A Byrd celebration
Subtitle: lectures at the William Byrd Festival
By: edited by Richard Turbet
Publisher: Church Music Association of America
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Richmond, Va.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Composers; Biography
Table of contents: title: Biography. William Byrd : a brief biography / Kerry McCarthy; title: "Blame not the printer" : William Byrd's publishing drive, 1588-1591 / Philip Brett; title: Byrd and friends / Kerry McCarthy; title: William Byrd, Catholic and careerist / Joseph Kerman; title: Masses. The masses of William Byrd / William Peter Mahrt; title: Byrd's masses in context / David Trendell; title: Byrd's musical recusancy / David Trendell; title: Grave and merrie, major and minor : expressive paradoxes in Byrd's Cantiones Sacrae, 1589 / William Peter Mahrt; title: Savonarola, Byrd, and Infelix ego / David Trendell; title: William Byrd's art of melody / William Peter Mahrt; title: Gradualia. Rose garlands and gunpowder : Byrd's musical world in 1605; title: The economy of Byrd's Gradualia / William Peter Mahrt; title: English music. Byrd the Anglican? / David Trendell; title: Byrd's Great Service : the jewel in the crown of Anglican music / Richard Turbet; title: Context and meaning in William Byrd's consort songs; title: Unpublished motets. Byrd's unpublished motets / David Trendell; title: Appendices. Record of choral works performed at the William Byrd Festival / Mark Williams; title: Facsimile archive of Byrd's manuscript pages.