The Filmer Manuscripts: A Handlist

Abstract

in 1945, these documents have only recently been appreciated for their importance, both individually as sources and collectively as a chronicle of the history of English music between the late sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries. This article constitutes the first systematic descrip? tion of the collection's contents and the only printed overview since Brooks Shepherd's paper, A Repertory of 17th-Century English House Music, was summarized in Journal ofthe American Musicological Society 9 (1956): 61. The author plans eventually to prepare a more detailed catalog and to report fully on some of the most important aspects of these materials.