SKU: ST.EC55
Composed by Various.
Edited by Peter Wright.
Library Volumes. Edited
by Peter Wright. First
published in 2013. Pages:
328. Format: Hardback.
Dimensions (mm): 324 x
246 x 30. Choral Score.
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
#EC55. Published by
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
(ST.EC55).
ISBN
9790220223495.
This
volume brings together 47
independent settings of
the Gloria and Credo from
the period c.1400-40,
most of which have never
been published before.
Nineteen of these
settings are complete
works preserved largely
in continental
manuscripts, the
remainder fragmentary
settings preserved in
insular sources. They
include works both by
leading composers of the
period (Forest, Power and
Pycard) and by minor
figures (Daye, Humfray,
Knyf and Markham), as
well as three settings
that are here attributed
conjecturally (to
Byttering, Rowlard and
Soursby). This collection
includes examples of the
main compositional styles
and techniques of English
liturgical polyphony of
the late Middle Ages, and
is intended to complement
the Sanctus and Agnus dei
settings of EECM 47.