Melismata: Musical Phansies Fitting the Court, Citie and Countrey Humours. Edition and Commentary
Description:
Thomas Ravenscroft, the English composer, editor, and arranger, is known for his participation in the St. Paul's Boys' Choir, as instructor of music at Christ's Hospital School, and as a prodigy. His best-known publications are a setting of the psalter, The Whole Booke of Psalmes, and the treatise, A Brief Discourse,which is an effort to revive mensural notation. Ravenscroft's works contain many examples of popular Elizabethan music which he edited and arranged. Part II of this thesis consists …
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Date:
December 1978
Creator:
Roberts, Michael L.
Partner:
UNT Libraries