/1533B: Instrument on behalf of Margaret Douglas of Little Sauchie, 18 October 1551.Google Scholar

14 Isobel Woods, The Carvor Choirbook (PhD dissertation, Princeton University, 1984), vol.1, 20–25.Google Scholar