Gyffard partbooks
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The Gyffard Partbooks (also spelled Giffard) are an important set of Renaissance
choral partbooks containing pieces by renowned Renaissance
composers such as Thomas Tallis
and John Sheppard
, as well as additional unnamed composers, which are not found in other sources.
a cappella
choral music (though there are some 3- and 5-part pieces).
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
choral partbooks containing pieces by renowned Renaissance
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
composers such as Thomas Tallis
Thomas Tallis
Thomas Tallis was an English composer. Tallis flourished as a church musician in 16th century Tudor England. He occupies a primary place in anthologies of English church music, and is considered among the best of England's early composers. He is honoured for his original voice in English...
and John Sheppard
John Sheppard
John Sheppard was an English singer and composer.-Biography:In 1554 he supplicated, apparently unsuccessfully, for the degree of Doctor of Music at Oxford University, stating that he had studied music for 20 years and had "composed many songs"...
, as well as additional unnamed composers, which are not found in other sources.
Contents
The collection consists of mostly 4-part sacredSacred
Holiness, or sanctity, is in general the state of being holy or sacred...
a cappella
A cappella
A cappella music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It is the opposite of cantata, which is accompanied singing. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato...
choral music (though there are some 3- and 5-part pieces).
See also
- Eton ChoirbookEton ChoirbookThe Eton Choirbook is a richly illuminated manuscript collection of English sacred music composed during the late fifteenth century. It was one of very few collections of Latin liturgical music to survive the Reformation, and originally contained music by 24 different composers; however, many of...
- Lambeth ChoirbookLambeth ChoirbookThe Lambeth Choirbook is an illuminated choirbook dating to the sixteenth century and containing much music by Tudor-period composers. The major contributors are Robert Fayrfax and Nicholas Ludford; between them they contributed at least ten of its nineteen pieces...
- Caius ChoirbookCaius ChoirbookThe Caius Choirbook is an illuminated choirbook dating to the early sixteenth century and containing much music by Tudor-period composers. The book appears to originate from Arundel in Sussex, and to have been created sometime in the late 1520s; the then Master of Arundel College, Edward Higgons,...
- Peterhouse partbooks
- The Mulliner BookThe Mulliner BookThe Mulliner Book is a historically important musical commonplace book compiled, probably between about 1545 and 1570, by Thomas Mulliner, about whom practically nothing is known, except that he figures in 1563 as modulator organorum of Corpus Christi College, Oxford...
, an instrumental collection - List of Renaissance composers
Sources
- The Gyffard Partbooks edited by David Mateer. EARLY ENGLISH CHURCH MUSIC Volumes 48 and 51 published by Stainer & Bell