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Author Brett, Philip

Title William Byrd and his contemporaries : essays and a monograph / Philip Brett ; edited by Joseph Kerman and Davitt Moroney
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages) : illustrations, music
Contents William Byrd: Traditionalist and Innovator -- Homage to Taverner in Byrd's Masses -- Facing the Music -- 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 -- Musicae Modernae Laus: Geoffrey Whitney's Tributes to the Lute and Its Players -- The Two Musical Personalities of Thomas Weelkes -- English Music for the Scottish Progress of 1617 -- Word Setting in the Songs of Byrd -- William Byrd: New Reflections -- Prefaces to Gradualia
Summary Throughout his 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 synthesising history and musical analysis
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
"Publications by Philip Brett on Elizabethan and Jacobean music": pages 231-234
Subject Byrd, William, 1539 or 1540-1623.
SUBJECT Byrd, William, 1539 or 1540-1623. fast (OCoLC)fst01802027
Byrd, William Komponist. swd
Subject Composers -- England
Music -- England -- 16th century -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- General.
Composers.
Musik
Music.
Componisten.
England.
England
Engeland.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Kerman, Joseph, 1924-2014
Moroney, Davitt
LC no. 2021696501
ISBN 9780520932838
0520932838