This early sixteenth-century manuscript contains the music for seven songs as well as a number of instrumental pieces added in the 1550s or 1560s, copied by one of the `singing men' at Winchester Cathedral. It is an important document because its content can be clearly identified; as Iain Fenlon points out in his introduction, it provides evidence of the extraordinary growth in musical literacy which took place in English society fom about the middle of the sixteenth-century.
`It is impossible to do justice to the riches laid before us in this volume-It gives a great many new insights into an obscure and enigmatic period and a feeling for the very grain and texture of medieval life and activity.' NOTES AND QUERIES
- ISBN10 0859910830
- ISBN13 9780859910835
- Publish Date 1 January 1970
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 9 July 1997
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Imprint D.S. Brewer
- Edition Facsimile ed of B.L.Additional MS.60577
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 516
- Language English