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Article: BASS PARTS TO AN UNKNOWN PURCELL SUITE AT YALE.(Filmer music collection)
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- Notes
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- June 1, 2001
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The thirty-seven music manuscripts comprising the Filmer Collection at Yale University, nearly all of English provenance, suggest that a lively musical culture existed in the homes of the Filmers of Kent, England, in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In a 1978 study in Notes, Robert Ford provided an overview of the collection, [1] and various Filmer manuscripts have subsequently been studied by Curtis Price, [2] Carl Schmidt, [3] Peter Holman, [4] and Ford himself. [5] My own interest in this collection developed in the process of writing a book with Robert Thompson about the manuscript sources for Henry Purcell's music. [6] I was especially drawn to some ...