Choir SKU: ST.EC18
Composed by John Sheppard. Edited by Nicholas Sandon. Library Volumes. Edited by Nicholas Sandon. First published in 1976. Pages: 184. Format: Paperback. Dimensions (mm): 254 x 177 x 12. Choral Score. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #EC18. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.EC18). ISBN 9790220213731.
Taverner and Tye are the predominant influences in these works. The 6-part Mass Cantate is taken from the Oxford partbooks. The source for The Western Wind Mass, The Frences Mass, the Mass Be not afraid , and the Plainsong Mass for a Mean, all in four parts, is the so-called 'Gyffard' partbooks (British Library Add. MSS 17802-5), which are now known to have been copied after ElizabethAs accession for a Catholic patron, Dr Philip Gyffard, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.
