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Byrd Masses for 3, 4, and 5 voicesDescriptionFull-colour facsimile edition of Oxford, Christ Church Library, Mus. 489-493 produced by DIAMM Publications. The Eton ChoirbookDescriptionThe Award-winning Full-colour facsimile edition of Eton College Library MS. 178 produced by Diamm Publications, with an extensive illustrated introductory study by Magnus Williamson. In Full bonded leather binding (£270) or buckram binding (£195). Please click on 'read more' to add to basket. This publication was awarded the 2011 Claude V Palisca Prize by the American Musicological Society. One of the most iconic of music manuscripts, the Eton Choirbook is of unique importance, both in its own right as a cultural artefact and as a source of English choral polyphony composed during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Had it perished, along with so many other (less fortunate) pre-Reformation music manuscripts, our knowledge of a critical moment in the history of English music would have been immensely diminished. Ever since it was first copied for use in the college chapel in the early 1500s, the choirbook has been continuously in the possession of Eton College. Several composers whose works were included in it had close associations with the college, not least Robert Wylkynson, who served as the college's informator choristarum from 1500. Other composers represented include Banastre, Browne, Cornyshe, Davy, Fawkyner, Fayrfax, Hygons, Lambe and Turges. Most of its original contents (67 out of a total of 93 pieces) were votive antiphons, or devotional motets of prayer and praise, sung each evening to the Virgin Mary, the college's dedicatee. The Salve ceremony, familiar to worshippers throughout Catholic Europe, lay at the heart of Eton College's raison d'etre as a chantry college: the Eton Choirbook is an eloquent witness to this flowering of devotional culture on the eve of the Reformation. The manuscript is also a work of consummate artistry, copied by an experienced scribe on large vellum leaves, and illuminated by a professional limner. Even in its in-complete state (nearly half of its original 224 leaves have been lost), the Eton Choirbook is the undoubted queen of early Tudor music manuscripts. The Choirbook is presented in full colour facsimile on heavy matt art paper, hard bound, with an introduction by Magnus Williamson (Newcastle University) and published by the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (University of Oxford). Pages: 112 (introduction) + 264 (full colour facsimile) Format: 426 x 306 mm (reduced from 590 x 420 mm) All USA/Canada orders to OMI (http://www.omifacsimiles.com) All Japan/Asia orders to Academia Music (http://www.academia-music.com) Read MoreThe Dow PartbooksDescriptionFull-colour facsimile edition of Oxford, Christ Church Library, MSS 984-988 produced by DIAMM Publications. DIAMM Publications Bill PaymentDescriptionPLEASE NOTE THIS ITEM IS ONLY FOR USE FOR DIAMM PUBLICATIONS. It is not for paying general bills from the University or other departments. Use this item to pay invoices or send us money in payment for other DIAMM-related services. Read MoreDonation - Help to Keep www.diamm.ac.uk FreeDescriptionPlease visit the University's Online Giving site at http://www.giving.ox.ac.uk/academic_departments/humanities/faculties_departments/faculty_of_music.html Read More |
