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Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era

Henry Butler
Collected Works
Edited by Elizabeth V. Phillips
Basso Continuo Realization and Commentary by Jack Ashworth
B 66 ISBN 0-89579-263-X (1991) xx+122 pp. $46.00
  ISBN 978-0-89579-263-1 (13-digit)
B 66P Parts $22.00
Henry Butler was a virtuoso viol player from England employed at the Spanish court. His music combines an English approach to writing for the viol with an Italian style of ensemble composition. These 20 works, mostly divisions on grounds for the bass viol, also include four compositions for violin, bass viol, and basso continuo. Butler's sonatas are among the first examples of that genre written by an English-born composer, and one work is arguably the earliest sonata for bass viol and basso continuo.

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Contents
Three sets of Divisions in C Major; Divisions in D Major; two sets of Divisions in D Minor; Prelude in E Minor; Divisions in E Minor; Prelude in F Major; two sets of Divisions in F Major; Divisions in F Major/ D Minor

 

 

 Divisions in G Major; two sets of Divisions in A Minor; Sonata in E Minor; Aria in E Minor; Sonata in F Major; Sonata in G Major; Sonata in G Minor
 
 

Parts
vn.; bass