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Lift up your heads O ye gates / [at the end] Orlando Gibbons.: MU.MS.88.f.124

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Lift up your heads O ye gates / [at the end] Orlando Gibbons.
Lift up your heads, O ye gates

Maker(s)

Composer: Gibbons, Orlando
Scribe: Purcell, Henry

Categories

Description

Anthem for unaccompanied mixed voices (SSAATB).
Setting of Psalm 24, verses 7-10.
Title taken from the first line of text.
Manuscript in the hand of Henry Purcell in ink.
Starts on leaf 124 (leaf 19v of the reverse foliation)
Published in John Barnard's 'First book of selected church musick (London 1641) (RISM B/I, 1641(5))
Published in William Boyce's 'Cathedral music' volume 2 page 48 (RISM B/II, p. 123)

Measurements and weight

1 ms. score (f. 123-124) ;44cm

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Dating

Production date: AD 1678 : [London],[approximately 1678]

Identification numbers

Accession number: MU.MS.88.f.124
Primary reference Number: 253446
ALMA control 001: 99548403803606
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Audit data

Created: Monday 12 October 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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