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Byrd, William: Psalmes, Sonets and Songs (1588) Ref: B374

The Byrd Edition Volume 12. Edited by Jeremy Smith
Only the third book of English songs ever known to have been published, Psalmes, Sonets & Songs appeared thirteen years after Byrd's first (collaborative) venture into print with the Cantiones of 1575. In contrast to the earlier production, it was a considerable success, being reprinted several times. Its contents, consisting mainly of consort songs adapted for five voices, were perhaps intended to capitalise on the new vogue for the madrigal. Included in the prefatory matter are the composer’s well-known reasons for 'every one to learne to singe'. Two funeral songs of Sir Philip Sidney and the famous Lullaby, for which the collection acquired the title of 'Byrd's Lullaby', are to be found among the 35 songs.
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Price: £58.00

Byrd, William: Songs of Sundrie Natures (1589) Ref: B375

The Byrd Edition Volume 13. Edited by David Mateer
Published in 1589, following the successful issue ofPsalmes, Sonets and Songs the previous year, Songs of Sundrie Natures is a more diverse collection than its predecessor. Though the contents include one consort song in its original form, they contain a relative dearth of adaptations of this genre for unaccompanied voices. In contrast, there is arguably a higher percentage of recently composed works and 'sundrie' material, including two carols, the very fine verse anthem Christ rising again, and two chanson-like pieces, Susanna fair and The Nightingale, probably written in 'friendly aemulation' with Ferrabosco.
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Price: £69.00

Fifteenth-Century Liturgical Music: V. Settings of the Sanctus & Agnus Dei Ref: EC47

Edited by Peter Wright

This is a collection of over thirty early 15th-century Sanctus and Agnus dei settings not otherwise available in
modern critical editions. The volume is complementary to EC42, and part of an ongoing subseries to include settings of the Gloria and Credo, and of the Kyrie, 'squares' and music from fragmentary choirbooks.
Hardback.

Price: £55.00

Fifteenth-Century Liturgical Music: VI. Mass Settings from the Lucca Choirbook Ref: EC49

Transcribed and Edited by Reinhard Strohm
Complemented by Professor Strohm’s facsimile edition of the entire source by the University of Chicago Press, the publication of eight Mass settings from the Lucca Choirbook is a signal contribution to our understanding of the dissemination of English music in fifteenth-century Europe. Only two are ascribed, to Walter Frye and Henricus Tik, but the insular provenance of the music is confirmed on grounds of style, repertoire and performance procedure. None of the Masses is preserved complete, but three are unica, and three others have been completed from concordances reflecting the significant influence of native-born composers on European music at this time.

Hardback.

Price: £65.00

Eighteenth-Century Psalmody (LXXXV) Ref: MB85

Edited by Nicholas Temperleyand Sally Drage
The contents of this volume give a comprehensive accountof the great variety of musical forms used in parish churchand Nonconformist worship in the 18th century. Each ofthe 103 pieces has been chosen because the editors believeit to be both rewarding to perform and to listen to. At thesame time, they have sought to represent every importantdevelopment in English psalmody during this period ofprofound social and artistic change.
First published in 2007. Hardback

Price: £95.00

Grabu, Louis: Albion and Albanius. Opera Ref: PC1

Edited Bryan White

Albion and Albanius is among the first operas in English, written to a libretto by John Dryden, and produced at the Dorset Garden Theatre, London, on 3 June 1685. Composed by the erstwhile Master of the King's Musick to Charles II, the score is of particular interest as representing the French style of Lully, unusual in English music at the time, and is in striking contrast to the score for Dryden's sequel to the work, King Arthur, with music by Purcell.
Hardback

Price: £80.00

Greene, Maurice: Phoebe (LXXXII) Ref: MB82

Musica Britannica
Edited by H Diack Johnstone
Like its predecessor Florimel, Phoebe (1743), the second of Maurice Greene’s two operas, sets a libretto by John Hoadly. Probably written for performance at the Apollo Society, founded by Greene himself in 1733, this three-act opera, for four soloists and chorus, is a beautiful example of the English pastoral-masque genre, both musically and dramatically in the tradition of Handel’s Acis and Galatea.
Performing material is available for rental.
First published in 2004. Hardback.

Price: £81.00

The Gyffard Partbooks: I Ref: EC48

Transcribed and Edited by David Mateer

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.

Price: £70.00

Ludford, Nicholas: Five- and six-part Masses and Magnificat Ref: EC46

A further addition to our growing perception of Ludford as amongst the most contrapuntally skilled and lyrically gifted of early 16th-century English composers, this volume contains four Masses, plus a Magnificat belonging to the Mass Benedicta. Also included is a partial reconstruction of the Mass Regnum mundi, from which the whole of the tenor part and much of the top part are now missing.
Hardback.

Price: £65.00

Purcell, Henry: Symphony Songs Ref: PE27

Edited Bruce Wood

A collection of five cantatas and three vocal duets, plus In a deep vision's intellectual scene ('The Complaint') for two sopranos, bass and continuo, these nine symphony songs are similar in style and structure to their sacred counterparts, the symphony anthems, and include works to texts by Charles Howe, Abraham Cowley and Anon.
Hardback

Price: £65.00

Roseingrave, Thomas: Complete Keyboard Music (LXXXIV) Ref: MB84

Edited by H Diack Johnstone and Richard Platt
While studying in Italy Thomas Roseingrave became a disciple of Domenico Scarlatti, but in his own keyboard music he developed a personal gift for bold harmonies and modulations into a style that confounded his contemporaries and retains its novelty to this day. He was the first organist of St George’s, Hanover Square, until mental illness overshadowed his professional life. His keyboard music remains among the most intriguing oeuvres of any 18th-century British composer.
First published in 2006. Hardback

Price: £78.50

The Winchester Troper Ref: EC50

Facsimile edition and introduction by Susan Rankin

A seminal text in the study of Anglo-Saxon musical and liturgical practice, compiled in the early eleventh century and added to until the early twelfth, the Winchester Troper is published in a colour facsimile of the manuscript. The introduction explains how and why the book was made, and how its liturgical contents were designed. Studies of the hands of over fifty text scribes are accompanied by the first full account of Anglo-Saxon musical notation, and a study of the most innovative element of the collection, a series of 174 organa, representing a musical practice not recorded elsewhere in Europe before the thirteenth century.
Hardback.

Price: £95.00

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