I will try to follow some of her abbreviations and link to her pages.

Rosseter, Philip [1567/8-1623] (see above) Barley 1596 (Orph.) 55-56, (Orph.) 57-58, (Orph.) 59

a *25th? piece. - original ascription 'A Pavin by Rossetters' in 'Jane Pickeringe¼s Lute Book' on folio 25v- 26/1.
No cons. or cogs.

a *26th? piece. - original ascription 'A galyerd by Rossesters' Pickeringe on folio 26/2, also in Dowland.9.33, on folio 47v-48.

Jeffreys writes several pages on these two piece;
"The pavan and galliard of Rosseter which appear in Jane Pickeringe¼s Lute Book are beautifully written out but they do contain some obvious errors, especially in the pavan." [page 58 & 59.]

In some published song books like The Renaissance Guitar by Frederick Noad you get a title that simply says "Galliard (Philip Rosseter)" I would assume it is this Galliard from Jane Pickeringe¼s Lute Book however I have yet to see or hear this music..

Also in Noad's book is;
Mrs. Anne Harecourt's Galliard (Francis Pilkington)
Mrs. Taylor's Galliard (Philip Rosseter)
Rest Sweet Nymphs Francis Pilkington
http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/a/item.html?id=83645&item=3798918

a *28? piece. - original ascription 'An Almayne Philip Rosseter'. Modern title 'Almain'. From Margaret Board Lute Book Dated: c1620 and 1635 Board - On folio 28v/1;
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/julia/ap1/Board.htm [23/1,]

*29th? piece. - On folio 46/2-46v. - original ascription 'Rosseter'. Modern title 'Galliard Philip Rosseter'. - Dowland.9.33 46/2-46v, ...
No cons. or cogs.

Herbert - On folios 10/2, 21-21v/1. The Lutebooke of Edward Lord Herbert, of Cherbury and Castle Island GB-Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Ms.Mus.689. Dated: c1630 and 1640;
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/julia/ap1/Herbert.htm

*30th? piece. - On folio 10/2. - original ascription 'Prelude'. P: Rosseter. Modern title 'Prelude Philip Rosseter'.

*31st? piece. - On folio 21. - original ascription 'Pauana'. Ph: Rosseter. Modern title 'Countess of Sussex's Pavan' Philip Rosseter.

*3? piece. - On folio 21v/1. - original ascription 'Gagliarda della Pauana'. Countess of Sussex's Galliard (see above)
*3 (3) Philip Rosseter cf: Barley 1596 59 (orph.)

March 16, 19 & 31, 2001 Patrick Thomas Connolly

The Lute Music of Philip Rosseter edited by Robert Spencer and revised by John H. Robinson and Stewart McCoy. 10 pieces of which 4 are in multiple versions. Includes an introduction, table of concordances, editorial notes, and 21 pages of music, ISBN 0 905 655 13 3
The URL is;
http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/fl98/lute/index.htm

Nigel North states in his liner notes;

"Campion was probably not a lute player and I know of no reference to his playing. The style of his accompaniments varies somewhat and this leads me to suspect that various lutenists wrote them for him. Campion must have composed his ayres by first writing the vrocal line and bass part and later having a lutenist write out a fill accompaniment in tablature. In the Booke of Ayres (1601), the lute parts are typically contrapuntal for the period, but are aimed at the amateur player; these were probably written by Rosseter. Indeed, concerning the accompaniments, Rosseter and Campion write: (if they satisfie the most, we have our desire; let expert masters please themselves with better'. They are clearly saying that you can invent your own accompaniments if you wish. ...
After the Booke of Ayres (1601), the lute style changes to a more harmonic, quasi-continuo style. Books 1 & 2 are very simple and are not the work, I think, of Rosseter., Books 3 & 4, still in a continuo style, come alive again and these may Well have been Rosseter's work."

"... patron Sir Thomas Monson (1564-1641) was implicated in the case and unjustly imprisoned from 1615-1617. He survived and was released, although never truly recovered. Unfortunately, Campion had visited him at the tower in his role as Doctor of Phisicke and was also suspected and, while not imprisoned, suffered court examination. When both Campion and Monson were cleared and liberated, Campion celebrated by the publication of his Third and Fourth Bookes of Ayres, dedicated to Monson and his son. By this time Campion was clearly ruined at court and never regained royal favour. He was unmarried without family and when he died three years later Campion left the little that he had (twenty-two pounds) to his dear friend Philip Rosseter, saying with his last breath that he "wished that his estate had been far more".

Campion was probably not a lute player and I know of no reference to his playing. [I have however found a reference; Playing the lute is referred to by Campion in his "Elegy XVII. TO HIS FRIENDS, DURING AN ILLNESS "I was indisposed, ... My mind was dulled by sickness of spirit. The lute dropped from my hands, nor could my wind come in nimble breaths to sustain the notes of its song." - ? Sutton¼s translation from Latin? - P. T. C.] The style of his accompaniments varies somewhat and this leads me to suspect that various lutenists wrote them for him. Campion must have composed his ayres by first writing the vocal line and bass part and later having a lutenist write out a fill accompaniment in tablature. In the Booke of Ayres (1601), the lute parts are typically contrapuntal for the period, but are aimed at the amateur player; these were probably written by Rosseter. Indeed, concerning the accompaniments, Rosseter and Campion write: (if they satisfie the most, we have our desire; let expert masters please themselves with better'. They are clearly saying that you can invent your own accompaniments if you wish. I have not exactly done that, but in declamatory songs such as All looks be pale I felt free to do my own thing, as a continuo player may. In other, lighter ayres, I responded with ornamentation.

After the Booke of Ayres (1601), the lute style changes to a more harmonic, quasi-continuo style. Books 1 & 2 are very simple and are not the work, I think, of Rosseter., Books 3 & 4, still in a continuo style, come alive again and these may Well have been Rosseter's work.

Campion writes very clearly in his introduction to the First Booke of Ayres (c.1613) that (These Ayres were for the most part framed at first for one voyce ..."

back to ' The Philip Rosseter and Robert Jones Web Site '.
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Edmund H. Fellowes' l922 preface;
"Rosseter lost his friend Campian on March 1st, 1619-20, when the latter bequeathed him all his property, amounting in value to about [pounds] 20, expressing a wish" that it had bin farr more." Rosseter did not long survive his friend; he died in Fetter Lane on May 5th, 1623. and was buried two, days later at St. Dunsta's in the West, where Campian also was buried."