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Book SynopsisThroughout his distinguished career, Philip Brett wrote about the music of the Tudor period. He carried out pathbreaking work on the life and music of William Byrd (c1540-1628). Collecting these influential essays, this volume is a tribute to Brett's agile mind and to his incomparable skill at synthesizing history and musical analysis.
Trade Review"This is superior scholarship that establishes very significant aspects of Byrd's music and its history, and the volume will be an important landmark in Byrd scholarship. The range of methods and subjects itself is admirable; the editors have chosen writings that represent substantial and first-rate study that are either out-of-print or inaccessible. This is an outstanding work." - William Mahrt, editor of Convention in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Music"
Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations 1. William Byrd: Traditionalist and Innovator 2. Homage to Taverner in Byrd's Masses 3. Thomas Tallis: Facing the Music 4. Edward Paston: A Norfolk Gentleman and His Musical Collection Appendix A: Extracts from the Will of Edward Paston Dealing with His Collection Appendix B: List of Manuscripts 5. Musicae Modernae Laus: Geoffrey Whitney's Tributes to the Lute and Its Players 6. The Two Musical Personalities of Thomas Weelkes 7. Orlando Gibbons: English Music for the Scottish Progress of 1617 8. Word Setting in the Songs of Byrd 9. New Reflections on William Byrd 10. Prefaces to Gradualia Appendix: Publications by Philip Brett on Elizabethan-Jacobean Music Index
