Keyboard
SKU:
ST.MB96
Composed by
Various. Edited by Alan
Brown. Library Volumes.
Edited by Alan Brown.
First published in 2014..
Pages: 240. Format:
Hardback. Dimensions
(mm): 330 x 254 x 26.
Keyboard collection.
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
#MB96. Published by
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
(ST.MB96).
ISBN
9790220223853.
This
volume is the first of
two intended to extend
the coverage of keyboard
music in Musica
Britannica
comprehensively into the
first quarter of the 17th
century. (The other,
MB102, includes material
from the two virginal
books in the Fitzwilliam
Museum, Cambridge.) The
present edition contains
music by anonymous and a
dozen or so named
composers, including the
complete keyboard works
of Nicholas Carleton, the
surviving twenty
'Miserere' canons by
Thomas Woodson, and the
anonymous 'Pretty ways
for young beginners to
look on'. The 77 complete
pieces are organised by
genre, including
preludes, plainsong
settings, voluntaries,
dances and character
pieces. Drawing on 22
manuscripts which mostly
also transmit music by
Byrd and other noted
virginalists, this
residue of music from
these sources shows great
diversity and a pleasing
level of technical skill
and musical interest,
sufficient to enhance our
wider view of English
Renaissance music.
