| Contents |
William Byrd: traditionalist and innovator -- Homage to Taverner in Byrd's Masses -- Facing the music -- Edward Paston: a Norfolk gentleman and his musical collection -- Appendix A. Extracts from the will of Edward Paston dealing with his collection -- Appendix B. List of manuscripts -- Musicae Modernae Laus: Geoffrey Whitney's tributes to the lute and its players -- The two musical personalities of Thomas Weelkes -- English music for the Scottish Progress of 1617 -- Word setting in the songs of Byrd -- William Byrd: new reflections -- Prefaces to Gradualia. Contents and meaning of book 1 ; Contents and meaning of book 2 ; Patrons and publication ; Performing Byrd's Gradualia -- Appendix. Publications by Philip Brett on Elizabethan and Jacobean music. |
| Abstract |
Byrd was a prominent court composer but also a Catholic. Considering both sacred and secular music and both vocal and instrumental traditions, the author's essays provide an intimate glimpse into what was unique about Byrd and his music. The selection offered here ranges from the report of Brett's findings on the Paston manuscripts to an unpublished roundtable paper that he delivered a few months before this untimely death, and features his monograph-length study of Byrd's magnum opus, Gradualia. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2006007433 |
| ISBN | 0520247582 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780520247581 |
