89 poems, composed ca. 1689-1707
Volume of poems attributed to Henry Hall
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 5
- Dates of Creation
- 1710-1720
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 1 vol. (116 pp.) In limp marbled papers, within quarter-parchment boards with blue marbled paper. 19th-century title inside front endpaper, with note referring to p.35. Loose note, 4 pp. folio, on the author, ca. 1800.
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Henry Hall, c.1656-1707, musician and poet, was a boy chorister at the Chapel Royal, where he was a friend and contemporary of Henry Purcell. After five years at Exeter Cathedral he was appointed Assistant Organist at Hereford, where he took minor orders and became a Vicar Choral. He was appointed Organist in 1688, a post he held until his death. Hall was a serious and successful composer of church music, but he also wrote well over a hundred secular songs and poems, including drinking songs and political satires.
Access Information
Access is unrestricted
Acquisition Information
Bought from Peter Murray Hill, February 1955
Note
In English
Other Finding Aids
The poems are indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/intro.html