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Fragments of English polyphonic music c. 1390-1475 : a facsimile edition
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"The manuscripts reproduced here include the famous Coventry Caput Mass, vestiges of a royal choirbook virtually reassembled by Bent and a systematic investigation by Wathey of the Beverley fragmen...
"The manuscripts reproduced here include the famous Coventry Caput Mass, vestiges of a royal choirbook virtually reassembled by Bent and a systematic investigation by Wathey of the Beverley fragments. Although fragmentary, these fifteenth-century sources, containing music by Dunstaple, Power, Plummer and their contemporaries, attest to the vitality of the English polyphonic tradition as it neared its pre-Reformation zenith"--Publisher's website.
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- Creator
- edited with an introduction by Margaret Bent & Andrew Wathey
- Format
- Music Scores
- Language
- Latin
- Contributors
- Publication
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- London : Published for the British Academy by Stainer and Bell, [2022]
- ©2022
- Physical Details
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- 1 score (xiv, 76 pages, 327 pages of plates) : facsimiles (chiefly color) ; 43 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780852499627, 0852499620
- OCLC
- on1300422597
- Preface in English.
- Latin words.
- Mensural notation.
Subjects
- Music -- Manuscripts -- Facsimiles.
- Sacred vocal music -- England -- 14th century.
- Sacred vocal music -- England -- 15th century.
- Part songs, Sacred.
- Masses.
- Manuscript fragments -- England -- 15th century -- Music.
- Service books (Music) -- 15th century -- Manuscripts -- Facsimiles.
- Divine office -- 15th century -- Manuscripts -- Facsimiles.