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Oxford, Christ Church
Description

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If you would like to submit a description for this MS please send it to diamm@music.ox.ac.uk for consideration by the editorial board. Authorship will be acknowledged.

Please see <em>Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550</em>5 vols., Renaissance Manuscript Studies Vol. 1 (Neuhausen-Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag, 1979-1988) for a full description.

Date
1581-8
Bibliography

Arkwright, G E P: Catalogue of Music in the Library of Christ Church Oxford (Oxford University Press, 1915-23), I, passim; II, 154-62 [CCM descriptor(s): LCpIp]

Atkinson, Charles M (ed.): Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance (New Haven, Connecticut and Madison, Wisconsin: A-R Editions, 1964-), III, ix, xviii, 85-7; XII, 15; XIII, 10-1; XIV, 9-12, 59-72 [CCM descriptor(s): LpCpTp]

Bent, Margaret; Bent, Ian; Trowell, Brian (eds.): John Dunstable complete works, Musica Britannica Vol. VIII (London, 1970) [2nd revised edn], IX, 223; XXII, xx, 2ff, passim;XLIV,74-5,184,186,188-9,191-3 [CCM descriptor(s): LpCpTpFpDis]

Bernstein, Jane A: 'Philip van Wilder and the Netherlandish Chanson in England' Musica Disciplina XXXIII (1979), 55-75, 66,71-2 [CCM descriptor(s): MLpCp]

Bernstein, Jane Agar: The Chanson in England 1530-1640: A Study of Sources and Styles, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Berkeley (1974), 286-98 [CCM descriptor(s): DpLpCpDis]

Blume, Friedrich (ed.): Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik (Kassel, 1949-79) [Cited by volume and column number], X, 515; XIII, 53-4 [CCM descriptor(s): DpLpFpDis]

Bradshaw, Morrison Comegys: Elizabethan Music and Musical Criticism (Philadelphia, 1940), 74-8, 81-2, 312-7 [CCM descriptor(s): DpLpDis]

Bray, Roger W: The Interpretation of Musica Ficta in English Music, C. 1490-C. 1580, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Oxford University (1969), I, 169-84, 234-6, passim; II, 80-9 [CCM descriptor(s): DpLpCpTpDis]

Brett, Philip; Dart, Thurston: 'Songs by William Byrd in Manuscripts at Harvard' Harvard Library Bulletin XIV (1960), 343-65, 360-4 [CCM descriptor(s): DpLpCp]

Brett, Philip: The Songs of William Byrd, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Cambridge University (1965), 18-24, 110-1, 126-34, 228-31 [CCM descriptor(s): DpLpCpTpDis]

Charteris, Richard: Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder (1543-1588): A Thematic Catalogue of his Music with a Biographical Calendar (New York, 1984), 83,91,192 [CCM descriptor(s): LpCp]

Daniel, Ralph T; Le Huray, Peter: The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660., EECM Vol. Supplementary Volume 1 (London, 1972) [CCM descriptor(s): LpCp]

Fellowes, E H; et al, (eds.): Tudor Church Music (London, Oxford et al., 1923-48), I, xxx, lix; II, xxii, xxxiv-xxxvi, 242-7, 266-70, 277-81; III, xvi; V, xx-xxv, passim; VI, xxx-xxxii; IX, xii, xiv [CCM descriptor(s): DpLpCpTp]

Fellowes, Edmund H; et al, (eds.): The Collected Works of William Byrd (1937-50, 1962) [Revised edition: 1962], XV, passim; XVII, 155, 162 [CCM descriptor(s): LpCpTp]

Fellowes, Edmund H: William Byrd (London, New York, and Toronto, 1948), 99-100, 109, 112, 141-3, 170-1, 193, 235-6 [CCM descriptor(s): LpCpDis]

Harrison, Frank L L (ed.): Early English Church Music (London: Stainer & Bell, 1963-), XXVIII, 124,128,130,133-4,137-8; XXX,109-18,176,189-90 [CCM descriptor(s): DpLpCpTp]

Kerman, Joseph: 'Byrd's Motets: Chronology and Canon' Journal of the American Musicological Society XIV (1961), 359-82, 364-6, 368-9 [CCM descriptor(s): LpCpDis]

Kerman, Joseph: 'Review of Byrd' Journal of the American Musicological Society III (1950), 273-7, 277 [CCM descriptor(s): LpDis]

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Provenance
England
Notation
Black void mensural notation on orange staves; cantus firmus in some pieces in black mensural notation
Notes
There were some exposure problems in photographing the first two books. This has largely been corrected in processing, but there may be some residual over-exposure.
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