Byrd Studies

by Edited by Alan Brown , Richard Turbet

• ISBN13: 9780521401296
• ISBN10: 0521401291
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-01-31
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This symposium celebrates the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Byrd, one of the greatest English composers. Twelve scholars contribute essays which together cover all the genres of Byrd's prolific output. Topics discussed in this collection include authentication of the canon, applications of technology to Byrd research, Byrd's relationship to earlier English traditions and his influence on his successors. There are studies concerned with manuscript sources and aspects of performance and the final contribution is a comprehensive listing of Byrd recordings made between 1923 and 1988. The essays in this volume show a variety of approaches to musical analysis and some of the conclusions are controversial, or offer revisions of earlier opinions.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

Preface

Abbreviations

Some thoughts about cantus firmus composition

and a plea for Byrd's Christus resurgens

The English background to Byrd's motets: textual and stylistic models for Infelix ego

Byrd's manuscript motets: a new perspective

Birdus tantum natus decorare magistrum

'Throughout all generations': intimations of influence in the Short Service styles of Tallis, Byrd and Morley

'Write all these down': notes on a Byrd song

Byrd and Jacobean consort music: a look at Richard Mico

Byrd and Tomkins: the instrumental music

Baldwin and the Nevell hand

My Ladye Nevells Booke and the art of gracing

Some anonymous keyboard pieces considered in relation to Byrd

A Byrd discography

Index.