doubtful unless otherwise stated, probably for masques to which Johnson contributed instrumental music
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3 almans [Main Dances] (Jonson: Oberon, 1611), GB-Lbl (a 2)
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3 almans [Main Dances] (G. Chapman: Memorable Masque, 1613) (definitely by Johnson, see ‘Lute’)
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Baboon’s Dance (Memorable Masque), Lbl (a 2), 161725 (a 5)
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Fairies’ Dance (Oberon), Cu (lute), Lbl (2 copies: lute, a 2)
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Satyr’s Dance (Oberon), Lbl (a 2), 162119 (a 4)
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Torch-Bearers Dance (Memorable Masque), Lbl (? a 2)
| doubtful, probably for masques to which Johnson may have contributed instrumental music -
Alman [Main Dance 1] (T. Campion: The Lords’ Masque, 1613), Lbl (2 copies: lute, a 2), WFspencer (lyra viol), 161725 (a 5)
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Alman [Main Dance 2] (The Lords’ Masque), F-Pc (kbd), GB-En (mandora), Lbl (3 copies: lute, a 2, a 3), US-NYp (kbd), 161725 (a 5)
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Alman [Main Dance 3] (The Lords’ Masque), GB-Lbl (a 2)
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Dance for 12 Franticks (The Lords’ Masque), Lbl (a 2), WFspencer (lute), 161725 (a 5)
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The Follies Dance (Jonson: Love freed from Ignorance and Folly, 1611), Lbl (a 2)
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Torch-bearers Dance (The Lords’ Masque), Lbl (a 2)
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versions for other instruments given in parentheses
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Alman ‘Hit it and take it’, arr. R. Mathews: The Lute’s Apologie (London, 1652); L
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Alman ‘Lady Strang’s’; L
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Alman ‘The Princes’, GB-Lbl (also kbd), C. Vere Pilkington’s private collection, Portugal (2 copies: lyra viol, kbd), arr. R. Mathews: The Lute’s Apologie (London, 1652), 161725 (a 5, attrib. R. Bateman), 162614 (1v, lute, cittern); L
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Alman, Cfm (arr. kbd by Farnaby); L
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Alman, Cfm (kbd), Lbl (also kbd), Och (kbd); L
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Alman; L
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Alman, F-Pc (kbd), 161725 (a 5); L
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Alman, GB-Cu, WFspencer
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Alman, WFspencer
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Alman, WFspencer; N. Vallet: Le secret des Muses (Amsterdam, 1616) (also 4 lutes); J. van Eyck: Der Fluyten Lust-hof (Utrecht, 1646) (rec)
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Alman (? Chapman: Memorable Masque, 1613) (also lyra viol), F-Pc (kbd), GB-Cfm (a 6), En (mandora), Lbl (a 2), Och (kbd), WFspencer, London Museum (kbd), C. Vere Pilkington’s private collection, Portugal (2 copies: lyra viol, kbd), US-NYp (kbd), 161725 (a 5) [see also ‘Dances for Masques’]
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Alman (?Memorable Masque), GB-Cfm (2 copies: kbd, a 6), Cu, Lbl (a 2), Och (kbd), US-NYp (kbd), 161725 (a 5) [see also ‘Dances for Masques’]
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Alman (?Memorable Masque), D-Kl, GB-Cu, En (kbd), Lbl (a 2), 161725 (a 5) [see also ‘Dances for Masques’]
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Corant ‘The Prince his’, WFspencer, 161725 (a 5)
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Fantasia; L
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Galliard ‘My Lady Mildemays Delight’ (Dowland’s Galliard); L
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Galliard, WFspencer (attrib. R. Alison); L
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Pavan; L
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Pavan, Ob (2 viols); L
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Pavan; L
| other instrumental -
Alman, a 3; ‘Johnsons flatt Masque’, a 2; The Temporiser, a 4; The Wittie Wanton, a 4: GB-Lbl, Och
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2 almans, galliard, lyra viol, EIRE-Dm, GB-Cu, Ob (incl. copy of 1 alman attrib. T. Gregory), C. Vere Pilkington’s private collection, Portugal (incl. copy of 1 alman arr. kbd)
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Alman, pavan, kbd, Cfm, Och
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Alman ‘Italian Ground’, kbd, F-Pc (attrib. O. Gibbons), GB-Lbl (attrib. Gibbons), Och, US-NYp (incl. copy attrib. Gibbons) (on popular tune More Palatino, or En revenant de St Nicolas)
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Alman, stump, GB-Och ([set] ‘by F.P.’); L
| BIBLIOGRAPHY
AshbeeR, iii, iv, v, viii, ix
BurneyH
SpinkES
J.P. Cutts: ‘Robert Johnson, King’s Musician in His Majesty’s Public Entertainment’, ML, xxxvi (1955), 110–25
D. Lumsden: The Sources of English Lute Music, 1540–1620 (diss., U. of Cambridge, 1955)
J.P. Cutts: La musique de scène de la troupe de Shakespeare (Paris, 1959, 2/1971)
J.P. Cutts: ‘Robert Johnson and the Court Masque’, ML, xli (1960), 111–26
R. Covell: ‘Seventeenth-Century Music for The Tempest’, SMA, ii (1968), 43–65, esp. 45–6
P. Holman: ‘The Jonsonian Masque’, ML, lv (1974), 250–52
B. Jeffrey: ‘The Lute Music of Robert Johnson’, EMc, ii (1974), 105–9
D.S. Fuller: ‘Ben Jonson's Plays and their Contemporary Music’, ML, lviii (1977), 6–75
P. Holman: ‘New Sources of Music by Robert Johnson’, LSJ, xx (1978), 43–52
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H. Chickering: ‘Hearing Ariel's Songs’, Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, xxiv (1994), 131–72
C.A. Henze: ‘With the Power of my Enchanting Song’: Functions of Music in the Drama of Beaumont and Fletcher (diss., U. of Chicago, 1995)
L. Sayce: ‘Continuo Lutes in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England’, EMc, xxiii (1995), 666–84
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