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Keyboard / Organ
Keyboard music
from the Tudor period
William Byrd:
Keyboard Music
Fantasias and Selected Works
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
Edited by Desmond Hunter
☞ BA 10897 · approx. € 29.95
William Byrd is one of the great English composers of the late 16 th and
early 17 th centuries. Today this creative Catholic at the Anglican court
of Elisabeth I is known primarily for his masses, motets and madrigals.
However, in addition to vocal music he also composed an impressive
number of keyboard pieces that brook comparison in quality with
those of his younger contemporaries Frescobaldi and Sweelinck.
This edition contains a selection of his major works for keyboard
instruments, some taken from such famous collections as the
“Fitzwilliam Virginal Book”, “Parthenia” and “My Ladye Nevells Booke”.
In addition to five large-scale fantasias, including the monumental
“Fantasia in a”, there are smaller preludes and voluntaries and three
contrapuntal hexachord settings.
The Foreword offers a detailed overview and evaluation of the
sources, brief descriptions of the pieces and valuable information on
notation and performance practice.
To appear in December 2018
ISMN 979-0-006-56264-0
• Urtext edition at the cutting edge of scholarship
• Extensive Foreword (Ger/Eng) and detailed Critical Commentary (Eng)
• Practical and user-friendly layout
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13 New Publications II/2018 · The Programme