Author: Edward Francis RimbaultPublisher: Burt Franklin
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Byrd Edition: Songs of sundrie natures (1589)
Author: William ByrdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vocal music
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Songs of Sundry Natures (1589)
Author: William ByrdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Madrigals, English
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Bibliotheca Madrigaliana
Author: Edward Francis RimbaultPublisher: Burt Franklin
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Manuscript Inscriptions in Early English Printed Music
Author: David GreerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317101081
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Who were the first owners of the music published in England in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries? Who went to ‘the dwelling house of ... T. East, by Paules wharfe’ and bought a copy of Byrd’s Psalmes, sonets, & songs when it appeared in 1588? Who purchased a copy of Dowland’s First booke of songes in 1597? What other books formed part of their music library? In this survey of surviving books of music published before 1640, David Greer has gleaned information about the books’ early and subsequent owners by studying the traces they left in the books themselves: handwritten inscriptions, including names and other marks of ownership - even the scribbles and drawings a child of the family might put into a book left lying about. The result is a treasure trove of information about musical culture in early modern England. From inscriptions and marks of ownership Greer has been able to re-assemble early sets of partbooks, as well as collections of books once bound together. The search has also turned up new music. At a time when paper was expensive, new pieces were copied into blank spaces in printed books. In these jottings we find a ‘hidden repertory’ of music, some of it otherwise undiscovered music by known composers. In other cases, we see owners altering the words of songs, to suit new and personal purposes: a love-song in praise of Daphne becomes a heartfelt song to ‘my Jesus’; and ‘Faire Leonilla’ becomes Ophelia (perhaps the first mention of this character in Hamlet outside the play itself). On a more practical level, the users of the music sometimes made corrections to printing errors, and there are indications that some of these were last-minute corrections made in the printing-house (a useful guide for the modern editor). The temptation to ‘scribble in books’ was as irresistible to some Elizabethans as it is to some of us today. In doing so they left us clues to their identity, how they kept their music, how they used it, and the multifarious ways in which it played a part in their lives.
Fleuron Bibliotheca madrigaliana, a bibliographical account of the musical and poetical works published in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, under the titles of madrigals, ballets, ayres, canzonets, etc
Author: Edward Francis RimbaultPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Bibliotheca Madrigaliana; a Bibliographical Account of the Musical and Poetical Works Pub. in England During the 16th-17th Centuries Under the Titles of Madrigals, Ballads, Ayres, Canzonets
Author: Edward Francis RimbaultPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Private and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Britain
Author: Alec RyriePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317075692
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Scholars increasingly recognise that understanding the history of religion means understanding worship and devotion as well as doctrines and polemics. Early modern Christianity consisted of its lived experience. This collection and its companion volume (Worship and the Parish Church in Early Modern Britain, ed. Natalie Mears and Alec Ryrie) bring together an interdisciplinary range of scholars to discuss what that lived experience comprised, and what it meant. Private and domestic devotion - how early modern men and women practised their religion when they were not in church - is a vital and largely hidden subject. Here, historical, literary and theological scholars examine piety of conformist, non-conformist and Catholic early modern Christians, in a range of private and domestic settings, in both England and Scotland. The subjects under analysis include Bible-reading, the composition of prayers, the use of the psalms, the use of physical props for prayers, the pious interpretation of dreams, and the troubling question of what counted as religious solitude. The collection as a whole broadens and deepens our understanding of the patterns of early modern devotion, and of their meanings for early modern culture as a whole.
Early English Viols: Instruments, Makers and Music
Author: Michael FlemingPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317147162
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Winner of the Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize Musical repertory of great importance and quality was performed on viols in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. This is reported by Thomas Mace (1676) who says that ’Your Best Provision’ for playing such music is a chest of old English viols, and he names five early English viol makers than which ’there are no Better in the World’. Enlightened scholars and performers (both professional and amateur) who aim to understand and play this music require reliable historical information and need suitable viols, but so little is known about the instruments and their makers that we cannot specify appropriate instruments with much precision. Our ignorance cannot be remedied exclusively by the scrutiny or use of surviving antique viols because they are extremely rare, they are not accessible to performers and the information they embody is crucially compromised by degradation and alteration. Drawing on a wide variety of evidence including the surviving instruments, music composed for those instruments, and the documentary evidence surrounding the trade of instrument making, Fleming and Bryan draw significant conclusions about the changing nature and varieties of viol in early modern England.
William Byrd
Author: Richard TurbetPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113628205X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This comprehensive research guide surveys the most significant published materials relating to William Byrd. This new edition includes research since the publication of the last edition.
An Index to Music in Selected Historical Anthologies of Western Art Music, Part 1
Author: Mara ParkerPublisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0895798743
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
An Index to Music in Selected Historical Anthologies of Western Art Music is the essential reference for music history and music theory instructors for finding specific listings and details for all the pieces included in more than 140 anthologies published between 1931 and 2016. Containing over 5,000 individual listings, this concise book is an indispensable tool for teaching music history and theory. Since many anthologies exist in multiple editions, this Index provides instructors, students, and researches with the means to locate specific compositions in both print and online anthologies. This book includes listings by composer and title, as well as indexes of authors, titles, and first lines of text for music from antiquity through the early twenty-first century.