Title: The English madrigal composers.
Authors: Fellowes, Edmund H., 1870-1951.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 1948
Subjects: Madrigals, English History and criticism.; Composers England.
Abstract: Contains an account of the madrigal as a musical form, a detailed sutdy of the Elizabethan madrigal, and a critical survey of the composers of the period.
Contents: Part I -- The English madrigal in relation to other forms of choral song -- The prolonged neglect of the madrigal -- English preference for vocal music -- The origin of the English madrigal school -- Etymology and use of the term madrigal -- Elizabethan madrigals and kindred contemporary art forms -- The Tudor part-books and the voices employed -- Title-pages, patrons, and printers of the original editions -- Some technical features of the notation -- The methods and idioms of the madrigalists -- Rhythm and barring in Tudor music -- The madrigal lyrics -- Part II -- William Byrd -- Thomas Morley -- Thomas Weelkes -- John Wilbye -- John Mundy, Geoerge Kirbye, Nathaniel Pattrick, William Holborne, Giles Farnaby, Michael Cavendish, John Farmer, John Bennet, the Oriana composers -- Richard Carlton, Michael East, Thomas Bateson, Thomas Greaves, Richard Alison, Robert Jones, Henry Youll, Thomas Ravenscroft, Orlando Gibbons -- John Ward, Francis Pilkington, Henry Lichfield, Thomas Vautor, Martin Peerson, Thomas Tomkins, John Hilton, Peter Philips -- The English lutenist composers -- Appendices.