Hidden in Plain Sight: Musical Treasures in the Penn Library Curated by Marjorie Hassen Otto E. Albrecht Music Library University of Pennsylvania

The Psalmes of David Giles Farnaby, ca. 1565-1640 The psalmes of David: to fower parts, for viols and voyce: The first booke doricke mottoes, the second divine canzonets: with a prelud, before the psalmes, cromaticke Autograph Manuscript, ca. 1625 Ms. Codex 15 A joiner by training, the English composer Giles Farnaby received his musical education at Oxford, where he earned his BMus in July 1592. Among his surviving compositions are 54 works for keyboard, 20 four-voice canzonets, 9 psalms, issued in 1592 as part of Thomas East's Whole Booke of Psalmes, and the cantus part of his Psalmes of David, a collection of psalm harmonizations, which were composed sometime between 1625 and the year of his death.

Table of Contents Introduction Manuscript Collections: Institutions Manuscript Collections: Individuals Sheet Music Images Conducting Scores Music Manuscripts: 15th-18th Centuries Music Manuscripts: 19th & 20th Centuries Landmarks of Music Theory