Description
Consort Songs
Ref
MB22
Categories
Collected Editions
,
Musica Britannica
By
Anonymous
,
Edward Johnson
,
John Bennet
,
John Cosyn
,
John Dowland
,
John Tomkins
,
John Wilbye
,
Nathaniel Giles
,
Nathaniel Pattrick
,
Nicholas Strogers
,
Orlando Gibbons
,
Patrick Mando
,
Richard Dering
,
Richard Farrant
,
Richard Nicholson
,
Robert Parsons
,
Thomas Weelkes
,
William Cobbold
,
William Mundy
,
William Wigthorpe
Edited by Philip Brett
First published in 1967, revised 1974
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Dimensions (mm): 330 x 254 x 22
Weight: 1.26kg
The ‘Cinderella’ of Elizabethan and Jacobean secular music, consort songs for voice and viols survived both the popularity of the imported madrigal and the fashion for the lute air. An indigenous corpus of music, they subsequently influenced the development of the verse anthem.
Any individual work from this volume is available in printed or digital (PDF) format on request (
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).
