SKU: ST.EC51
ISBN 9790220222344.
This volume, the second of two devoted to the 16th-century 'Gyffard' partbooks, typifies the collection as a whole in the wide variety of liturgical types and compositional procedures on display. There are Jesus Mass propers built on plainsong cantus firmi, Mass ordinaries based on 'squares', Magnificat settings freely composed or using the canticle tone or its faburden, antiphons in honour of Jesus and the Virgin Mary, the setting of a tract (virtually unprecedented in the history of English polyphony), prayers, and even office responds masquerading as votive antiphons. The composers include Alcock, Bramston, Hoskins, Johnson, Knyght, Mundy, Sheppard, Henry? Stoning, Tallis, Whytbroke, Van Wilder, Wright and Anon. Individual titles from this volume are available as Adobe PDF files...
SKU: ST.EC18
ISBN 9790220213731.
Tave rner 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.
SKU: ST.EC48
ISBN 9790220221606.
The first of two volumes containing repertoire from this crucial document for our understanding of the Salisbury Use in 16th-century England, EC48 contains music by key figures such as Tallis and Sheppard not elsewhere collected in the series, as well as works by unnamed composers. The editor has established a provenance for this collection later than that previously assumed by scholars, and from authoritative sources has provided plainchant for those sections required to complete the performance of most of the music.
