SKU: ST.EC53 Composed by Robert Fayrfax. Edited by Roger Bray. Library Vo...(+)
SKU: ST.EC53
Composed by Robert
Fayrfax. Edited by Roger
Bray. Library Volumes.
Edited by Roger Bray.
First published in 2010.
Pages: 240. Format:
Hardback. Dimensions
(mm): 324 x 247 x 25.
Choral Score. Stainer &
Bell Ltd. #EC53.
Published by Stainer &
Bell Ltd. (ST.EC53).
ISBN
9790220222030.
This
volume brings to a
conclusion a series
devoted to Masses and
associated pieces
composed by Robert
Fayrfax, also featured in
EECM volumes 43 and 45.
It includes Fayrfax's
well-known Masses
Regali and
Albanus, as well as a
reconstruction of his
fragmentary, possibly
nuptial, Mass Sponsus
amat sponsam.
Although some of the
manuscript sources were
copied many years later,
these works date
collectively from the
years immediately
preceding and following
the turn of the sixteenth
century, and as the
editor demonstrates in
his introduction, they
show the composer's
mastery of largescale
proportional
planning.
Choir SKU: ST.EC43 Composed by Robert Fayrfax. Edited by Roger Bray. Libr...(+)
Choir
SKU: ST.EC43
Composed by Robert
Fayrfax. Edited by Roger
Bray. Library Volumes.
Edited by Roger Bray.
First published in 2003.
Pages: 120. Format:
Hardback. Dimensions
(mm): 325 x 246 x 15.
Choral Score. Stainer &
Bell Ltd. #EC43.
Published by Stainer &
Bell Ltd. (ST.EC43).
ISBN
9790220220289.
The
first volume of several
to be devoted to Latin
church music by composers
of the late fifteenth and
early sixteenth
centuries, EC43 contains
all that survives of
Fayrfax's O bone Iesu
trilogy. From the
material shared between
the Mass and antiphon (an
early example of English
parody technique) it has
been possible to
reconstruct part of the
latter, of which only the
mean survives. In
addition, the Appendix
contains the conclusion
of a fragmentary
composition from the Jena
Choirbook, which may also
be the work of
Fayrfax.
Choir SKU: ST.EC45 Composed by Robert Fayrfax. Edited by Roger Bray. Libr...(+)
Choir
SKU: ST.EC45
Composed by Robert
Fayrfax. Edited by Roger
Bray. Library Volumes.
Edited by Roger Bray.
First published in 2004.
Pages: 176. Format:
Hardback. Dimensions
(mm): 325 x 246 x 23.
Choral Score. Stainer &
Bell Ltd. #EC45.
Published by Stainer &
Bell Ltd. (ST.EC45).
ISBN
9790220221248.
Both
large-scale masses by
Robert Fayrfax included
in this volume are
believed to be late
works. O quam
glorifica, in
particular, was composed
in 1511 for his
supplication for the
degree of Doctor of Music
at Oxford, and in it the
composer comprehensively
explores the
possibilities of extended
structural planning. A
feature of this edition
is the restoration of the
metrical character of the
original, distorted in
all surviving copies.
Probably predating O
quam glorifica, Tecum
principium exhibits
a simpler form, and is
remarkable for the
stylistic feature of
unprepared dissonant
fourths in the final
section of the Agnus
dei.