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Why aske you / [John Bull]: MU.MS.168.161

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Why aske you / [John Bull]
Why ask you. Selections

Maker(s)

Composer: Bull, John

Categories

Description

Two variations on a two-section tune by John Bull.
Caption title.
The first variation is from the opening of MB 62, the second variation is the sixth from MB 64.
Manuscript copyist (possibly Francis Tregian) in ink.
Editions: see the 'Fitzwilliam virginal book,' revised Dover edition, 1980, 2:192 (no. 161), and in 'Elizabethan keyboard music' (MB 55 no. 41) and from 'John Bull: keyboard music' (MB 62 & 64).

Measurements and weight

1 ms. score (p. 279) ;34cm.

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Identification numbers

Accession number: MU.MS.168.161
Primary reference Number: 249351
ALMA control 001: 99573203803606
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Audit data

Created: Wednesday 16 September 2020 Updated: Monday 18 December 2023 Last processed: Monday 18 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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