Description
The Gyffard Partbooks: II
Ref
EC51
Categories
Choral Music
,
Collected Editions
,
Early English Church Music
Transcribed and Edited by David Mateer
First published in 2009
Pages: 280
Format: Hardback
Dimensions (mm): 324 x 246 x 27
This volume, the second of two devoted to the 16th-century ‘Gyffard’ partbooks, typifies the collection as a whole in the wide variety of liturgical types and compositional procedures on display. There are Jesus Mass propers built on plainsong
cantus firmi
, Mass ordinaries based on ‘squares’, Magnificat settings freely composed or using the canticle tone or its faburden, antiphons in honour of Jesus and the Virgin Mary, the setting of a tract (virtually unprecedented in the history of English polyphony), prayers, and even office responds masquerading as votive antiphons. The composers include Alcock, Bramston, Hoskins, Johnson, Knyght, Mundy, Sheppard, Henry? Stoning, Tallis, Whytbroke, Van Wilder, Wright and Anon.
Contents…
Individual titles from this volume are available as Adobe PDF files…
