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Mico, Richard: 2 Pavans

for 5 instruments.

Richard Mico (c. 1590-1661) was born into a family that was originally French (Micault). He seems to have spent most of his working life under the patronage of one Lord Petre, who had a country house in Essex (Thorndon Hall). Thirty-two fantasies in from two to five parts have survived, and seven mostly very fine pavans (two four-part pavans have already appeared in this series as EML 146); a complete edition of his instrumental music is in Musica Britannica LXV.
These two pieces are printed after Oxford, Christ Church Library, MS mus. 403-8, ff 13v-14. The same library´s MS 436 contains an organ part for the first of these two pavans: we have not included this in the edition, as it adds not a single note: it is simply a keyboard reduction, not a continuo part as such.