Philips, Peter. English composer, c.1560-1628.

Les Rossignols spirituels, liguez en duo: dont les meilleurs accords, nommément le Bas, relèvent du Seigneur Pierre Philippes, Valenciennes, Jean Vervliet, 1631



257 pages, 12mo (c.12 x 6.5 cms), title-vignette, type-set music, recusant epigrams and imprimatur of Douai at end, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, old library stamp to title

RISM P 1985 (4 copies); RISM Recueils 16311; not in BUC

This is a collection of popular tunes, arranged with bass accompaniments, by Peter Philips, a Roman Catholic composer educated at the English College in Douai. He was probably invited to prepare the edition by the jesuit Guillaume Marci. Les Rossignols is the only source for Palestrina's 'Hodie Maria virgo caelos ascendit', which Philips may have obtained directly from the composer in Rome.