SKU: ST.EC22
ISBN 9790220206450.
English composers in the first half of the 15th-century created the unified mass cycle, and even though most of the repertoire is anonymous, a distinctly 'national' style can be recognised. The four works in this volume were probably composed between 1420 and 1440, and each possesses a long, troped Kyrie of a kind not found in continental sources.
SKU: ST.EC8
ISBN 9790220206443.
The majority of pieces in this volume show a strong melodic and rhythmic independence of voice, close in style to the contemporary French chanson; but there are also examples of pieces in the simpler, homorhythmic idiom of English descant. Votive antiphon and votive mass, or lady mass, were the main forms employed in the important early 15th-century repertoire of devotional and liturgical music for household use.
