Tudor Church Music Volume IX: William Byrd 1543-1623 Masses, Cantiones, and Motets
by Buck, P C.; Ramsbotham, A.; Fellowes, E H. & Townsend Warner, S. (eds)
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London: Oxford University Press for the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, 1928. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. xxii, 312 pp. Blue cloth with title gilt on front and spine. Folio. Volume IX Includes bibliographic material, appendix, and words of motets. Although Byrd was Roman Catholic, Queen Elizabeth I and James I were patrons. An organist at Kings Chapel, Byrd also wrote and performed sacred works for his fellow recusant Catholics. Andrew Carnegie endowed the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, which financed the work of collection and publication in ten volumes of all surviving complete works by English composers of church music in the 16th and early 17th centuries. From the library of Charles Bell, with his name on the ffep. A writer, poet, and Rhodes Scholar, Bell took a degree in English during his 3 years at Oxford, and indulged a deep interest in early music. Spine is sun faded, and 1/8 inch of the top and bottom of the spine cloth has worn away. GVG Oversize book: overseas customers please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a request for additional postage; the book will ship at cost.
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- Lippincott Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4433BT
- Title
- Tudor Church Music Volume IX: William Byrd 1543-1623 Masses, Cantiones, and Motets
- Author
- Buck, P C.; Ramsbotham, A.; Fellowes, E H. & Townsend Warner, S. (eds)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press for the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- Renaissance Music, Recusant Catholic Motets
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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