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Author: William Byrd
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-02-21
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0486171426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA smaller version of the harpsichord, the virginal enjoyed wide popularity during the 16th and 17th centuries. Based upon a 1591 manuscript, this collection features 42 pieces in modern notation.
Author: William Byrd
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 314
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martha Maas
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
Published: 1974-01-01
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 0895790491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Harley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 1351536958
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first comprehensive study of William Byrds life (1540-1623) and works to appear for sixty years, and fully takes into consideration recent scholarship. The biographical section includes many newly discovered facts about Byrd and his family, while in the chapters dealing with his music an attempt is made for the first time to outline the chronology of all his compositions. The book begins with a detailed account of Byrd's life, based on a completely fresh examination of original documents, which are quoted extensively. Several previously known documents have now been identified as being in Byrds hand, and some fresh holographs have been discovered. A number of questions such as his parentage and date of birth have been conclusively settled. The book continues with a survey of Byrds music which pays particular attention to its chronological development, and links it where possible to the events and background of his life. A series of appendices includes additional texts of important documents, and a summary catalogue of works. A bibliography and index complete the book. Besides musical illustrations there is a series of plates illustrating documents and places associated with Byrd.
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
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Published: 1887
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Harley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-02-17
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 1317011465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The World of William Byrd John Harley builds on his previous work, William Byrd: Gentleman of the Chapel Royal (Ashgate, 1997), in order to place the composer more clearly in his social context. He provides new information about Byrd's youthful musical training, and reveals how in his adult life his music emerged from a series of overlapping family, business and social networks. These networks and Byrd's navigation within and between them are examined, as are the lives of a number of the individuals comprising them.
Author: Andrew Woolley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-23
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 131711356X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearch in the field of keyboard studies, especially when intimately connected with issues of performance, is often concerned with the immediate working environments and practices of musicians of the past. An important pedagogical tool, the keyboard has served as the ’workbench’ of countless musicians over the centuries. In the process it has shaped the ways in which many historical musicians achieved their aspirations and went about meeting creative challenges. In recent decades interest has turned towards a contextualized understanding of creative processes in music, and keyboard studies appears well placed to contribute to the exploration of this wider concern. The nineteen essays collected here encompass the range of research in the field, bringing together contributions from performers, organologists and music historians. Questions relevant to issues of creative practice in various historical contexts, and of interpretative issues faced today, form a guiding thread. Its scope is wide-ranging, with contributions covering the mid-sixteenth to early twentieth century. It is also inclusive, encompassing the diverse range of approaches to the field of contemporary keyboard studies. Collectively the essays form a survey of the ways in which the study of keyboard performance can enrich our understanding of musical life in a given period.
Author: Ross W. Duffin
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
Published:
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 1987208501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1588 Anthony Munday published A Banquet of Daintie Conceits, containing twenty-two new moral poems in various verse forms. Ranked with the best comic playwrights of his day, including Shakespeare, he was also a travel-writer, religious spy, actor, translator, royal messenger, deviser of civic entertainments, and historian. Munday confessed that he was not knowledgeable in music, yet he named a tune for singing each poem. Intriguingly, unlike typical broadside ballad tunes, most of Munday’s tunes are dances, and of the twenty-two named, fourteen are known from solo instrumental arrangements. Despite that survival, despite the poet’s fame, and despite an 1812 edition of the poems from the unique extant copy, this is the first attempt to set Munday’s Banquet lyrics to their respective music. Poems with unidentified melodies are set to period tunes that fit their versifications, making all the lyrics singable for the first time in over 400 years.
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
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Published: 1885
Total Pages: 894
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roger Bowers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0415875595
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book surveys the most significant published materials relating to William Byrd. It presents a collection of all-new original essays covering everything from feminist to postcolonial readings of his play as well as source queries and analysis of historical performances of the play.
