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The Eton choirbook / facsimile and introductory study by Magnus Williamson.
Format
Musical score
Language
Latin
Published/Created
Oxford, England : DIAMM Publications, ©2010.
Description
1 score (iv, 85, vi, 132, xv pages) : facsimile ; 44 x 31 cm.
Availability
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Status
Location Service
Notes
Mendel Music Library - Locked
ML96.4 .E86 2010f Oversize
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Mary Blessed Virgin, Saint
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Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
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Williamson, Magnus, 1967-
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Series
DIAMM facsimiles ; 1.
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DIAMM facsimiles, 2043-8273 ; 1
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Summary note
"Ever since it was first copied for use in the college chapel in the early 1500s, the choirbook has been continuously in the possession of Eton College. Several composers whose works were included in it had close associations with the college, not least Robert Wylkynson, who served as the college's informator choristarum from 1500. Other composers represented include Banastre, Browne, Cornyshe, Davy, Fawkyner, Fayrfax, Hygons, Lambe and Turges. Most of its original contents (67 out of a total of 93 pieces) were votive antiphons, or devotional motets of prayer and praise, sung each evening to the Virgin Mary, the college's dedicatee. The Salve ceremony, familiar to worshippers throughout Catholic Europe, lay at the heart of Eton College's raison d'être as a chantry college: the Eton Choirbook is an eloquent witness to this flowering of devotional culture on the eve of the Reformation. The manuscript is also a work of consummate artistry, copied by an experienced scribe on large vellum leaves, and illuminated by a professional limner. Even in its in-complete state (nearly half of its original 224 leaves have been lost), the Eton Choirbook is the undoubted queen of early Tudor music manuscripts."
Notes
Principally for 5 voices.
In the facsimile, opposite pages bear duplicate numbering.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-83).
Includes discography (p. 84-85).
Creation/Production credits
The Eton choirbook is a full-colour facsimile edition of Eton College Library, MS 178.
Language note
Latin words; editorial and critical notes in English.
Contents
Introduction: Eton choirbook in context
Codicological structure and inventory
Structure and compilation
Finding aids
Illuminated initials and marginalia
Logistics: date, cost, donor
Binding
Catalogue of compositions
Texts, books of hours and vernacular piety
Antecedents, contemporaries and concordances
Facsimile
Appendix: Gutter images and notes on the photography.
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ISBN
9781907647000
1907647007
9781907647017 ((series))
1907647015 ((series))
OCLC
614436407
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Masses : for 3, 4 and 5 voices : from Oxford, Christ Church Mus. 489-493 / William Byrd.
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9988551913506421
The Dow partbooks : Oxford, Christ Church, Mus. 984-988.
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9960593703506421