Byrd Studies

£110.00

Part of Cambridge Composer Studies

Editors:
Alan Brown
Richard Turbet

Peter Le Huray, Owen Rees, John Morehen, David Wulstan, Craig Monson, Joseph Kerman, John Bennett, John Irving, Hilary Gaskin, Desmond Hunter, Oliver Neighbour, Michael Greenhalgh

View all contributors

Date Published: January 1992
availability: Available
format: Hardback
isbn: 9780521401296

Rate & review

£ 110.00
Hardback

Add to cart Add to wishlist

Other available formats:
Paperback

Looking for an inspection copy?

This title is not currently available on inspection

Description

This symposium celebrates the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Byrd, one of the greatest English composers. Twelve scholars contribute essays which together cover all the genres of Byrd's prolific output. Topics discussed in this collection include authentication of the canon, applications of technology to Byrd research, Byrd's relationship to earlier English traditions and his influence on his successors. There are studies concerned with manuscript sources and aspects of performance and the final contribution is a comprehensive listing of Byrd recordings made between 1923 and 1988. The essays in this volume show a variety of approaches to musical analysis and some of the conclusions are controversial, or offer revisions of earlier opinions.
- Interesting essays on one of England's earliest composers, William Byrd, closely associated with Lincoln Cathedral
- 1992 is the 450th anniversary of Byrd's death
- The book includes discussion of music found in the Fitzwilliam Virginal book in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge - see jacket illustration
Read more
Customer reviews

Not yet reviewed
Be the first to review

Log in to review

Review was not posted due to profanity
×

, create a review

(If you're not , sign out)

Please enter the right captcha value

Please enter a star rating.

Your review must be a minimum of 12 words.

How do you rate this item?

Reviews must contain at least 12 words about the product.

×

Product details
- Date Published: January 1992
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521401296
- length: 296 pages
- dimensions: 238 x 158 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.605kg
- contains: 7 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of plates
Preface
Abbreviations
1. Some thoughts about cantus firmus composition
and a plea for Byrd's Christus resurgens Peter Le Huray
2. The English background to Byrd's motets: textual and stylistic models for Infelix ego Owen Rees
3. Byrd's manuscript motets: a new perspective John Morehen
4. Birdus tantum natus decorare magistrum David Wulstan
5. 'Throughout all generations': intimations of influence in the Short Service styles of Tallis, Byrd and Morley Craig Monson
6. 'Write all these down': notes on a Byrd song Joseph Kerman
7. Byrd and Jacobean consort music: a look at Richard Mico John Bennett
8. Byrd and Tomkins: the instrumental music John Irving
9. Baldwin and the Nevell hand Hilary Gaskin
10. My Ladye Nevells Booke and the art of gracing Desmond Hunter
11. Some anonymous keyboard pieces considered in relation to Byrd Oliver Neighbour
12. A Byrd discography Michael Greenhalgh
Index of Byrd's works cited
Index of names.
Look Inside
Editors
Alan Brown
Richard Turbet
Contributors
Peter Le Huray, Owen Rees, John Morehen, David Wulstan, Craig Monson, Joseph Kerman, John Bennett, John Irving, Hilary Gaskin, Desmond Hunter, Oliver Neighbour, Michael Greenhalgh