The Eton choirbook /
Williamson, Magnus,1967-
Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music.
Oxford, England : DIAMM Publications,
c2010.
"Ever since it was first copied for use in the college chapel in the early 1500s, the choirbook has been continuously in the possession of Eton College. Several composers whose works were included in it had close associations with the college, not least Robert Wylkynson, who served as the college's informator choristarum from 1500. Other composers represented include Banastre, Browne, Cornyshe, Davy, Fawkyner, Fayrfax, Hygons, Lambe and Turges. Most of its original contents (67 out of a total of 93 pieces) were votive antiphons, or devotional motets of prayer and praise, sung each evening to the Virgin Mary, the college's dedicatee. The Salve ceremony, familiar to worshippers throughout Catholic Europe, lay at the heart of Eton College's raison d'être as a chantry college: the Eton Choirbook is an eloquent witness to this flowering of devotional culture on the eve of the Reformation. The manuscript is also a work of consummate artistry, copied by an experienced scribe on large vellum leaves, and illuminated by a professional limner. Even in its in-complete state (nearly half of its original 224 leaves have been lost), the Eton Choirbook is the undoubted queen of early Tudor music manuscripts"
Principally for 5 voices.
In the facsimile, opposite pages bear duplicate numbering.
Color facsimile reproduction of the Eton choirbook.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-83).
Includes discography (p. 84-85).
Introduction: Eton choirbook in context -- Codicological structure and inventory -- Structure and compilation -- Finding aids -- Illuminated initials and marginalia -- Logistics: date, cost, donor -- Binding -- Catalogue of compositions -- Texts, books of hours and vernacular piety -- Antecedents, contemporaries and concordances -- Facsimile -- Appendix: Gutter images and notes on the photography.
The Eton choirbook is a full-colour facsimile edition of Eton College Library, MS 178.
"Ever since it was first copied for use in the college chapel in the early 1500s, the choirbook has been continuously in the possession of Eton College. Several composers whose works were included in it had close associations with the college, not least Robert Wylkynson, who served as the college's informator choristarum from 1500. Other composers represented include Banastre, Browne, Cornyshe, Davy, Fawkyner, Fayrfax, Hygons, Lambe and Turges. Most of its original contents (67 out of a total of 93 pieces) were votive antiphons, or devotional motets of prayer and praise, sung each evening to the Virgin Mary, the college's dedicatee. The Salve ceremony, familiar to worshippers throughout Catholic Europe, lay at the heart of Eton College's raison d'être as a chantry college: the Eton Choirbook is an eloquent witness to this flowering of devotional culture on the eve of the Reformation. The manuscript is also a work of consummate artistry, copied by an experienced scribe on large vellum leaves, and illuminated by a professional limner. Even in its in-complete state (nearly half of its original 224 leaves have been lost), the Eton Choirbook is the undoubted queen of early Tudor music manuscripts"
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Eton choirbook.
Service books (Music)
Motets.
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